NEWS
Luminate pivots amid the pandemic
Via the Rochester Beacon July 28, 2020 By now, Rochester and the optics, photonics and imaging community worldwide would have learned of a promising technology that outshone others at the Luminate NY Finals. Instead, they will discover the winner virtually in the fall because of the coronavirus outbreak. The 2020 Luminate NY Finals will be […]
June 2020 in Review
Be sure to save the date for Luminate Finals 2020! The pitch competition will be held on Sept. 14 from 10:30 AM to Noon EDT at the 2020 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO+LS) conference. For the first time, FiO+LS will be held virtually, and sessions will be free to attendees. Our Finals […]
Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy
Darius Sankey, Luminate Board Member and Advisor, General Partner at Moore Ventures, and former President of Ocean Tomo China discusses intellectual property strategy, what it is, how it works, why it is important, and how it is evolving. Subscribe to Forward Faster iTunes | Spotify
Patenting on an International Scale
Darius Sankey, Luminate Board Member and Advisor, General Partner at Moore Ventures, and former President of Ocean Tomo China discusses the importance of patenting in the global market especially when working in the optics, photonics, and imaging industry. Subscribe to Forward Faster iTunes | Spotify
Spotlight on Nordetect: Biochemical Analysis Tools for Sustainable Precision Agriculture
Nordetect, a Denmark-based company and Luminate cohort III startup, is working to transform the future of the agriculture industry by bringing “the lab to the farm” through building chemical analysis systems for agricultural and environmental testing. Andy Simon, Luminate Operations Director, sat down with Keenan Pinto, Nordetect CEO and Co-founder to discuss the company and […]
Luminate startups to make pitches before global audience this year
Via the Rochester Business Journal July 8, 2020 A Rochester-based accelerator program focused on helping entrepreneurs bring their optics, photonics and imaging-enabled technologies to market has partnered with a well known industry event that will allow the startups to share their business ideas with an international audience. The 10 companies currently working with Luminate will […]
May 2020 in Review
Summer is finally here, and cohort III startups are busy preparing their pitches for Demo Day 2020. This year’s event will take place virtually as part of the 2020 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO + LS) Conference and Exhibition, which will be held Sept. 13-17. We will let you know the exact […]
Team Kilo develops lighting technology to aid stabilization and growth of NICU babies
Via the Rochester Business Journal June 12, 2020 Kilo Medical Solutions is a medical startup that developed a product that can be hooked up to incubators to control lighting for infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The technology is called Brise-Solette, and it consists of a system of films used to imitate a […]
Haqean tackles sales of counterfeit and pirated goods
Via the Rochester Business Journal June 10, 2020 Haqean is a security startup that is in the process of developing an on-demand quantum entropy solution to address the sales of counterfeit and pirated items to combat fraud and infringement issues. In 2018 counterfeiting was the largest criminal enterprise in the world, with sales of counterfeit […]
