In March, TiE New Jersey held an event to honor Women’s History Month. Almost 100 men and women came to hear an inspiring panel of women entrepreneurs. The audience was about evenly split between men and women.   Kathleen Coviello, chief economic transformation officer at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), also spoke. Our article about her talk is here. NJTechWeekly.com was encouraged by the enthusiastic support that the TiE New Jersey Women Special Interest Group (SIG) received from the crowd. The TiE New Jersey president, Suresh U. Kumar, was the head supporter, issu ..read more

By Steve Sears Zeeshan Ahmed, who is both a core faculty member at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH) and an assistant professor of medicine at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School for the past three years, makes his priority clear when discussing his goal for IntelliGenes. IntelliGenes is  a new software that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) approaches to measure the significance of specific genomic biomarkers to help predict diseases in individuals. When asked if he had plans to license the IntelliGenes ..read more

In celebration of International Women’s Day in March, about 100 members of TiE New Jersey gathered at the Cherry Valley Country Club, in Skillman. They heard from Kathleen Coviello, chief economic transformation officer at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), who has spent much of her career in the service of tech entrepreneurship.   Her current duties at the NJEDA include overseeing the Authority’s strategic sector, economic transformation products (corporate tax credit programs, clean energy and offshore wind products, innovation and venture products and strategic inno ..read more

Recently, about 20 invited guests gathered at Crum & Forster (C&F), an insurance firm in Morristown, to discuss how this company is exploring generative artificial intelligence (AI). The group was assembled as part of a “salon” put together by James Barrood, founder and CEO of  Innovation+, a curated global community of 10,000 or more entrepreneurs and innovators. At the beginning of the meeting, the participants gathered around a boardroom table to discuss their own experiments with generative AI software tools, such as ChatGPT, for both business and personal uses. Almost all the ..read more

Approximately 100 people crowded into the lobby of the McCarter Theatre Center, in Princeton, to hear about “AI in Healthcare” at a recent Princeton Tech Meetup. There was plenty of networking going on, as meetup members both old and new traded information and talked about their businesses while consuming drinks and pizza. Introducing the evening, organizer Venu Moola recapped the history of the Princeton Tech Meetup, which started at a bar in Princeton and moved to the Princeton Public Library, where it took up permanent residency. When COVID hit, the meetup went on a hiatus because “I didn’t ..read more

Recently, Newark-based KL Software Technologies (KLST), headed by Ragav Jagannathan,  developed a bilingual intranet using Microsoft SharePoint Online for the international law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (Toronto). Fasken’s intranet, which currently supports content in English and French, now offers all the firm’s employees access to information that is professionally relevant to them, including company-wide news, financial dashboards, document-management access, a firm directory and more. A mobile version was also created for professionals on the go. Noted Jagannathan, whose comp ..read more

How can you tell when a person living with dementia is wandering around at night? How can you figure out if an elderly person living alone may be headed for a fall? How can you be sure that, when patients are sent home from rehab or the hospital, they will recover and thrive? Rob Blatt, the cofounder and CEO of envoyatHome (Marlton), tells us that passive behavior discovery can tell you all of that, in a way that is nonintrusive to the patients or older people living alone. Digital health startup envoyatHome was founded by Blatt and CTO Frederick Bresani in early 2020, before the pandemic stru ..read more

Newark Venture Partners–from the start–has championed black founders. In this blog post which first appeared on NVP’s website, NVP managing partner Vaughn Crowe talks about five of NVP’s portfolio companies and their founders. As we commemorate Black history and achievements throughout February, it’s essential to acknowledge the monumental contributions of Black entrepreneurs who are reshaping the landscape of innovation and entrepreneurship. At nvp, our commitment to diversity and community isn’t just a moral stance but a strategic advantage that fuels our mission to invest in bold founders b ..read more

In 2019, experienced entrepreneurs John Muldoon and John Hack had an idea that they couldn’t shake. After doing some work for a leadership-training firm, said Hack, they realized that “there hadn’t been innovation in the corporate training market since the introduction of computer-based training.”  To solve that problem Muldoon and Hack founded Interflexion (Hillsborough), where they now serve as CEO and CTO, respectively. The cofounders had noticed that lower-level staff and middle managers were often left behind, as management invested mainly in higher-paid employees.  The middle m ..read more

On the first day of Newark Tech Week in October, Daniel Adeyanju, director of partnerships & external affairs at The Knowledge House (Newark), took the stage at the Newark Tech Summit to discuss his organization’s work with CITI Medina, the founder of =SPACE, a Newark-based incubator/workspace dedicated to black/brown and LGBTQ founders. Medina reenergized Newark Tech Week in 2015 after taking it over from Emily Manz, who founded it in 2013. Since then, the event has grown exponentially, and it’s now backed by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA). This year Newark Tech Wee ..read more