NYC ACRE, the NYSERDA-sponsored clean-energy incubator operated by our supporting member the NYU Poly incubator programs, reports the following milestones in its April newsletter:

• Anellotech, developer of green chemicals from non-food biomass, announced it has "graduated" to an 11,000 square-foot facility in Pearl River, Rockland County, where it employs 20 in headquarters, R&D and pilot-plant operations. 
• Subway Labs, developer of analytic tools for battery manufacturers and other users of advanced materials, has become the newest NYC ACRE tenant.

Two discovery-stage biotech companies spun off from the laboratory of a star researcher at Roswell Park Cancer Institute will move into the Thomas Beecher Jr. Innovation Center, a member incubator on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC).

OncoTartis, Inc., and Tartis Aging, Inc., are based on technologies licensed from Roswell Park and developed in the laboratories of Dr. Andrewi Gudkov. Dr. Gudkov and his first commercial company, Cleveland BioLabs Inc. (CLBI), were recruited to Buffalo in 2007. The two new spin-offs had outgrown space available to them in the CLBI building but wished to remain on the BNMC campus.

For more information, see the BNMC news release and coverage in The Buffalo News. 

HEVO Power, a tenant of the NYSERDA-sponsored NYC ACRE clean-energy incubator at our supporting member NYU-Poly, placed third at the ARPA-E Summit Future Energy Pitching Session. HEVO is developing systems for wirelessly charging electric vehicles. HEVO was one of eight finalists chosen from more than 200 appllicants. The pitching session was produced by Ultra Light Startups, another tenant of the NYU-Poly Varick Street incubator.

Other tenant/client news from the latest NYC ACRE newsletter:

• Enertiv launched a new product called Enertiv Dash to educate building occupants about energy efficiency and promote changes that reduce energy costs;
• ThinkEco partnered with Carrier to integrate the ComfortChoice thermostate with ThinkEco's Modlet smart-outlet cloud platform.

The Ceramics Corridor Innovation Centers, a two-site incubator program serving the advanced-materials sector, has joined BIA/NYS as our newest member. The incubators are a program of Alfred Technology Resources Inc. (ATRI), a nonprofit established 25 years ago by Alfred University, a leading center of research in advanced ceramics, Corning Inc., and several other upstate universities. The two sites are located in Painted Post, near Corning's corporate and R&D headquarters, and in Alfred, near the university.

The incubator at Painted Post, a 40,000 square-foot lab-equipped facility, serves in part to house new-business ventures being spun out by Corning. The incubator at Alfred houses several young companies and advanced prototyping facilities supporting the industrial and academic members of Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology at Alfred University.

ATRI also owns a for-profit commercialization company, the Nano Materials Innovation Center, and a joint venture in e-waste recycling. The incubation program and subsidiaries are led by Dr. Alan Rae, an accomplished materials science business executive and entrepreneur. 

We warmly welcome the Ceramics Corridor incubators to membership!