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
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]