The Beginning
Convexity Venture Partners didn’t start in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street. It started in a classroom.
Inside the University of Connecticut, a small team began asking big questions: What happens when a university stops acting like a bureaucracy and starts operating like a startup? What if education wasn’t just about degrees but about unlocking real-world leverage?
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The Experiment
This wasn’t theory.
Inside the Peter J. Werth Institute, we ran a live experiment. We built market-driven courses in product, venture, and e-commerce. We launched a pioneering NIL program before national headlines caught on.
We tested what was possible when you give elite young talent the room to build, without waiting for permission. The results were real.
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The Pattern We Saw
As our work expanded, so did the need for a new kind of partner.
We saw something missing across higher education, startups, and institutional networks: An entity designed to move fast, carry risk, and operate across silos and organizations.
We didn’t just want to build programs. We wanted to build infrastructure for elite talent, strategic capital, and network-based innovation.
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The Birth of Convexity
So we did something radical. We spun out.
Convexity Venture Partners was born, licensing the Network-Based Innovation Model developed inside UConn, a framework designed to unlock value in underutilized networks.
This wasn’t a pivot. It was a necessary evolution. We took the best parts of what we built in higher ed, agility, vision, grit, and rewired them for the real world.
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The Mission
Convexity exists to back the outliers. To design new systems for talent. To bridge the gap between institutional potential and real-world impact.
We build with speed. We act as a multiplier. And we partner with those who can’t wait for the world to change because they’re already changing it.
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The Next Chapter
We’re still writing the next pages of this story. But one thing is clear: We didn’t just leave the system. We’re building what comes next.
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