CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Ample Hills Creamery — named for a line in a Walt Whitman poem — is an ice cream shop and “community gathering place.” MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Select VC Investors: Breakaway Innovation Group. Paper & Tea.

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Even school sports uniforms have been dragged into the digital age, courtesy of a Rhode Island DTC company called SquadLocker. The company took an innovative business model and serious sales momentum into the start of the year, pivoted for the pandemic and took $20 million in funding off the table.

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Rhode Island Software Community Illinois 130

CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

And because it’s so valuable — and not well understood — the scope of exactly what the big tech brands have been collecting is only recently being recognized by the general public. Amazon hasn’t had nearly the problems with data breaches that have hit some of the other big tech brands. But Facebook is also accountable.

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Google Apple Security Data 76