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Featuring OPI leaders, emerging startups, and seasoned investors
Spotlight on Andluca Technologies: Making Glass Smarter and More Efficient
Smart glass solutions improve building energy efficiency and occupant comfort. But current products require external wiring, which means they can’t be integrated into most existing buildings. That’s a big problem. One that costs the U.S. billions each year in wasted energy. Luminate cohort 4 startup, Andluca Technologies, has designed a solution. Co-Founder and CEO, Nick […]
Spotlight on Infrascreen: Bringing Better Climate Control to Greenhouse Growers
High-tech greenhouses are the only way to grow fruits and vegetables without pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, but they use (and waste) a lot of energy. Infrascreen is on a mission to make fruits and veggies good for us and good for the planet, while helping high-tech greenhouses be more sustainable and profitable. Henri de Lalande, […]
Spotlight on Dynocardia: Changing the Way We Measure and Manage Blood Pressure
Even if you manage to get an accurate blood pressure reading from a cuff-based device, you only have a single measurement. Dynocardia, a startup in Luminate’s fourth cohort, came up with a fundamentally different way to measure blood pressure. Its ViTrack wrist wearable provides accurate, continuous BP monitoring. Founder and CEO of Dynocardia, Mohan Thanikachalam, […]
Growing a Family at Sydor Optics
Matt Sydor refers to Rochester, NY as the “Mecca of optics.” Program Manager at Sydor Technologies, Matt shares why Rochester is a great place for a career in optics, and how his family business carved out a niche in ultra precision flat optics to grow from a father-son operation to employing nearly 90 people. Watch/listen […]
The Optical Systems Technology Program at MCC
Across the country and around the globe, there’s a shortage of trained optical technicians needed to fill essential jobs. Dr. Alexis Vogt, Endowed Chair and Professor of Optics at Monroe Community College, shares how she’s helping change that by growing MCC’s Optical Systems Technology Program, the only program in the world awarding associate degrees in […]
Finger Lakes Forward: A Vision for Our Region’s Future
The Rochester and Finger Lakes Region is a great place to launch a business and to call home. And there’s a strategic plan in place to continue to make it better. Empire State Development’s Regional Director, Vincent Esposito, joined us on the Forward Faster podcast to talk about Finger Lakes Forward, a vision for our […]
Spotlight on OVITZ: Delivering Life-Changing Vision Improvements
While optometrists have been able to capture measurements of the eye for some time, they’ve needed to work with multiple tools and multiple manufacturers to deliver custom contact lenses to their patients. OVITZ is streamlining the process with the xwave system. Nick Brown, Director of Engineering at OVITZ, speaks with Luminate’s Technology Program Manager, Dr. […]
Spotlight on Rubitection: Advancing Early Bedsore Detection
Treating a single bedsore can cost up to $45,000, and some patients pay with their lives. Rubitection, a Luminate cohort 3 startup, is working to change the outcomes. Dr. Sanna Gaspard, Rubitection CEO, shares how her company’s skin health monitoring platform, the Rubitect Assessment System (RAS), offers a much needed and vastly superior alternative to […]
Mergers & Acquisitions with Jay Kumler
President of global technology group Jenoptik Optical Systems and Luminate advisory board member, Jay Kumler has experience in both the buy- and sell-sides of M&A. He speaks with our Managing Director, Dr. Sujatha Ramanujan, about his transition from a startup founder to doing business internationally as part of a publicly traded company. Hear what exciting […]
