Jim Senall President
High Tech Rochester Inc Innovation Hotspot / Incubator NYMEP Center Technology Commercialization (PreSeed Workshop, NSF iCorp, NEXUS-NY) Business Incubation and Accelerator programs (eg, Luminate) Business Consulting services for small / mid sized manufacturing companies Multiple programs / services serving local and statewide companies: Scalable tech startups – business incubation services Optics / Photonics / Imaging – Luminate accelerator Cleantech – NEXUS-NY proof of concept center; NYSERDA Entrepreneur in Residence program Manufacturing – NYMEP Center for Finger Lakes Region
New startup facility in downtown Rochester Office and coworking space Prototyping lab Wet labs Anchor of new innovation district
World’s largest accelerator for optics, photonics, imaging startups $5M per year, $3M directly invested into teams Working with CAT and AIM Photonics USA Mfg Institute, as well as local cluster companies Access to new HTR incubator facility as well as Luminate optics lab, and local resources 10 teams kick off in January, $100k each Demo Day in June, $2M more invested
Lumetrics, Inc. Orphan technology, spun out of Kodak as startup in HTR incubator Graduated from incubator, grew to 20 employees MEP project for CE mark and export assistance, resulted in increased sales of $400,000 within 12 months, and new customers in the European market