For the first time since 2019, Connecticut Innovations’ pitch competition VentureClash is returning this October and bringing a renewed focus on clean and green energy technologies.
The state’s global venture series for early-stage companies, thematically named VentureClash Climate Edition, will take place in New Haven on Oct. 27, with a full day of panels, networking and presentations from companies hoping to bring their climate-related technologies or business ideas to the state.
Two years after the pandemic forced many to close or shift their operations, Hartford area startup accelerator and incubator programs are hoping to bounce back in a changed landscape spurred by the return of in-person events.
Hartford’s efforts to develop a startup ecosystem were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with some accelerator programs going to a remote model, or simply shutting down altogether.
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The owners of hundreds of apartments in New Haven have purchased their first two properties in downtown Hartford, and they have plans to convert one of them a vacant, office building on Asylum Street into residential rentals.
A major New Haven apartment landlord is shifting its gaze northward to Hartford, paying nearly $7.1 million for two downtown properties one block apart that have both struggled with high vacancy.
Land records show that in mid-May, Greater Hartford developer-landlord Yisroel Rabinowitz sold the “Grand on Ann” apartments at 201 Ann Uccello St. for $3.15 million and the former High School Inc. building at 275 Asylum St. for $3.915 million.
Two separate LLCs bought the properties, but each is linked to New Haven-based Ocean Management and its principal Shmuel Aizenberg, records show.
It wasn’t immediately clear what plans Ocean may have for filling its newly purchased buildings with more tenants. The company owns a mix of approximately 20 multifamily and office properties in and around New Haven, according to property records.