Mamava, the brainchild of Sascha Mayer and Christine Dodson, tested its first breast-pumping station in the Burlington International Airport.Īs long as Seven Days has been hosting the Vermont Tech Jam, our reporters have been writing about the most interesting companies we discover in the process of planning the event. Kyle Clark was flying planes out of Highgate before he sketched the electric aircraft he's trying to build at Beta Technologies. In the years since, Vermont has sprouted an impressive number of homegrown enterprises relative to its size: Mark Bonfigli was a local car guy whose desire to better control inventory and advertising inspired him to hatch. The cofounder of IBM, Thomas Watson, famously built a plant here in 1957 because he liked to ski. But as a setting for tech startups, the Green Mountain State has a lot going for it - and easy access to outdoor recreation is one of them. Vermont will probably never rival Silicon Valley, Austin or Boston as a tech hub its woodsy reputation is too deeply ingrained. From left: Seid Yimer Abate, Skylar Bagdon and Nicole Eaton.
