November’s VentureB is northern bound! Join us on Wednesday, November 15 from 3:30 – 5:30 pm at Skidmore College for three VentureB pitches. Refreshments will be served! Location/Directions: Skidmore College Palamountain Hall, Room 202. From Broadway, enter campus and turn right on the Ring Rd. Follow signs to Palamountain
11:30 am-12:00 – Check-in 12:00-2:00 pm – Workshop VentureB Innovation Series Strategies for Creating Bill of Materials (BOM) The VentureB Innovation Series focuses on providing startups with hands-on educational training. The topics in this series will help start-ups effectively grow their business by gaining tangible experience in 90 minute workshops. For this VentureB Innovation
CEG and our partners work with start-ups to coach their team for a venture pitch that then ends in an open public pitch to regional investors and business leaders. Here from Ultradian Diagnostics and Nowigence at the May 17, 2017 VentureB! Location: RPI Heffner Alumni House (just south of the
Two Capital Region startups received their first research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in fiscal 2023, and the area’s two largest universities also received their largest amounts of NIH funding in several years, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of data from the NIH
Capital Region tech firms received nearly $16 million in federal seed funds for R&D projects. The research projects ranged from composites for unmanned aircraft and hydrogen turbines, aerodynamic sensor tape for offshore wind turbines, and an open-source artificial intelligence software infrastructure for science that is designed for researchers, according to
The first year of the pandemic took its toll on the ranks of freelancer, independent contractors and other nonemployer establishments in regions across New York, but the Capital Region was the only one where their total sales, value of shipments, or revenues increased. While Capital Region nonemployer establishment losses were
The number of Capital Region startups and new businesses receiving funding from the Small Business Administration’s 7(a) and 504 programs has doubled since before the pandemic, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of SBA data. Loan Volumes In fiscal year 2022, 63 SBA 7(a) and
The Capital Region leads New York for growing its ranks of microbusinesses with websites since the start of the pandemic, according to data from the largest domain registrar GoDaddy. Between 2020 and 2022, the number of active GoDaddy-registered microbusinesses in the eight-county Capital Region increased by 6.2 percent to
As the Capital Region positioned itself to be the home of the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) in fiscal year 2021, university research and development spending at local colleges and universities climbed to an eight-year high, according to a Center for Economic Growth analysis of new data from the National
