Lesko, SBU’s Donnelly to run $6M+ seed fund
By GREGORY ZELLER // Accelerate Long Island is back in business, and it’s main private-investment partners are coming along for the ride. The seed-funding business accelerator, which has been publicly…
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Bionic hand, big stare top Hofstra pitch challenge
By GREGORY ZELLER // A 3D-printed bionic hand and a digital-age update on the classic “staring contest” were the big winners Thursday at the Hofstra University CPXi Venture Challenge. The…
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 –…
Hofstra names 6 residents in entrepreneurship
Six accomplished businesspeople with dozens of startups under their combined belts, and a wealth of experience nurturing other early-stage enterprises, will bring their wisdom to the Hofstra University Center for…
DepYmed wins Accelerate funding
By Gregory Zeller // A Cold Spring Harbor biotech startup is the 10th and final recipient in the first co-funding round backed by Accelerate Long Island and the Long Island…
Hofstra revamps its student pitch program
The CPXi Challenge has returned to Hofstra University – slightly tweaked, in hopes of involving and inspiring a greater number of innovative thinkers. Hofstra graduate and trustee Mike Seiman, founder…
Women-focused pitch program at Hofstra
Hofstra’s Center for Entrepreneurship has been selected as the local host of the national InnovateHER Competition, a business plan pitch-off inviting entrepreneurs to showcase products and services with “a measurable…
Lesko, Brofman and cash prizes at Molloy pitch event
The popularity of the ABC’s Shark Tank has spawned a number of imitations, including flattery from LaunchPad, NYIT and Stony Brook University. The latest, organized by a Molloy student, will…
The Debrief: Noel Goddard, doyenne of detection
No, she’s not related to rocketing pioneer Robert Goddard. Besides a surname, she has nothing in common with former OSI Pharmaceuticals CEO Colin Goddard (though she’s a fan). And her…
Lesko tapped to head Hofstra entrepreneur center
By GREGORY ZELLER // Accelerate Long Island director Mark Lesko has been named executive dean of Hofstra University’s new Center for Entrepreneurship, a multi-disciplinary program that plans to leverage entrepreneurial activities…
Checking in on LI’s post-doctoral promise
By GREGORY ZELLER // When Accelerate Long Island chief Mark Lesko takes the stage Friday at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s annual Postdoc Retreat – as part of a panel on…
Symbiotic Health gets $100K in funding
By GREGORY ZELLER // A spinoff of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research has snagged a critical $100,000 stake from Accelerate Long Island and the Long Island Emerging Technologies Fund…
Triglia Technologies is lumbering into the future
By GREGORY ZELLER // Its focus – drying wood – isn’t sexy. Its fundraising – while promising – is so far nonexistent. Its patents are pending and its commercialization strategy…
The Debrief: Mark Lesko, Accelerate Long Island
Three-year-old Accelerate Long Island has been quietly investing in biotech and clean-gen startups, building an MIT-styled mentoring program and pulling together the stray ends of the entrepreneurial ecosystem via dinners,…