WrapUp started as a passion project by Harsh Patel in India. Harsh noticed an aging infrastructure was failing the country resulting in communities being overrun by plastic pollution that would take generations to degrade. His co-founders, Kishan Patel and Louis Blanco Fernandez, both noticed similar problems in their own communities. Together they set out to […]
Summer 2020 Intern Highlight
I am working as a product manager intern at Ometry and it is helping me to learn the skills and challenges which a product manager faces. Customer empathy is the most important attribute for a product manager and I am getting the exposure to learn about the customers at Ometry and how I can help […]
Summer Fellowship 2020 Highlight: Kona Brand
Kona Brand creates fun Winter flannels that make you smile so that active, driven people have a reminder to live a more care-filled life. Now, living a care-filled life isn’t something people hear a lot, in fact it’s the antithesis of living a care-FREE life. When we picture a care-free life, we think of The […]
Summer 2020 Intern Highlight – Alok Bhatt
April 17,2020- I received the opportunity to work as a part of the core team at the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI). And thus, began my work as the Summer Fellowship Program Management Intern– handling program management and delivery of the Summer Fellowship program featuring top ten startups selected for the 2020 […]
Verge Consulting 2020 Highlight: Micky Chhabda
Coming from an IT Consulting background, I have benefited multiple projects with technology consulting and process reengineering and helped my employer secure various contracts from Japanese clients. Business requirement analysis, developing key metrics and technology upgrade recommendations were my areas of expertise while programming, data visualization, and data integration were some of my other responsibilities. […]
Summer Fellowship 2020 Highlight: Momentum
Momentum, est 2018 – saw the problem of underprivileged youth not being connected to resources that cater to their interest, guidance counselors not being able to service youth effectively due to high ratios and not having the right tools as well as youth resources being underutilized because […]
Summer 2020 Intern Highlight: Bharath Tata
The company I work for is UDoTest, it’s a company that provides access to In-home disease testing, we have tests for uptown 18 different diseases. But right now, the focus is on At-home/office COVID-19 testing for customers/employees. We have been helping companies Get back to work by making sure that their workplace is safe. I’m working as […]
Verge Consulting 2020 Highlight: Ishita Kapoor
I’m excited to work with the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) at UConn and the CT Small Business Development Center (SBDC) as a Business Consultant Intern this summer. Coming from a software engineering background, I have worked with product owners and stakeholders across many cross-functional teams in India, UK, and Europe. This experience […]
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 2020 cohort of the CCEI Summer Fellowship Program!
The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is proud to announce the 10 startups participating in the 5th cohort of the CCEI Summer Fellowship Program. The top ten startups from across the University are selected to participate in the Summer Fellowship experience. This program launches in June and throughout the 8 week program, startups develop […]