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Top 6 Takeaways from “Top Strategies for Raising Funds for Rochester Startups”
At this month’s sold out Lunch & Learn, we were joined by three professionals in the venture capital space in Western New York. Rami Katz of Excell Partners, Inc., Steve Nicosia of Launch NY, and Dorrance Lamb of the Rochester Angel Network all came...
Introducing: Hardware Scaleup
There’s a new program here at NextCorps! We are thrilled to announce that we’re the upstate home of Hardware Scaleup. What is Hardware Scaleup? Hardware Scaleup is funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to...
What Incubation Space Can Give You That Coworking Can’t
Here’s a fun fact for you: did you know that the very first startup incubator originated right in our backyard? In 1959, Joseph L. Mancuso opened the Batavia Industrial Center in a Batavia, New York, warehouse—less than 35 miles away from our location here...
MedTech Meetup: A Recap
Last week, over 120 of the brightest minds in New York’s bio/med industry came together at the Saunders Research Building on the University of Rochester campus for learning and networking. We were lucky enough to go, so we’re passing that luck along to you...
What an Accelerator Can Do for a Business
When Luminate launched last year, we knew the business accelerator would provide focused support—the kind that didn’t exist yet for startups with optics, photonics, and imaging enabled applications. What we couldn’t predict was the effect this support...
Help Us Shape What’s Next
Changes are coming to Rochester. Everywhere you look, there’s more life and more activity, especially in the heart of downtown. Here at NextCorps, we have both a new name and a new headquarters, and it’s thrilling to be a visible, centralized hub of...