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FUNDING
$100,000 investment upon acceptance with an additional $2 million available to the best companies per cohort
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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
The Startups in Our Portfolio are 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
Meet the Advisory Board
Our board is actively involved with our portfolio companies.
Director, Institute of Optics
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, UofR
Managing Partner, Silicon Catalyst
VP for Research and Associate Provost, RIT
Managing Director, Innovation Acceleration Capital
President, NextCorps
ASA President, CERES Technology Advisors, Inc.
VP & GM, Optical Solutions Business, MKS Instruments
NYS Photonics Board Governor Appointee
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