Bruce Niswander, director of our supporting member BEST incubator at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, and Kathrine Gregory, director of our member the Kitchen Innovations incubator at the Artisan Baking Center, are both quoted in a New York Daily News feature on how New Yorkers who have been laid off are starting their own businesses.

CollabWorx, Inc., and Govsphere, Inc., which are both tenants of our supporting member the Syracuse Technology Garden, have won a major contract from the FBI, according to coverage in the Central New York Business Journal. Click the previous link for access to the story, which explains how the two small firms (six and four employees, respectively) beat out much larger competitors like Adobe and IBM. Both companies and hundreds of others that are tenants of our member incubators can be found in our searchable database.

Our supporting member Fredonia Technology Incubator will likely have a significant regional economic impact over the next five years, director Jeffrey Corcoran told the Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce, where he was an invited guest speaker at the Chamber's annual meeting. Coverage in the Dunkirk Observer includes a review of construction status and a summary of the target markets, which include startup firms associated with SUNY Fredonia alumni or faculty and companies in other sectors such as advanced manufacturing, energy and environment, and agricultural business and technology.

Our supporting member the RPI Incubator Program has announced the intake of several exciting new tenants. Those resident full-time at the Troy facility are AllForLocal, an open-source inventory system for independent local businesses; Bearing Sciences, Inc., a provider of trouble-shooting services for large capital equipment; and iCoDE Systems, LLC, a consulting and systems integration firm based on technology funded by U.S. DOD.

The virtual or nonresident tenants now affiliated with the RPI Incubator Program are: Acacian Emergency Systems, a developer of wireless services for emergency medical personnel; ActiSku V2, a developer of a 3D virtual retail store that allows rapid testing of new marketing concepts; HPC Project, a turnkey provider of solutions involving intensive computational power; Grimes Hydrogen Services, a developer of ECR hydrogen generators; and Magnifire Technologies, LLC, a developer of energy systems for electric vehicles.

Two of the virtual tenants — ActiSku V2 and HPC Project — are French companies whose participation in the RPI Incubator Program comes as a result of the incubator's ground-breaking partnership with the Montpellier Agglomération Business and Innovation Center, which is part of a network of research parks and innovation centers in the Montpellier region of southern France.

A database of our members' tenants searchable by keyword and other attributes is available here.

Our supporting member RPI Incubator Program, which is accessible through the excellent URL http://www.incubator.com, has relaunched its website with a new format, emphasizing on the front page the full range of tenant/clients served by the program. The new layout also features more convenient access to news stories featuring its companies. Click the preceding link to check out the new format.