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web and mobile application called Fandoozy.com, a sports specific social media portal focused
on competitive conversation. The app will offer a proprietary scored debate platform where
sports fans and professionals can debate the latest in sports. The company will create eight new
jobs and invest $100,000.
Binghamton University 140 new jobs
i3 Assemblies Inc. is a new manufacturing company that offers integration of advanced
process and product development with manufacturing solutions to provide complete system
builds and testing from prototype to volume production. i3 Assemblies' products will be the
electronic components found in life-saving medical diagnostic/imaging devices, cutting-edge
space exploration and satellite technology; and the electronics will be installed in end use
products throughout the world. The company will create 140 new jobs and invest $8.2 million.
Schenectady County Community College 58 new jobs
Beekman 1802, LLC is an existing multi-category, consumer products, content and event
production company in New York State, creating premium-branded artisanal and seasonal
products for sale to consumers worldwide. Founded in Sharon Springs, Schoharie County, in
2008, the company sources primarily from local farms, food producers and artisans and
promotes its products, publications, programming and events under the Beekman 1802 brand.
The company will be expanding to create a headquarters in Schenectady. The company will
create 25 new jobs and invest $25,000.
Dumbstruck, Inc. is an existing information technology company in Albany. The companys
pioneering technology makes it easy for content creators to learn how people respond to their
content. Emotional response data is identified from facial expressions and displayed in an
artificially intelligent dashboard that generates actionable insights. The company will create 20
new jobs and invest $29,000.
sCube Inc. is an existing technology company developing products for the Internet of Things by
creating applications for smart, connected products and providing tools to connect, build,
analyze, experience and collaborate about everyday objects on the Internet. The company is
focused on helping its clients with technology solutions that will cut operating expenses and
increase return on investment. sCube will locate to the NY Biz lab in Schenectady. The
company will create 13 new jobs and invest $63,000.
Orange County Community College 53 new jobs
Aurora innovations, Inc., a new company to New York State, is a national manufacturer and
distributor of organic garden products based in Eugene, Oregon, that will be opening a new
eastern U.S. manufacturing and distribution facility in the Mid-Hudson region. The company will
create 53 new jobs and invest approximately $4.7 million.
University at Albany 50 new jobs
Nowigence, Inc. is an existing software development company that is expanding to
automatically capture intelligence from the web and organize it into a highly accessible and
structured solution to support growth for its business clients and improve their strategic
planning. Nowigence has developed its own proprietary software solution that collects global
intelligence from nearly three million news items published every day and then uses advanced
NLP (natural language programming) and artificial intelligence to customize and deliver highly
relevant intelligence tailored for each client. The company will create 11 new jobs and invest
$292,000.
Pisa Biopharm Inc. is an existing business that currently manages the U.S. and Canadian
customer relationships for Grupo Pisa, the largest healthcare group in Mexico. The company will
expand in New York State to conduct technical support, quality assurance and laboratory testing
of sterile injectable pharmaceutical products and medical device commodities (PiSA branded).
The company will create ten new jobs and invest $522,000.
SparkShoppe, Ltd. is a new information technology company that uses data analytics and
digital technology to deliver shopper marketing strategies through the internet, social media and
other web based platforms. The company delivers these strategies to retail grocery and other
industry chains to increase product movement through established relationships with large
national and international consumer brands. The company will create six new jobs and invest
$32,000.
XchangeWorx, Inc. is an existing New York State software development company that has
developed software solutions that capture all healthcare events and map the complex events
into coordinated business processes to improve patient care. The company will create 23 new
jobs and invest $430,000
New York University 45 new jobs
Carmera, Inc. is an existing early-stage company utilizing mobile sensor, computer vision and
3D processing technology to develop high definition mapping data and valuable insights about
the built environment. Cermera's mission is to make cities work better and become more
automated by maintaining the worlds most up-to-date and accessible visual database of urban
streets. The company will create five new jobs and invest $225,000.
Elodina, Inc. is an existing formative-stage information technology business that offers a
platform making it easy to use big data open source technologies with existing systems. The
Elodina Platform is technology agnostic and can be implemented on premise, in a private or a
managed data center, or via public cloud provider. The company will create 26 new jobs and
invest $37,700.
Mishki, Inc. is an existing formative-stage company building FINDMINE, a proprietary softwareas-a-service application for retailers. FINDMINE offers extensive tools for merchandisers to
review and approve sets created with algorithms or manually by other users, whereas
competitors offerings do not allow merchandisers to intervene and edit what each customer will
see. The company's technology uses the retailers' vision as an input to their algorithms,
capturing how marketers and merchandisers envision customers using their products, rather
than relying on customer behavior. The company will create 14 new jobs and invest $69,000.
Hudson Valley Community College 47 new jobs
Cell-nique Corporation is a new company to New York State that will be relocating its
headquarters from Connecticut. The company primarily produces 10 different food and
beverage brands, ranging from organic drinks to allergen-free baking mixes. The company will
technologies to deliver 3D imaging without the use of special headgear or glasses (known as
autostereo). The company is also developing software that converts images to virtual reality
and autostereo 3D in multiple formats. The company will create 16 new jobs and invest $3.8
million.
Plattsburgh State University 16 new jobs
Insum Solutions Corp. is an information technology company headquartered in Montreal that
will be expanding into New York State. The company provides North American clients with
professional services in the development of Oracle applications. The company will create 16
new jobs and invest $55,000.
Ulster Community College 22 new jobs
Anchor ID, Inc. is an existing early-stage information technology company that has developed
a multi-factor authentication platform for enterprises and small and medium sized businesses.
Anchor ID's platform eliminates passwords for enterprise computer systems, providing a better
user experience and high compliance. The company will create 15 new jobs and invest $75,000.
Up Homes is a formative stage company that will design, manufacture and sell modern, energy
efficient and customizable manufactured and modular homes. Up Homes has identified a
market niche not yet being addressed: affordable, modern, eco-friendly homes designed to
national manufactured housing standards. The company will create seven new jobs and invest
$575,000.
Villa Maria College 12 new jobs
DAR Enterprises, LLC is a new multimedia company that uses augmented reality and virtual
reality technology to generate online social spaces for stories to be shared. Users connect with
others in spaces of collaboration to create expressions that can be seen using this technology.
The company will create 12 new jobs and invest $79,000.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center 20 new jobs
Concarlo Holding, LLC is a new, early stage drug development company focused on a new
therapeutic option for those with breast cancer classified as ER/PR+ HER2 positive. The
company's technology is focused on a peptide (two or more amino acids bound in a chain)
which has several phases of development and testing to create a clinically viable compound.
The company is planning to do their investigational drug testing with contract research
organizations. Concarlo Holding will create six new jobs and invest $115,000.
New York Huaqi Bioengineering is a newly formed biomedical research company developing
a novel technology to grow and modify liver organ tissue for clinical use. The company will
create five new jobs and invest $240,000.
Applied Biological Laboratories Inc. is an early stage biotech company committed to
research, development, manufacturing and distribution of scientifically validated natural
products that inhibit infection, allergic reaction and other adverse effects of major air-borne and
ingested pathogens and allergens, while also augmenting the human body's natural defenses.
The company will create nine new jobs and invest $330,000.