Auto-Combat is a digital hybrid board game adaptation of the auto-battler genre. It uses NFC embedded cards to interact with a specially designed surface to seamlessly communicate with the user’s phone. Players acquire cards, representing different units, and form a synergistic army with them. Once the physical cards have been arranged on a surface, the […]
Programs
Summer Fellowship 2020 Highlight: WrapUp
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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” […]