The grand opening of our member the Incubator at RoseTech Ventures attracted a crowd of more than 150 entrepreneurs, investors and other members of the New York City innovation community. Founder David S. Rose (photo) showed off 5 renovated floors in a 12-story building on East 23rd St. in Manhattan's Madison Square neighborhood. The facility houses his investment group RoseTech Ventures, his wholly owned informal-investment management platform Angelsoft, the administrative offices of New York Angels, and ample office and "bullpen" space for both portfolio and pre-funding companies of interest to his group. Updates of media coverage to follow.

David S. Rose, CEO of RoseTech Ventures, shows off one floor of his incubator before a crowd of hundreds.

The Deal.com has posted an amazing video tour of our member the Incubator at RoseTech Ventures, which is turning several floors of a small Manhattan office building into what founder David S. Rose calls a "naturally occurring startup community." This is one of the best explanations you will ever see of how a for-profit company can run a true business incubator, a field dominated by not-for-profits. Among the 30 members of BIA/NYS are three for-profit incubators, including SparkSpace.

At least six tenants or non-resident affiliates of three BIA/NYS member incubators or research parks were among 35 small businesses pre-selected to present to Lockheed Martin at a day-long Small Business and University Innovation Technology Day showcase sponsored by NYSTAR and Syracuse University's CASE Center (parent of a member incubator program). For a complete description of the event, click on the first link, to Lockheed Martin's press release.

According to a cross-check run by NYSTAR against our incubator-tenant database, the presenting firms included three served by our member the Watervliet Innovation Center (Applied Nanoworks, Assured Information Security, InterScience, and XOS), one served by the SUNY Downstate Advanced Biotechnology Incubator (Phoebus Optoelectronics), and one tenant at NYSERDA's Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (ecoPower).

In a short briefing paper published by the independent think tank the Center for an Urban Future, our member Artisan Baking Center Kitchen Innovations incubator is cited as a model for a network of additional kitchen incubators that author Mark Foggin advocates.