Category: Rochester
Showcase your business; get exposure to local investors and business leaders and compete for a chance to win $25,000 in cash!
Open to all for-profit companies headquartered in the nine-county, Greater Rochester New York Region, this annual contest encourages entrepreneurship and recognizes new, high-growth ventures. Learn about the contest. Register for the contest starting February 1, 2010.
The finalists will present before a live audience and panel of judges. The winners will be announced at the 2nd Annual Celebration of Entrepreneurship Luncheon Friday, April 30th, 2010. Register for the luncheon.
Prizes
- Contest finalists will receive significant community exposure and marketing services from Dixon Schwabl
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will also receive cash prizes and free office space at HTR’s Lennox Tech Enterprise Center or Rochester BioVenture Center
Sponsorships
Support entrepreneurship in our community. Become a sponsor of the contest! Contact Jackie Spiro for more information.
Contest Information and Guidelines
The 9th Biotechnology
Management & Entrepreneurship
Seminar Series
Accelerating Commercialization: Developing for Market Needs
Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D.
President and CEO, Ignite Institute
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Rochester BioVenture Center
High Tech Rochester invites you to a networking event on Tuesday, February 2 at the Rochester BioVenture Center beginning at 5:00pm. We will be streaming the Severino Center presentation “Accelerating (Biotech) Commercialization” at 5:30pm. Click here to view the flyer.
Foundations & Unconventional Fundraising
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Lennox Tech Enterprise Center
Multimedia Center
Register by January 11, 2010
Contact Jackie Spiro or call 585-413-9060
Challenging times or not, raising cash to fund life-science ventures is a daunting task. Don’t let the current economic environment prevent your company from raising the cash it needs to bring your discoveries and innovations to market. There are many approaches to fundraising that don’t involve venture capital, angel investors, or soliciting investments from friends and family.
The Rochester BioVenture Center became the first incubator in New York’s Finger Lakes region able to support life sciences companies with both wet labs and business services. The biotech incubator is operated by High Tech Rochester to further the organization's mission of economic development in the region.
The Rochester BioVenture Center is located in Henrietta, New York in the University of Rochester Medical Center. The 40K square foot building was transformed from the former Wyeth laboratory into the current business incubator in 2007. Lab and office space is available in sizes ranging from 200 to 1,000 square feet for early stage and mid-sized biotech companies so that they may develop within a community of similar enterprises and remain within the area. The incubator provides access to funding, business services and a number of regular events through High Tech Rochester in affiliation with network partners. The incubator cooperates with many different organizations to facilitate the goal of transforming research into economic development.1
