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The Little Agency That Chose a House Over the Cloud
Cookson learned two opposite lessons from the pandemic: geography matters less, and rooms matter more. Its answer is a 150-year-old Manchester house where public relations, design and digital marketing share the same staircase.
The Guys Who 3D-Modeled a Better Night Vision Goggle in a Garage
An R&D engineer started building lighter night vision housings on the side in 2020. Five years later, Nocturn Industries ships carbon-composite goggles that weigh less than aluminum, cost less than the incumbents, and carry a lifetime warranty - all from a shop in New Hampshire.
York IE Wants to Be the Startup Department You Forgot to Hire
The New Hampshire firm has turned a familiar founder complaint - too many advisers, not enough doers - into a business spanning investment funds, market intelligence and embedded operating teams.
Nrby, Inc.
Nrby is a New Hampshire-based AI software company that turns raw network telemetry and location data into proactive action for broadband and telecom operators. Its platform - built around SmartPins, VisionAI, and the Link AI framework - shifts network operations from reactive repair to predictive prevention, guiding field technicians to the exact location of a fault and validating that work is done right the first time. Founded in 2015 by telecom veteran Kurt Dobbins, Nrby serves Tier One wireless, fiber, and broadband providers across North and South America.
Kurt Dobbins
Kurt Dobbins is the founder and CEO of Nrby, a New Hampshire company building AI-driven predictive network intelligence for broadband and telecom operators. A serial entrepreneur and networking engineer with more than three decades in the industry, he previously founded Ellacoya Networks (acquired by Arbor Networks) and Deep Information Sciences, and earlier served as technical director at Cabletron Systems. He is the named inventor on more than a dozen networking and communications patents and describes himself as a lifelong builder of ideas that challenge convention and reshape industries.
Nick Grewal
Nick Grewal is the founder, chairman and CEO of ePropelled, a Laconia, New Hampshire company building smart-propulsion and energy-management systems for drones, marine craft, and light electric vehicles. He founded ePropelled in 2018 after selling his previous startup Nashoba Networks to Cisco Systems for roughly $100 million in 1996 and spending two decades as an angel investor in more than 40 high-tech companies. He was inducted into the 2025 Boston Smart Business Dealmakers Hall of Fame.
Kristin Brief
Kristin Brief is the CEO of Terragia Biofuel, a Hanover, New Hampshire startup engineering thermophilic bacteria to turn farm leftovers into cost-competitive, low-carbon ethanol. A 20-year clean energy operator and former Breakthrough Energy Fellow, she previously co-founded medical diagnostics company Virex Health, which was acquired by Sorrento Therapeutics.
Michael DeLacey
Michael DeLacey is the US CEO of Symetri, the global AECO and manufacturing technology consultancy he helped build from a two-person New England Autodesk reseller in 1994 into a 500-person organization spanning the US and Europe. As co-founder of Microdesk — which Symetri acquired in 2022 and rebranded in 2023 — DeLacey has spent three decades embedding building information modeling, enterprise asset management, and cloud-based digital workflows into the design, construction, and operations practices of architects, engineers, and manufacturers. His conviction: teach people to fish, not fish for them.
Jason Knight
Jason Knight is co-founder and CEO of Lotlinx, a VIN-specific AI platform that helps auto dealerships manage and market individual vehicles with data-driven precision. After 25+ years building and exiting private equity-backed businesses across automotive, CPG, and manufacturing, Knight co-founded Lotlinx in 2012 and formally became CEO in March 2024. Under his leadership, the company grew to $21.7M in revenue and won the 2024 AutoTech Breakthrough Award for best use of AI in automotive technology.
Michael Tsai
Michael Tsai is an indie Mac developer and the one-person operation behind C-Command Software, creator of SpamSieve - the gold-standard Bayesian spam filter for macOS that has been filtering email since 2002. He also runs one of the most respected daily link blogs in the Apple developer community, curating Mac and iOS developer news with original commentary since 2002. His roundups of community reaction to Apple events are so authoritative that Daring Fireball's John Gruber regularly links to them as the definitive overview.