Meet the 2025 Cohort of Scratchpad Accelerator!
We’re thrilled to introduce the four visionary companies that make up the next cohort of Scratchpad Accelerator. These trailblazing businesses are redefining Maine’s entrepreneurial landscape, each bringing bold ideas, innovative approaches, and a commitment to creating lasting impact in their industries.
🌊 Nauti Sisters Sea Farm
A small-scale, female-owned and operated oyster farm located on the coast of Maine. Our mission is to grow premium oysters while reducing environmental impact through innovative, climate-friendly practices like electrifying the working waterfront. We connect people to Maine’s aquaculture sector through educational tours, workforce development, and by delivering sustainably harvested oysters.
🌎 P3RD EARTH
P3RD.EARTH's mission is simple: revolutionize packaging and liberate ourselves and our oceans from pollution. By producing packaging with a regenerative start and end of life, we work to create a better world with less litter, fewer landfills, healthier humans, and healthier oceans. Our cellulose-based innovations and manufacturing research developmental breakthroughs in molding technology create ocean-compostable and fish-friendly (OCFF) consumer goods for material manufacturing client partnerships and, as we grow, national and international packaging distributors.
🐖 Singing Pastures
Singing Pastures is an established charcuterie company that sources from our farm and other pasture-based, family farms. It is a woman-owned company, led by Holly Arbuckle, and co-founded by John Arbuckle, a 9th generation farmer. Our primary product lines are Roam Sticks, pasture-raised pork snack sticks, and artisanal salami.
🍉 Watermelon Pie
Watermelon Pie is a cooking community and recipe sharing platform developed in Maine to help home cooks collect, evolve and share their favorite recipes with friends, family and their local food community. After a year of customer research and prototype testing, Watermelon Pie launched in November of 2024, and it is already full of fun recipes from real home cooks, Maine-based food and beverage businesses, and community organizations with recipes to share. Visit www.watermelonpie.com to sign up for free and join our growing community.
Founders’ Reflect on Scratchpad’s Impact
“This is the third entrepreneur program I have participated in. They each were very different and built on each other - Scratchpad was a more advanced program that allowed for more fluid movement for strategy and connections in real-time. The course on business evaluation was very helpful at this timeline to plan appropriately for an exit strategy based on real data specific to our company."
"Scratchpad did a great job of helping prepare me and my business for growth and expansion. Lisa and Jason are both deeply passionate about supporting local businesses and entrepreneurs and together they HAVE a balanced wealth of business knowledge.”
"Scratchpad has been a fantastic experience for us, providing great support, hands-on help, and advice that allowed us to move our business forward while learning. Scratchpad has been a different experience from other courses we have taken as it is tailored specifically to our needs. We are extremely grateful to have participated."
We truly benefited from the support of Scratchpad Accelerator, which has been pivotal in reinforcing our company's ongoing success. Lisa is thoughtful and knowledgeable in regard to the myriad struggles that business owners face daily. She tactfully pushed me forward where inertia was slowing me down, served as an astute sounding board as I grappled with high-level decision-making, and connected me with some of the incredible experts in Scratchpad's mentor network. Most importantly, through our weekly meetings, Lisa made sure that I wasn't just getting bogged down working in my business, but that I spent time every week working on my business.