Would $1,000,000 from Luminate help your startup? Apply now

Aug. 14, 2017

If you are in an optics, photonics, or imaging startup, there is at least $100,000 if you are selected.

As Laser Focus World chief editor Conard Holton explains in an upcoming business forum in the magazine, Luminate (http://luminate.org) is a "business accelerator based in Rochester, NY, and focused on helping startups move beyond the struggling, prototype stage to emerge in the broader 'optics-enabled' marketplace." So if you are a startup with at least two full-time employees and preferably with a prototype trying to bring your optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI) product to market, there may be up to one million dollars if you qualify.

By mid September, Luminate is hoping that around 150 companies will have applied for an investment of at least $100,000 and up to $1,000,000 as part of its $5M per year accelerator for OPI startups.

The selected startup companies will live and work in Rochester, NY with all the photonics infrastructure afforded by the High Tech Rochester (HTR) program.

Join the twitter conversation @LuminateROC. Applications are being accepted now at https://gust.com/programs/luminate-2017-2018.

SOURCE: Luminate; http://luminate.org/news

About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.