The InsurTech Fellows Program is a collaborative effort between UConn’s CT Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and the University of Hartford and is funded by CTNext. Thirteen graduate and undergraduate students have been invited to participate in the program during the 2020-2021 academic year. Designed to increase student’s understanding of the insurance industry and grow […]
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Summer Fellowship 2020 Highlight: onewith
onewith provides a smoothing, second-skin fit through a re-imagined method of creating swimwear that mimics the feel of seamless undergarments. In addition to feeling and fitting differently, onewith seeks to capture, in its aesthetics and detail, sun-soaked, nostalgic East Coast summers. For as many swimwear companies as there are, they are all – even […]
Verge Consulting 2020 Highlight: Jasdeep Singh
This summer, I’m excited to begin working with the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) at UConn and the CT Small Business Development Center (SBDC) as a business consultant intern. Coming from the world of education, the in-depth topics of business that the UConn Full-Time MBA program and talented cohort helped immerse in were […]
Announcing the 2019-2020 InsurTech Fellows
2019-2020 InsurTech Fellows Amrita Jha, Ashley Kane, Bharath Tata and Valdrin Sadiku at the InsurTech Hartford Symposium The InsurTech Fellows Program is a collaborative effort between UConn’s CT Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and the University of Hartford and is funded by CTNext. Twelve graduate and undergraduate students have been invited to participate in the program during […]
InsureTech Connect 2019 by Amrita Jha
Chairman’s Perspective Caribou Honig, chairman and co-founder of InsureTech Connect, commenced the session by sharing the thought that “Insurance is so important to basic human needs”. He explained this thought by telling a true story about himself when he was shot in his foot this summer. One of the first thoughts that came to his […]
The ITC Experience by Jonathan Seguro
When I first received the news that I’d be lucky enough to attend the InsurTech Connect conference in Las Vegas, I didn’t exactly know what to expect. At the time I was only two weeks into my InsurTech Venturing course so I was still very early on into my exposure of the concept of “InsurTech” […]
InsurTech Week
What an exciting week for InsurTech! Starting Tuesday, November 27thand continuing into Wednesday, November 28th, the Hartford InsurTech Hub hosted their Selection Days. Across these two days, 22 InsurTech startups were invited to showcase their companies to mentors, partners and students. At the end of Selection Days, the goal was to select 10 companies to […]
InsureTech Connect 2018
Welcome to Las Vegas! This year’s InsureTech Connect Conference was one for the books. Thousands of professionals traveled from across the country and world to learn and connect with others surrounding the fascinating industry of InsurTech. There were a variety of panels, discussions, speakers, and presentations all with a similar purpose in mind-to open up […]