Research, Funding, and Awards

  • InsurTech Innovation Challenge Open to All

    The University of Connecticut is a proud sponsor of the InsurTech Hartford Innovation Challenge, seeking entrepreneurs, students, and innovators inside and outside of the insurance industry to present solutions for today’s insurance challenges. Challenge winners are awarded up to $10,000 for their innovation and will receive to services, mentorship, and resources to continue a pathway to success.

    Best Emerging InsurTech Innovation - $10,000

    An open category under which all participants will be rated for problem statement, problem/solution fit, feasibility, and disruption to the industry.

    Most Innovative Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Solution-$10,000

    How can InsurTech digitally support the social value of insurance during a pandemic? Beazley Insurance will award this prize to the best solution which helps BBR:
    • Assess cyber risk
    • Identify vulnerabilities and breaches real-time
    • Mitigate operational and regulatory risks

     Travelers Best Self-Service Award- $10,000

    Accelerating self-service capabilities: in times of social distancing, Travelers will award this prize to InsurTechs that can help us accelerate capabilities for customers & agents around policy management and claims self-servicing.

    Register to participate by May 15, 2020. Fill out the short application here: https://challenge.insurtech2020.info/

    For more information, contact: Chereace Marcellin at chereace.marcellin@uconn.edu