The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) is proud to celebrate the achievements of the June/July cohort of the Accelerate UConn Propelus program. Over the course of this four-week initiative, as part of UConn’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps site, participants gained critical skills and resources to explore the market potential of their […]
Month: July 2025
Meet The 2025 Entrepreneurship Bootcamp For Veterans (EBV) Cohort
The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI) is proud to present the 23 veterans and military spouses selected to participate in our annual Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans (EBV) program! Offered in three phases, EBV provides veterans with the skills necessary to successfully launch and grow a new business. Through online coursework, an intense on-campus […]
EBV Alumni Spotlight | Rachel Czmyr, EBV ’19
CCEI’s EBV program continues our quarterly Alumni Spotlight series with Rachel Czmyr. Rachel and her husband Stephen Budner are both Air Force Veterans. After 45 years of combined service, they, along with their 3 boys, made Ohio their final home and began their journey to founding ECOthrive Farms, LLC. Mehgan Williams, Program Coordinator for our […]