May 2023
New York State Incubator Report
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Hotel Information and Room Blocks Available Until May 9th
More Information Can Be Found here.
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The Center for International Business Advancement Global Forum panel on Soft Landing Programs in New York State explored the variety of institutional drivers for such programs, including universities, non-profit business associations, and for-profit venture capital funds.
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Competition Highlights
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All US-based startups are eligible to apple for free - May 26 deadline
- Industry agnostic, pre-revenue/ pre-seed through Series A
- Free feedback report on attractiveness to potential investors
- 4000+ participants from all 50 states competed in 2022
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Winners featured in Entrepreneur™ Magazine and announced at the annual Showcase in Malibu, CA on September 21, 2023
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Since 2018, list winners have raised over $220 million and counting
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SSTI’s 2023 Annual Conference
SSTI’s annual conference is the convening for practitioners and policymakers working to create a better future through science, technology innovation and entrepreneurship.
Join us in Atlanta this September 6-8 to connect with and learn from your peers working around the country to strengthen their regional innovation economies.
Over the course of these three days, SSTI’s 2023 Annual Conference will feature:
- Workshops designed to help you bolster your strategies and communications,
- Roundtables where you can discuss effective policies and programs with peer practitioners,
- Plenary sessions providing updates on significant trends and new ideas for the field, and
- A financing forum that offers a chance to learn about opportunities to fund your work and your client entrepreneurs and innovators.
Save the date now and don’t miss an announcement as registration, the agenda and speakers become available. Sign up for updates at ssti.org. |
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Visit The Bull Moose Club! |
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With summer weather upon us, we're all looking for more work flexibility. Now, the Bull Moose Club has what you need. Purchase a Book of Passes and visit for only $15 per day. Come in whenever you'd like and use their coworking spaces. You'll get access to space and have the chance to meet some of the Capital Region's movers and shakers. |
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Pitch Day 2023, returns to the Florence Gould Theater in New York City.
This annual event features pitches and presentations from 23 ventures from both the ABCT and WCBA life sciences accelerator programs. This year's event will also feature a panel of distinguished alums who will share their work changing care within biosciences.
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VET-II applications are OPEN
Apply by Friday, May 12!
Whether you’re working on a for-profit business or non-profit venture, our Veterans Entrepreneurship Training - Level II (VET-II) program can help. Engineered for aspiring entrepreneurs, founders of early-stage companies, and VET-I graduates, VET-II offers:
- Practical information to apply to launching your venture. Dive into customer discovery, market definition and sizing, financial reporting, determining revenue, tactical business tools and best practices, and much more.
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- Focused class size and convenient format. A select group of participants means close attention to your entrepreneurial needs. Offered once a week in the evenings (ET) for 8 weeks, this virtual program is accessible from anywhere in the country.
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- A supportive community. Build your business in a motivated network of service members, veterans, and military spouses launching ventures.
Don't wait — make this the summer in which you launch your own venture.
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Executive Director, Long Island High Technology Incubator
The Long Island High Technology Incubator (LIHTI) is a regional startup incubator and accelerator. The Executive Director (ED) leads the organization. The position reports to the Board of Directors (BOD). The organization is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit legal entity and has a strong affiliation with Stony Brook University (SBU). Since opening in 1992, LIHTI has been associated with many biotechnology and other technology-based businesses. Most have graduated successfully from the LIHTI program, creating jobs for hundreds employees.
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Spring 2023 | Element 46
Start-up Accelerator
Element 46 is a competitive-entry, 10-week tech accelerator program, powered by Cela Innovations. Recent alumni include ConConnect, Innervation Finance, Healthtrends.ai, To And From, Laronix, and ClearOPS.
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Launch1000 is a comprehensive, self-paced, online, entrepreneurship program offered in partnership with Westchester County. During the 6-10 month program, participants are guided through an action-based accelerator where they walk their idea through a step-by-step framework to test, validate, de-risk, and/or launch their venture faster.
Launch1000 is open to any Westchester County resident, is industry-agnostic, and is offered in both English and Spanish.
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Opening: Queens Tech Incubator |
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The Queens Chamber of Commerce and the Queens Tech Council anare seeking applications from tech companies who are interested in office space as part of the Queen Tech Incubator. The Queens Tech Incubator will launch with space at the Greater Nexus in Jamaica, a recently opened 10,000 sq. ft. co-working space managed by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation. There are plans to open incubators in the Rockaways, Forest Hills, Long Island City and Flushing in the coming months.
Applications to the Queens Tech Incubator will be reviewed and selected by members of the Queens Tech Council. Companies chosen will have access to complimentary office space, mentorship opportunities from existing Tech Council members as well as resources provided by the Small Business Resource Network (SBRN).
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Mayor Adams, NYCEDC Announce New Center for Sustainability-Focused Biotech to Open at the Brooklyn Navy Yard |
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation today announced that the city will open a first-in-the-nation $20 million center for sustainability-focused biotech in Building 303 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in partnership with Newlab, the Partnership Fund for New York City, and Empire State Development. The 50,000-square-foot innovation space is expected to open in 2025 and advances Mayor Adams' efforts to make New York City the global center of sustainable technology by leveraging the city's growing life sciences and biotechnology industries |
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NY-BEST Hosting 13th Annual Capture the Energy Conference
May 16-18, 2023
Capture the Energy brings together hundreds of experts in the energy storage and renewable energy industry to discuss how energy storage can be leveraged to meet our climate goals and how, together, we can grow the energy storage industry.
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Catalyzing the Carbontech Ecosystem
- Carbon Capture, such as atmospheric (e.g. DAC) or point source (esp. from hard-to-decarbonize sectors).
- Carbon Conversion to Added-Value Products, such as CO2 mineralization into building materials, CO2 conversion to fuels (e.g. SAF), and chemicals (and related feedstocks like syngas).
- Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), such as ocean alkalinity enhancement, enhanced rock weathering, etc.
- Enabling Technologies, such as Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems for carbontech (software and/or hardware), financing and insurance, carbon markets.
The program is appropriate for all startups globally with a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 4 to 7, actively investigating product-market fit and seeking partnerships.
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NYCEDC Unveils Diverse Cohort of 100 Entrepreneurs Selected for Second Installment of the Founder Fellowship |
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The Fellowship Expands from Eight to One Hundred Thanks to a $1.5 Million Investment through Mayor Eric Adams’ Blueprint for Economic Recovery.
NYCEDC selected the following operator partners to host five unique Founder Fellowship cohorts in 2023. Each program operator is providing unique value and offerings to the startups participating in their respective cohorts.
- Chloe Capital, a seed-stage venture firm that invests in women-led innovation companies.
- Company Ventures, a seed-stage venture firm that offers a zero-equity pre-accelerator for underrepresented founders.
- Newlab, a community of experts and innovators applying transformative technology to solve the world's biggest challenges.
- Tech Incubator at Queens College, a startup incubator where underserved and underrepresented entrepreneurs can thrive.
- Visible Hands, a platform that holistically supports early-stage, underrepresented founders in building high-growth startups.
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Millionways Raises $10M for its Emotionally-Intelligent AI Platform for use in hiring and healthcare |
One of the greatest strengths of AI is that it takes the emotion out of decision making and machines themselves do not have their own emotions. However, this is also one of the biggest weaknesses of AI systems as they do not have the same complex psychological and physiological responses that humans do, leading to a lack of empathy.....Read More
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The research team developing next generation viral vaccines, from left: Rob Coleman, Eckard Wimmer, Steffen Mueller, and Steven Skiena. |
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Latest News About Business Incubators and Accelerators From Across NYS
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