Web4Sign: A signature addition to Start-Up NY
By GREGORY ZELLER // Web4Sign Corp., an Italian import that’s looking to re-set the data security sector, expects to move into Stony Brook’s center for wireless and information tech sometime…
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Re-Nuble: Not your average high-growth company
By GREGORY ZELLER // Tinia Pina didn’t set out to create a supercharged organic fertilizer for hydroponic agriculture. It just worked out that way. Pina’s initial concern was the tons…
Meet the Luminati Aerospace R&D team
Luminati Aerospace shed light on its top management this week, trotting out the startup’s top design and science officers before the Riverhead town board and local residents. The firm, which…
Daniel Preston, the thrust behind Luminati Aerospace
By GREGORY ZELLER // Daniel Preston, CEO of Luminati Aerospace, the Brooklyn startup with plans to build communication drones at Calverton, seems comfortable punching the throttle. Incorporated in Delaware in April and…
Lanier Mason scores with Gear Up Play Hard
By GREGORY ZELLER // Lanier Mason has his game face on. Yes, his elegant and community-minded solution to a common household problem – the accumulation of used sports equipment clogging…
Gorilla Toolz: Not quite 800 pounds, but just wait
By GREGORY ZELLER // Today’s lesson from the high-speed, high-tech world: If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway. That’s the emerging game plan of software developer Gorilla Toolz, which was doing…
Sharestates muscles into peer-to-peer Top 10
By GREGORY ZELLER // Bulked up with an added $20 million from its chief institutional investor, Great Neck-based Sharestates has cracked the top 10 of U.S. real estate crowdfunders, according to…
SavvyRoo: Bringing data into the media mainstream
By GREGORY ZELLER // In a world in which the social media have largely supplanted actual socializing, it’s strangely fitting that SavvyRoo cofounders Noah Blumenthal and Stephen Ostermiller have barely met….
For FlightPartner, business is always looking up
By GREGORY ZELLER // With customer satisfaction locked in the upright position and with a little lift from Start-Up NY, a B2B tech firm connecting charter-flight operators with flight brokers…
Bringing some heat to local investing
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island still has a ways to go before it rivals Silicon Valley or Boston’s Route 128 as an investment hotbed. But the science is here,…
3 digital firms added to Start-Up NY program
Thirty new Long Island jobs are on tap via three new Start-Up NY companies announced Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. All told, Cuomo announced 15 new businesses that plan to…
In school security, a fly on the digital wall
By GREGORY ZELLER // If it’s going to happen, it very well might happen on the Internet first. That’s the thinking behind Digital Fly, a real-time social media monitoring and…
Women driving the surge in U.S. innovation
By GREGORY ZELLER // Almost 15 percent of Americans are launching or running a startup, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reports, the highest rate ever recorded in GEM’s 16 years of…
Thrill of victory, agony of defeat? There’s an app for that
By GREGORY ZELLER // In the land of earned-run averages, yards per game and double-doubles, there’s only one thing fans like more than sports. Statistics. Make that two things: A…
Political insight and advocacy, millennial style
By GREGORY ZELLER // There had to be a better way. That was the thinking shared by Jeff Guillot and Alex Voetsch. Both worked in political capacities – Guillot for…