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Newsletters May 17, 2019

No. 406: Building Bridgeworks, accentuating AI, big bucks in Bethpage – and only Applied DNA could go to China

Finish line: The end of another busy workweek is upon is, dear readers, and the start of another well-earned weekend. It’s May 17 out there, and if you had the hometown Wallachians driving the invading Ottoman Empire out of southern Romania on this date in 1395’s Battle of Rovine, kudos – 150 silver groschen have been credited to your account. You say potato: Today is IDAHO, but it has nothing to do with Gem…

Funding February 19, 2019

LICA kicks off 2019 slate with tastiest Capital Forum

By GREGORY ZELLER // The Long Island Capital Alliance always has an appetite for success, but the next installment of its Capital Forum series takes that mantra fairly literally. Scheduled for March 8 in Melville, the alliance’s first capital forum of 2019 will cater to foodies – specifically, to small companies in the food & beverage and agricultural-technology industries. The forum is a quarterly breakfast-networking platform that places innovators – often, but not exclusively, in…

Awards and Events August 29, 2018

Supermodel Alt to keynote next LICA Capital Forum

By GREGORY ZELLER // A famed supermodel will headline the next installment of the Long Island Capital Alliance’s Capital Forum series. International model, actress, entrepreneur, author, self-described “raw food enthusiast” and former Fox News personality Carol Alt is slated to deliver the keynote address at LICA’s Technology Capital Forum, scheduled for Sept. 14 at The RXR Center in Melville. As always, the forum will serve as a networking platform that places early-stage enterprises – in…

Newsletters November 1, 2017

254: A strong 4th quarter, a new STREAM center, members-only beer club and 71 Michelin stars

NOVEMBER ALREADY!?!: Yep, it’s Nov. 1, also known as All Saints Day – a national salute to all the professional parents who double-time it on Oct. 31 to meet deadlines, file reports, run staff meetings, connect with customers, complete inventories and otherwise TCB so they can rush home to take their kids trick-or-treating. We’d like to tell you to go ahead and kick off early today, but you kind of did that yesterday, didn’t you?…

Economic Development October 27, 2017

LICA cooks up tasty Food & Beverage investor forum

By GREGORY ZELLER // Bring your appetite to the Long Island Capital Alliance’s next Capital Forum. After three quarterly innovator-meets-investor events with a decidedly high-tech flavor – early-stage technology in March, cybersecurity in June, healthcare in September – LICA will wrap up its 2017 series with a Food & Beverage Capital Forum, spotlighting “premier growth companies” in the gastronomical realm. As always, the event will feature a handful of what LICA calls “dynamic, emerging companies”…