{"id":1209,"date":"2021-03-11T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2021-03-11T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T22:01:23","slug":"entrepreneurship-prof-ceo-raises-1-5m-for-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2021\/03\/11\/entrepreneurship-prof-ceo-raises-1-5m-for-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurship Prof., CEO, Raises $1.5M for Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/600x400-sanwar-sunny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1211\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/600x400-sanwar-sunny-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Merrick School of Business, Office of the Dean would like to extend our\u00a0<span class=\"mark5ctvuk6ne\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"><span class=\"markiv8f3i9tt SSBqA0O5vTLfa9GC1wxGQ\" data-markjs=\"true\">congratulations<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship,\u00a0<b><a title=\"https:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/merrick\/faculty\/alpha-directory-faculty\/ssunny.cfm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/merrick\/faculty\/alpha-directory-faculty\/ssunny.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Sanwar Sunny<\/a><\/b>\u00a0for the recently announced\u00a0University System of Maryland &#8220;Maryland Momentum Fund&#8221; award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In addition to his faculty role, Dr. Sunny is a practicing entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Dynamhex, a company that provides complex energy consumption and carbon footprint data for corporate, utility and government entities. He founded\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/dynmhx.io\/\" href=\"https:\/\/dynmhx.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Dynamhex\u00a0<\/a>in 2019.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s announcement featured $250,000 of funding by the Maryland Momentum Fund. The company has also received $200,000 of funding from The Chesapeake Bay Seed Capital Fund, an initiative of the University of Maryland\u2019s Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech). Thus far the company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding.<\/p>\n<p>Read the news releases below to learn more&#8211;links provided.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In the USM Momentum Fund news release, <b>Murray Dalziel<\/b>, dean of the Merrick School of Business\u00a0said:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased that the USM Momentum Fund has decided to invest in Dr. Sunny&#8217;s company. As one of Maryland&#8217;s leading business schools for professionals and entrepreneurs, we know the importance of creating knowledge that has impact. Not only does our community benefit from being taught by an active entrepreneur like Dr. Sunny, our world benefits from the effects that his company will have on battling climate change and growing a greener economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b>Read the news releases and coverage:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.usmd.edu\/newsroom\/news\/2140\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmd.edu\/newsroom\/news\/2140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">USM\u00a0Maryland Momentum Fund<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mtech.umd.edu\/news\/news_story.php?id=13825\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtech.umd.edu\/news\/news_story.php?id=13825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Mtech\u00a0The Chesapeake Bay Seed Capital Fund<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/baltimore\/2021\/03\/11\/dynamhex-seed-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dynamhex raises $1.5M to help businesses and communities meet climate targets<\/a> (Technical.ly Baltimore (03\/11\/21)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Merrick School of Business, Office of the Dean would like to extend our\u00a0congratulations\u00a0to\u00a0Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship,\u00a0Sanwar Sunny\u00a0for the recently announced\u00a0University System of Maryland &#8220;Maryland Momentum Fund&#8221; award. In addition to his faculty role, Dr. Sunny is a practicing entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Dynamhex, a company that provides complex energy consumption and carbon<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2021\/03\/11\/entrepreneurship-prof-ceo-raises-1-5m-for-company\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,164],"tags":[20,220,209,219,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}