Augmate’s Unique New York State Eco-system
Augmate is headquartered in New York and for good reason. There is a plethora of business incubators, accelerators, shared workspaces, and there are early stage: seed, angel, and venture capital investors. Silicon Alley is in high gear and producing some of the best tech start-up companies like: foursquare, tumblr, turntable.fm, kickstarter, TechCrunch, Art.sy, KickApps, Etsy, Yipit, Birchbox, OkCupid, MakerBot, ZocDoc, AppNexus, GroupMe, the list goes on…
There is a great tech education system in New York and Cornell plans to build a 2.1-million-square-foot science campus here. Columbia’s User Interface Lab has produced incredible research in the area of digital eyewear. NYIT (Institute of Technology) does the beta testing for the Kopin / Motorola Golden-I system. There is Hunter College, SUNY, City College, NYU, and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. On top of this, the University of Rochester has the best research optics lab in the world.
There are Tech Meetups, hacker events, and ARNY (Augmented Reality New York). The ARNY founders also organize ARE (Augmented Reality Event), the first global conference dedicated to advancing the business of augmented reality. And when I look around the state, I see Vuzix (digital eyewear veteran) in Rochester, Kitware (computer vision pioneer) in Clifton Park, and eMagin (#1 maker of AR Glasses LED’s) in Hopewell Junction.
We already know that, geographically speaking, New York is the advertising and finance capital of the world, could it soon be the same for technology? It is no wonder why Augmate has setup shop in New York, making it our home.
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