Application

If RIT is to “sponsor” an Applicant, the Applicant must meet the following criteria:

Core Mission – Applicant must “align with or further the academic mission” of RIT.

Eligible Business – Applicant must not be any of the business types that are prohibited by the State from being in a START-UP NY program.

Liabilities – Applicant must not owe taxes or be in violation on any “worker protection and environmental laws and regulations”.

Business Category – Applicant must prove its eligibility for one of the four State-defined business categories that are eligible for START-UP NY, as listed in Step #1.

Job Creation – Applicant must be willing to commit to specific job creation upon applying for START-UP NY, with milestones for achieving new jobs identified.   Number of new jobs and timing for achieving them will be a factor in selecting companies for RIT’s designated START-UP facilities.

Competitors – Applicant must have no competitors in the community in which it will be located.

Before completing the application, please review the RIT Process for Startup NY page.

Businesses interested in applying to occupy one of RIT’s START-UP NY designated locations/properties must complete the START-UP NY Business Application and submit the application to RIT. Completed Business Applications should be submitted to jbkvci@rit.edu.

Here are directions for completing the START-UP NY Business Application.