US Navy shipbuilder (General Dynamics subsidiary); lead yard for Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyers; ~6,500 jobs, ~12% of Maine manufacturing. Founded 1884.

Dominant Maine hydro owner (~90% of state hydropower) — Harris Station (largest ME dam) + Wyman Dam on the upper Kennebec. Brookfield Renewable subsidiary. Selling 4 lower-Kennebec dams to The Nature Conservancy for removal (2025).

Ivy League university. Providence RI. School of Engineering, School of Public Health. Open Curriculum fosters entrepreneurship. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship. Alumni Ventures fund: Nelson Street Ventures. President: Christina Paxson. CIO: Jane Dietze. Top 5% endowment returns over 5 and 10-year terms among peers.

Bicycle manufacturer founded in 1971 in Wilton, Connecticut — named for the local Metro-North station — known for lightweight aluminum and performance bikes. Headquartered in Wilton with engineering offices in Freiburg, Germany; part of Pon Holdings.

Decommissioned nuclear plant (Haddam Neck; completed 2007); spent-fuel ISFSI remains on site.

Ivy League university. Hanover NH — geographically feeds Vermont/New England startup ecosystem alongside VCET. Tuck School of Business, Thayer School of Engineering. Investment Office: Hanover + Boston offices. Alumni Ventures fund: Green D Ventures. Notable tech transfer: Resonant Link (wireless charging, VCET connection). Jim MacIntyre BA from University of Vermont — Dartmouth neighbor.

First US nuclear plant fully decommissioned (demolition 2005); only a spent-fuel dry-cask ISFSI remains on site.

New Haven CT. Full-stack quantum computer using dual-rail encoding with superconducting cavities. IQT Summer 2024 investment. Yale spinout (Yale Quantum Institute). Dual-rail encoding enables improved error correction vs standard superconducting qubits. Series B $50M+ (2023).

AI-native claims-servicing and third-party administration platform for property-and-casualty insurers and MGAs, using AI to accelerate adjusting, data ingestion, and coverage decisions. Backed by Accenture (2025).

San Francisco CA. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that operate in cooperative swarms. IQT Fall 2024 investment ($13M seed, IQT co-invested). GPS/comms-denied environment operations. Modular design. Applications: undersea ISR, mine countermeasures, port security. Led by AJ Bertone (IQT Managing Director) investment. George Hoyem noted on LinkedIn.

Vermont's statewide electric transmission grid operator — first transmission-only utility in the US (1956); ~740 mi of line; assets held by Vermont Transco LLC.

Top US environmental-law school (Environmental Law Center est. 1978, long #1 in US News); renamed from Vermont Law School in 2022. Independent — not affiliated with UVM.

Decommissioning nuclear plant (shut 2014); sold by Entergy to NorthStar Group for accelerated decommissioning; spent-fuel ISFSI remains on site.

Manages Yale University endowment. CIO: Matthew Mendelsohn (since 2021, succeeded David Swensen). $44.1B AUM June 2025. FY2025 return 11.1%. Yale Model pioneer: 50%+ in illiquid alternatives. VC >25% of portfolio. Swensen's protégés run endowments at Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Penn.

New Haven CT. Newly elevated to full school status (2022). First professional school of global affairs created at Yale. Strong government/policy pipeline. Relevant for defense/intelligence policy ecosystem.

New Haven CT. 3rd in US for NIH funding FY2024. Tuition-free model being expanded ($250M endowment commitment). Yale New Haven Hospital — primary teaching hospital. West Campus biotech development zone. Wu Tsai Institute (cognition). Strong pharma/biotech commercialization pipeline.

New Haven CT. $41.4B endowment (Jun 2024). CIO: Matthew Mendelsohn. Pioneered the Yale Model (David Swensen 1985). 5.7% return FY2024. $900M federal research grants FY2024. Yale School of Medicine: 3rd in US for NIH funding FY2024. Wu Tsai Institute (human cognition). Jackson School of Global Affairs. Facing proposed 21% endowment excise tax.