Startups

Clean Energy, Startups April 29, 2015

SulfCrete readies its breakout pitch

BY GREGORY ZELLER // A rock-solid Brookhaven National Laboratory commercialization prospect is ready for its close-up. SulfCrete, a stronger, more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional concrete, will share the spotlight May 8 with four other regional innovations at the Long Island Capital Alliance’s Technology Transfer Capital Forum, a showcase designed to attract investors to some of the Island’s hottest IP. The result of decades of BNL R&D, SulfCrete is the stage name of sulfur polymer,…

Biotech, Startups April 22, 2015

Traverse readies the move to market

BY GREGORY ZELLER // Armed with a just-executed licensing agreement for a suite of anti-inflammatory drug therapies, two-year-old Traverse Biosciences is stepping up efforts to land the investors and strategic partners necessary for rapid product development. The licensing agreement with the SUNY Research Foundation gives Traverse rights to compounds developed by Stony Brook University faculty members Lorne Golub and Francis Johnson and known as — science alert — polyenolic zinc-binding agents. Their leading drug candidate,…

Education, Startups April 22, 2015

At Hofstra, collaboration without losing your stuff

BY GREGORY ZELLER // A Hofstra University effort to combine industrial and educational forces is breaking the innovation mold. And intellectual property rights are only part of the sea change. Many universities now host “innovation centers,” noted Kevin Craig, director of Hofstra’s Center for Innovation, and Hofstra’s version does what most of the others do: accelerate development and commercialization of new technologies by fostering collaboration between industry, school faculty and students. And Hofstra carves itself…

Clean Energy, Startups April 21, 2015

Looking to make a splash

Industrialist Ramuel Maramara may have reinvented the way oceanic energy is harvested. If his artificial jellyfish proves seaworthy. That’s the next big test for Maramara and Brimes Energy, the Stony Brook-based startup he incorporated in 2014. Already a successful businessman on two continents – well, one continent and an archipelago – the Filipino native and his team are planning ocean testing this summer for a “jellyfish” device that improves upon Salter’s Duck, the longstanding top…

Health, IT, Startups April 19, 2015

State’s job board sets record on tech employment

Tech-based jobs rule the roost on New York State’s Jobs Express website, an online resource looking to connect the unemployed with companies in search of fresh blood. According to the state, the Jobs Express site has set a new record with over 115,000 private-sector positions listed – and a healthy portion of those jobs are technology-related, falling into categories such as “Computer and Mathematical,” “Healthcare Technical” and “Healthcare Support.” The Jobs Express site (www.jobs.ny.gov) sorts…

Finance, Startups April 16, 2015

Accelerate LI to partner on $1.5M seed fund

New York State has awarded $1.5 million to a new seed fund designed to invest in downstate companies commercializing research from local laboratories and universities. The fund will be administered by Accelerate Long Island and the SUNY Research Foundation and will handle investments on Long Island, parts of New York City and the Hudson Valley. The $1.5 million will be matched by the university system’s investment arm and with private money from local venture firms…

Startups April 14, 2015

Startup House founder at Suffolk inventor’s meetup

Shmulik Shahar, founder of the Seed Startup House, discusses software and app development at the Suffolk County Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club, April 21, from 7 to 9 p.m. Shahar has almost 20 years experience as a team leader, software R&D manager, CTO and CEO for companies large, small and starting up, both international and domestic. He holds a BA in computer science from the Open University in Israel. The meeting will be held in the Media…

Startups April 10, 2015

Maker’s markt set for LaunchPad Huntington

BY GREGORY ZELLER LaunchPad Huntington has landed a $15,000 grant from Albany’s Workforce Development Institute to build out a 3D maker space prototyping facility. The grant covers the cost of a cutting machine, a dedicated computer loaded with CAD drawing software and a desktop-sized 3D printer, all being purchased now. The space should be up and running by late May, according to Phil Rugile, LaunchPad Huntington’s director. “This is a really significant 21st century opportunity…

Keith Cooper and Todd Brice of SlipFinder

Startups April 8, 2015

SlipFinder: The nautical Airbnb

BY GREGORY ZELLER Keith Cooper’s goal is not immodest: He’s looking to forever change the recreational boating world as we know it. The way the Long Island native and his partner, Amityville High School chum Todd Brice, see it, boaters have plenty of options – digital included – for reserving transient boat slips away from their home ports. But they mostly involve advance planning, which according to Cooper sails in the face of recreational boating’s…

Startups March 24, 2015

Accelerate releases startups report

Accelerate Long Island released its much-anticipated technology startups report this week, taking the first comprehensive look at the region’s emerging innovation economy. Regional economic development officials have long supported technology as the anchor of a post-defense Long Island economy, but the effort has never fully taken hold. Now, with the Regional Economic Development Council at the fore, and with such new programs as the state’s Start-Up NY effort, the dream of a future Tech Island…

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