Startup Accelerator for Optics, Photonics, and Imaging
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Startup Accelerator for Optics, Photonics, and Imaging
Luminate
Luminate is a six-month intensive accelerator program located in Rochester, NY, the imaging capital of the world.
In addition to program sponsors Sony, Thor Labs, IMAX, and many others, Luminate brings in outside experts, industry leaders, and our world-class advisory board to help scale your startup.
Luminate is the only international startup accelerator focused solely on next-generation optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI). Located in the world capital of imaging—Rochester, New York—Luminate is bringing visionary entrepreneurs from around the globe together with OPI pioneers and qualified investors to speed innovation and time to market. It’s also providing early-stage companies with the capital necessary to further develop their technologies, including $100,000 upon program acceptance, and a chance to win up to $2 million in follow-on funding.
Why Apply to Luminate?
The world’s largest optics, photonics, and imaging accelerator accepts teams worldwide. Our portfolio companies span the globe.
You’ve identified the market need and have demonstrated proof-of-concept. Now you need help bringing your product to market. That’s where Luminate comes in. We help you succeed with capital, connections, and a community of resources. Each accepted company will receive a $100,000 convertible note and is eligible for follow-on investments. Our team will work closely with you to help make your company a success. We’ll connect you with our world-class advisors and partners so you can take advantage of their expertise and networks.
We’ll help you identify and get in front of customers and make introductions to the vast network of suppliers and potential partners within the Rochester, NY region. You’ll become a part of the Rochester optics and imaging community, and the entrepreneurial community at Sibley Square. Each program participant will be provided with working space, as well as access to the Luminate Optical Lab, NextCorps Prototyping Lab, and equipment and labs through local partners. We’ll also hold community and networking events, so you can grow your network. Throughout the program, we’ll be providing you with the resources, knowledge, and connections you need to succeed, as well as giving you opportunities to hone your story. At the end of the program, participants will pitch at Demo Day and will compete for a portion of $2 million in follow-on funding.
COACHING & MENTORING
Receive advice, coaching, and mentoring from industry leaders and the Luminate staff.
FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS
$100,000 investment upon acceptance with an additional $2,000,000 available to the best companies per cohort.
INDUSTRY NETWORKING
Access to our extensive network of domain experts, corporate sponsors, and investors.
Having access to many resources at Luminate, including guidance on IP, marketing, and manufacturing, helped us to refine our thinking and apply best practices to our business. We know that the Luminate team is in our corner and that they truly care about our success.
Rochester has long been the country’s optics and imaging capital. The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester was the first optical educational institute in the country and has granted nearly 50 percent of the optics degrees in the United States. Similarly, the Optical Society of America was founded in Rochester.
With an economy built upon companies like Xerox, Eastman Kodak, Corning, and Bausch & Lomb, optics and instrumentation are deeply ingrained in the region’s ecosystem. The area enjoys a strong optical workforce along with a culture of collaboration, both among industry and academia, and among companies working in different segments of the value chain. The local photonics cluster has over 100 member companies, and Rochester has perhaps the most robust optics, photonics, and imaging supply chains in the country. The federal government recognized Rochester’s strength in photonics in 2015 when it selected Rochester to be the headquarters of the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics. In 2016, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the world’s two leading optical regions, Jena, Germany and Rochester, NY to facilitate increased collaboration. We believe that Rochester provides tremendous opportunities for entrepreneurs working with optics and photonics, and our program participants will leverage these opportunities to help accelerate the development of their companies.
Luminate is a highly competitive cohort-based accelerator program that runs annually. Applications are accepted over the summer, with 20 semi-finalists selected to visit the region in November for final interviews, tours, and meetings. Ten finalists are then selected to join Luminate, with the accelerator program starting in January of each year.
Luminate works with companies that are solving difficult and high-impact problems with innovative technologies. We are looking for startups that have already proven their technologies at least at lab scale and are ready to take the next step. Companies must be incorporated and must have a team of at least two members committed full-time to the task of commercializing their technology. We are targeting next-generation optics, imaging, and photonics enabled applications such as augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, machine vision, and biophotonic devices.
Luminate is the world’s largest business accelerator for optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI) startups.
We’re bringing entrepreneurs from around the world together with OPI pioneers and qualified investors to speed innovation and time to market. We’re also helping early-stage startups gain clear competitive advantages.
Advances in underlying materials and processes are revolutionizing almost every industry.
We look for transformative Advanced Materials and Device innovations, including novel engineered materials, new device architectures, and advanced process technologies and tools. We invest in innovations that enable entirely new products, dramatic performance improvements of existing products, enhanced-efficiency, and/or greener manufacturing processes for major industries such as Consumer Electronics, IOT, Healthcare Diagnostics/Sensing, Pharmaceuticals, Energy Storage, Automotive, and Building Materials.
Estimates of the industrial impact of Advanced Materials innovations over the next decade exceed $3 Trillion.
Reinventing Venture Capital
Advanced Materials is a significant yet under-served area of innovation by venture capitalists. It requires specialized knowledge of materials sciences, industrial value chains, and business models. At PVP, we have developed a unique value-add approach based on successfully founding, operating, and investing in advanced material start-ups over the past 30 years.
Our Team
We understand that teams are the most important ingredient in any start-up. Meet our team. We have an unparalleled success rate, with some failures too. We are constantly learning and enjoy working with entrepreneurs.
Strategic Partners
PVP enjoysvaluable strategic relationships with a diversified consortium of industry leading corporations. OurStrategicPartners, several of which have also elected to be Strategic Limited Partners in one or more of our Funds, have a combined market capitalization exceeding $380 Billion and represent complimentary industry verticals, value chain positions, and geographic concentrations. These partnerships help definekey industry needs andmarket opportunities. Our portfolio companies enjoy access to this deep set of potential customer and supply chain partner relationships. And, we make business development introductions betweenour partners and promising start-ups, even if the start-up is not an investment fit for our funds.
Industrial & Scientific Advisory Board
PVP draws from a talented group of Industrial & Scientific Advisors who have expertise in advanced materials R&D and commercialization across multiple industries, including speciality chemicals, high performance materials, photonics, coatings, building materials, pharmaceuticals, electronics, energy, QC tools, and medical devices.
Investing in people building visual technology businesses
We thrive on collaborating with deep technical teams who leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data.
Our annual Summit brings together top technologists, entrepreneurs and investors to explore how visual technology is empowering business & humanity. Learn more »
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Jobs
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Deep Domain Expertise. Passion to Solve Problems. Entrepreneurial DNA.
We thrive on collaborating with deep technical teams building visual technology businesses.
Investing in people building visual technologies that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data across the full tech stack. Visual data examples: images, videos, thermal, radar, lidar, x-ray’s, ultrasound, MRI, CT scan, 2D, 3D, 4D, 6D and more.
Interesting sectors for us include (but are not limited to):
Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality
Autonomous vehicles
Visual search & content analysis
Satellite imaging
Robotics
Medical imaging
Imaging enabled commerce
Computational imaging
Video
Mapping
Biometrics
Smart home
Wearables
Photonics
Security
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The premier global gathering in visual tech
May 13-14, 2020 in NYC
60+ Domain Experts
Discussing the disruptive force of computer vision, machine learning & AI. Speakers>>
600+ Attendees
Making valuable connections across a variety of sectors & industries. Their thoughts>>
40 Illuminating Talks
Leading researchers, startups, execs, marketers, & investors in visual tech. Agenda>>
2 Leading Competitions
Highlighting computer vision researchers & startups in the visual tech space. Competitions>>
» Computer Vision, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence experts and professionals » Media and brand executives interested in boosting revenue by leveraging new imaging and video products and technologies » Investors: Visual technologies & businesses deliver tremendous upside - don't miss the next Instagram, Youtube, Oculus, Snapchat... » Imaging and video startups interested in meeting investors, customers, recruiting and potential partners » Technology executives evaluating companies for partnerships & acquisitions » Creatives: Photographers, Videographers and anyone creating content
Competitions
Many companies who presented or competed at the last Summit have since raised venture capital funding. Others have joined startups or formed companies with people they met at the Summit.
Startup Competition: Are you one of the most promising imaging & video companies? Compete for limited presentation slots in front of ~600 attendees including judges, investors, customers and potential partners.
Organizers
Presented by Evan Nisselson & Abby Hunter-Syed, LDV Capital Video Program: Rebecca Paoletti, CakeWorks, CEO Computer Vision Program: Serge Belongie, Cornell Tech Computer Vision Advisors: Jan Erik Solem, Mapillary; Samson Timoner, Cyclops; Luc Vincent, Lyft; Gaile Gordon, Enlighted, Alexandre Winter, Netgear Universities: Cornell Tech, School of Visual Arts
Our Partners
We are currently adding partners for our LDV Vision Summit 2020, email us to learn about opportunities for collaboration.
“LDV Vision Summit is one of those rare events that brings a very focused group of people together to talk about something that they all care about - computer vision & visual technologies. If you are investing or working in the space, you should definitely attend to meet other experts and startups building the next great products and companies.”
— Josh Elman, Greylock Partners, Partner
“Really impressive and most important - amazing founders presenting.”
— Adam Singolda, Taboola, Founder & CEO
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— Oscar Beijbom, UC Berkeley, Postdoctoral Scholar
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“It was definitely one of the best learning and networking experience. I love listening to all the rapidly disseminated information. Also loved feedback from people on my thoughts. So many people came and provided me positive feedback on Context and intent are essential for finding meaning in photos; and language divides but visual unites.”
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“The LDV Vision Summit is computer mad scientists meets visual storytellers with world class investors lurking in every corner. Two days that will stretch your brain and open your eyes to countless emerging possibilities in the imaging world.”
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“Thank you for all your tremendous work organizing yesterday. It’s bold to bring everyone together from deep machine learning to publishers as brands - but it worked so well! I learnt a lot and met some great people, so thank you so much for including me!”
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— Dr. David S. Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University, Research Professor Computer Science Department & Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
“LDV brought together entrepreneurs, practitioners and investors for a multidisciplinary discussion about where the future of the visual image is heading. It was a great mix of people who are working inwhat lies ahead for visual media. It is clear we are only at the beginning of what is possible. It was exciting to be part of it.”
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Typically at dinner there are 30 entrepreneur executives, a couple investors and other unique guests. We strive for gender balance and a mixture of 1st time, funded, serial entrepreneurs. At least 50% of the attendees are new each month.
A key aspect of the community is asking how we can help each other. Then we take the 30 asks from each dinner along with photos and email to our whole community to help each other. The more helpful people will be invited back more often. Hopefully we can continue building a fantastic and very collaborative NYC tech community where people help each other as much as possible.
The community
+1200 Members Equal gender balance CEO: 44%, CTO/VP Tech: 12%, Product/UX: 7%, Investor: 17%, Other 20%
When & where
What: Drinks/Dinner. Open bar for 1hr, 3 course meal, wine, etc..
When: Monthly and dates change each month. 10x per yr.
Where: Typically downtown NYC.
Costs: We frequently have partial sponsors. We split the remainder of the costs. ~$50 per person.
Invites: Community referrals are the only way to get invited.
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“Evan manages to pull together a witty and ambitious group of founders together every month. This is a must-attend event in NYC if you can score an invite.”
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