# Maine Angels

> Maine Angels is a VC fund in Portland backing Health Care and Software. See 129 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, United States
- Total investments: 129
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 1%
- Last fund: Mar 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maine-angels
- Website: http://www.maineangels.org

Maine Angels is a VC fund in Portland focused on Health Care and Software. Maine Angels they make investments with entrepreneurs with an emphasis on businesses.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Maine Angels. Shizune tracks 20 team members at Maine Angels. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/maine-angels?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $25k–$1.2M |
| Series A | $662k–$5.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 16 | 12% |
| Software | 15 | 12% |
| Biotechnology | 14 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 9% |
| Therapeutics | 7 | 5% |

115 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 30 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 24 | 19% |
| Series A | 13 | 10% |
| Angel | 12 | 9% |
| Series B | 7 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Marianski | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-marianski |
| Charles Moore | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-kip-moore |
| Ed McKersie | Team member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-mckersie |
| Fred Heimann | Vice chairmen | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-heimann |
| Paul H. Farrow | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-h-farrow |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Waku | Waku offers plant-based tonics for a healthy gut. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| HighByte | HighByte is an industrial software development company in Portland, Maine building solutions that address the data architecture and integration challenges created by Industry 4.0. We’ve developed the first DataOps solution purpose-built to meet the unique requirements of industrial assets, products, processes, and systems at the Edge. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Pumpspotting | Pumpspotting is a social network and companion app for breastfeeding, pumping parents and the place to connect over milk, motherhood and the best places to nurse and pump. | $1.2M | Seed | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| TOP the organic project | TOP is a women-owned period care company that aims to empower women with better product choices, protecting their bodies and the environment. It offers offers organic tampons and pads that are accessible to everyone. Wherever there is toilet paper, there MUST be period products. | $2M | Seed | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| Xeno Biosciences | Xeno Biosciences operates as a biopharmaceutical company pioneering a novel class of therapeutics to address large unmet needs in metabolic diseases. Lead program, XEN-101, is a first-in-class, oral formulation designed to shift the gut microbiome to the weight-loss associated state induced by Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) surgery.It wasfounded in 2015 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. | $7.3M | Series A | Aug 08, 2021 |  |
| American Unagi | American Unagi raises American eels sourced from Maine's unique glass eel fishery. Their farm produces a more responsible, traceable, and ultimately safer eel product than what is currently available in the US. | $4.4M | Series A | Aug 06, 2021 |  |
| HighByte | HighByte is an industrial software development company in Portland, Maine building solutions that address the data architecture and integration challenges created by Industry 4.0. We’ve developed the first DataOps solution purpose-built to meet the unique requirements of industrial assets, products, processes, and systems at the Edge. | $500K | Convertible Note | Dec 21, 2020 |  |
| Pumpspotting | Pumpspotting is a social network and companion app for breastfeeding, pumping parents and the place to connect over milk, motherhood and the best places to nurse and pump. | $582.5K | Seed | Apr 10, 2020 |  |
| RockStep Solutions | Cloud First, Born Mobile. RockStep Solutions is revolutionizing drug discovery with a cloud informatics platform for managing data and operations. RockStep's flagship product, Climb, solves the problem of data chaos and operational inefficiencies which is causing a huge drop in ROI for drug research. Climb is transforming how work isconducted in tier-1 pharma, biotechs, CROS, and Academia |  | Seed | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Nearpeer | Nearpeer boosts college (and university) enrollment & tuition revenue by harnessing positive peer influence. Students more engaged with peers are more committed to college. Nearpeer achieves this increased student commitment by connecting students based on what they share in common - via proprietary platform, mobile apps, machine learning.Nearpeer delivers proven 10-20% reduction in melt, and 5-10% lift in 1st year retention for 7-figure return on investment and improved student experience. Clients including Louisiana State University (LSU), Appalachian State University, University of Maine, Southern Utah University, and more. | $400K | Debt Financing | Jan 17, 2020 |  |

10 of 129 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LaunchPad Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchpad-venture-group) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Maine Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/small-enterprise-growth-fund-of-maine) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Boston Harbor Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-harbor-angels) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Beacon Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beacon-angels) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Beta Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beta-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Cherrystone Angel Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherrystone-angel-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Maine Angels invest in?

Maine Angels invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 129 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Maine Angels's check size?

Maine Angels typically joins rounds of $25k–$1.2M at Seed and $662k–$5.9M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Maine Angels participates in.

### How do I contact Maine Angels?

Public channels for Maine Angels include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Maine Angels?

The team at Maine Angels includes Andrew Marianski (Investor), Charles Moore (Team Member) and Ed McKersie (Team member), among 20 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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