Amica Mutual Insurance Company
Amica Mutual Insurance Company, the nation's oldest mutual insurer of automobiles, was founded in 1907. The company, with corporate headquarters in Lincoln, RI, is a national writer of automobile, homeowners, marine and personal umbrella liability insurance. Life coverage is available through Amica Life Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary. Amica employs more than 3,200 people in 40 offices across the country.
Bank Rhode Island
Bank Rhode Island is a full-service, FDIC-insured commercial bank based in Providence. The bank’s capital strength gives it the capacity to serve businesses of all sizes – from sole proprietorships to large corporations. Its local focus and consistent approach to business lending has made it the #1 SBA Lender in Rhode Island for the past two years. The bank operates 17 branches and over 60 ATM’s across the state.
Care New England
Care New England, located in Providence, was founded in 1996 by Butler Hospital, Kent Hospital, and Women & Infants Hospital. Care New England is a not-for-profit health care system that offers a continuum of quality care. Our system includes two teaching hospitals affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler and Women & Infants; Kent Hospital, a community hospital which is a teaching affiliate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine; a visiting nurse and home care/hospice agency, VNA of Care New England; and the Care New England Wellness Center.
Center for Women & Enterprise
Established in 1995, the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) is a non-profit rganization dedicated to helping women start and grow their own businesses. As New England’s leading organization for women entrepreneurs, we work hard to ensure that all women, regardless of their economic status, are provided access to our programs and services. CWE offers scholarships to disadvantaged clients while fostering influential relationships for successful businesses women at the other end of the financial spectrum. CWE provides education, training, resources and connections to women (and men) in Boston, Worcester, and Providence. CWE is the New England affiliate for Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, serving as its certification arm for women-owned businesses.
Cherrystone Angel Group
Cherrystone Angel Group, founded in 2004, is Rhode Island’s first organized angel investment group and today includes approximately 50 members. All members are experienced and qualified investors who have either built their own companies or have extensive experience launching new business ventures. Many have done both. Their backgrounds include creating or working with manufacturing, distribution, technology, and service companies. Many have been serial entrepreneurs. To help ensure the success of our investments, Cherrystone Angel Group actively works with the entrepreneurs in which it invests.
Citizens Bank of Rhode Island
Citizens Bank of Rhode Island, with $12 billion in assets, 78 branches and 146 ATMs, has the largest branch banking network in Rhode Island. It is a subsidiary of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a $148 billion commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence. Citizens also has nine support facilities located in the metropolitan Providence area. Citizens has more than 1,600 branches, approximately 3,100 ATMs, and more than 27,000 employees in a 13-state retail branch network and non-branch offices in more than 30 states. Citizens is the eighth-largest commercial banking company in the United States ranked by deposits. Citizens is owned by RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc).
Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments is one of the world’s largest providers of financial services, with assets under administration of $3.2 trillion, including managed assets of more than $1.4 trillion, as of September 30, 2011. Founded in 1946, the firm is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and many other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals and institutions, as well as through 5,000 financial intermediary firms.
FM Global
FM Global, headquartered in Johnston, R.I., is a world leader in
commercial property insurance and risk management. For 175 years, FM
Global clients have relied on our unmatched expertise in creating
comprehensive, global commercial and industrial property insurance and
engineering-driven risk management solutions. Our policyholder/owners
represent more than one out of
every three Fortune 1000 companies, as well as leading international
companies.
GTECH Corporation
GTECH is a leading gaming technology and services company. With 7,700 people in over 50 countries when combined with Lottomatica Group, GTECH provides innovative technology, creative content, and superior service delivery to effectively manage and grow today’s evolving gaming markets. GTECH is a subsidiary of Lottomatica Group, one of the world’s largest commercial lottery operators and a market leader in the Italian gaming industry.
Nortek Inc.
Nortek Inc., based in Providence, was established in 1967. With
subsidiary companies throughout the U.S. and around the world, Nortek is
a leading manufacturer and distributor of high-quality,
competitively-priced building products for residential, light
commercial, and commercial applications. Nortek's mission is to improve
the comfort, security, convenience, air quality, and value of homes and
workplaces everywhere.
NuLabel Technologies, Inc.
NuLabel Technologies -- a semi-finalist in the 2009 Rhode Island Business Plan Competition -- is a high-tech adhesive and printer hardware company
developing innovative label platforms to help companies cut cost and reduce
waste. NuLabel has developed liner-free label technology that uses an
activateable adhesive to eliminate the need for the liner that end-users peel
away and throw away. NuLabel was founded by a team of three Brown University
graduates in June 2009, and participated in the inaugural program for the
Betaspring startup accelerator and the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition in
2009.
Rhode Island Science & Technology Advisory Council
The Rhode Island Science & Technology Advisory Council (STAC) is a coalition of industry, academic, medical and government leaders with the mission to recommend to state leadership strategic investments that drive economic development and job creation by maximizing the economic impact of research, technology and innovation. STAC initiatives support the state’s research and development activities by promoting collaboration across institutions and encouraging entrepreneurship and new company creation through the transfer of new technologies and discoveries into the marketplace.
Tech Collective
Tech Collective is Rhode Island’s Information Technology and Bioscience Industry Association. Uniting industry, government and academic stakeholders, our mission is to inspire, engage, educate, and employ a high-skill, high-wage Knowledge Economy in Rhode Island. Since its transition from the Rhode Island Technology Council (RITEC) in 2004, Tech Collective has received more than $6M in federal, state and private grant funding to foster industry collaboration, awareness, and development through events and initiatives including: GRRL Tech, Women in Technology, BIO ED, Tech Laureates’ Night, and STEM-based education and training programs for K-16 students as well as incumbent and transitioning workers.
Teknor Apex
Teknor Apex was established in 1924 and is privately-held with global headquarters in Pawtucket, RI. We manufacture in 9 plants in the U.S. as well as plants in England, Belgium, Singapore and China. We are an international custom compounder of advanced polymer materials with a focus on vinyls, thermoplastic elastomers, nylons, bioplastics and colorants. We serve key markets including automotive, building and construction, appliance, toys and recreation, industrial, medical and wire and cable. We are also the largest manufacturer of garden hose in the U.S.