Success Stories
Success Stories
- RIT/
- Venture Creations Incubator/
- Success Stories
ADI, LLC
ADI, LLC creates, develops and integrates Data Quality Management products and services for testing and evaluation of IT classification system performance to enable lower cost, continuous improvement, faster development cycles and improved quality. Clients include the U.S. Census Bureau, DARPA, CERT (part of Carnegie Mellon's SEI), Lockheed Martin, IBM, and IRS.
Agri-Trak
Agri-Trak is a Software-as-a-service (SaaS) Farm management software suite created to assist with, automate, and drive efficiencies for agriculture operations. Through various modules, the tool currently offers an easy to use interface for growers to track and log employee time cards, quickly generate payroll reports, track crop production, and ensure compliance with local labor laws. We “reduce administrative tasks, one byte at a time!”
Artwork Evolution
Artwork Evolution is a software development studio that builds creative apps and teaches aspiring iPhone developers how to build their own apps via an online iPhone app boot camp.
BlackBox Biometrics
BlackBox Biometrics is the industry leader in sensor technology to instantly assess forces that can cause traumatic brain injury.
Casana Care
Our new category of effortless, patient-centered technology captures important health parameters without requiring any change in behavior. Instead of expensive wearable gadgets, which many people abandon shortly after purchase, The Heart Seat™ passively monitors your health and seeks to reliably track trends and insights.
Cellec Technologies, Inc.
Clean Energy Incubator Company
Specialize in high energy density rechargeable lithium ion batteries that can enable 30-40% greater mission life without sacrificing power capability.
Cerion
Cerion is focused on the development, customization and industrial scale manufacturing of specialty inorganic nano and near-nano materials for industrial products. Our team's expertise in creating and manufacturing specialty advanced materials was developed during their tenure at Kodak.
Clear Cove
Clean Energy Incubator Company
ClearCove Systems is a wastewater treatment solutions company and renewable energy company in one. ClearCove’s breakthrough enhanced primary treatment solution is bringing fundamental, disruptive change to the wastewater industry worldwide. And while ClearCove Systems is built around a solution that separates organics from wastewater, the company’s focus is to effect positive change by introducing dramatic energy reduction in treatment processes—and by enabling treatment plants to become self–sustaining through renewable-energy production.
ConcernCenter
ConcernCenter helps businesses and organizations provide the people they care about with quick access to the resources they need to address their specific concerns. By putting a prioritized list of support options in their hands, ConcernCenter empowers people to connect with the resources that matter most, so they can find the support they need in just a few clicks, achieve greater wellness, and improve their outlook.
Council Rock
Clean Energy Incubator Company
Council Rock is a leading telecommunications engineering company, providing the Electric and Gas Utility market products and services in support of Smart Grid Applications.
DA Smith and Associates
Organizations must effectively align their human resources, technology, and business in order to compete in a changing global environment. We help organizations remain competitive by providing practical solutions to these organizational challenges.
Darkwind Media
Darkwind Media is a Game Development Studio and consultant agency offering contracting services for low level engine porting, game porting, and unique IP creation. We create our own games, help others with their games, and bring game technology to other industries.
Digsby
Email addresses, instant messaging clients, social networking sites... do you really have time to catch up with all of them? If you don't, then you need Digsby, a revolutionary all-in-one IM client with which you can handle all your online contacts under the same interface, even if they belong to different networks. The result is that Digsby enables you to control pretty much every aspect of your online social life in a very easy way.
Dumbwaiter Design
Dumbwaiter Design empowers our clients to engage effectively with customers by delivering hand-crafted websites and apps that blend proven usability principles with clean, logical, innovative programming and stunning visual design. Our lean, energetic, award-winning team creates scalable solutions designed to grow as our clients do. We also specialize in interaction design and motion for the web; content management systems tailored to client needs; and industry-best custom web applications. We provide social media and messaging strategy and integration. And we create new branding or enhance existing branding.
Ecolectro
Clean Energy Incubator Company
Ecolectro’s mission is to use chemistry to decarbonize the energy, manufacturing and transportation industries. When successful, their AEMs will replace perfluoro-sulfonic acid polymers (PFSAs), making electrochemical systems that make/store energy, chemicals and fuels less expensive, longer-lasting and safer.
Empire Medicinals
Empire Medicinals, DBA Leep Foods. At Leep Foods, we aim to Serve Something Amazing. We venture beyond run-of-the-mill, mainstream mushrooms, to focus on unique varieties with a taste that’s anything but ordinary: the Coral Maitake™️ (also known as hen-of-the-woods) and Blue Oyster.
Exiscan
Are you are focused on worker safety, process improvement, operational efficiency, data improvement, cost control or all of the above? ExiscanTM would be honored to help you achieve your condition monitoring goals.
FluxData, Inc.
FluxData, Inc., develops and manufactures multispectral and polarimetric imaging systems for aerospace, defense, industrial, medical and scientific markets. FluxData is a privately held, women owned company located in Rochester, NY. FluxData's imaging and system integration expertise helps guide customers from camera specification to delivery of the final system. Their staff of imaging experts works with customers to frame the problem, and deliver an optimized system based on a broad suite of options. Every product comes with FluxData's commitment to first-rate customer support.
Freshop, Inc.
Freshop offers the most comprehensible, customizable, modern, online grocery shopping technology designed to provide independent grocers of any size a pathway to compete with larger competitors and gain access to affordable technology.
Geospatial Corporation
Offering accurate, affordable, and scalable solutions which provide the technologies and infrastructure management systems for utilities, municipalities, engineers and pipeline owners and operators of any size and complexity.
Graphinex
Advanced roll to roll energy storage company, producing higher performance electrodes for
ultracapacitors and silicon anodes for Li-ion batteries.
Impact Earth
Clean Energy Incubator Company
Impact Earth is a Rochester-based zero waste solutions company. Impact Earth offers customer driven solution services like zero waste policy development, pilot programs, event services, waste management, and zero waste education in local school districts. Impact Earth strives to be the one-stop-shop for all your zero waste needs.
IMSWorkX, Inc.
The IMSWorkX team is now a part of REDCOM Laboratories, Inc.
inverSOL
Clean Energy Incubator Company
inverSOL is the clean tech division of Council Rock with headquarters in Rochester, N.Y., and manufacturing and sales in Puerto Rico. Our team offers electrical, computer, software and power systems engineering by integrating the latest technologies in wireless, blockchain, and home automation into its products.
Jorsek
Jorsek emerged out of the Simone Center into an incubator business at Venture Creations. Their main product is software that facilitates the rapid development and user-friendly management of Internet applications and websites. Their focus is on developing software that allows users, under a variety of security options, to edit and restructure their websites as easily as they edit a Word document. The incubator has provided them with access to office facilities and business coaching services by the RIT staff.
Lightforce Technology
Lightforce Technology will help you turn your product idea into reality. We design and build systems for instrumentation, airborne, medical and automotive applications.
Lux Semiconductors Inc.
Clean Energy Incubator Company
Lux is developing a patent pending flexible crystalline silicon substrate for CMOS and TFT enabled flexible electronics.
Martello
Reliable network performance is difficult and costly to achieve, particularly as bandwidth-hungry real-time services like streaming, unified communications and video conferencing grow in popularity. Martello delivers confidence in the performance of real-time services on cloud and enterprise networks. Our solutions manage and optimize network performance with innovative SD-WAN technologies and performance management software as a service (SaaS). Over the top (OTT) service providers and enterprises in more than 150 countries around the world rely on Martello for business continuity and network performance.
Medisked
MediSked was founded by two students who were working as direct support professionals and saw, firsthand, that the processes and procedures in our industry could be greatly improved to ease the administrative burden on staff and enhance support for individuals. Our deeply embedded insight in the industry — combined with our committed, mission-driven staff and our comprehensive, easy-to-use software solutions — position us as a valuable technology partner.
NanoArk Corporation
We are a US-based technological solutions company that provides robust and integrated hardware and software solutions for preservation of vital information. We offer end-to-end solutions that include requirement analysis, software development, system integration, system design and testing.
NewDigs
At Newdigs we believe that finding a home to rent should be as easy as finding a home for sale. Unfortunately, no central listing database exists for apartments. This leaves renters scrolling through lists of repetitive posts on Craigslist or driving through neighborhoods looking for lawn signs. That's why we've created a free listing platform, built around a Google Map user interface, that places no limit on the number of photos or listing details. It free to list and free to search.
nFocal
nFocal Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Rochester, New York, is a professional services company that focuses on systems and software engineering. Our corporate vision is to deliver what's needed, on time and on budget.
Optel, Inc.
Provides a variety of services to companies in the medical device field including product design services from concept to initial prototypes through completed product ready for manufacture, manufacturing services in compliance with the requirements of the U.S. FDA current Good Manufacturing Practices, the European medical device standard ISO 13485, and other medical device manufacturing requirements around the world.
Optic Sky Productions
Optic Sky is a concept to completion production company and feature film post-house, all in one, shiny package. Our only purpose is to make bold, refreshing, original content that reaches your audience in a way that entertains, informs, and motivates.
OptiCool
OptiCool Technologies is a leading provider of innovative data center cooling solutions. We specialize in refrigerant-based, close-coupled cooling solutions designed to support a wide variety of data center applications, including both low-density to high-density. We deliver practical solutions that can adapt to any environment and support both existing facility upgrades and new construction. The OptiCool® data center cooling solution supports the spectrum of low- through high-density cooling requirements in either a raised floor or non-raised floor.
Owl Autonomous Imaging Inc.
Owl Autonomous Imaging, Inc. has created a new sensor modality: Intelligent 3D Thermal Ranging Imagers for application in Autonomous things and more. These imagers perform in all-weather day or night to deliver safe autonomous operation.
Panacheeza
Panacheeza is a plant-based grated parmesan cheese created for consumers who want to boost their health without compromising taste. Our cheese looks, tastes and behaves like traditional parmesan, with the difference being that it's a superfood!
Positive Science
Positive Science was founded in 2006 as a result of a passion to develop an eye-tracking system for Mac OS. Currently, Positive Science is the only company supplying head-mounted eye-tracking systems.
Radian Generation LLC
Clean Energy Incubator Company
RadianGen is a growing team of renewable energy veterans with propietary technology and processes that deliver best in class solar asset management and field services. Our internal technology is now available to clients that want to retain asset management responsibility in-house.
Sign-Speak
Sign-Speak is an automated interpreting service for everyday use that provides an improved Customer Experience and ADA Compliance for businesses who serve D/HH individuals by allowing them to use their primary language to communicate effectively and naturally in an intuitive application.
SkyOp
SkyOp develops industry-leading drone training courseware, licenses it to our partners and delivers it directly to end users, facilitating the safe, lawful and effective adoption of drone technology.
SmartKable PowerLine Solutions
Clean Energy Incubator Company
SmartKable PowerLine Solutions (SK-PLS) leverages on power line sensors and AI software to monitor power line losses and line health in real time and predict the remaining lifetime of the lines. The solution has been proven and refined during field testing and pilot projects at multiple Indian and Caribbean utilities.
Splyce, Inc.
Splyce, founded in 2015, is home to top level teams across multiple esports titles. Since its inception, the organization grew to include teams in League Of Legends, Call Of Duty, Counter-Strike, Gears Of War, Overwatch, Starcraft 2, Halo, Street Fighter, Super Smash Bros Melee, Hearthstone, and World Of Warcraft. Through tournament after tournament, Splyce rose to the top. While the Splyce headquarters are in North America, the organization has global reach, with players and staff based out of Europe, Latin America, North America and South Korea. This fusion is the essence of Splyce. Diverse backgrounds and experiences combine to create a flexible team ready to experiment and achieve greatness.
Strong Arm Technologies
The Strong Arm ™ is a lifting safety system is a patented load distribution device that removes the injury causing loads from the weaker hands, arms, neck and lower back, and distributes those forces to stronger more capable areas of the torso. The company was founded and developed by two students at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2011. The Strong Arm team designs their products in-house and contract manufactures them in the U.S.
Super Easy Apps
A beginner friendly community for aspiring iPhone app developers. Our students learn how to code, design, market, and sell their iPhone apps on the App Store.
Sweetwater Energy, Inc.
Clean Energy Incubator Company
Sweetwater Energy uses a unique technology to produce low-cost sugars from non-food plant materials. The company’s sugar solution is sold to refineries, which use it to produce biofuels, biochemicals, and bioplastics. Unlike petroleum-based technologies, Sweetwater Energy’s process uses renewable plant materials that are both grown domestically and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tenrehte Technologies, Inc.
Clean Energy Incubator Company
Tenrehte Technologies creates wireless products to enable connectivity in Smart Grid devices. We empower consumers to take a more active role in the Grid, to eliminate wasted energy costs, and reduce their carbon footprint. Spank the Grid!
Thermapparel
ThermApparel aims to alleviate negative symptoms associated with overheating. The concept for ThermApparel was first designed for persons with multiple sclerosis but has since expanded to include individuals with epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and more.
ThingWorx
Clean Energy Incubator Company
ThingWorx™ is now PTC Partner Network whose leading industrial innovation platform and solutions turn possibility into reality. They continue to provide a software application platform designed for today's connected world. The ThingWorx platform combines the key functionality of Web 2.0, search, and social collaboration, and applies it to the world of "things," including connected products, machines, sensors, and industrial equipment.
ThirtySix Software
ThirtySix Software is the creator of SmartDocs. SmartDocs helps Microsoft Word and SharePoint users around the world get the most out of their content and the tools and technology they already have.SmartDocs is a powerful content management and content reuse solution for Microsoft Word. With SmartDocs, content is authored once, approved once, and then reused over and over again. Track, share, search, find, and reuse your content across documents and across departments.
Tokenize Inc.
Token is a biometric identity ring that lets people live keyless, cardless, and free of passwords. With a simple gesture, users can securely and universally authenticate themselves into everything in their lives. We've built out our identity platform by partnering with companies like Microsoft, Mastercard, Visa, HID, and the Australian Government to give customers more places they can use their Token.
TouchStream Corporation
TouchStream, a graduate of Venture Creations Incubator was acquired by Point-ClickCare. Their device is a tablet-based monitoring system that helps the elderly and people with cognitive disabilities live independently. The service provides assistance with medications, chronic health conditions, and daily activities. TouchStream’s web and mobile tools keep caregivers informed and in control, giving them peace of mind and the potential to reduce expenses from higher levels of care.
Turbett Surgical
A more efficient container filter system for handling surgical instruments pre- and post sterilization.
Vnomics
Vnomics maximizes commercial fleet profitability utilizing real-time, in-cab optimization and comprehensive patented analytic tools. Vnomics provides driver performance coaching resulting in fuel economy improvements and a customer web portal for data analytics that identifies additional areas of potential cost savings. Vnomics Corp. is headquartered in Pittsford, NY.