April 5, 2021Edition

🔒Bordonaro: With another corporate HQ under threat, CT must focus on a competitive biz environment

With the loss of Aetna and United Technologies, Connecticut must improve its business climate to hold on to companies like The Hartford.

🔒Why CEOs resist addressing diversity, equity and inclusion

Many CEOs are still struggling and resisting the diversity, equity and inclusion progress their employees hope to see within their organizations.

🔒Why Black and brown entrepreneurs struggle to raise capital

Anthony Price interviews Mariah Lichtenstern, the founding partner of DiverseCity Ventures and managing director of the Founder Institute, Sacramento Chapter.

🔒Windsor’s Infinity Fuel & Hydrogen creates zero-gravity fuel cells for space, under water

Windsor-based Infinity Fuel & Hydrogen Inc. has developed a zero-gravity hydrogen fuel cell specially designed for the oxygen-free realities of space travel.
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🔒Manchester startup Smart Seal aims to digitally authenticate luxury, other goods

Early-stage Manchester startup Smart Seal Inc. makes small electronic tags that give digital IDs to physical objects.The...

🔒Fair Shot: Minority business owners advocate for greater share of state contracts

East Hartford's American Building Wreckers is among companies advocating for a greater share under a state set-aside program designed for minority business enterprises.

🔒Experts advise ramping up diversity efforts in tandem with societal shifts

Day Pitney attorneys advise going beyond statements to ramp up diversity and inclusion efforts.

🔒Diversifying Leadership: Growing roster of women lead Greater Hartford law firms

Law firms including Robinson+Cole, Shipman & Goodwin, McCarter & English and Jackson Lewis name women to top leadership posts.
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🔒SPAC Attack: CT tech firms going public, raising billions through popular alternative IPO method

In the past few months, the private, Connecticut-based medical technology companies Sema4, Butterly Network and Quantum-SI have announced merger deals with publicly-traded firms called "special purpose acquisition companies," which also go by the acronym "SPAC."

🔒Despite downturn, Foxwoods CEO Guyot says new amenities are on the way

Instead of dwelling on the downturn in staff — as well as the significant decline in revenues over the past year — Foxwoods’ recently named CEO Jason Guyot said he sees opportunities for expansion ahead, particularly as the vaccine roll out continues.

🔒Johnson Brunetti’s Joel Johnson’s need for speed takes him to the race track

From 9 to 5, Joel Johnson, the managing partner of Johnson Brunetti, has hit the apex of success with his retirement and investment services firm, and after hours, he’s focused on hitting apexes behind the wheel of his two race cars.

🔒COVID-19 disrupts Hartford’s efforts to become a startup magnet

COVID-19 has had a disruptive effect on Hartford's startup ecosystem, including forcing the exit of Startupbootcamp, the London-based company that was hired to run two Hartford accelerator programs.
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🔒Glastonbury entrepreneur aims for cozy, unique feel with coworking barn

With a major remodel nearing completion, a massive Glastonbury barn is set for a new life as a coworking space.

🔒A new twist in CT’s hot housing market: Construction of single-family rental homes

Connecticut Realty Trust CEO Bard H. Kligerman and Krown Point Capital principal Reggie Kronstadt said they are looking to build 19 single-family homes in Granby, where some, or potentially all, of the dwellings will be available for rent rather than sale, an unusual sight in the Northeast.
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