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The Little Fund That Turned $44 Million Into a $1.15 Billion Habit
It started as a modest state bet on Rhode Island's innovation economy. Twenty-five years and 144 companies later, Slater is the quiet engine underneath the state's startup scene - and it keeps recycling its wins.
HAVERHILL
HAVERHILL is a fifth-generation, family-owned fine jewelry company based in Warren, Rhode Island that makes personalized 14k gold birthstone jewelry to order. Founded by designer Haverhill Leach in 2013 and run alongside CEO Andrej Strojin, the brand pairs an in-house, waterfront studio with a direct-to-consumer, Shopify-powered storefront, shipping custom rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings in a matter of days. It has landed on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies three years running.
Narragansett Brewing Company
Narragansett Brewing Company is New England's storied lager brand, founded in 1890 in Rhode Island and once the largest brewery in the region. After the brand nearly vanished in the early 2000s, Rhode Island native Mark Hellendrung and a group of local investors bought it back in 2005, rebuilt its reputation around the classic Lager and the 'Hi, Neighbor, have a Gansett!' slogan, and in 2021 finally brought brewing home to a new 18,000-square-foot brewery and taproom in Providence's Fox Point neighborhood. Today it is an independent craft brewer producing roughly 100,000 barrels a year.