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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, September 5, 2023For more information, contact:Brady Moeller The AdvanceCT Economic Development Website Provides Visitors With Easy Access to Data, Information, and Resources9/05/2023 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT -- AdvanceCT is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, developed in collaboration with Golden Shovel Agency, to enhance its online...

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has lauded UConn’s positive impact on the state’s economy and innovation culture with a prestigious honor reserved for the country’s best public research institutions.UConn has been named an Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP) University. The designation honors the University’s research prowess, public...

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By Michael Puffer
In the four years since Peter Denious left a venture capital firm to become head of the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, he’s helped reshape the organization’s name and mission.
Denious, 56, oversaw CERC’s rebrand to AdvanceCT, and...
AdvanceCT Launches New Workforce Resource Guide
Jul 11 2023Talent Recruitment Guide Now Available for New and Existing Companies Doing Business in Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut – July 11, 2023 – AdvanceCT announces the release of a new Workforce Resource Guide for Connecticut. The Workforce Resource Guide (WRG) is designed to provide information on the wide...
AdvanceCT Announces Leadership Transition
Jul 6 2023Peter Denious Announces He Will Step Down As CEO September 30
John Bourdeaux To Succeed Him
New Haven, Connecticut – July 6, 2023 – AdvanceCT announced today that Peter Denious will step down as CEO of AdvanceCT on September 30th and be succeeded by...
Connecticut Sees Jump in Corporate Expansions as Five German Companies Grow Their Operations
New Haven, Connecticut – June 8, 2023 – AdvanceCT today announced that several German companies recently expanded their business or started expansion projects in Connecticut, including TRUMPF, BioMed X, Roehm, BYK North America and...

Fullstack Modular & Governor Ned Lamont Announce Company Relocation and $8-12M Investment In Connecticut
Apr 25 2023The American-made modular innovator exits NYC for the pro-development and innovation-friendly greater New Haven, Connecticut community
NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today FullStack Modular, the leading innovator in the design, manufacture, and construction of mid- and high-rise multifamily buildings, hotels, and student housing, was welcomed into the Connecticut business community by Governor Ned Lamont as it begins...

Alexander Soule
Feb. 27, 2023
After hiring nearly 4,000 people last year for its Groton shipyard and satellite facilities in New London and Rhode Island, the president of Electric Boat said Monday the company sees the need for at least 3,000 more within a decade — but with...

FARMINGTON, CT, February 22, 2023 – Mott Corporation announced today that it is opening a new 65,000 square-foot facility near its headquarters in Farmington, which will house at least 100 new, local employees helping to grow its clean energy business. The total investment will be tens of millions of dollars in the...

If only there were a metro in the Northeast that had the economic, transportation, higher education and cultural assets of New York and Boston, but without the congestion and high costs of living and real estate that come with them. Actually, there is such a metro in Connecticut’s capital city...

GREENWICH — Financial technology firm iCapital has announced plans to expand its global development team with more than 100 hires, and a significant number of the new employees are set to work out of its downtown Greenwich offices.
iCapital’s offices in Greenwich, Manhattan, and Lisbon, Portugal, are set to be the...

BioMed X establishes its first US-based institute in New Haven with a new immunology research project in collaboration with AbbVie.
January 16, 2023 13:00 ET | Source: BioMed X Institute
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Jan. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioMed X, an independent German biomedical research institute, announced today the extension of...

(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that Global Atlantic Financial Group, a leading insurance company meeting the retirement and life insurance needs of individuals and institutions, is growing its operations in Hartford in an expansion plan that includes leasing an additional 11,500 square feet of office space to...
Scangarella leaves Choose New Jersey to Join Connecticut’s Economic Development Team
New Haven, Connecticut, January 9, 2023 – AdvanceCT announces that Catherine (Cathy) Scangarella will be joining the organization as the Executive Vice President of Business Retention and Expansion. Scangarella will lead Connecticut’s efforts to work with...

12/09/2022
Governor Lamont Highlights Connecticut’s Contributions to NASA’s Artemis Moon Exploration Program
Forty-Four Connecticut Companies are Suppliers to the Groundbreaking Mission
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today is highlighting the prominent role that 44 businesses in Connecticut are playing in NASA’s world-renowned Artemis I mission, which...
ADVANCECT CATALOGUES CONNECTICUT’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS SUPPORT ECOSYSTEM
New Haven, Connecticut - November 30th, 2022 – AdvanceCT has released its first edition of the Connecticut Economic Development Catalogue which compiles the variety of economic development and business support organizations in Connecticut into a single document...
Advancect Launches Soft Landing Program For Companies Locating To Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut - November 2nd, 2022 – AdvanceCT announces the launch of its Soft Landing Program and Directory of Resources, a tool that lists the business resources and connections...