In the second new-tenant announcement in as many weeks, our supporting member the NYSERDA Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP)® has announced that The Radiant Store, an installer of solar-thermal hot-water systems, has become a new tenant at 10 Hermes Road at STEP. For the NYSERDA news release, click here.

For the second year running, a national magazine contest features a nominee who was counseled by a student incubator affiliated with one of our member incubators in Syracuse.

This year the Inc. magazine "Cool College Start-Up" contest features Ryan Dickerson, a Syracuse University junior whose "bed-transforming pillow" company Rylaxing was incubated by the Couri Hatchery that is part of the same umbrella program (the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship) as is our member the South Side Innovation Center. To vote for Ryan's company, go here.

Last year a similar poll by Entrepreneur magazine included a different SU student whose company was counseled by the Student Sandbox at our supporting member the Syracuse Technology Garden.

To see a list of student incubators affiliated directly or indirectly with our member incubators, check this table.

Clough Harbour & Associates (CHA), a leading energy and environmental engineering services company headquartered in Albany, has become the newest tenant at our supporting member the NYSERDA Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP)®. CHA will locate at STEP's 107 Hermes Road building. You can read the official NYSERDA press release here. 

The Batavia Players will take 3,200 square feet for performance space and a costume/prop shop at the new Artisan Center at the Harvester Center (also known as the Batavia Industrial Center). This facility is owned by our member Mancuso Business Development Group and generally recognized as the world's first business incubator.

The Artisan Center is designed to create closer connections between the arts and the business community at Harvester. You can read local coverage in the Batavia Daily News or the Batavian. 

Breonics, Inc., a bioengineering firm, will take 1,700 square feet and create three to five jobs at our supporting member the Harriman Business Center Incubator. Breonics is engaged in clinical trials across the nation of a perfusion technology designed to sustain the viability of organs targeted for transplantation, thus expanding the organ donation pool.

The new tenant was announced by Empire State Development, the state's economic development agency and corporate parent of the Harriman Research and Technology Development Corporation. HRTDC is redeveloping the state office complex at the Harriman Campus, as part of a program to position the Capital Region as a technology leader. For the full press release from Empire State Development quoting many of the partners in this development and explaining the role of the incubator and its close partners at SUNY's University at Albany, click the preceding link.

Congratulations to Breonics president Ernie Green, and also to HRTDC president Peter Wohl and vice president Richard Usas!

Darkwind Media, a tenant of our supporting member RIT Venture Creations incubator, has become the second student-initiated venture this month to be highlighted in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Darkwind has developed a proprietary software platform that allows it to do develop interactive 3D presentations for both real-world and virtual applications.

According to the newspaper story, two next-door dorm neighbors at Rochester Institute of Technology founded the company in 2007 as an outgrowth of a student project on medical imaging, and were soon joined by three additional RIT alumni. The company currently works as a contractor but may now seek investors to develop the platform into a commercially available product. Congratulations to entrepreneurs Colin Doody, Brian Johnstone, and all your colleagues and to Venture Creations director Jerry Mahone!

GoVo Biofuels LLC, which maintains a desk at our supporting member the Syracuse Technology Garden and a vegetable-oil-to-fuel converter in Cortland, was recently featured in the Green CNY Blog of the Syracuse Post-Standard. The story presents a nice example of how motivated entrepreneurs can bootstrap "green" business opportunities. Congratulations to entrepreneur Seth Mulligan!

Moscaically Inc., a business founded by a Korean-born student at the Rochester Institute of Technology and incubated at our supporting member Venture Creations, was highlighted in a recent feature story published by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. The company's Facebook and smartphone apps assemble digital mosaics from user-submsitted photos. Congratulations to entrepreneur Seong Yup Yoo!