UConn School of Engineering graduates Daniel Yasoshima and Tom Cotton and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences student Jeren Koh have developed a multi-lingual tablet application that provides patients with an easier way to communicate with caregivers, called YouCOMM. This app has hands-free and voice recognition capabilities that allow patients with hindered movement to also […]
Summer Fellowship Highlight Series: Dyadic Innovations
The next team to be featured in our highlight series is Dyadic Innovations, composed of Ruth Lucas, UConn School of Nursing faculty, Jimi Francis, University of Texas at Tyler faculty, and Patrick Hocking, UConn School of Engineering undergraduate student. This venture is in the process of designing a breastfeeding diagnostic device that would provide […]
Summer Fellowship Series Highlight: Spore
The next Summer Fellowship team highlight is Spore. Spore is led by College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources graduate Cameron Collins and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences graduate James Polo-Lossius. Spore is dedicated to providing local options for fresh or processed gourmet and medicinal mushroom products. They aim to broaden the […]
Summer Fellowship Highlight Series: Snipit
The teams participating in the 2018 Summer Fellowship cohort have been hard at work all summer advancing their startups. Each team is unique in its vision and goals, and so with this post we would like to begin a team highlight series. Snipit, led by recent UConn graduate Alexander Ciccio and UConn […]
SUMMER FELLOWSHIP 2018 Participants Announced
Monday, June 4 marks the beginning of the eight-week long Summer Fellowship Program run by The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Ten teams will work under the guidance of industry mentors to develop their businesses from the conceptual phase into market-ready ventures. Each team will receive up to $15,000 in startup funding per team, […]
The Verge Consulting Program: Practical, Experiential & Entrepreneurial
Last summer, I had an excellent opportunity to work with the CT Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI). I was a part of the Verge Consulting team, a program coordinated by CCEI in collaboration with the SBDC, consisting of six UConn graduate students. As a Verge Consultant […]
Winter in Israel: Day 8
Our final day in Tel Aviv was bittersweet, as we knew our incredible journey was coming to an end. We started the day meeting at YL Ventures, a venture capital (VC) firm like many in Israel that focused on early-stage investing. I was astounded that while the US was trending towards less early/seed-stage capital and […]
Winter in Israel: Day 7
Today was our second to last day of this trip. Heading out the hotel door at 8:30, we went to our first destination for the day, Caesarea. This is an ancient Roman and Byzantine city that was designed and created by Harrod. In it’s heyday, Caesarea was a majestic city by the sea with massive […]
Winter in Israel: Day 6
As our sixth full day in Israel comes to a close, I find myself already reflecting on the trip two days before we fly home. Being here has opened my eyes up to not only the differences between the United States and Israel, but the similarities we share as well. We started off this morning […]
Winter in Israel: Day 5
And on the fifth day there was light! Up until this point in our trip, our understanding of what makes Israel’s startup culture unique was almost entirely secondhand. That all changed today with our visits to a couple of successful Israeli “startups,” and to an organization that is committed to building stronger business ties between […]