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” […]
Summer Fellowship Feature Series: Transit2College
Last up in our Summer Fellowship Feature Series we have Transit to College. “We like to describe our product as the Uber for tutors. We are in the process of creating a mobile application which connects students and tutors on demand through our platform. Our product will enable universities to extend their tutoring services, as […]
Summer Fellowship Feature: Jubian
In the summer of 2018, two college students journeyed to the west coast, only to find themselves yearning for a taste of home. They began cooking for one another, whipping up dishes that made home feel just a bit closer and the world just a bit smaller. Jubian is a cross-cultural grocery delivery platform […]
Summer Fellowship Feature: Green Agronomics
The Green Agronomics company involves two members, Jason Henderson and Amanda Clark. Their company created the Weedbine. In the words of Jason Henderson, “Pesticides can no longer be used on school grounds and sports fields (Pre-K through 8th grade) in CT. Similar laws or pesticide restrictions have impacted other states as well, making it […]
Summer Fellowship Feature: LEVO International
Levo International is composed of a team of industry experts, from their product development team who are experienced engineers and scientists, to students from the University of Connecticut in the departments of MIS and Engineering. Levo’s science team is led by Nate Heiden, a Phd candidate at Ohio State in Plant Pathology and Levo’s founder […]
Summer Fellowship Feature: Therapeutic Bandage
Therapeutic Bandage Products was created by Dr. Silbart early last year, who is an Allied Health professor at UConn. Colleen Ross and Jenna Marteka are undergraduates at UConn, who both came onto the project earlier this year. Jenna studies Molecular and Cellular Biology and has taken lead on the host/pathogen interaction studies while Colleen is […]
Summer Fellowship Feature: Optimize
Team Optimize has six members: Dr. Linda Pescatello, distinguished professor in the Department of Kinesiology at UConn, Dr. Margaux Guidry, Medical Science Liaison at Servier, Dr. Yin Wu, post-doc fellow in the Department of Kinesiology at UConn, Greg Panza, PhD candidate in the Department of Kinesiology at UConn and Exercise Physiologist at Hartford Hospital, Rachel […]
Summer Fellowship Feature: Geyser Remediation
Geyser Remediation was legally formed in January 2019, yet the idea began in the Fall Semester of 2017 as part of a chemical engineering senior design project. We realized that it was something that was needed to help solve the PFAS problem, which is of ever more concern. We want to prevent people from getting […]