By Lilly Tollin Each year, 6 million people visit the Finger Lakes, generating around $2.5 billion in annual sales, with the bulk of revenue from local wine and alcohol producers. Carol Fitzgerald found herself in a unique position to merge local industries when she...
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Introducing Carol Fitzgerald: A Dairy Runway alum launching her new business, Hazy Fudge
Rev: Ithaca Startup Works Launches Applications for Expanded Prototyping Hardware Accelerator
Ithaca, NY (February 16, 2024) – Bolstered by a new MedTech track and increased capacity to support entrepreneurs, Rev: Ithaca Startup Works is now accepting applications for its free Prototyping Hardware Accelerator. The program is open to anyone with a physical...
Dairy Competition Winner Awarded $200K Grant
by Sabrina Khaleque Laura Mack, the owner of an independent ice cream parlor called lu•lu Ice Cream in Vergennes, Vermont, won a $200,000 Existing Dairy Processor Expansion Grant from the Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center (NEDBIC) in November. What sets lu•lu...
Seventeen eLab Teams Advance to Spring Semester
by Paige Tolan Of the 28 teams that completed eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator, this fall, 17 startups are continuing their progress by participating in the Spring cohort after having proven their business ideas. As Cornell’s entrepreneurial ecosystem...
Climate Entrepreneur Shares Insight with Cornell Innovators
For innovators looking to make an impact with their climate technology research, entrepreneurship is a powerful tool. Climate tech startups like the carbon utilization company Carbon Upcycling advance climate solutions while creating jobs, stimulating the economy and...
I-Corps Alumni Make Humanitarian Impact in Ukraine
An I-Corps alumni startup is deploying its landmine-detecting AI technology for humanitarian demining in Ukraine. Safe Pro AI, co-founded by Binghamton University alumni Jasper Baur and Gabriel Steinberg, is a Safe Pro Group company leveraging AI and machine learning...
W.E. Cornell welcomes sixth cohort of STEM innovators
W.E. Cornell aims to empower STEM scholars to embrace their entrepreneurial ambition through a curriculum designed to help them commercialize their technology. The program is run over the course of two semesters, with each module advancing a different level of...
Dairy Innovators Welcome to Apply for Dairy Runway Entrepreneurship Program
Cornell University’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA) is accepting applications for the second cohort of Dairy Runway, an entrepreneurship program for food innovators with value-added dairy products at the ideation stage. Launched earlier this year in...
Grow-NY Winners Aim to Make Regional Economic Impact
By Lauren Simpson Hypercell Technologies of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, was named the $1 million grand prize winner of the fifth annual Grow-NY Food and Agriculture business competition. Six other winners split a combined $3 million in awards. Hypercell Technologies,...
New grant to broaden support for hardware entrepreneurs
Rev: Ithaca Startup Works is set to expand its hardware accelerator programs thanks to a new $2 million “Build to Scale” grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. A local matching fund of $2 million, including $1 million from Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), brings the total award amount to $4 million.
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