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About Connecticut Innovations

Guiding Good Ideas from the Mind to the Marketplace

Connecticut Innovations provides strategic capital and operational insight to push the frontiers of high-tech industries such as energy, biotechnology, information technology, and photonics.

Over the years, CI has helped over 100 emerging companies research, develop, and market new products and services. This activity has attracted over $1 billion dollars in additional investments from private equity providers. CI has brought the State of Connecticut over $510 million in Gross State Profit and over 5,000 additional job-years.

CI was created by the Connecticut Legislature in 1989. Since 1995, returns from its own prudent investments - not state money - have supported operations and new, forward-thinking funding programs.

Connecticut Innovations - advancing technologies to fuel Connecticut's prosperity.

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CI Supports

Early-stage technology companies

University/business research collaborations

Bioscience start-ups

Biotech companies in need of lab and office space

Stem Cell Research, through the State Department of Public Health Stem Cell Research Program