TechLaunch is New Jersey’s technology accelerator. Based at Montclair State University, it provides seed funding, co-working space, LaunchPad (business boot-camp), mentors and access to investors for aspiring entrepreneurs. It counts among its mentors Verona’s own John Crepezzi, co-founder of Broadstreet, the company that built the advertising technology used at MyVeronaNJ.com.
Tuesday’s event will be at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s library in Madison from 6:30-9 p.m. It will feature TechLaunch co-founder and venture capitalist Mario Casabona. The chairman emeritus of Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network, he founded and was CEO of Electro-Radiation Inc. (ERI) until 2004 when ERI was acquired by Honeywell International. ERI was a developer of radar, navigation and communications technology and equipment for the defense industry. Casabona is an electrical engineer and holds 12 national and international patents in the field of satellite-based navigation and communications.
