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2025 Forestry Business Accelerator

The Forest Business Accelerator Seeks Entrepreneurs for 2025 Cohort

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2025 Contact: forestaccelerator@vsjf.org   MONTPELIER, VT – The Forest Business Accelerator is seeking innovative start-up and seed stage ventures that are focused on commercializing new and improved products, services, and technology in the forest and wood products industry. During the

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Meet Sylvacurl, the 2022 Forest Business Accelerator Winner

If you’ve ever found yourself cursing the proliferation of non-renewable packaging that accompanies every product that arrives on your doorstep, you’re not alone. No one knows that particular frustration better than Jim Lovinsky, who founded Sylvacurl with his wife Mary-Ellen in 1993 in an attempt

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Building a Hub for Forest Innovation

Welcome to Tales from the Forest, the official blog of the Forest Business Accelerator, brought to you by Do North. Whether you’re a forest products entrepreneur, or just want to keep up to speed on the fast-evolving forest and wood products industry, this space is

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