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Emergency personnel often receive inaccurate or incomplete information. A caller may misidentify a location,...
MEET GENIUS NY 9: SKYFIRE AI
SkyfireAI wasn’t built in a boardroom. It was built from experience by people who’ve spent their careers in the field, in...
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Bernard Washington, Owner At INSPYRE, we’re proud to support founders who are building businesses with purpose. Bernard Washington, owner of...
Start It! Business Basics Cohort Celebrates Graduation at INSPYRE Pitch Night
The latest cohort of CenterState's Start It! Business Basics wrapped up on April 6, with INSPYRE Pitch Night, an evening that brought energy,...
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Liverpool High School Drone Tech Students Visit GENIUS NY at INSPYRE
More than 25 Liverpool High School students stopped by INSPYRE Innovation Hub this week to hang out with the GENIUS NY...
GENIUS NY Selects Semi-finalists for 8th Round
CenterState CEO announces 14 companies have been named semi-finalists for the GENIUS NY program’s 8th cohort. GENIUS NY is...
Eight Clean Tech Companies Selected to Receive Innovative Assistance Through the EPIC Buildings Accelerator in 2024
The Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE) and CenterState CEO’s The Tech Garden...
Applications Open Now for the EPIC Buildings Accelerator
Entering into its third year, the EPIC (Energy Program for Innovation Clusters) Buildings Acceleratoris currently accepting...
Northland Communications Provides Dedicated Internet for The Tech Garden and is Naming Sponsor of Theater
CenterState CEO is pleased to share that Northland Communications is the exclusive connectivity provider of dedicated...
City of Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh Issues Proclamation for Syracuse Surge Accelerator Day
It was an honor to have Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh visit The Tech Garden to present the winners of the inaugural cohort of...
Transformational Expansion of The Tech Garden Kicks Off
$32 Million Project Will Add 46,000 Square-Feet of Space to the Facility, Including the Addition of a Second and Third...
CenterState CEO Announces Syracuse Surge Accelerator Finalists
Inaugural cohort comprised of five teams from Central and Upstate New York. The accelerator is a core program of Syracuse...
Syracuse Surge Accelerator Announces Ten Semi-Finalists for First Cohort
Today we announce the 10 semi-finalists for the first cohort of the Syracuse Surge Accelerator at CenterState CEO’s The...
Empire State Development Announces Five Teams Selected to Compete in Round Seven of GENIUS NY Accelerator
Selected Teams from Around the World Will Compete for a Total of $3 Million in Investments and Participate in Yearlong UAS...
We’ve Moved!…but this is only temporary
We've moved! But this is only temporary. Preparations for The Tech Garden building expansion at 235 Harrison St. are...
CenterState CEO Launches Syracuse Surge Accelerator Program
New Program Seeks Minority Entrepreneurs in Tech Program is part of Syracuse Surge’s efforts to position Syracuse as...
What’s Happening at The Tech Garden in 2023?
CenterState CEO is excited to announce that The Tech Garden expansion project is scheduled to begin this spring. This...
How Two CBA Grads Founded Hot Syracuse Startup That Just Landed a $104M Investment
Syracuse, N.Y. -- A fast-growing Syracuse company that helps car dealers all over the world turn online shoppers into...
The Tech Garden in Downtown Syracuse to Undergo $25M Expansion in 2023
From Rick Moriarty | Syracuse.com, Dec. 15. 2022 A nearly $25 million expansion of The Tech Garden business incubator will...
GOVERNOR HOCHUL ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF GENIUS NY, THE WORLD’S LARGEST ACCELERATOR FOR UNCREWED AERIAL SYSTEMS
Archangel Imaging Wins GENIUS NY $1 Million Grand Prize; Four Other Finalists Receive $500,000 investments as Part of $3...
GENIUS NY Finals Night 2022 is coming up!
On Thursday November 3rd, at the Marriott Syracuse Downtown at 5:00 pm, five extraordinary technology companies from around...
Tech Garden Alum Rosie Acquired by Instacart, Doubling Down on Technology Solutions for Independent-Owned and Locally-Operated Grocers
SANFRANCISCO – September 7, 2022 – Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, today announced it...
John Liddy Joins CenterState CEO as Interim Vice President of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
SYRACUSE, NY – CenterState CEO announced new leadership for The Tech Garden. John Liddy Joins CenterState CEO as interim...
The Tech Garden Alum Rosie Announces a New Hire to Support its Ongoing Growth
Ithaca, NY (June 30, 2022) – Rosie announced today the hiring of Lori Brown to join the team as Senior Vice President of...
Marquardt of Cazenovia Expands into the Drone Industry
CAZENOVIA, NEW YORK – One year after celebrating its 40th anniversary in Central New York, Marquardt is soaring into new...
How a Pioneer in Using Optics for Drones Found Success in Rochester and Syracuse
Zak Niazi was a student in the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester and asking the question: What if? What if...
Interview: The Success and Future of Density in Syracuse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — It is a success story for this one-time Syracuse *startup”, now a unicorn, Density, which is now...
NYSERDA-funded Initiative Supports Companies Commercializing Environmental and Clean Energy Technologies
Company is prepared to scale its operations and grow in the region SYRACUSE, N.Y. – CenterState CEO announces the...
CenterState CEO Announces New Leadership at The Tech Garden
CenterState CEO announced new leadership for The Tech Garden and for one of its signature programs, GENIUS NY. Jeff...
LC Drives Delivers Electric Motor to Bosch Rexroth for Evaluation and Test
Potsdam, New York – LC Drives announced today that the company has delivered an electric motor to Bosch Rexroth for...
Monitored Air Purification Installed in HOACNY
East Syracuse, NY – Hematology-Oncology Associates of CNY (HOACNY) has installed the IoTRight monitored Indoor Air...
Tonquin Announces New Board Members
Tonquin, the leading on-demand last-mile delivery and logistics platform for the automotive space, is pleased to announce...
LC Drives showcases motor/generator versatility in Electric & Hybrid Marine Technology International publication
April 2021 – The April publication of Electric & Hybrid Marine Technology International features LC Drives and the...
Eget Liber and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Establish Partnership to Combat Harmful Algal Blooms
Eget Liber, a UAS startup and previous GENIUS NY accelerator program participant, is partnering with the U.S. Army's...
SkyOp Co-founder and CEO Featured as Member of Forbes Technology Council
Brian Pitre is the co-founder and CEO of SkyOp.com which offers drone training courseware, certification test prep, and...
AI startup Iterate Labs back by the food giant Tyson and Japanese manufacturing IoT venture fund
Iterate Labs, which specializes in wearable digital technology for the poultry industry, has raised more than $1 million in...
Standard Hydrogen Corporation (SHC) and National Grid Establish Partnership for Development and Deployment of Hydrogen Infrastructure
Standard Hydrogen Corporation (SHC) and National Grid have recently established a partnership for development and...
SparkCharge Partners with Mark Cuban, Allstate, Spiffy and others to Launch BoostEV, the World’s First On-demand Mobile EV Charging Network
Syracuse.com SparkCharge, the creator of the portable electric vehicle charging system the Roadie, is partnering with...
Farm to Flame Wins Competitive $100,000 EPA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant
Farm to Flame Energy recently won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I EPA Grant for $100,000 to help...
TTG Welcomes Four New Members in 2021
This month The Tech Garden welcomed four new members. These members have access to business resources, free events, mentors...
Local Start-up Launches Its Biggest Virtual Race for Wellness in 2021
DIEMlife Seeking Local Businesses and Customers to Participate Syracuse, NY – DIEMlife, a local start-up in Central NY, is...
GENIUS NY Applications Now Open for 2021 Program
Empire State Development (ESD) today announced that the application window is now open for the fifth round of GENIUS NY–...
Five New Members Join The Tech Garden and Grow CNY Innovation Footprint
This month The Tech Garden welcomed five new members. These members have access to business resources, free events, mentors...
Meet the New Leadership Team at The Tech Garden
Clonan Leaves Strong Foundation of Programs to Support Entrepreneurs The Tech Garden has new leadership after Rick Clonan,...
Upstate Capital & Partners Announce Venture NY Series A Showcase, First Partnership of Its Kind
On December 9 online, for the first time, the Upstate Capital Association of New York is hosting the Venture NY Series A...
CenterState CEO Recognizes Nearly 300 Economic Champions
Today, CenterState CEO's Economic Champions event recognized nearly 300 local companies for driving the region’s economy...
The Tech Garden Welcomes 3 New Members
This month The Tech Garden welcomed three new members. These members now have access to business resources, free events,...
Geopipe Wins GENIUS NY 2020 Accelerator – $1M Grand Prize Awarded
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced Geopipe of New York City the winner of GENIUS NY’s $1 million grand prize. The GENIUS NY...
TTG Welcomes Three New Members This Summer and Moves In Tonquin
This past summer The Tech Garden welcomed three new members. These members now have access to business resources, free...
Local Company is Saving Lives and the Environment with Milk-Based Ethanol
New Age Renewable Energy Transforming Unusable Dairy Byproducts into Hand SanitizerWhat if that cup of yogurt or block of...
SkyOp LLC Launches Enterprise Drone Consultancy Providing Comprehensive Guidance for Corporations Seeking to Deploy UAV Technology
Alongside the new consultancy, SkyOp has developed no-cost assessment tools to help enterprisecorporations identify the...
The Tech Garden Awards Nearly $100K to Five Growing Startup Members
Investments Align to Company’s Growth Stage Along The Tech Garden’s RoadmapThe Tech Garden recently awarded funding to...
Akrobotix Develops Plug & Play Face Cover Alerting System
Akrobotix has designed a new software for detecting masks. The plug and play device is loaded with an AI engine that can...
TruWeather Solutions Hires SUNY Oswego Meteorology Students and Partners with Past GENIUS NY Teams
TruWeather Solutions recently hired two meteorologists who graduated from SUNY Oswego this past spring. The 2018 GENIUS NY...
Newest Members at The Tech Garden
The Tech Garden recently welcomed three new startup members that now have access to business resources, mentors, funding...
Sound Reading Solutions Offers Free Online Reading Programs To Schools
Local e-Learning Company Doing its Part During Covid-19 Crisis by Providing Online Reading Intervention Programs to Schools...
Wex Energy Wins The New York Community Trust Impact Prize at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Urban Future Prize Competition
WexEnergy, a TTG member and Clean Tech Center participant developing energy saving window retrofit solutions for...
EagleHawk Begins Drone-Enabled Disinfectant Spray Operations to Help Combat COVID-19 Spread
EagleHawk, a Tech Garden member and past GENIUS NY finalist, has engineered a safe, effective, and efficient process for...
Local Startup Eco-Baggeez Shifts Business Plan and Donates Product amid COVID-19
Close to 325,000 Bags Already Donated to Local Schools and Community Centers Eco-Baggeez, LLC is an earth friendly...
First Ever Campus-Community Innovation Town Hall – April 30
On Thursday, April 30 from noon to 1 p.m. Syracuse University's Blackstone LaunchPad and partners will host a virtual...
Where is Financial Relief for Startups?
Startups Lost in the MixIn the world of government financial rescue, tax credits, subsidies, and guaranteed loans have been...
Newest Members at The Tech Garden
The Tech Garden recently welcomed five new startup members that now have access to business resources, mentors, funding...
Ducted Wind Turbines On Track for a Breakout Year
Ducted Wind Turbines (The Clean Tech Center) has had some major traction leading into 2020 and is set to have a breakout...
Three New Members Join The Tech Garden to Build Their Startups in CNY
The Tech Garden recently welcomed three new startup members that now have access to learning workshops, business resources,...
“Innovation in Your Industry” Targets Business Community to Become Early Adopters
Join us for Innovation In Your Industry; an event that introduces emerging tech to existing markets, from startups right in...
CenterState CEO Announces New Employees at The Tech Garden
CenterState CEO has hired two new employees for its Innovation and Entrepreneurship portfolio: Sarah Hood and Joe Romano....
First Ever Startup Night at The Tech Garden Highlights Local Innovation – Pitches, Updates and GENIUS NY 2020 Finalists Revealed
The Tech Garden held its first annual Startup Night and Holiday Party that included announcing the GENIUS NY 2020...
Governor Cuomo Announces Expansion Of Syracuse Tech Garden and Completion Of First-In-The-Nation 50-Mile Drone Corridor Between Syracuse And Rome
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced that the home of the innovative GENIUS NY UAS competition, the Tech Garden in...
Edison Innovative Power Expands Next-Gen Product Engineering and Manufacturing Internship Program
Edison Innovative Power LLC (EIP) recently announced the expansion of its paid internship program, recruiting six student...
NYS Investors Attend First Upstate on the Lake
The Tech Garden and Upstate Capital hosted Upstate on the Lake at The Sherwood Inn in Skaneateles for technology startups...
Iterate Labs Successfully Completes Pilot Programs, Begins to Seek Funding
Member News: Iterate Labs has successfully developed the first industrial wearable that provides data driven solutions for...
New Hardware Center Opens at The Tech Garden
Growing tech company, Density, first to use space for product assembly Density to create 15 jobs, doubling its local...
Edison Innovative Power Selected for New York State Clean Energy Internship Program
Member News: Edison Innovative Power LLC (EIP), a TTG member and Clean Tech Center participant, recently announced it has...
Northland Supports Entrepreneurial Growth with Increased Bandwidth at TTG
Central to the GENIUS NY accelerator experience is intentional integration with the local business community. As the GENIUS...
WexEnergy Ships First WindowSkin to Customers
Member News: WexEnergy is a woman owned business and proud that WindowSkins are 100% manufactured in New York State and the...
The Tech Garden Brings Ideation Workshop to SUNY Oswego
The Tech Garden’s Ideation Workshop traveled north to SUNY Oswego’s first Penfield Library Grand Challenges Makeathon. The...
Mentis Wins SBIR Contract to Help Air Force Protect Cyber Physical Systems and IoT
Member News:Mentis Technologies, LLC, a cybersecurity startup company, recently announced that they were selected as the...
Iterate Labs Selected for the Entrepreneur’s Roundtable Accelerator in NYC
Member News: Iterate Labs has been participating in New York City's Entrepreneur's Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) since the...
Local Tech Startup Launches Worldwide Mobile Game: Trigger Fist G.O.A.T.
Member News: Lake Effect Applications, a Syracuse, NY based company, launched its newest mobile game this week, Trigger...
WeatherOptics Takes New Spin on Weather Industry and Seeks Central New York Customers
WeatherOptics, a TTG member, has developed an unique, interactive, and cost effective portal that provides highly accurate...
Euphony Launches New Product Line, Sound Shadows to Create Sound Art
Euphony recently announced the release of its latest product, Sound Shadow, an internal STEAM initiative to leverage audio...
AT&T CuseGirlHacks Challenges Local Girls to Use Technology for Social Good and Bridge the Gender Gap in the Tech Industry
Region’s first ever all-girl youth hackathon is a partnership with Tech4Kidz, Hack Upstate, The Tech Garden and AT&T to...
RepHike Announces Former 500 Startups Partner Paul Singh as an Investor
RepHike, a marketing software that uses machine learning to recommend content creators on social media to brands, recently...
New Startup In Residence (STIR) Program Hits City of Syracuse
Startup in Residence helps startups close contracts with government agencies. The 16-week remote program connects startups...
$56 Million in Investments Made in Five Current and Former Tech Garden Companies
Attracting venture capital from outside of the region for startup companies is critical to the success of those companies....
Syracuse’s SparkCharge Wins $1M at 43North Business Competition
Joshua Aviv, founder of SparkCharge, receives congratulations from Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul after winning the...
Paul Singh and the Results Junkies Visit Syracuse August 7 – 9, 2018
The Tech Garden and Syracuse startup community are gearing up for three days full of entrepreneurial workshops, events and...
Mentis Technologies Heads to Las Vegas for innovation Challenge
Founder of Mentis Technologies, Brian Abbe, is headed to AFWERX’s #Innovate2Protect Fusion Xperience event in Las Vegas,...
The Tech Garden and AT&T Continue Their Support of Tech Meet Up Events
The Tech Garden is pleased to announce that AT&T will continue their support of Tech Meet Up. The meet up is the...
Heliohex and Cornell University Collaborate to Research Better LED Lighting for Plants
Heliohex, a New York State-based designer and manufacturer of unique LED lighting for horticulture based at CenterState...
Cut to the Chase Dating Endorsed as “Official Dating App” by the American Seniors Association
Cut to the Chase™ Dating Application Brings Safe and Secure Video Chat Service to ASA Members Article courtesy of Yahoo...
UnitedHealthcare Community Care Award Goes to Digital Hyve
From left: Lynn Hy, Food Bank of CNY; Michael McGuire, CEO, UnitedHealth Care; and Jeff Knauss, co-founder, Digital Hyve,...
The Impact Startups Have on Economic Development by The Business Incubator Association of New York State
TESTIMONY Offered by Marc Alessi, Executive Director of BIANYS - November 2017 BIANYS is a not for profit membership...
GENIUS NY 2017 Teams Make Final Pitch at Innovation Celebration Event December 12
What a year it has been for the first round of GENIUS NY finalists. They were welcomed to Central New York back in January...
GENIUS NY Announces Sixteen Semi-Finalists Companies to Compete for Investments totaling $3 Million
More than 250 high-quality applications from around the world submitted for program’s second round GENIUS NY, a business...
CuseYouthHack Powered by AT&T Challenges Local Youth to Use Technology for Social Good
Calling all youth coders and youths interested in coding, the region’s first ever youth hackathon is Dec. 2nd and will...
Battle Sight Technologies joins The Tech Garden
Battle Sight Technologies is The Tech Garden’s newest virtual members. Director of Business Development, Bennett Tanton,...
The Tech Garden Welcomes Investors’ Circle
Investors’ Circle visited The Tech Garden and its members last month to learn more about what startup companies exist...
Cut to the Chase Media™ Launches Innovative Dating Application at the Great New York State Fair
Cut to the Chase Media, is proud to announce their new mobile application - Cut To The Chase™, now available in the Apple...
iSchool Announces Capstone Program at TTG Luncheon
Bruce Kingma, Professor of Entrepreneurship with SU School of Information Studies/Whitman School of Management recently...
LAUNCH NY PARTNERS WITH CENTERSTATE CEO TO CO-INVEST $100,000 IN A TECHNOLOGY STARTUP
Launch New York (Launch NY), Upstate New York’s first and only venture development organization (VDO) to provide pro bono...
GENIUS NY Sponsors Drones Over Downtown Event
Come enjoy an afternoon of drones at The Tech Garden! GENIUS NY is sponsoring Syracuse, New York's first ever Drones Over...
TTG Weekly UAS Report – Week Ending July 21
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GENIUS NY Finalist SkyOp Offers Drone Training Class this Summer at The Tech Garden
SkyOp, one of six GENIUS NY finalists, is offering an introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) course beginning...
Newest Virtual Member Builds Smartphone Microscopes
The Tech Garden welcomes Kenji Yoshino, the inventor of The Smartphone Microscope. In 2013, Yoshino released a DIY...
Tech Garden Resident Spark.Orange, LLC Graduates and Expands
Spark.Orange, LLC is on the move. The company that started at The Tech Garden in 2013 with two employees in a shared office...
Former President and CEO for the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Presenting at The Tech Garden June 7
Central New York has become one of the most attractive locations for businesses involved in unmanned systems to grow. The...
Women Owned Businesses from The Tech Garden Attend 15th Annual WISE Symposium
On April 25, the 15th Annual Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE) Symposium was held at SKY Armory in...
TTG Welcomes New Content Manager, Caitlin Moriarty
Caitlin Moriarty joins CenterState CEO as the Instructional Design Manager for The Tech Garden.She will be researching,...
GENIUS NY 2.0 Now Accepting Applications From Startups Focused On Unmanned Systems, Hardware, Software And Analytics
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that applications are now being accepted for the second round of GENIUS NY – one...
TTG Welcomes New Member Mentis Technologies
Mentis Technologies, a cyber security focused business, is moving to The Tech Garden. CEO Brian Abbe says that sixty...
New STEAM Exhibit at the Great New York State Fair Seeks Applications from Potential Participating Organizations
Exhibit Highlights Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and MathematicsThe 2017 Great New York State Fair will...
SUNY Cortland Seeks Entrepreneurs to Start Business on their Campus
Visitors know they can do a lot on the SUNY Cortland campus: Cheer on a sports team, attend a performance or presentation,...
Syracuse Students Win $100,000 Biz Plan Competition Prize
Syracuse University students Josh Aviv and Jaydeep Sathe receive $100,000 for the first place finish of their company...
Sales Team Six Ready to Launch
David Monk is no stranger to The Tech Garden. With 20 years plus experience in the physical security business sector, he...
4 Awards for Solon Quinn Studios
TTG resident member Solon Quinn Studios LLC has won four American Advertising Awards. The ADDY awards were presented on...
TTG Welcomes 2 New Members
Kristin Mannion, founder of The Alvina Group The Tech Garden recently welcomed two new companies as virtual members....
GENIUS NY Awards $2.75 Million to Competition Finalists
AutoModality Wins $1M Top Prize GENIUS NY, a year-long a business accelerator, hosted its capstone 315 Finals event on...
NUAIR Alliance Newest Resident at The Tech Garden
NUAIR Alliance, a New York based not-for-profit recently moved into The Tech Garden as expansion plans are currently...
Six Finalists Selected to Compete in $2.75 Million GENIUS NY Competition
GENIUS NY, a business accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, today introduced six finalist teams who...
Let’s Welcome Sportsxpress
SportsXpress, Inc., North America’s leading community sports network with magazines, websites and events dedicated to local...
GENIUS NY Update
GENIUS NY applications have officially closed and teams from around the world have submitted their technologies for...
Born at The Tech Garden, Density Continues to Expand
With roots at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden (TTG) in downtown Syracuse, Density, Inc., a company that helps businesses...
GENIUS NY Increases Cash Awards for Startups, Gains International Attention
GENIUS NY, a $2 million business accelerator based in Central New York, has increased the prize amounts it will award its...