As founder and CEO of Dynamhex, a company that uses artificial intelligence to provide customized carbon emission reduction recommendations to corporations, utility companies and the government, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship Sanwar Sunny’s expertise is extremely valuable to our students. Most recently it was announced that his company was select by insurance giant, Zurich, as winner in global startup tournament. 

The company was chosen as one of the companies focused on sustainability in the 2022 Zurich Innovation Championship, This was worldwide challenge for entrepreneurs. It pairs together agile and innovative startups to a global insurer. Those startups and and scaleups making it into the accelerator phase benefited from entering the corporation's co-creation implementation lab. There they worked alongside Zurich team members, with the goal to take their product or service to market in new or existing locations. There were 2,762 entries in this year's competition with 12 global winners.  

Last year, his company received a $250,000 investment from the University System of Maryland Momentum Fund. This was part of a total of $1.5 million in seed funding from investors. In addition, the company was recognized as one of Baltimore’s top 20 standout tech companies in the Technical.ly Baltimore “RealLIST Startup” list.  

Emerging Themes in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is one of seven themes that The University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business faculty have adopted to foster the advancement of business and management research and education.