UNH Entrepreneurship Center Annual Impact Report 2019-2020

Scrapp, founded by Evan
Gwynne Davies ‘20 (CEPS),
Daniel Marek ‘20 (CEPS), and
Mikey Pasciuto ‘20 (CEPS), is
a free-to-download, gamified,
smartphone application
which educates consumers
and rewards individuals and
institutions for recycling
correctly. Scrapp came in
3rd place at the Holloway
Prize Competition in spring
2020 and was coached by Ian
Grant! Commented Daniel
Marek, “Our time throughout
the competition was a steep
learning curve to say the least!
But we were really fortunate
to have the support of our
mentors including Ian Grant,
Dr. Kwiatkowski, and Andrea
O’Brien who all provided us
with their incredible guidance
throughout the process.
Scrapp also participated in
the UNHInnovation NSF-Corps
program in the spring 2019.
SQN Capital Partners, founded
by Cameron Horack ’21 (Paul
College and COLA), is a financial
services venture which aims
to deliver a sustainable and
effective capital formation
solution to address the
structural problems inherent to
the existing higher-education
finance industrial complex;
SQN’s core offering – the SQN
Income-Share Agreement, or
ISA – provides a sophisticated
alternative to the antiquated
portfolio of solutions available
to American students today,
which are reliant on a debtcapital
funding model. Cameron
spent many hours at the
ECenter working on SQN
Capital Partners this year. His
hard work paid off. Cameron
not only made it to the final
round of the Social Venture
Innovation Challenge in the
fall, but he also won a runnerup
prize in the Championship
Round of Holloway Prize
Competition in the spring!
SQN also participated in the
UNHInnovation NSF-ICorps
program in the fall of 2019.
Hannah Ziegele ’20 (COLSA)
hadn’t engaged with the
ECenter before applying to the
Maurice Prize for Innovation.
We’re glad she found us,
though! As you read in the
Maurice Prize story, Hannah
was awarded the $5,000
Maurice Prize on April 21st
for her idea, AnimalTemp!
AnimalTemp, provides
constant, reliable, and noninvasive
temperature readings
for animals of all sizes by using
an RFID tag attached to a
collar. Said Hannah, “This whole
experience has been wonderful
and I’m so grateful I got to
learn about innovation through
it all!”
The Summer Seed Grant is
a unique program that pays
students to work on their earlystage
ideas/start-ups over the
summer without having to find
a summer job. They received
weekly one-on-one mentorship
from seasoned entrepreneur
Mike McClurken and ECenter
Executive Director Ian Grant.
Ten start-ups applied and went
through a first round of judging.
After the finalists presented in
front of the final round judges,
we were thrilled to award
$4,000 each to Nathaniel Hunt
‘22 (COLA), Brady Esmaili ‘23
(CEPS), Joey Neleber ‘22 (CEPS),
and Nicolas Camara ‘21 (CEPS)
for Spaitr and Alhussein Al-
Jawad ‘22 (CEPS) for Valetan.
Spaitr is a two-fold venture
consisting of a diagnostic
tracker attachment to a
lacrosse stick and an app to
serve as a way for coaches to
track the team’s results, growth,
and diagnostics.
Valetan is an online service that
allows people to have their cars
parked and delivered to them
with worry-free convenience.
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