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⏳ Time is running out to apply to Luminate! Register for next week's info session with four recent Luminate grads — AI Optics, iLoF, Photosynthetic, and VoxelSensors. 🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/how-luminate… 📅 Apps for cohort 8 are due January 10! bit.ly/Luminatecohort8

🐄Labby’s MilKey is earning national praise, named Best Tech Startup at TechRochester's 2024 GREAT Awards, a finalist in the Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge, and CEO, Julia Somerdin, being named to Cosmopolitan's “C-Suite Class of 2024.” luminate.org/labbys-milkey-…

Luminate cohort 6 company, Swave Photonics, received the CES 2025 Innovation Award for its Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) platform. Congrats, Swave! businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

Last chance to register for tomorrow's info session featuring insights from recent Luminate grads. Who better to share what it’s really like than founders who’ve been through it all? Sign up soon! eventbrite.com/e/how-luminate…

With only 10-12 spots per cohort, Luminate is highly competitive. Make your app stand out w/ tips from Luminate’s Director of Technology Integration, Dr. Damon Diehl. Last info session 1/7: eventbrite.com/e/tips-for-app… Apply by 1/10: bit.ly/Luminatecohort8 youtu.be/IXG13Tqn_68?si…

DEADLINE EXTENSION🚨 Luminate cohort 5 company, MEETOPTICS is looking for 25 ambassadors to influence the future and shape of its #optics and #photonics search platform. Apply by 12/20 to enjoy some perks: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The application deadline for Luminate cohort 8 is just weeks away. If you’re still deciding if the #accelerator is right for your company, don’t miss our last info session on Tuesday, 1/7. Sign up soon: eventbrite.com/e/tips-for-app…

SIX Luminate companies have been named to f6s' list of Top 100 #Hardware Companies & #Startups in Dec. 2024. Nice work, Andluca Technologies, Bounce Imaging, Organic Robotics (ORC) (LLUME), MomentumOptics, SeeTrue Technologies, and QD Solar (acquired by SunDensity Inc.). f6s.com/companies/Hard…

With last year’s PRISM award for Qunnect, Inc.'s QU-APC instrument, a win for QU-RACK Gotham would make two consecutive #quantum tech PRISMs for this Luminate alum. We’ll be cheering for you at SPIE SPIE Photonics West, Qunnect! photonicsprismaward.com/finalists

Luminate cohort 7 company Photosynthetic is a finalist in the 15th SPIE Startup Challenge for its Volumetric Micro-Lithography, enabling rapid production of complex 3D devices w/ submicron features. Good luck, Photosynthetic! SPIE SPIE Photonics West spie.org/news/finalists…

Headed to #PhotonicsWest? Our Director of Technology Integration, Dr. Damon Diehl, will be leading a hands-on intro to #optics at the conference on January 27. Preview the course with these sample slides: spie.org/samples/course… SPIE

Last chance to get valuable tips directly from the Luminate team to strengthen your application. Register before 1:00 PM, 1/7: eventbrite.com/e/tips-for-app… Apply by 1/10: bit.ly/Luminatecohort8 youtu.be/kCS_-O_dS68?fe…

Last call! If you’re working with #optics, photonics, or imaging, apply to Luminate cohort 8 for your chance at up to $1M+ in funding, expert mentorship, plus industry and investor connections. Applications are due TOMORROW, 1/10: bit.ly/Luminatecohort8

Congratulations to Swave Photonics, a Luminate cohort 6 company, for securing $28.3M in Series A funding to advance its Holographic eXtended Reality platform. Swave’s tech earned a CES 2025 Innovation Award. Read more in Forbes: forbes.com/sites/charlief…

Luminate cohort 7 alum VoxelSensors unveiled its innovative contextual intelligence solutions at #CES2025. “We are collecting user point-of-view data with which we see the world as close as possible to the way the user does,” said CEO Johannes Peeters. globenewswire.com/news-release/2…

A powerful collaboration in water quality innovation! AquaRealTime, a Luminate cohort 6 company, has partnered with Nano Infusion Technologies to deliver real-time water quality monitoring and actionable insights. fox2now.com/business/press…

Congrats to Luminate cohort 7 company, iLoF, on this exciting partnership and their continued expansion!

The Luminate team and several of our portfolio companies will be in San Francisco for SPIE #PhotonicsWest from January 25-30. Stop by booth #154 in the NY Corridor to say hello. spie.org/conferences-an… SPIE SPIE Photonics West

#MedTech #startups: Register for this free workshop on navigating FDA regulations: