SUNY Old Westbury gets Start-Up NY site
SUNY Old Westbury has been green-lighted for the Island’s sixth Start-Up NY incubator, to be built in LIFT’s Morrelly Center for Homeland Security in Bethpage. The center will start out…
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urSwim readies its next big splash
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new website, a forthcoming app, additional staff and a fresh marketing push – they may be calling for snow on Sunday, but Marina Montes is…
SlipFinder hoping for smoother sailing ahead
By GREGORY ZELLER // Warmer than usual weather and the coming start of spring have boaters itching to pull off the winter shrink wrap. SlipFinder is ready for them. SlipFinder…
Savvyroo hops and pivots to a new business model
By GREGORY ZELLER // If there’s a trope that best suits Savvyroo, it’s “the numbers don’t lie.” It’s always been the thrust of the startup data-driven digital-education platform, which disseminates the…
SemiPro: All set for a little Spring training
By GREGORY ZELLER // Now batting: SemiPro. Originally scheduled to go pro last fall, the scheduling and stat-tracking app for amateur athletes – brainchild of rookie entrepreneurs Jason Le Goff…
Sharpening skills, image at Innovation Boot Camp
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s ninth-annual Innovation Boot Camp has decamped following an intensive series of workshops and homework assignments for eight up-and-coming startups. The campers, early-stage –…
From Greg Artzt, 911 for 21st Century technology
By GREGORY ZELLER // He may have hung his shingle in North Carolina, but tech entrepreneur Greg Artzt sticks close to his Long Island roots. Artzt, the son of legendary…
Nano-coating firm joins SBU’s Start-Up NY program
A nanotech startup preparing to pump $1 million into Long Island’s innovation economy is among several new companies joining the Start-Up NY program. Empire State Development has opened the books…
For Millennial Strategies, another day at the races
By GREGORY ZELLER They sure grow up fast. When last we checked in on political consulting startup Millennial Strategies, the firm was repping a few Democratic causes and gearing up for…
The Lesson: Big markets mean big startup costs
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Good Problem to Have Department comes ClipFix, the Commack tech startup looking to conquer the world one busted modular plug at a time. Since…
George Kramer: A new leash on veterinary surgery
By GREGORY ZELLER // After years in pre-op, a Bohemia startup is preparing to redefine veterinary surgery. Veteran vet George Kramer launched Ultravet Medical Devices in 2009 primarily as a…
An app for the unforgiving world of co-parenting
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Moiety App is an out-of-the-blocks sensation, with 45,000 Facebook “likes,” a burgeoning following on BlogPress and a just-announced partnership with Brighter Children, a charity supporting…
A call for consumer products companies
Fresh off its January healthcare forum, the Long Island Capital Alliance is deep into planning its next innovator-meets-investor networking breakfast. This week, LICA put out a call for presenters for…
Innovation Boot Camp set to hit stride
By GREGORY ZELLER // Eight technologies spawned from Long Island’s top research institutions are about to get the boot. Stony Brook University’s ninth-annual Innovation Boot Camp looms, giving the big…
Many hands on deck for ThermoLift 2.0
By GREGORY ZELLER // As you might imagine, ThermoLift’s natural gas-driven heat pump and air conditioning unit, a directed-energy device based on Vuilleumier Cycle thermodynamics, has many parts. Much like the…