After Sale, Packetized Energy Plans to Stay — and Grow — in Vermont

By Anne Wallace Allen on March 15, 2022 at 2:17PM

Through UVM, the three founders received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to turn their research work into a commercial project. They’ve since received another $3 million in federal research funding, according to UVM.

Tech Biz Resonant Link Raises $9 Million, Plans to Double Staff

By Anne Wallace Allen on February 9, 2022 at 2:31PM

Resonant Link was founded at Dartmouth College in 2017 and got its start with help from Fresh Tracks, a venture capital firm in Shelburne. It raised the money from The Engine almost entirely through virtual meetings.

DealerPolicy to Expand in Williston With $110 Million Infusion

By Anne Wallace Allen on September 9, 2021 at 5:57PM

While the pandemic did make it more difficult for people who are in business to do their research in person, Couture said, it might also have helped shine a light on Vermont. The state has consistently led the nation in COVID-19 safety measures and outcomes, earning national and even international press for its low per capita infection, hospitalization and death rates.

Scott Names Former Political Rival Hallquist to Lead Broadband Expansion

By Kevin McCallum on July 12, 2021 at 4:27PM

Vermont-Based Remote-Instruction Startup Nets $6 Million From Investors

By Anne Wallace Allen on June 8, 2021 at 9:01AM

“This is going to be a phenomenal year for venture investing in Vermont, literally off the charts compared to 2020, which as you recall was essentially the best year ever,” Cross said. “I suspect that this year, driven by the Beta Air fundraising, Vermont will end up with a 500 percent increase in funding dollars and perhaps a doubling of the number of deals done.”

GlobalFoundries Moves Headquarters to New York's Capital Region

By Kevin McCallum on April 26, 2021 at 3:42PM

BTV-Based Beta Technologies Inks Deal With UPS for Electric Aircraft

By Derek Brouwer on April 8, 2021 at 2:10PM

“There is a wonderful opportunity for the airplane in many, many different … applications,” he said. Beta has about 200 employees now, up from 75 last June.

Montpeculiar: Luckily, This Was Not an Actual Legislative Session

by Kevin McCallum on January 5, 2021 at 6:33PM

Even in normal times, following legislative votes can be hard enough for the public, with the differences between voice and roll-call votes often lost on all but the lawmakers and those who make it their professional business to track the legislature’s at-times mysterious machinations. Remote technology only complicates matters, as the practice session demonstrated.

UVM Medical Center Confirms Cyberattack Involved Ransomware

by Colin Flanders on December 22, 2020 at 6:02PM

Gentile said officials never considered contacting the attackers because even if the hospital received the encryption key, it would still have needed to rebuild the downed systems to ensure the malware was eliminated. Though it took the hospital only about two hours to find the file Gentile described, UVM Medical Center officials repeatedly said they did not know whether the attack involved a form of ransomware — a point they emphasized by noting that they had not received any requests for money.

Vermont Tech Company Develops AI Software That Can Detect COVID Status

by Colin Flanders on December 7, 2020 at 7:42PM

," he said. "It’s like punching numbers into a graphing calculator."