Rocketing interest in LaunchPad Huntington
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’re packing them in at LaunchPad Huntington, with a host of new tenants hanging their shingles inside the year-old co-working space – including three new residents…
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At Henry Schein, good Fortune continues
Henry Schein’s big year continues: Not only did the Melville-based health care products distributor land Thursday on the Fortune 500 list for the 11th consecutive year, but it moved up…
Feinstein, Battelle partner on ‘Neural Tourniquet’
North Shore-LIJ’s Feinstein Institute is partnering with Ohio health giant Battelle on a so-called Neural Tourniquet that will reshape the way doctors staunch blood loss, from the battlefield to the…
And the nation’s startup capital is … Austin
The Texas capital has unseated Silicon Valley as the nation’s top spot for startups, according to the latest Kauffman Index report. The index, produced annually by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation,…
Invention, with a side order of altruism
By GREGORY ZELLER While cutting-edge laboratories, university-based startups and seven-figure investments monopolize Long Island’s innovation spotlight, invention can happen anywhere. Just ask students in the Science Research Program at Commack…
NS-LIJ docs to the rescue with new heart pump
North Shore-LIJ doctors saved the life of a 74-year-old patient late last month using a tiny motorized device – just approved by the FDA – that boosts heart function in…
Stony Brook startup gets $100K seed investment
By GREGORY ZELLER Investment partners Accelerate Long Island and the Long Island Emerging Technologies Fund announced a $100,000 infusion into Right Dose Inc., a high-tech startup borne from research conducted…
On Kickstarter, beers and boards win big
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Kickstarter crowdfunding platform is a worthy metaphor for humanity itself. Invented by necessity and forever evolving, it’s a vast engine of ingenuity fueled by the…
CA names Otto Berkes as chief tech officer
A week after folding in agile developer Rally Software, CA Technologies has hired a familiar name to help run it all. Otto Berkes, a veteran technology executive at HBO and…
Codagenix gets $100K USDA grant for Foot and Mouth vaccine
By GREGORY ZELLER // Codagenix, the Stony Brook biotech startup, has been awarded a $100,000 federal grant to develop a vaccine for the infectious Foot and Mouth Disease Virus. Funding…
Hofstra lands $2M for engineering, robotics and big data programs
Hofstra University was awarded $2 million in state grants on Monday to expand its School of Engineering and Applied Science and create new laboratories and classrooms focusing on big data…
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,…
Office Depot CIO joins Cablevision
Technology veteran Keith Sherwell has been named chief information officer at Cablevision, leaving a similar job at Office Depot after nine months. The Cablevision post is a new position that…
eGifter closes $3.5M angel investment, adds Italy deal
eGifter, the Huntington-based digital gifting platform, has closed on a $3.5 million investment round and announced a partnership that will expand the brand in Europe. The funding comes from the Long…
New refrigerant rules = hot times for Priority Cool
By GREGORY ZELLER // With new refrigeration standards sweeping the globe, a Bay Shore company with proprietary rights to an advanced coolant formula is poised to cash in on a…