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Applications are now open for cohort 5. Participation is primarily virtual, with select weeks in-person. Space is limited in this highly competitive program. Apply by January 17, 2022.
Accelerate Your Startup at Luminate
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FUNDING
$100,000 investment upon acceptance with an additional $2,000,000 available to the best companies per cohort
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CONNECTIONS
Access to our extensive network of domain experts, corporate sponsors, and investors
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COACHING
Advice, coaching, and mentoring from industry leaders and the Luminate staff
Having access to many resources at Luminate, including guidance on IP, marketing, and manufacturing, helped us to refine our thinking and apply best practices to our business. We know that the Luminate team is in our corner and that they truly care about our success.
Dimitri Chernyak, CEO, Intelon Optics
We’re looking for visionary entrepreneurs solving problems in:
- Augmented & virtual reality
- Autonomous vehicles
- Biophotonics
- Camera technologies
- Cybersecurity
- Defense
- Display technologies
- Energy
- Healthcare
- Image processing
- Internet of Things
- Life sciences
- Machine vision
- Quantum computing
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Our board is actively involved with our portfolio companies.
Principal, Westlake Photonics
Managing Partner, Incubic Management
SVP, Advanced Engineering at Madison Square Garden Ventures
Founder and President, Optikos Corporation
Founder, SANICA Ventures; Chairman of the Board, Luminate
Chief Operating Officer, Leidos Health Group
President, Jenoptik Optical Systems
Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship, University of Rochester
VP for Research and Associate Provost, Rochester Institute of Technology
Managing Director, Innovation Acceleration Capital
President, NextCorps
ASA President, CERES Technology Advisors, Inc.
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