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V O L . X X X N O. V M A R C H 4 , 2 0 2 4 4 A division of New England Business Media LLC C E O / GROUP PUBLISHER Peter Stanton P R E S I D E N T Tom Curtin DIGITAL DIRECTOR Jan Holder PUBLISHER Andrea Tetzlaff EDITOR Peter Van Allen MANAGING EDITOR / DIGITAL OPERATIONS William Hall SENIOR WRITERS Renee Cordes Laurie Schreiber STAFF WRITER Alexis Wells CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Mark Jeanneret Carrie Yardley RESEARCH DIRECTOR Stephanie Meagher RESEARCH ASSISTANT Heide Martin ART DIRECTOR Matt Selva HOSPITALITY Buster, Malcolm HOSPITALITY EMERITUS Zoey SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGERS Ken Hanson Kerry Rasor Betsy VanderPloeg MARKETING/OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Alison Nason OPERATIONS COORDINATOR Allison Spies AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST Leah Allen C O N T E N T S Growing pains Maine life sciences, biohealth startups hustle to raise capital in a tough environment 14 20 20 AI crunches health care data For the medical field, artificial intelligence takes on a mountain of data L I F E S C I E N C E S / B I O T E C H F O C U S I N D U S T R Y T H U M B N A I L O N PA G E 1 3 ยป Work for ME is a workforce develop- ment tool to help Maine's employers target Maine's emerging workforce. It will feature information and sto- ries about the jobs and careers in Manufacturing, Construction, Skilled Trades, Health Care, Hospitality and Business services, all of Maine's essential industries. R E S E R V E Y O U R A D S P A C E B Y M A R C H 1 4 / I S S U E P U B L I S H E D M A Y 6 E M A I L A D V E R T I S I N G @ M A I N E B I Z . B I Z T O L E A R N H O W T O P A R T I C I P A T E S A M P L E O N E P A G E P R O F I L E S Target Maine's emerging workforce Workforce development companies High school and college students Job training organizations Professors and teachers Guidance counselors Career counselors Mainebiz subscribers I N D U S T R Y PA R T N E R S PA R T N E R 16,000 COPIES TO: TOTAL DISTRIBUTION OF P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY Veronica Achorn, head of operations of Salmonics, in the manufacturing and research lab at TechPlace in Brunswick. 20 14 From left, MaineHealth Chief Academic Officer Doug Sawyer, Roux Institute data scientist Rai Winslow, MaineHealth project manager Felistas Mazhude and MaineHealth cardiac surgeon Bob Kramer