The Connecticut Humane Society received a $70,000 grant from the Peter Grayson Letz Fund for Animals and the Environment, administered by the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut. The grant will provide […]
While Connecticut legislators take the summer off to campaign for re-election, some continue to tout potential future legislation that can only be described as anti-business. As General Electric relocates to Boston and Aetna leaves the door open to departure from Hartford, lawmakers should be very cautious about doing anything in the next session that would make it more difficult to run a big or small business in Connecticut.
During her 35 years with the Small Business Administration (SBA), Anne Hunt has seen some major companies grow from struggling startups to household names. “Nike, Apple, Ben & Jerry's and Columbia have all relied on SBA assistance at one time,” she said. Today, as the director of the Connecticut District Office, one of Hunt's top priorities is addressing what has long been the biggest challenge faced by small and microbusinesses: access to capital.
Since 2004, more than 20,000 Connecticut homes have added solar panels, creating the equivalent of a 154-megawatt power plant spread across the entire state. This $696 million investment has not happened by accident. The state's high electricity prices and low-cost solar financing from the Connecticut Green Bank have been a recipe for the home-solar boom.
Hartford Business Journal's Series on Connecticut's bioscience industry continues this week with a look at Farmington startup Oral Fluid Dynamics, which is developing a dental implant to help people suffering from chronic dry mouth.
Q&A talks with Gerald Goldberg, CEO and co-founder of West Hartford's GYL Financial Synergies, which recently renamed itself and split away from the independent arm of Wells Fargo Advisors.
Hartford's Wearsafe Labs, which began selling its mobile app-enabled panic button late last year and soon drew a more than $2 million funding round, has hit its next milestone.
For Andy Tran and Jeff Farmer, a chance encounter at Farmington's Westfarms Mall led to a multi-state business that helps people with mental illness and acquired brain injuries who are on Medicaid, live independently, while saving the state money and creating jobs for caretakers.