The Newport Pell Bridge at sunset.
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At the end of every month, we recap the biggest tech and startup happenings in Rhode Island. We have an archive of past roundups here. To get this info weekly (Tuesday afternoons, to be exact), sign up for the Rhode Island Inno Beat newsletter.
Let’s take a look.
- The Providence meal delivery startup Feast & Fettle expanded into the Greater Boston area, specifically to Charlestown, Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Cambridge, Somerville, Arlington and other neighborhoods. The startup raised $1.2 million in November to fuel the expansion.
- The University of Rhode Island became one of six universities across the U.S. to be added to the National Science Foundation’s CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program. URI will receive financial assistance to provide full scholarships for the program as a result.
- The Rhode Island Commerce and the Rhode Island Foundation teamed up on a project designed to help support, sustain and grow minority-owned businesses in the Ocean State.
- Lincoln-based Bally’s Corp. acquired Irish company SportCaller, a B2B, free-to-play game provider for sports betting and media companies.
- Brown University’s School of Public Health and Microsoft AI for Health began working together on a tracking tool that shows each state's progress on Covid-19 vaccine administration.
- The National Institute on Aging awarded a $4.2 million grant to a research team based at Brown University and Hebrew SeniorLife. The purpose of the grant is to partner with CVS Health to develop a massive, data-driven monitoring system that tracks the long-term safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccinations for Medicare beneficiaries.
- IoT platform provider TechBinder joined the KVH Watch Solution partner program and will offer the KVH Watch service as part of its suite of digital tools and services, the Middletown-based company announced.
- The New England Medical Innovation Center (NEMIC) launched an early-stage medtech accelerator called MagpieX. MagpieX will provide pre-seed capital investment, along with clinical and regulatory expertise through NEMIC's extensive network, to young New England startups.
- The Warwick cannabis startup Alluvion Brands raised $2 million in equity in a $20 million funding round, per an SEC filing.
- Bryant University announced an online program called the Innovative Healthcare Leadership Graduate certificate program, which is aimed at helping improve collaboration between business and health care leaders.
Bram Berkowitz is a contributing writer for Rhode Island Inno.
