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UConn’s CCEI, Alumni, and Affiliates Honored with 2020 CT Entrepreneur Awards
UConn Today – UConn’s Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, or CCEI, was a big winner in this year’s Connecticut Entrepreneur Awards, taking home top honors with recognition as the 2020 Community Promoter of the Year.Continue Reading
Finance, Forests, and Forbes – A Summer of Experience for Werth Innovators
UConn Today – Three of UConn’s rising seniors – all members of the inaugural cohort of Werth Innovators, student ambassadors for entrepreneurship and innovation through the Peter J. Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation – have embraced online work with three very different summer experiences while seeking to develop new skills, learning more about potential career options, and dipping their toes into mainstream popular culture.
UConn startup Stemify aims to bridge college students’ math skills gap
UConn Innovation Fund Provides Early-Stage Funding to Two Additional Startups
Yahoo! Finance – The University of Connecticut, in partnership with Connecticut Innovations (CI) and Webster Bank, today announced that two more early-stage companies have been awarded early-stage funding from the $2,250,000 UConn Innovation Fund (UIF).
UConn fund awards $200K in seed funding for two startups
UConn Innovation Fund Invests in Two More University Startups
Seeing Green: iQ’s First-Place Finisher Innovates Lawn Care, Wins $15k
A lush green lawn may be the envy of every suburban neighborhood, but many homeowners find it too expensive to hire a lawn service, and too difficult to maintain it properly on their own.Continue Reading
First cohort of 15 startups get set for Vimson Group & New Lab’s Prospect Mining Studio
International Mining – Back in October 2019, leading Indian mining conglomerate, Vimson Group and innovation hub, New Lab, announced a partnership to establish Prospect Mining Studio, a venture studio program bringing together entrepreneurs and industry experts to address the biggest challenges facing the mineral and natural resource mining sector. The focus is on enhancing sustainability and closed-loop production, environmental sensing, worker performance and safety, mineral extraction and energy efficiency, and data optimisation.