Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET)
AcceleratorBurlington · Pre-Seed–Series A · 23 people tracked
Investment thesis
VCET focuses on technology-enabled startups poised to scale in Vermont. It positions the entrepreneur at the center of its work, offering hands-on support that spans business coaching, access to a workspace, mentorship, guidance on fundraising, and direct capital through its venture funds. The organization emphasizes helping founders turn early ideas into scalable businesses, welcoming entrepreneurs at any stage of development and providing a community of founders, mentors, and coworking members.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 23 people
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What they invest in
from 69 of 119 portfolio companiesMedia & Entertainment ×15SaaS ×13Consumer ×12EdTech ×9Impact & Social Good ×9Advanced Manufacturing ×7AI & Machine Learning ×7Healthtech ×7
HQs:United States×52
Portfolio companies · 119 tracked
alumni founders can tell you what the program is really likeBy year:2026 · 12025 · 12023 · 12022 · 22021 · 22019 · 12015 · 19 dated
BETA Technologies develops electric aircraft (including the ALIA eVTOL) and associated charging infrastructure for sustainable aviation.
CleantechDefense TechHardwareMobility & TransportationBurlington, US
Kyle Clark(CEO)Sean Donovan(Executive Officer)Herman Cueto(Executive Officer)
BoardCharles Davis(Director)Mike Stone(Director)Francesco Capretti(Director)
Acceleron provides API-based international wire and FX payment automation for community banks and financial institutions, letting them bring foreign exchange services in-house and earn non-interest income.
FintechSaaSCharlestown, US
Damon Magnuski(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardW. Lowell Putnam(Director)Sarah Beth Felix(Director)Andrew Dillard(Director)Dennis Lormel(Director)
ApprentiScope offers an Apprenticeship Management System (AMS) that automates tasks such as apprentice enrollment, OJT and RTI tracking, and U.S.
EdTechGovTechHR TechSaaS
William Lippolis(Founder & CEO)
Aprexis offers a platform for medication therapy management (MTM) and customizable clinical programs covering lifestyle medicine and disease management, using AI-driven patient stratification, a patient-facing mobile app, and EHR interoperability.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaSMontpelier, US
MICHAEL HOWE(Executive Officer)
BoardROBERT SQUIRE(Director)
Atlas Acupuncture is an acupuncture clinic and herbal apothecary offering acupuncture, herbal medicine, and nutritional counseling based in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
HealthtechWellness & FitnessBurlington, US
AutoPylot is a free, FAA-approved mobile and web app for drone pilots that combines airspace status (B4UFLY), LAANC authorization, weather forecasts, pre-flight checklists, fleet management, and mission logging in one platform.
GovTechMobility & TransportationSaaSSouth Burlington, US
Tautvydas Shalna(Executive Officer, Director)
The Media Factory is a community organization for media makers working in TV, film, and radio, offering tools, training, space, and distribution access to help members produce and share their work.
Creator EconomyMedia & Entertainment
Team USA is the official site of the United States Olympic and Paralympic movement, featuring athlete profiles, historical records of U.S. participation in the Games, and information about upcoming Olympic and Paralympic events.
Media & EntertainmentSports Tech
South Burlington, US
Michael Ryan McDevitt(Corporate Secretary Chief Technology Officer)Matthew Shea(Chief Product Officer)Wesley Grove(CEO President)Matthew McShea(Executive Officer)
BoardChristopher Timchak(Director)James H Crook, Jr.(Director)
CMT is a media brand and streaming destination featuring music-related television series and competition shows, including "The Road" produced by Taylor Sheridan and hosted by Blake Shelton and Keith Urban.
Media & Entertainment
Appliances and technologies for cannabis processing.
Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) is a nonprofit that helps women launch and grow businesses through courses, readiness assessments, workshops, and networking events.
EdTechImpact & Social Good
Code Style Club is a barbershop offering haircuts and grooming services for a range of styles.
ConsumerBurlington
Data Innovations provides vendor-neutral laboratory enterprise management software, including a middleware platform for instrument connectivity, workflow management, and scalability.
HealthtechMedical DevicesSaaS
Education at Work is a national nonprofit that runs a paid, flexible work-based learning program connecting college students with corporate employers, providing student wages and tuition assistance.
EdTechFuture of WorkImpact & Social Good
Jane Swift(CEO)
Fluency is a digital advertising operating system that automates paid media campaign execution across walled gardens and the open web for advertising agencies and ad teams.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningSaaSBurlington, US
Michael Lane(Executive Officer, Director)Kristin Halpin Perry(Director)Brian McVey(Director)Scott Gale(Director)Eric Mayhew(Executive Officer, Director)
Foam Brewers, together with House of Fermentology, runs Natural Hack, a low-intervention wine, cider, and mead program.
ConsumerFoodTech
Stowe, US
Graham Letorney(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Geoff Robertson(Executive Officer)Adriana Hernandez(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Fourbital Factory is a Vermont-based manufacturer of custom and private-label knit beanies, offering small-batch and bulk production with low minimums and domestic turnaround.
Advanced ManufacturingConsumerDirect to Consumer
Fuse is an independent marketing agency focused on reaching teens and young adults, running sports, sampling, campus, culture, and customer marketing programs for brands.
Marketing TechMedia & Entertainment
GameTheory is a consultancy or design firm that develops human-centered, adaptive solutions aimed at creating sustainable social impact, working alongside partners and the people affected by the challenges it addresses.
Impact & Social Good
Geopipe creates digital twin technology that generates immersive 3D models of real-world cities and environments for use in games, simulations, training, and architecture.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechGamingNew York City, US
Christopher Mitchell(CEO and Co-Founder)Thomas Dickerson(CSO and Co-Founder)Dickerson Dickerson(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Joshua Duyan(Director)
Goodridge Lumber is a family-owned manufacturer of cedar log homes and rough and finished cedar lumber, and a supplier of Perma-Chink products for log home construction, maintenance, and restoration.
Advanced ManufacturingConstruction TechNew Materials
Prognostic health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS) for aerospace and industrial customers.
GPMS builds Foresight, a Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) for aircraft that uses onboard sensor data and analytics to improve fault detection and reduce false positives.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareIoT
Green Mountain Power is an electric utility that provides electricity to customers, offering outage tracking, bill payment, and account management through its mobile app.
Energy
Heady Vermont is a media and content site covering cannabis and hemp news, culture, growing guides, and legalization in Vermont.
Media & Entertainment
Honey Road is a restaurant located in Burlington, Vermont, offering dine-in, takeout, and gift cards.
ConsumerBurlington, US
Isora Lithgow Creations is a documentary-style wedding photography business offering editorial, candid photography in both digital and film formats.
Consumer
Isora Lithgow
IXIS Digital provides data analytics and business intelligence services, including ATLAS, a data aggregation platform with integrated AI that surfaces trends and insights.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
JAM Creative is a full-service commercial photo and video studio offering lifestyle, travel, product, corporate, and drone/aerial photography and video production.
Media & EntertainmentBurlington, US
June Farm is a flower farm growing specialty cut flowers, sold wholesale to florists and directly to consumers.
AgTechDirect to ConsumerCharlotte, US
Kingdom County Productions produces feature films and documentaries, live performing arts events, and experiential learning programs in filmmaking, theater, and writing.
EdTechImpact & Social GoodMedia & Entertainment
Jay Craven(Writer, Director & Producer)Bess O'Brien(Documentary Filmmaker & Theater Producer)
KORE Power manufactures battery cells and energy storage systems for commercial, industrial, and grid-scale applications, along with EV solutions.
CleantechEnergyHardwareCoeur D'Alene, US
Jack Wu(Executive Officer)Seema Phull(Executive Officer)Jonathan Bellows(Executive Officer)Lindsay E. Gorrill(Executive Officer, Director)Fung (Angela) Li(Director)Lingyu (Michelle) Li(Director)
LiFT is a skills-based learning platform for schools that supports project-based learning design, competency and rubric frameworks, authentic assessment, and verified student skill portfolios.
EdTechSaaS
Personal website for Lindsey Stoddard, a children's book author, promoting her book "THE REAL DEAL."
Media & Entertainment
Advanced ManufacturingWeybridge, US
Adam Polonski(Director)Nora Ganley-Roper(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMark Bathgate(Director)Jeff Quint(Director)Thomas J. Whalen(Director)
Main & Mountain is a boutique lodge with thirteen renovated rooms plus a bar and lounge serving cocktails, craft beers, wines, and food.
ConsumerTravel & HospitalityLudlow, US
Mamava designs, engineers, and manufactures freestanding lactation pods for workplaces and public spaces, along with breastfeeding resources for employers and organizations and a free app that helps parents locate lactation spaces.
Advanced ManufacturingEnterprise SoftwareFemTechHardwareHealthtechWellness & FitnessBurlington, US
Christine Dodson(Co-founder & CEO)Brian Werneke(Director)Sascha Mayer(Co-founder)Michael Jager(Director)
BoardCairn Cross(Director)
Personal website of novelist Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, promoting her fiction including the novel "Fierce Little Thing." The site offers readers a signed bookplate and shares information about the author and her work.
New Duds provides custom screen-printed apparel, embroidery, and screen-printed posters, producing orders for customers with low order minimums (no single-item jobs).
Advanced ManufacturingConsumerE-commerce
Exits · 4
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioBeta TechnologiesNYSE: BETAGoldman SachsNYSE: GST1EnergyNYSE: TEKORE Poweracq. by T1 Energy
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesFluency · fluency.inc · Feb 25, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) invest at?
- Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET)'s typical check size?
- Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) typically writes checks of $25K – $250K.
- What sectors does Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) focus on?
- Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) focuses on Biotech, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, EdTech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Hardware, Media & Entertainment, Medical Devices, New Materials, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) located?
- Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) is headquartered in Burlington, US.
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