Two Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder startups selected for Luminate New York Accelerator
Empire State Development (ESD) announced the 10 startups chosen for round nine of the New York State-supported Luminate NY accelerator, investment fund and competition—two are Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder startups.Ìý
Selected by a panel of industry experts for their transformative work in OPI-enabled technologies, these startups were identified from a pool of 138 applicants from 33 different countries. The 2026 cohort will begin their time in Rochester on April 13, utilizing an initial $100,000 investment to continue to scale their businesses, leveraging New York’s ecosystem. At the accelerator graduation on September 30, they will vie for up to $2 million in follow-on funding to help commercialize their next-generation manufacturing, medical, and sensing solutions.
Manifest Technologies is solving the problems holding advanced manufacturing back through Parallax Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, a breakthrough platform that fabricates complex parts in a single, continuous step.
Modendo offers ultrathin microscopes that comprise a single optical fiber and provide high-resolution imaging for industrial and medical applications.
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