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Small Business

🔒2025 Innovator: Stamford’s Rocha builds a nonprofit to help founders turn ideas into sustainable businesses

Marie Rocha was advising a couple of entrepreneurs who seemed poised to make lucrative exits, and it got her wondering what she would do if she came into life-changing money. […]

Bioscience

🔒2025 Innovator: UConn professor, serial entrepreneur Coles leads startup developing smart contact lens for aging eyes

Ryan Coles leads a Hartford-based company vying to create a smart contact lens, a venture that requires...

Health Care

🔒2025 Innovator: Goodroot founder Waterbury sets out to confront the inefficiencies, rising costs of U.S. health care

There’s no mistaking the joy in Michael Waterbury’s voice as he recalls his introduction to the world...

Energy

🔒2025 Innovator: Lee brings a connector’s mindset to leading New Haven’s ClimateHaven through shifting green tides

What a difference a year makes. Last fall, climate research, green energy and sustainable choices seemed to be...

Subscriber Only

🔒2025 Innovator: Wallace leads East Hartford’s VRSim into a new era of virtual reality training

Matthew Wallace understands the value of reinvention. Over his 34-year career, Wallace has pivoted from teaching assistant to...

Health Care

🔒2025 Innovator: SoNE Health CEO Trumble leads charge for physician-driven, value-based care in Connecticut

While working at a Massachusetts hospital system a decade ago, Lisa Trumble encountered a patient who had...

Health Care

🔒2025 Innovator: Priceline founder, serial entrepreneur Walker’s latest venture aims to transform U.S. drug manufacturing

Jay Walker, who holds more than 750 patents, believes his latest company, ApiJect Systems, could replace glass medicine vials with prefilled plastic singledose injection devices.

Economic Development

🔒2025 Innovator: Austin McChord built one of CT’s biggest tech success stories — his next acts include smart toilets, robot combat, more startups and...

According to Austin McChord, true innovation tends to happen in unexpected places. “Generally, the weirder and less interesting...

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