1st 12 START-UP NY Firms Named

The first dozen businesses participating in Governor Cuomo’s tax-free START-UP NY program were announced today, none in Otsego County, whose sites are still in the approval stage.

As reported in the Albany Times Union, the 12 are:

• Aesku NY, Inc., CoachMePlus (Virtuvia, LLC), Clearview Social, Inc., Decision Pace, Inc., Heads Up Display Inc., Lineagen, Inc., Nupur Technologies, LLC, and Sinapis Pharma, Inc. will be sponsored by the University at Buffalo.

• Datto, Inc. will be sponsored by the Rochester Institute of Technology.

• Incodema3D, LLC will be sponsored by Cornell University.

• Americord Registry, LLC, and Modern Meadow, Inc. will be sponsored by SUNY Downstate Medical Center

The companies will create jobs in several key industries, including biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, high-technology research and development, and software development, the newspaper reported.