{"id":15432,"date":"2025-04-24T11:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/?p=15432"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:18:49","slug":"technotonin-industries-llc-accepted-into-venturewells-e-team-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/technotonin-industries-llc-accepted-into-venturewells-e-team-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Technotonin Industries LLC Accepted into VentureWell&#8217;s E-Team Program!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/profile\/technotonin-industries-llc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technotonin Industries LLC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0was recently accepted into VentureWell\u2019s E-Team Program! <span>Founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/profile\/arav-tyagi\/\">Arav Tyagi (ENG\u201927) <\/a>and Antonio Marzoratti, Technotonin transforms standard manual wheelchairs into motorized ones in just three seconds with their Portable Affordable Wheelchair Enhancer (PAWE). Despite limited engineering experience, the duo developed their solution through self-education and extensive customer research, creating a device with hot-swappable batteries and customizable controls that accommodate various disabilities. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technotonin Industries LLC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> received a $20,000 in non-dilutive funding and will take part of VentureWell\u2019s nationally recognized <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/venturewell.org\/e-team-program\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early-Stage Innovator Training Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which provides student teams with the training, coaching, and peer networking opportunities that will help them launch their innovation. During Propel, the team will discover the best market for their invention, as well as outline possible pathways for the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technotonin Industries LLC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was recognized for the potential of their invention to create a positive social, health, or environmental impact. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about their innovation and meet the rest of the cohort <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/44nJhhV\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Technotonin LLC!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technotonin Industries LLC\u00a0was recently accepted into VentureWell\u2019s E-Team Program! Founded by Arav Tyagi (ENG\u201927) and Antonio Marzoratti, Technotonin transforms standard manual wheelchairs into motorized ones in just three seconds with their Portable Affordable Wheelchair Enhancer (PAWE). Despite limited engineering experience, the duo developed their solution through self-education and extensive customer research, creating a device with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23512,"featured_media":15433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15434,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions\/15434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/innovate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}