Press - Flexible Capital Fund

Portfolio Companies in the News

2/28/2024

$2M in new financing will help Saco manufacturer Tanbark add equipment, grow staff

2/12/2024

Tanbark Molded Fiber Products, Inc. – $6.5 million awarded to 6 Maine businesses for electric grid updates

2/11/2024

It’s in her blood: Lindsay DesLauriers and Bolton Valley Resort

1/24/2024

TimberHP – Governor Mills Recognizes Recipients of the Governor’s Award for Business Excellence

11/27/2023

Tanbark Molded Fiber Products – Innovation in food packaging boosts Maine’s struggling forest industries

11/20/2023

Domesticating the Battery Supply Chain With ENTEK and KORE Power

11/2/2023

TimberHP – Maine Science Podcast – episode 58

10/23/2023

Watch: Vermont Public Television’s “History of Bolton Valley” Is The Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed!

10/13/2023

Tanbark Molded Fiber Products – Here’s how a Saco startup is making single-use food containers from wood fiber

10/11/2023

Tanbark Molded Fiber Products – Sustainable packaging company launches in Saco

10/5/2023

Glavel – Burlington Electric’s Net Zero Podcast

9/28/2023

Tootie’s Tempeh – Do you know tempeh? Maine company changes the meat-alternative landscape

9/5/2023

TimberHP launches North American sales of TimberFill

9/1/2023

TimberHP Impact Video

8/15/2023

Localvore Chronicles: Inspiring Insights from Co-founder Dan White

8/4/2023

TimberHP – Where There’s a Mill, Is There a Way?

8/3/2023

TimberHP – Next Generation Wood Fiber Insulation Solves Built Environment’s Embodied Carbon Concerns

8/2/2023

KORE Power – NOMAD Transportable Power selected by U.S. Department of Energy to establish Resiliency Zones with Green Mountain Power in rural Vermont Justice 40 Communities

7/23/2023

TimberHP – Madison company begins production of first ever wood fiber insulation in North America

4/17/2023

Eden Ciders and Shelburne Vineyard Merge

6/1/2023

Glavel – Cost + Carbon: Material Selection Process, highlighting Glavel

4/6/2023

Eden Specialty Ciders – Fermented Adventure The Podcast

3/22/2023

KORE Power – Scenic Hill Solar, CS Energy, and KORE Power constructing solar + storage microgrid to help power Producers Rice Mill in Arkansas

3/6/2023

After $125 million retrofit, TimberHP’s Madison mill will produce high-performance insulation

1/3/2023

Q&A with American lithium battery maker KORE Power

12/14/2022

Glavel Subslab Insulation Case Study – OnLogic

11/29/2022

Global Village Foods Brings Authentic African Cuisine to New England Universities

11/22/2022

Localvore – Longstanding free Thanksgiving dinner lives on, despite closure of Burlington restaurant

11/8/2022

LEDdynamics – Light Affects Your Sleep and Health (Phone Interview w/ Neil Cannon)

11/3/2022

Nomad Transportable Power Systems First with Utility-Scale Mobile Battery Storage Solution, Sells U.S.-built NOMAD Traveler to Green Mountain Power

9/7/2022

TimberHP by GO Lab, Inc. – 5 Questions with Dr. Joshua Henry – Central Maine Growth Council

8/29/2022

Bolton Valley Resort – The 9 Best Independently Owned U.S. ‘Mom-and-Pop’ Ski Resorts, According to SnowBrains Readers

8/17/2022

Bolton Valley Resort – Vermont Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame to celebrate 2022 inductees

8/3/2022

Encore Renewable Energy – Renewable energy sector aims to increase diversity in the solar workforce

8/1/2022

Kore Solutions – State, local leaders highlight Vermont-made mobile battery storage system

7/14/2022

Eden Ciders – IWSC shares results from its 2022 Cider award judging

7/14/2022

Encore Renewable Energy recognized as a 2022 Best For The World for impact on its workers

7/2022

Matt O’Malia – 5 Minute Genius Presentation from TimberHP by GO Lab on Vimeo.

5/24/2022

Kore Solutions – Rep. Welch gets a peek inside KORE Power

5/23/2022

Encore Renewable Energy – Vermont gravel now pit home to 1.65-MW solar project

5/6/2022

Aqua ViTea – Mighty AquaViTea with Jeff Weaber – Learning Life with Jon Tota Podcast

5/2/2022

Glavel – CEMATRIX Completes Phase 2 and 3 of Its Strategic Investment in Glavel

4/5/2022

Aqua ViTea launches Aqua Seltzers – Sparkling kombucha beverage features 5 billion live probiotics

1/26/2022

Localvore – How Pandemic Need, Federal Dollars and Local Collaboration Are Driving Better Ways to Help Food-Insecure Vermonters

1/6/2022

Localvore – Local app helps connect community and local restaurants

12/17/2021

Grow Compost – Casella completes acquisition of Grow Compost

11/29/2021

iSun Invests in Encore Renewable Energy to Advance Solar Projects

11/29/2021

Localvore – Connecting Vermonters with free food? There’s an app for that

11/16/2021

Pulmac – Conmark Systems and Pulmac Systems Announce Strategic Partnership

11/16/2021

Encore Renewable Energy – Jericho’s two new solar plants will generate enough power for 780 Vermont homes

9/7/2021

Casella Buys Grow Compost Of Moretown, Expanding Its Control Over Vermont’s Waste Stream

8/2/2021

New Essex factory will create value from hard-to-recycle glass

6/22/2021

Encore Renewable Energy – With Bee the Change, Weybridge Couple Fills Solar Fields With Insect-Friendly Habitat

6/20/2021

Glavel – Passive House Podcast: Component Episode with Rob Conboy, CEO of Glavel

4/19/2021

Aqua ViTea – What do you do when COVID kills your kombucha keg business? Switch to cans

4/13/2021

Encore Renewable Energy – Bucknell partners with Encore Renewable Energy to install solar project

3/30/2021

Kore Solutions (Formerly Known as Northern Reliability)– Battery system powers Vermont State House during recent severe storm

3/1/2021

Kore Solutions (Formerly Known as Northern Reliability)– Industry Innovators Launch Disruptive Mobile Energy Storage Company

2/22/2021

MiVT Profile: Aqua ViTea

1/5/2021

Kore Solutions (Formerly Known as Northern Reliability)– Vermont’s State House first in nation with battery backup power

9/21/2020

Eden Ciders – Drink of the Week: Eden Ciders Cellar Series #16: Benjamin

8/19/2020

MamaSezz – Unique program helping to save Vermont restaurants and feed the community

4/28/2020

Aqua ViTea Kombucha – A Beer Lover’s Nightmare: They’re Dumping Draft Brew

Flex Fund in the News

12/4/2023

Janice St. Onge: Lessons learned from a decade of investing in rural communities

11/13/2023

An Impact Investor’s Musings: Lessons learned from a decade of investing in rural communities

10/16/2023

JEI Journeys: Janice St. Onge on Providing Entrepreneur-Friendly Capital for Sustainable Growth in Rural Communities

10/10/2023

Janice St. Onge: Providing entrepreneur-friendly capital for sustainable growth in rural communities

6/14/2023

Virtual Townhall: The Flexible Capital Fund: Providing Creative Funding to Vermont Businesses

9/10/2022

VBSR announces 2022 award recipients, Flexible Capital Fund, L3C to receive the VBSR Innovation and Inspiration Award – Small Organization

8/29/2022

Croatan Conversation: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture Across Value Chains

4/13/2022

Understanding Revenue-based Finance: An Interview with Janice St. Onge

1/26/2022

A New Investment Fund Seeks to Spur Vermont’s Startups

6/8/2021

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

5/12/2021

Integrated Capital Investing interviews Janice St. Onge

February 2021

Vermont Community Foundation (and partners) hosts a series of webinars on investing locally in Vermont. Watch Local Investing: What to Know and How to Start and Unconscious Bias in Investing to see Flex Fund President Janice St. Onge weigh in.