CCEI Summer Fellowship Finale 2022

CCEI Summer Fellowship is UConn’s startup accelerator program and is an immersive entrepreneurial experience that has prepared startups to launch, generate revenue, raise funding, and be accepted to participate in next step opportunities such as internationally recognized incubators and accelerator programs.

Join us as we hear the cohort's final pitches and celebrate the conclusion of the 2022 program.

Event Schedule:

12pm: Networking Lunch - Connect with mentors, entrepreneurs, and other key players in the CT entrepreneurial ecosystem over lunch

1pm: Pitch Presentations - Hear pitches from the 10 startups participating in the 2022 cohort of the CCEI Summer Fellowship Program

4pm: Alumni & Friends Happy Hour - Join previous cohorts of the CCEI Summer Fellowship Program for happy hour immediately following pitches

*when registering for the finale, please register for all of the session that you plan to attend*

2022 CCEI Summer Fellowship Cohort:

365 Bloom: Our smart real time plant monitoring device helps users provide a better environment for their houseplants by tracking statistics indicative of plant health via a mobile application.

Aerius Water: Using innovative liquid desiccant technology, Aerius Water sustainably captures freshwater from the natural air cycle, even in low humidity environments, offering a solution to water-stressed countries.

Appoint: Software that removes the burdens of overly complicated nursing clinical schedules and the stress of creating them.

Genesist: An RNA based reagent that can make the healthy tissue surrounding a tumor in patients' body more resistive against breast cancer metastasis.

Lactation Innovations: Our product, the Manula Milk Monitor, provides critical insights of how much breastmilk an infant has ingested, helping to prevent dehydration and hyperbilirubinemia in the infant, while increasing the mother's confidence in breastfeeding.

Luma Hydration: Building comprehensive water filtration that's portable and sustainable.

RiboDynamics: Our enterprise aims to develop technology for the detection of pathogens in biological material based on the presence of specific RNA biomarkers. Having demonstrated the ability to detect salmonella, listeria, and E. coli in milk, as well as Zika virus in mosquitoes, we are now testing applications in human diagnostics of infectious diseases/conditions, such as sepsis, HIV-1, Hepatitis C, and Covid-19.

ShadeSnap: Giving prescription glasses the ability to tint and un-tint on demand.

SmartCards AR: An augmented reality learning platform that connects hands-on, experiential learning with modern technology to enhance the learning process in customizable education for students and educators.

Tick Me Off: Producing a Lyme Disease Prevention Kit containing both a test strip to determine if a tick is infected with a pathogen (one of five tick-borne disease agents), and a therapeutic micro-needle bandage to kill the infectious agent in the dermal tissue, preventing dissemination and disease.