CI Innovation Lab

Understanding
CI Innovation Lab

The CI Innovation Lab, or InLab, connects startups to customers who will benefit from your services. That’s just the beginning. Once introductions are made, we also fund a structured pilot-to-procurement process designed to move you from proof of concept to purchase order in less than a year. Whether you’re modernizing healthcare, tackling climate change, disrupting education, or developing innovations for another industry, our goal is to help you form strategic alliances that will help you scale faster.

Over the years, CI has developed relationships with top decision-makers at state agencies, leading healthcare systems, colleges and universities, and Connecticut’s largest employers. We’re able to recommend your product or service to this vast and powerful network, creating opportunities for collaboration and impact.

Our pilot-to-procurement process is simple: We fund the pilot, develop success metrics, and strive to move from proof of concept to purchase order in under one year.

Entrepreneurs who are interested in learning more about InLab are invited to contact their deal manager.

CI seeks commercially scalable portfolio companies that are already generating revenue. (Not quite there yet? Contact your deal manager to see if you might still be a fit.)

focus on commercially-proven, scalable technologies

Companies should have sales in target markets; have stable revenues; and have growth capital on-hand to carry out multi-year procurement contracts following pilot periods.

Industries

InLab works with agencies and partners across Connecticut’s strongest sectors including healthcare, climate and the electrical grid, transportation, real estate and housing, operations and both K-12 and higher education.

Meeting the requirements above does not guarantee funding.
Innovation Lab
By The Numbers

51 companies in focus

45 agencies and partners

154 identified matches

Contact

David Bruno
Innovation Lab Director
david.bruno@ctinnovations.com

Dave runs Connecticut Innovations’ Innovation Lab, where he is responsible for implementing legislation that enables procurement of CI portfolio companies’ services by State of Connecticut agencies and corporates. Previously, he was global head of innovation for UBS Wealth Management (the world’s largest private bank, with $3T in assets), where his team led research and prototype-to-product development, market launch and exits of businesses. Dave also launched F10, a global fintech accelerator now present in Zurich, Singapore and Madrid, and held an operational role in NVISO, a human-centered AI company. Dave holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts and is a U.S. CPA.

 

 

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