Connecticut Innovations

[Connecticut Innovations](http://www.ctinnovations.com) provides strategic capital and operational insight to to companies in high-tech industries such as energy, biotechnology, information technology, and photonics. Their mission is to be the leading source of financing and ongoing support for Connecticut’s innovative, growing companies. By offering flexible financing, strategic guidance and introductions to valuable partners, Connecticut innovations enable promising businesses to thrive.

David M. Audibert

MD of Investments

Matthew A. Bloom

Director, Investments

Lauren Carmody

Vice President of Marketing & Communications

Margaret Cartiera

VP and Fund Manager

Joseph J. Casparino

MD of Information Technology

Jeremy Crisp

EVP and Chief Innovation Officer

Tamyra Davis

Senior Associate

Cyndi Green

Managing Director

Robert A. Kennedy

Director

Barbara Lesh

Program Associate of Small Business Innovations

Matthew J. McCooe

CEO

Ted Murphy

Senior Vice President, Venture Lending

Patrick O'Neill

Managing Director

Matt Panicali

Associate, Investments

Antonio Roberto

Managing Director, Strategic Investments

Philip Siuta

COO and CFO

Matthew D. Storeygard

Managing Director, Investments

Daniel Wagner

Senior Managing Director, Investments

Linda Wieleba

SVP and Senior Loan Officer

Wenping Zhou

Bioscience Investment Associate

Past deals in US East Coast

Inbox Health

Series B in 2023
Inbox Health's mission is to greatly reduce the administrative waste in healthcare, by streamlining the patient billing and payment experience. Their product is a patient billing and communication platform that uses patient data to tailor a billing process specific to the patient’s situation and behavior patterns.

Noteworthy AI

Seed Round in 2022
Climate change creates new risks for electric utilities. From more frequent and intense storms to droughts that create wildfire-friendly conditions, it’s now more critical than ever for these companies to enact mitigation measures that account for these risks. One mitigation is the proactive inspection and inventory of grid assets at-scale, usually by piloting aerial drone missions to collect imagery and video on each asset. While these methods have proven to increase both grid safety and resiliency, most are employed on the transmission grid but not on the distribution grid. This is because, compared to transmission grid assets, distribution grid assets are too numerous, too geographically dispersed, are often located in densely populated areas, and the aerial view is often obscured by vegetation for much of the year. This makes piloting drone inspection missions over distribution grid assets extremely difficult. Yet, 90% of power outages occur on the distribution grid and there are cases of faulty distribution grid equipment sparking wildfires, such as the recent Silverado Fire in Southern California. Noteworthy AI solves this problem by ensuring that distribution grid assets are adequately inspected and monitored. Our solution combines hardware at the Edge and software in the Cloud to help electric utilities inspect and inventory distribution grid assets at scale. Our Edge hardware mounts directly on electric utility fleet vehicles (e.g. repair trucks) and uses proprietary computer vision to inspect and inventory distribution poles and their components with no impact on crew duties. Results are sent to our Cloud software in real-time. This converts non-productive fleet vehicle travel time into active inspection and monitoring at a low cost, enabling electric utilities to reap grid resiliency and safety benefits on the distribution grid as well.

FinTron

Series A in 2022
FinTron Invest LLC, founded in 2018 and based in Fairfield, Connecticut, provides investment tools aimed at new investors. The company offers a digital broker-dealer and banking application that allows users to evaluate risk, search for stocks by sector, and construct investment portfolios. In addition to its investment services, FinTron focuses on promoting financial education, offering affordable financial products, and supporting philanthropic initiatives. The company's platform consolidates essential financial data, enabling users to track their debt, savings, and investment accounts in one place while receiving updates on their financial activities. FinTron is committed to enhancing financial freedom and security for its users.

Torigen Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2022
Torigen Pharmaceuticals is a company focused on being at the forefront of immuno-oncology innovation. They strive to bring novel approaches to the market to tackle companion animal cancers, building on years of existing scientific research and pushing the boundaries of innovation.

Plazmod

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Plasma based green manufacturing of batteries and energy materials for global electrification

Encapsulate

Convertible Note in 2022
Producing an effective chemotherapy solution with a fully automated tumor-on-a-chip, pre-prescription analysis.

CoreChain Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.
Covr Financial Technologies, Inc. is a digitally enabled brokerage general agency that specializes in providing life, long-term care, and disability insurance solutions for financial institutions and their clients. Founded in 2016 and based in Boise, Idaho, Covr offers a range of digital platforms, including Covr Advisor for financial advisors, Covr Consumer for banks and credit unions to sell insurance online, and Covr Insights for managing in-force life insurance policies. The company serves over 24,000 financial advisors and approximately 13 million customers across 30 financial institutions, such as wealth management firms and credit unions. Covr's technology empowers financial professionals to address their clients' insurance needs effectively while facilitating direct access to products for consumers. The company has garnered the support of prominent venture capital firms and boasts an advisory board composed of notable leaders from the financial services sector.

Nest Collaborative

Seed Round in 2022
Nest Collaborative is a provider of on-demand lactation counseling services intended to offer a collection of international board certified lactation consultants who conduct online, video appointments to help guide moms through the breastfeeding process. The company's services are offered via an online platform that offers reimbursed maternal, neonatal and lactation counseling services, enabling women to avail safe, convenient and affordable access to quality pediatric care, at home.

NourishedRx

Seed Round in 2022
NourishedRx is a provider of personalized food solutions for a health plan and providers' most vulnerable members such as those facing diet-sensitive chronic health conditions and who are often at risk of nutrition insecurity. The company also offers education and encouragement to individuals to create lasting behavior change. Their custom solutions deliver increased member engagement and satisfaction, improved clinical outcomes, and meaningful cost savings. It was founded in 2019 in Stamford, Connecticut.

Wellinks

Series C in 2021
Wellinks is a medical technology company that specializes in the design and development of medical devices aimed at improving respiratory health. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, the company offers innovative solutions, including Flyp, a handheld nebulizer specifically designed for patients with respiratory diseases. Wellinks operates within the health and wellness sector, focusing on enhancing the quality of care for individuals suffering from such conditions.

futuresTHRIVE

Seed Round in 2021
FuturesTHRIVE develops an AI platform to identify and track pediatric mental health easily. FuturesTHRIVE's platform uses a combination of artificial intelligence, sentiment analysis, and machine learning to provide a mental health baseline that can be used by doctors and families to better understand a child's mental health qualities, thereby helping to identify mental health conditions in children easily and early.

Shelf

Series B in 2021
The workplace has changed. Teams now live in different parts of the country and, possibly, even the world. Collaborating across projects and continents is becoming the new norm. Distributed teams live and die by their ability to quickly learn, share key knowledge and take the right action at the right time. But there is a problem. Currently stuff is scattered and disorganized all over the place and the products meant to solve this content sprawl, like SharePoint and Confluence, are expensive, difficult to use and hard to search. In building a solution the Shelf team went beyond software and set out to understand the Science of Organization. They consulted Harvard librarians, change management experts, and information architects. With the help of these global thought leaders, knowledge management best practices were built into the core of the product. Shelf is designed to help declutter and organize your most important content. Everything about Shelf, from our search to our customer support, reflects the passion and drive of our team to build a better way to harness knowledge and make things easy to find and share. People use Shelf to find the information they need to publish a story, make a pitch, or close an important deal, without the pain of redoing work or wasting time tracking things down. Its Shelf’s mission to help millions of distributed teams throughout the globe accelerate their ability to learn, share and succeed. We are reimagining the library for the workplace of tomorrow and won’t stop until we’ve integrated all the important places where important content is buried. Shelf is the missing link in a rapidly evolving, distributed workplace.

CoreChain Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.

CoreChain Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.

BEKHealth

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of clinical research software designed to accelerate timelines by automating multiple impact processes. The company's software provides complete rapid trial feasibility, electronic medical record data processing, feasibility and site selection, precision patient trial matching and care coordination, enabling clients to reduce cost increase enrollment and streamline the clinical research process.

Triax Technologies

Series A in 2021
At Triax Technologies it is our mission to transform the most challenging work environments and industries through intelligent, innovative technology and real-time data collection and analytics to make worksites run safer, faster and smarter. To achieve this, we deliver a fully connected Internet of Things (IoT) platform through a proprietary communication hub designed for Construction, Oil & Gas, Energy, Heavy Industrial and other challenging IT environments. Our flagship Spot-r system elevates worksite visibility, safety, security and risk, connecting workers, equipment and operations through a scalable, minimal infrastructure network, wearable and sensor devices, and a cloud-based dashboard. By providing real-time, data-driven visibility into site access, worker and equipment location, manpower, safety incidents, and evacuation and muster procedures, Spot-r enables actionable insights, helping firms streamline processes and work safer and smarter. In April 2020, we launched Proximity Trace, an IoT solution that provides proximity distancing alerts and contact tracing for the workplace. The solution offers added protection for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and helps companies get workers back to work safely, while addressing recommended social distancing practices. More information can be found at: https://www.triaxtec.com/

Lumeda

Series A in 2021
Lumeda Inc. develops photonic tools that enable practical intraoperative photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating lung cancer. It offers light delivery photonics instrumentation and a software to automate PDT light delivery to targeted tumor and light dosimetry profiles. The company’s solution also enables intraoperative PDT procedure to conventional non-small cell lung cancer tumor resection to address tumor margin and reduce post-operative recurrence. Lumeda Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

Inbox Health

Series A in 2021
Inbox Health's mission is to greatly reduce the administrative waste in healthcare, by streamlining the patient billing and payment experience. Their product is a patient billing and communication platform that uses patient data to tailor a billing process specific to the patient’s situation and behavior patterns.

TrialJectory

Series A in 2021
Trialjectory Inc. develops an AI-based clinical trial-matching platform. The company’s platform uses self-reported clinical information to facilitate clinical trial search, matching and enrollment by cancer patients and their physicians. It connects pharmaceutical companies and physicians to patients with treatment options. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Nest Collaborative

Seed Round in 2021
Nest Collaborative is a provider of on-demand lactation counseling services intended to offer a collection of international board certified lactation consultants who conduct online, video appointments to help guide moms through the breastfeeding process. The company's services are offered via an online platform that offers reimbursed maternal, neonatal and lactation counseling services, enabling women to avail safe, convenient and affordable access to quality pediatric care, at home.

Athena Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2020
Athena Therapeutics, LLC develops drugs that targets NAD metabolism defects in cancer. It matches the drugs with cancer NAD metabolism profiles that allow selective tumor targeting over normal tissues. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Alphina Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2020
Alphina Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that aims to leverage proprietary biomarkers and breakthrough insights for cancer patients. Its focus is on leveraging the synthetic lethal context of certain cancer patient subsets that have NAD Metabolic Deficiencies (NMD) through the development of companion diagnostics. Their goal is to develop best-in-class targeted therapies against the NAD pathway nodes in patients whose cancers exhibit hallmarks of NMD and rapidly translate these into the clinic.

WRM Software

Seed Round in 2020
WRM Software develops business productivity applications aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and improving business processes. The company's offerings include specialized tools such as the storm manager and ops manager applications, which facilitate seamless connectivity between field and office operations. These applications are designed to be user-friendly, ensuring that all team members have access to the latest information at any time. WRM Software's solutions support emergency response operations and field service management, helping organizations streamline their management processes.

Point Pickup

Series A in 2020
Point Pickup Technologies (PPUP) is a mobile APP delivery platform solving on-demand, pre-scheduled, and recurring same-day delivery needs. PPUP is a multi-modal single platform for all same-day delivery solutions (middle and last-mile) it services the widest range of industries and company sizes, with an emphasis on big-box retail, grocery, liquor/specialty, industrial, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing businesses. Based on its precision matching technology platform and diverse network of independent drivers including everyday people with cars and professional commercial vehicle drivers, PPUP’s complete delivery model solves the unique challenges of the same-day delivery market. PPUP services all major markets throughout the United States while also uniquely focusing on the under-served secondary markets.

Biorez

Seed Round in 2020
Biorez, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing bioresorbable scaffold implants designed to regenerate functional tissue in vivo. The company’s lead product is an off-the-shelf implant for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, which eliminates the need for harvesting donor tissue and offers a superior alternative to cadaver-based materials. Biorez utilizes patented technology involving a degradable polymer for its orthopedic implants, including the L-C Ligament and biorez GRAFT, an FDA-cleared device for soft tissue augmentation of the rotator cuff. Founded in 2008 and based in New Haven, Connecticut, Biorez aims to commercialize its ACL technology while expanding its platform for innovative clinical solutions.

IvyTech Design LLC

Seed Round in 2020
Our patent-pending technology would give the surgeon better access to joint and fracture surfaces during distraction as well as more accurate alignment during compression, which could reduce the risk of complications due to improper bone fusion. Our devices were tailored for specific orthopedic applications, including correction of diaphyseal nonunion in long bones, reduction of transverse fractures in foot and hand, and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion in the spine.

Shelf

Series A in 2020
The workplace has changed. Teams now live in different parts of the country and, possibly, even the world. Collaborating across projects and continents is becoming the new norm. Distributed teams live and die by their ability to quickly learn, share key knowledge and take the right action at the right time. But there is a problem. Currently stuff is scattered and disorganized all over the place and the products meant to solve this content sprawl, like SharePoint and Confluence, are expensive, difficult to use and hard to search. In building a solution the Shelf team went beyond software and set out to understand the Science of Organization. They consulted Harvard librarians, change management experts, and information architects. With the help of these global thought leaders, knowledge management best practices were built into the core of the product. Shelf is designed to help declutter and organize your most important content. Everything about Shelf, from our search to our customer support, reflects the passion and drive of our team to build a better way to harness knowledge and make things easy to find and share. People use Shelf to find the information they need to publish a story, make a pitch, or close an important deal, without the pain of redoing work or wasting time tracking things down. Its Shelf’s mission to help millions of distributed teams throughout the globe accelerate their ability to learn, share and succeed. We are reimagining the library for the workplace of tomorrow and won’t stop until we’ve integrated all the important places where important content is buried. Shelf is the missing link in a rapidly evolving, distributed workplace.

Encapsulate

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Producing an effective chemotherapy solution with a fully automated tumor-on-a-chip, pre-prescription analysis.

GeneDx

Series C in 2020
Sema4 is a patient-centered predictive health company dedicated to advancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. With their innovative Sema4 Health Intelligence Platform, they’re using advanced network analysis to build better models of human health and deliver personalized insights for patients.

Simcha Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Simcha Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing engineered cytokine immunotherapy for cancer. The company uses directed evolution to engineer novel cytokines designed to unlock the precision and power of the immune system. Simcha’s lead program, ST-067, is a designer IL-18 cytokine that has shown potent antitumor effects in animal models, both as a monotherapy and when combined with anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, as described in Nature in June 2020. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

1touch.io

Series A in 2020
By continuously analyzing traffic and repository stores connected to your network, our network-based solution can detect all elements on the network that are storing, processing, and sharing personal data, both internally and externally. Whether structured or unstructured data, data in motion or at rest, and even data that is unknown to you, 1touch.io can track it for you.

Covr Financial Technologies

Convertible Note in 2020
Covr Financial Technologies, Inc. is a digitally enabled brokerage general agency that specializes in providing life, long-term care, and disability insurance solutions for financial institutions and their clients. Founded in 2016 and based in Boise, Idaho, Covr offers a range of digital platforms, including Covr Advisor for financial advisors, Covr Consumer for banks and credit unions to sell insurance online, and Covr Insights for managing in-force life insurance policies. The company serves over 24,000 financial advisors and approximately 13 million customers across 30 financial institutions, such as wealth management firms and credit unions. Covr's technology empowers financial professionals to address their clients' insurance needs effectively while facilitating direct access to products for consumers. The company has garnered the support of prominent venture capital firms and boasts an advisory board composed of notable leaders from the financial services sector.

CytoVeris

Venture Round in 2020
CytoVeris develops optical-based probes enabling surgical oncologists to identify and remove tumor tissue during cancer resection surgery. The probes help to improve the surgeon’s ability to ensure clean margins are attained. It also develops technology to detect molecular signatures that cancer cells create due to the way that they hijack the cellular metabolic processes and corrupt DNA and protein pathways which creates signature variations of molecules such as lipids, proteins, and metabolites that can be detected with their OncoMap system. It was formed by Alan Kersey in Farmington, Connecticut in 2018.

Spairo

Seed Round in 2020
MindNest Health, Inc. operates a digital parent training platform focused on enhancing children's development through evidence-based interventions. Founded in 2016 and based in New Haven, Connecticut, the company provides programs for conditions such as ADHD, autism, and disruptive behaviors, as well as developing resources for anxiety and substance abuse. The platform is designed to empower parents by equipping them with clinically validated techniques used by experts, thereby reducing barriers to accessing behavioral health support. By enabling parents to practice new skills effectively, MindNest Health aims to improve children's care while alleviating parental stress. The company's mission includes promoting a society where families can thrive and reducing overall care costs for employers and payers.

WAVE Drowning Detection Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2020
WAVE was created with a mission to end drowning, a leading cause of death in children and adults. Our product works with lifeguards and parents to detect drowning at the first sign of danger.

ReferWell

Venture Round in 2020
ReferWell connects providers into Virtually Integrated Networks that optimize transitions of care. We help you drive the patient journey through the last mile with complete visibility into all interactions—so providers and payers can close the loop efficiently. With our system, you’ll direct patients toward the highest-quality providers, increase patient compliance, reduce leakage and close more care gaps. Clients raise revenue by increasing keepage, improving STAR ratings and getting more members’ HCC coding updated. Our comprehensive suite of services connects to all your EMRs for streamlined referrals, point-of-care appointment scheduling and care team support, including provider directory management, eConsult and telehealth capabilities.

ProteoWise

Venture Round in 2020
ProteoWise’s technology provides a unique combination of high information content, high throughput, and low cost - all while simplifying the western blot dramatically. This combination is what’s driving the genomic revolution and is needed for proteomics. ProteoWise is founded by a seasoned team of scientists from the Strittmatter Lab at Yale University with a history of innovation.

Inbox Health

Venture Round in 2020
Inbox Health's mission is to greatly reduce the administrative waste in healthcare, by streamlining the patient billing and payment experience. Their product is a patient billing and communication platform that uses patient data to tailor a billing process specific to the patient’s situation and behavior patterns.

Aero Therapeutics

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Aero Therapeutics helps physicians in low-resource settings treat neonatal respiratory issues with sustainable, rugged and affordable medical devices.

P2 Science

Series C in 2020
P2 Science, Inc. is a bio-renewable chemistry company based in Woodbridge, Connecticut, that specializes in the development and production of specialty chemicals derived from renewable feedstocks, such as vegetable oils. Founded in 2009 by a team that includes Yale scientists and industry experts, P2 Science focuses on creating high-value ingredients for various sectors, including flavors and fragrances, cosmetics, household and industrial cleaning, personal care, and agriculture. The company has developed innovative processes that allow for the production of vegetable-derived versions of fragrance ingredients traditionally sourced from petrochemicals. This shift towards renewable alternatives addresses the growing demand among major manufacturers to replace petrochemical ingredients with sustainable options. P2 Science operates a laboratory in New Haven, Connecticut, to advance its technology and collaborates with key partners throughout the supply chain to facilitate the commercialization of its products.

Enviro Power

Series A in 2020
Enviro Power, LLC, established in 2013 and based in Hartford, Connecticut, specializes in the development and marketing of innovative heating equipment for both residential and commercial use. The company's flagship products include the Commercial SmartWatt Boiler, which caters to light-commercial and high-end residential applications, and the Residential SmartWatt Boiler designed specifically for home usage. The SmartWatt Boiler technology platform aims to generate near-zero-cost electricity and offers backup power, potentially reducing utility bills for building owners while simultaneously lowering carbon footprints and enhancing grid resiliency.

IsoPlexis

Series C in 2020
IsoPlexis Corp is a life sciences company based in Branford, Connecticut, that specializes in developing a diagnostic platform designed to measure cellular immune responses in patients. Founded in 2013, the company's technology focuses on single-cell detection, allowing for the identification of diverse immune responses at the individual cell level. This platform plays a crucial role in assessing the safety and efficacy of therapeutics, as well as monitoring disease progression. By providing detailed insights into immune responses, IsoPlexis aims to enhance therapeutic development and inform clinical decision-making for healthcare professionals.

Biowave

Venture Round in 2020
BioWave Corporation manufactures and distributes pain blocking technology devices that block pain at the source. It offers BiowavePENS, a percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device for treating severe chronic, acute, and post-operative musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain; BiowavePRO, a pain therapy system for treating common chronic, acute, and postoperative pain in any part of the body; BioWaveHOME, pain therapy system for treating common pain in any part of the body at home or while traveling; and BioWaveGO an over the counter pain relief technology. The company also provides accessories for its products and travel bags. It serves pro athletes, the U.S. veterans, active military, pain doctors, and other people. BioWave Corporation was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Flyp Nebulizer

Series B in 2019
Flyp Nebulizer, the medical device is reinvented by Weblinks for respiratory care around the people who need it most. It works at ultrasonic speed to create a fine aerosol of medication. Flyp Nebulizer works quickly to deliver treatment within 7-minute average.

Wellinks

Series B in 2019
Wellinks is a medical technology company that specializes in the design and development of medical devices aimed at improving respiratory health. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, the company offers innovative solutions, including Flyp, a handheld nebulizer specifically designed for patients with respiratory diseases. Wellinks operates within the health and wellness sector, focusing on enhancing the quality of care for individuals suffering from such conditions.

GeneDx

Series B in 2019
Sema4 is a patient-centered predictive health company dedicated to advancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. With their innovative Sema4 Health Intelligence Platform, they’re using advanced network analysis to build better models of human health and deliver personalized insights for patients.

1touch.io

Convertible Note in 2019
By continuously analyzing traffic and repository stores connected to your network, our network-based solution can detect all elements on the network that are storing, processing, and sharing personal data, both internally and externally. Whether structured or unstructured data, data in motion or at rest, and even data that is unknown to you, 1touch.io can track it for you.

Budderfly

Venture Round in 2019
Budderfly is disrupting the energy industry by leading the digital transformation of energy consumption through its unique Energy-as-a-Service model. With no cost to its clients, Budderfly implements proprietary energy intelligence software, energy efficient technology upgrades that span more than 25 savings categories, and IoT devices that meter, control, and optimize energy usage at the point of consumption within each facility across the enterprise. Budderfly’s ongoing services and proactive maintenance ensure that a building’s energy infrastructure never becomes outdated. The result is significant, immediate and progressive energy expense savings, upgraded facilities, and a reduced carbon footprint for its client facilities.

Cytosolix

Convertible Note in 2019
Cytosolix is a biotechnology company focused on enhancing the efficacy of small molecule cancer therapeutics through innovative drug delivery systems. The company's primary offering is its Tumor Activated Permeability System, which develops novel oral and intravenous derivatives of established oncology drugs. These weakly-acidic derivatives are designed to improve the uptake of medications by cancer cells while minimizing absorption by healthy cells. This targeted approach aims to provide physicians with safer and more effective treatment options, particularly for drugs that may have dose-limiting toxicities. By addressing tumor acidity, Cytosolix seeks to improve patient outcomes in cancer therapy.

Inbox Health

Seed Round in 2019
Inbox Health's mission is to greatly reduce the administrative waste in healthcare, by streamlining the patient billing and payment experience. Their product is a patient billing and communication platform that uses patient data to tailor a billing process specific to the patient’s situation and behavior patterns.

Cybrexa, Inc.

Series B in 2019
Cybrexa, Inc. develops DNA repair inhibitors for radio- and chemo-sensitizers in cancer therapeutics. The product consists of peptide-based technology that directly targets tumor microenvironment. Cybrexa, Inc. was formerly known as Cybrexa, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Tangen Biosciences

Series A in 2019
Tangen Biosciences LLC develops medical instrument that provides rapid nucleic acid detection, with the specificity and sensitivity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification.

Payveris

Series D in 2019
Payveris is the creator of The MoveMoney Platform, an Open API cloud-based platform that enables FIs to control, simplify + extend digital money movement capabilities to any application or device while lowering user experience friction, significantly reducing operating costs + future-proofing the IT investment. Shift from a product-centric digital payments model to a platform-centric model today!

IsoPlexis

Series C in 2019
IsoPlexis Corp is a life sciences company based in Branford, Connecticut, that specializes in developing a diagnostic platform designed to measure cellular immune responses in patients. Founded in 2013, the company's technology focuses on single-cell detection, allowing for the identification of diverse immune responses at the individual cell level. This platform plays a crucial role in assessing the safety and efficacy of therapeutics, as well as monitoring disease progression. By providing detailed insights into immune responses, IsoPlexis aims to enhance therapeutic development and inform clinical decision-making for healthcare professionals.

Tru Optik

Venture Round in 2019
Tru Optik Data Corp. is a digital media intelligence company based in Stamford, Connecticut, specializing in audience measurement and data management for the streaming media ecosystem. Founded in 2013, the company offers a comprehensive OTT marketing cloud that enables brand marketers and media companies to measure audience engagement and consumer demand. Tru Optik provides a range of services, including OTT data management, analytics, consumer activation, and measurement solutions. Its patented Household Graph™, which encompasses over 80 million homes, facilitates identity resolution, allowing leading brands, agencies, and media companies to connect with consumers across various platforms, including OTT, streaming audio, and gaming. As of October 1, 2020, Tru Optik operates as a subsidiary of TransUnion, further enhancing its capabilities in the digital marketing landscape.

Vizium

Convertible Note in 2019
Vizium provides Web-based eMarketing solutions designed to leverage the power and reach of the Internet. Through Their eMarketing ASP (Application Service Provider) model, Vizium offers on-going eMarketing consulting, technology implementation, and campaign management services for planning, designing, executing, and measuring electronic marketing campaigns.

Torigen Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2019
Torigen Pharmaceuticals is a company focused on being at the forefront of immuno-oncology innovation. They strive to bring novel approaches to the market to tackle companion animal cancers, building on years of existing scientific research and pushing the boundaries of innovation.

Halda Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Halda Therapeutics is a research-stage drug discovery company, seeking to create the next generation of precision medicine based on a novel therapeutic modality which may be a platform for a number of disease states.

Aureus Analytics

Series A in 2019
Aureus Analytics Pvt. Ltd. specializes in developing CRUX, an artificial intelligence-based analytics platform tailored for the insurance sector, specifically for property, casualty, and life insurance. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in Hartford, United States, and Mumbai, India, the company focuses on enhancing customer experience through predictive analytics and machine learning technologies. Aureus Analytics provides actionable insights to insurers, empowering them to make informed decisions that improve customer retention and loyalty. Its cloud-based solutions are designed to handle vast amounts of internal and external data, catering to insurers and banks of all sizes with a user-friendly interface and a subscription-based pricing model.

Upward

Grant in 2018
Upward is global incubator with a vision to re-invigorate second-tier cities through a generation of innovators with ideas that are fostered through connection, learning and experience. Our foundation city, Hartford CT, is already host to one of our flourishing integrated communities. A thriving ecosystem serving as the core to our principal Upward City. An Upward City is one that puts humans at the heart of innovation. It is a city driven by a community of tech-forward creators and innovators focused on improving quality of life. A city that works for you. Through vision and determination, Hartford CT, a city once in economic decline, is quickly proving positive transformation by adopting the Upward model. Upward is not limited to a building, neighborhood or demographic. Upward is the physical space, the community and the mindset. An ecosystem working in harmony to attract and retain a new generation of people who seek a place of enrichment. A desire for empowerment and success through collaboration, learning and lifestyle. We strive for a promising future for second-tier cities and motivated startups, ambitious change-makers, and dedicated entrepreneurs who aspire to a new way of working and living. Move Upward. Ideas start here.

WAVE Drowning Detection Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2018
WAVE was created with a mission to end drowning, a leading cause of death in children and adults. Our product works with lifeguards and parents to detect drowning at the first sign of danger.

1touch.io

Seed Round in 2018
By continuously analyzing traffic and repository stores connected to your network, our network-based solution can detect all elements on the network that are storing, processing, and sharing personal data, both internally and externally. Whether structured or unstructured data, data in motion or at rest, and even data that is unknown to you, 1touch.io can track it for you.

Inbox Health

Seed Round in 2018
Inbox Health's mission is to greatly reduce the administrative waste in healthcare, by streamlining the patient billing and payment experience. Their product is a patient billing and communication platform that uses patient data to tailor a billing process specific to the patient’s situation and behavior patterns.
In the Farmington, Connecticut area, Tunxis Community College has academic, workforce training, and personal enrichment courses for students with all sorts of different interests that can earn you an associate’s degree or certificate. Among the many majors to choose from are programs such as Allied Health, Graphic Design, Visual Fine Arts, Business Office Technology, Computer Information Systems, Criminal Justice, Drug and Alcohol Recovery Counselor, Early Childhood Education, Engineering Science and Technology Studies, and New Media Communication, as well as many more. Counselors in the financial aid office can point you toward programs that will help you earn loans, grants, scholarships, veteran’s benefits, and more if you qualify. These financial aid options can help you pay for tuition and other expenses. Student life at TCC includes a student lounge, The Cyber Café, and the Barnes-Franklin Gallery, which is filled with student, community, and professional art. Academic advising is available for any student who needs help. The career center can help students find employment. Other student resources includes child care, health care, media center, and student activities.

Vacayo

Seed Round in 2018
Vacayo is a real estate management and service platform that helps owners rent their properties seamlessly and with higher income, leveraging Superhosts for on-the-ground operations. Despite the growth of the sharing economy, homeowners monetize less than 2 million of the 8 million second homes in the US. We leverage technology & big data to higher profits, total coverage, and better options owners. Vacayo allows owners to put their vacation rental on autopilot. Our system is cutting the typical costs of property management companies by 30%-60%.

ReNetX Bio

Series A in 2018
ReNetX Bio, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops and markets therapeutics to treat injury/damage to the central nervous system. It offers Nogo Trap, a decoy receptor that binds the growth inhibitors allowing the body to grow nerve fibers naturally and directly targeting restoration across all facets of growth, such as axonal regeneration, axonal sprouting, and synaptic plasticity. The company offers treatment for central nervous system for conditions, such as spinal cord injury, stroke, and glaucoma. ReNetX Bio, Inc. was formerly known as Axerion Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to ReNetX Bio, Inc. in July 2017. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

OncoSynergy

Series A in 2018
The vision of OncoSynergy, a UCSF spin-out, is to radically improve outcomes for patients with unmet needs in oncology with Resistance Mechanism Inhibitors (RMIs). This new class of therapeutics simultaneously targets multiple hallmarks of cancer progression and have demonstrated dramatic preclinical efficacy as monotherapy and in strategic combinations. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Rallybio

Series A in 2018
Rallybio, LLC is a biopharmaceutical company based in New Haven, Connecticut, that focuses on developing innovative therapies for patients with severe and rare disorders. Founded in 2018, the company is dedicated to addressing life-threatening conditions, particularly through its lead product candidate, RLYB211, which aims to prevent fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT). This rare disease can lead to uncontrolled bleeding in fetuses and newborns. Rallybio's research emphasizes the development of antibody, small molecule, and engineered protein therapies, primarily in the late discovery to early clinical stages. Through its efforts, Rallybio seeks to transform the lives of patients suffering from devastating diseases.

GoNation

Venture Round in 2018
GoNation believes in a world where you can easily access, search, discover, and share real-time small business information. GoNation helps maximize the success of brick and mortar retailers and enhances peoples quality of life with better online experiences in local and travel. The formula combines overlooked social media capabilities, structured data, and cloud-based technology that enables small businesses to update their information across the web easily. GoNation’s unique data-driven approach has made it possible to create better websites for small businesses with a focus on restaurants and enhances any internet source with rich content.

FallCall Solutions, LLC

Seed Round in 2018
FallCall Solutions, LLC specializes in developing fall detection applications tailored for the geriatric population and their caregivers. Founded in 2015 and based in Trumbull, Connecticut, the company offers telemonitoring applications that foster communication between seniors and caregivers. Its flagship product, FallCall Now, can differentiate between low and high mechanism falls, alerting family members and central dispatch agencies in case of an incident. Additionally, the ElderCheck Now platform facilitates ongoing communication, enhancing the relationship between elders and their caregivers. By leveraging widely adopted mobile ecosystems, FallCall Solutions focuses on creating user-friendly software that prioritizes the needs of its consumers, aiming to maximize elder independence while providing peace of mind for caregivers.

Copyleaks Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Detect plagiarism, paraphrased content, and non-verbatim text in 100+ languages. Go beyond checking word-for-word plagiarism and identify if the meaning of the text is plagiarized using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology. Features: Open-Source API, Integrations with LMSs, MS-Word, and Google Docs, Cloud computing and storage, Military-grade 256-bit encryption for Data Safety, In-Depth Search Technology, Duplicate file finder tool, Mobile App with OCR Technology

Biorez

Series C in 2018
Biorez, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing bioresorbable scaffold implants designed to regenerate functional tissue in vivo. The company’s lead product is an off-the-shelf implant for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, which eliminates the need for harvesting donor tissue and offers a superior alternative to cadaver-based materials. Biorez utilizes patented technology involving a degradable polymer for its orthopedic implants, including the L-C Ligament and biorez GRAFT, an FDA-cleared device for soft tissue augmentation of the rotator cuff. Founded in 2008 and based in New Haven, Connecticut, Biorez aims to commercialize its ACL technology while expanding its platform for innovative clinical solutions.

Intus Bio

Venture Round in 2018
Shoreline Biome is a developer of microbiome technologies and products created to identify and quantify the bacteria in the human microbiome. The company's products feature comprehensive lysis of even hard to crack microbes, simple workflow, and the ability to identify organisms down to the strain-level and can also be used on the Illumina and PacBio sequencing platforms,enabling clients with easy-to-use, cost-effective tools and reagents to support end-to-end microbiome analysis.

GoNation

Funding Round in 2017
GoNation believes in a world where you can easily access, search, discover, and share real-time small business information. GoNation helps maximize the success of brick and mortar retailers and enhances peoples quality of life with better online experiences in local and travel. The formula combines overlooked social media capabilities, structured data, and cloud-based technology that enables small businesses to update their information across the web easily. GoNation’s unique data-driven approach has made it possible to create better websites for small businesses with a focus on restaurants and enhances any internet source with rich content.

LambdaVision

Series A in 2017
LambdaVision, Incorporated specializes in the design and development of a protein-based artificial retina aimed at restoring vision for individuals who are blind or have experienced significant vision loss due to advanced retinal degenerative diseases, specifically retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, the company is focused on commercializing a retinal implant to address the needs of millions of patients affected by these conditions.

Wellinks

Venture Round in 2017
Wellinks is a medical technology company that specializes in the design and development of medical devices aimed at improving respiratory health. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, the company offers innovative solutions, including Flyp, a handheld nebulizer specifically designed for patients with respiratory diseases. Wellinks operates within the health and wellness sector, focusing on enhancing the quality of care for individuals suffering from such conditions.

IsoPlexis

Series B in 2017
IsoPlexis Corp is a life sciences company based in Branford, Connecticut, that specializes in developing a diagnostic platform designed to measure cellular immune responses in patients. Founded in 2013, the company's technology focuses on single-cell detection, allowing for the identification of diverse immune responses at the individual cell level. This platform plays a crucial role in assessing the safety and efficacy of therapeutics, as well as monitoring disease progression. By providing detailed insights into immune responses, IsoPlexis aims to enhance therapeutic development and inform clinical decision-making for healthcare professionals.

The Big Willow, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
We uncover Buying Intent by processing billions of web sessions daily to identify buying teams researching specific problems and vendors. Buying Intent offers our clients enormous competitive advantage; intent is commonly revealed upstream of engagement with the competition. Insight into the Buying Journey ensures optimal allocation of sales and marketing investment and enables precision segmentation and messaging.

Omnicyte

Convertible Note in 2017
Omnicyte is a biotechnology company that develops targeted treatments for cancer therapy. The company develops a proprietary Immuno-Oncology Platform Technology for recombinant targeted immunomodulators, ovarian cancer indication, small cell lung cancer, and multiple additional indications.

Shelf

Seed Round in 2017
The workplace has changed. Teams now live in different parts of the country and, possibly, even the world. Collaborating across projects and continents is becoming the new norm. Distributed teams live and die by their ability to quickly learn, share key knowledge and take the right action at the right time. But there is a problem. Currently stuff is scattered and disorganized all over the place and the products meant to solve this content sprawl, like SharePoint and Confluence, are expensive, difficult to use and hard to search. In building a solution the Shelf team went beyond software and set out to understand the Science of Organization. They consulted Harvard librarians, change management experts, and information architects. With the help of these global thought leaders, knowledge management best practices were built into the core of the product. Shelf is designed to help declutter and organize your most important content. Everything about Shelf, from our search to our customer support, reflects the passion and drive of our team to build a better way to harness knowledge and make things easy to find and share. People use Shelf to find the information they need to publish a story, make a pitch, or close an important deal, without the pain of redoing work or wasting time tracking things down. Its Shelf’s mission to help millions of distributed teams throughout the globe accelerate their ability to learn, share and succeed. We are reimagining the library for the workplace of tomorrow and won’t stop until we’ve integrated all the important places where important content is buried. Shelf is the missing link in a rapidly evolving, distributed workplace.

Cybrexa, Inc.

Series B in 2017
Cybrexa, Inc. develops DNA repair inhibitors for radio- and chemo-sensitizers in cancer therapeutics. The product consists of peptide-based technology that directly targets tumor microenvironment. Cybrexa, Inc. was formerly known as Cybrexa, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Trinity Mobile Networks

Venture Round in 2017
Trinity Mobile Networks, Inc. specializes in developing a multi-network overlay software-defined networking (SDN) platform tailored for smartphones and other mobile devices that require efficient connectivity. The company's flagship product, TrinitySDN, integrates cellular, Wi-Fi, and mesh connections, enabling network operators to manage diverse connections effectively. This platform enhances user experience by providing features such as unified network monitoring, software-defined multipath transmissions, seamless network handoffs, and real-time diagnostics. Additionally, Trinity Mobile Networks focuses on improving data speed and overall bandwidth through innovative wireless mesh networking technologies, which allow for affordable connectivity and reduce reliance on costly cellular services. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, the company aims to deliver enhanced performance and coverage for mobile networks while ensuring secure and efficient data transmission.

Tantalus Systems

Venture Round in 2017
Tantalus provides Smart Grid communications solutions for Advanced Metering, Demand Response & Distribution Automation. TUNet® – the Tantalus Utility Network – is a rapid & reliable two-way network that enables electric, water & gas distributors to automate processes, improve business operations and deliver top-tier customer service. TUNet is deployed at utilities determined to manage resources intelligently and meet ambitious conservation goals.
Bristol Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the discovery, development, manufacturing, and marketing of innovative medicines. Founded in 1887 and headquartered in New York City, the company focuses on therapeutic areas such as hematology, oncology, cardiovascular, and immunology. Its notable products include Opdivo for cancer treatment, Eliquis for stroke prevention and venous thromboembolic disorders, and Orencia for rheumatoid arthritis. Additionally, its portfolio features treatments for chronic hepatitis B, HIV, and multiple myeloma, among others. The company operates through two segments: Pharmaceuticals and Nutritionals, with the latter managed by its subsidiary, Mead Johnson Nutrition. Bristol Myers Squibb collaborates with various partners, including Pfizer and AstraZeneca, to enhance its research and development capabilities. The company has a long history and has evolved significantly, changing its name to Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1989.

Inbox Health

Seed Round in 2017
Inbox Health's mission is to greatly reduce the administrative waste in healthcare, by streamlining the patient billing and payment experience. Their product is a patient billing and communication platform that uses patient data to tailor a billing process specific to the patient’s situation and behavior patterns.

Biohaven Pharmaceutical

Venture Round in 2016
Biohaven is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It has a portfolio of late-stage product candidates targeting neurological diseases, including rare disorders. The company product candidates are based on multiple mechanisms-calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonists, glutamate modulators and myeloperoxidase inhibitor. Its pipeline products include BHV3000-301, BHV3000-302, BHV3000-303, and others.

SmartPay Solutions

Series A in 2016
SmartPay Solutions LLC provides a software solution for pay-as-you-go workers’ compensation plans. It offers SmartPay solution for insurance agents, insurance carriers and their agents, and pay roll providers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Southington, Connecticut.

Sirona Medical Technologies

Series A in 2016
Sirona Medical Technologies develops a cardiac mapping and ablation catheter designed to assist patients suffering from atrial fibrillation.

Rapid Oxygen Company

Venture Round in 2016
Rapid Oxygen Company, LLC develops, manufactures, and distributes a portable emergency oxygen system that delivers oxygen in various emergency applications. It offers R15, a non-explosive emergency oxygen unit for use in airports, homes, casinos, day care facilities, disaster relief, drug overdose situations, first aid, fitness centers, golf and country clubs, hotels and resorts, manufacturing locations, offices, pharmaceutical companies, public spaces, and schools. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.

Payveris

Venture Round in 2016
Payveris is the creator of The MoveMoney Platform, an Open API cloud-based platform that enables FIs to control, simplify + extend digital money movement capabilities to any application or device while lowering user experience friction, significantly reducing operating costs + future-proofing the IT investment. Shift from a product-centric digital payments model to a platform-centric model today!

QuadJobs

Seed Round in 2016
QuadJobs is changing the way college students make money, find jobs, and launch their careers.

Trlby Innovative

Venture Round in 2016
Trlby is expert at heat sealing all thermoplastics, including polyethylene, polypropylene, and other polyolefin materials for sustainable product design and manufacturing. Founded in 1981, Trlby has extensive proprietary technologies and equipment, especially in the area of impulse heat sealing polyolefins, and has a robust patent portfolio that protects its product designs and manufacturing methods.

Wellinks

Venture Round in 2016
Wellinks is a medical technology company that specializes in the design and development of medical devices aimed at improving respiratory health. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, the company offers innovative solutions, including Flyp, a handheld nebulizer specifically designed for patients with respiratory diseases. Wellinks operates within the health and wellness sector, focusing on enhancing the quality of care for individuals suffering from such conditions.

My Home Pro Network

Seed Round in 2016
My Home Pro Network offers a free regulatory compliant marketing platform.