Two tenants at our supporting member SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator have launched RocketHub crowdfunding campaigns:

• The Center for Sports Skills Measurement, which operates a network of certified testing centers in several popular sports, is seeking backing for a national testing tour aimed at young athletes; and
• AVtick, a newly admitted company founded by a WNY entrepreneur with speech and hearing disabilities, seeks backing for an iPhone application focused on audio- and voice-based social media and networking.

More information from Fredonia news releases at here and here. 

ThinkEco, a company developing energy-saving smart outlets, and a tenant/client of the NYSERDA-sponosred NYC ACRE clean-energy incubator at NYU-Poly, was named 2013 Outstanding Incubator Graduate in the technology category at the internaitonal conference of the National Business Incubation Association. ThinkEco's "Modlet" allows consumers and utilities to monitor electricity usage and provide "demand response" services in the cloud.  For more information, please see the attached news release from ThinkEco. 

Tactonic Technologies, a developer of multitouch sensors that can reach room size, and a tenant of our member the NY Designs incubator at LaGuardia Community College, was highlighted by the business show Marketplace on public radio. Embedded audio after the break.

searcher.io, a tool designed to help small businesses fight dubious claims from "patent assertion entities" (sometimes known as "patent trolls") was highlighted in Crain's New York Business. The tool is a product of Docracy, a tenant/client of the Brooklyn DUMBO Incubator at our supporting member NYU Poly. Docracy is developing an open-source repository for legal documents and stumbled on the patent-related business as an unexpected opportunity, Crain's reported.