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Governor Cuomo Announces Applications are Now Being Accepted for Round II of Luminate NY
Innovative Competition Aims to Bring Visionary Optics, Photonics and Imaging Companies and Latest Industry Technologies to the Finger Lakes Region Luminate NY Competition Complements “Finger Lakes Forward” – The Region’s Comprehensive Strategy to Revitalize Communities and Grow the Economy Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the world’s largest business accelerator for startup firms in […]
Tarsier Optics gets rid of the haze in photos
Via Rochester Business Journal By: Gino Fanelli, June 7, 2018 Tarsier Optic’s Quantum Camera prototype Every good photographer knows the limits of their equipment. The depth of field your lens can take on, the focal range, the dynamic range and the endless array of other factors that can affect just […]
Startup company innovates chip through better packaging
Via Rochester Business Journal By: Gino Fanelli, May 24, 2018 Shelby Nelson, CTO of Mosaic Microsystems Picture a computer in the 1960s and you’re likely thinking of something along the lines of the HP2100 mini-computer; a large, clunky object with about as much computing power as a modern Happy Meal […]
Startup Positive Science keeps an eye on the eye
Via Rochester Business Journal By: Gino Fanelli, May 17, 2018 View of driving and an infant from Positive Science’s headwear. Every once in a while as a tech journalist, you stumble upon something that truly takes your breath away. Amid the stories on the newest cloud computing software, the latest […]
Growing photonics startups
Via Electro Optics By: Sujatha Ramanujan, May 10, 2018 Dr Sujatha Ramanujan, managing director of photonics accelerator Luminate, discusses the investment trends for optical innovations The evolution of optics, imaging and photonics has been varied with periods of great innovation and advancement mixed with times of steady engineering progress. We […]
Luminate helping Molecular Glasses get OLED product off the ground
Via the Rochester Business Journal By: Gino Fanelli May 4, 2018 Of the companies in the Luminate NY incubator, the “typical” startup is common; a company with an idea and a product seeking a manufacturing hub. Rochester’s Molecular Glasses Inc., founded by Mike Molaire, a former researcher at Eastman Kodak, is a bit different. Since its founding […]
Startup’s invention could eliminate need for biopsies
Via the Rochester Business Journal By: Gino Fanelli April 20, 2018 Perhaps one of the greatest draws of the Luminate NY incubator is the diversity. There is no focal point, no central tech concept outside the use of light and imaging, which binds the 10 companies now calling the incubator home. But, ultimately, there is one common […]
Double Helix Optics Get Small in a Big Way
Via the Rochester Business Journal By: Gino Fanelli April 9, 2018 Some scientific breakthroughs are massive, the scope of their impact sometimes stretching to every corner of the world. Others are small. Some, as is the case with Luminate resident Double Helix Optics, can be both. That’s not to say Double Helix’s focus and technology is insignificant. […]
Arovia Makes An Impact With Collapsible Screens
Via the Rochester Business Journal By: Gino Fanelli March 22, 2018 Picture yourself headed to an impromptu meeting, a presentation tucked away in the hard drive of your smartphone. You walk into a conference room, an array of suited executives stoically facing you as you attempt to hook up your iPhone to their digital projector, only to […]
