ALBANY, N.Y. — Businesses from Syracuse, Cazenovia, Binghamton, Hamilton, and Potsdam are among the finalists in FuzeHub’s 2021 commercialization competition.
The event is set for Nov. 8-9 at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona. The competition — part of FuzeHub’s Jeff Lawrence Innovation Fund — is in its fifth year. Twelve entrepreneurs from across New York state will pitch their ideas before a live audience for the chance to win $50,000.
FuzeHub is an Albany–based nonprofit that works to help small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in New York state
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“FuzeHub is excited to celebrate these New York State technology entrepreneurs on their pathway to becoming future business leaders in our communities. These awards continue to help a diverse set of start-ups further develop their products and get closer to bringing them to market,” Elena Garuc, executive director of FuzeHub, said.
Finalist companies
- Carapace Analytics LLC of Syracuse is focused on advancing technologies in senior care and monitoring.
- “With an expanding desire and need for green energy,” DomCat Technologies, LLC of Binghamton seeks to expand New York’s manufacturing base with its low platinum-content catalysts for fuel-cell applications, as described in the FuzeHub news release.
- Eco-Baggeez LLC of Cazenovia says its patented alternative to plastic sandwich bags will help “put a dent” in the billions of plastic sandwich bags that end up in landfills, waterways, and oceans from U.S. households each year, per the FuzeHub news release.
- Natural Beauty Breast Prosthesis, LLC, of Hamilton manufactures an organic, all-natural fiber, external breast form for women who have had mastectomies without reconstruction.
- Pharmacoustics Technologies, LLC of Potsdam is an ultrasonic characterization/evaluation device startup developing instruments and equipment for assuring and increasing quality in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
- SensoLife LLC, also of Potsdam, creates materials and sensing solutions to accelerate healthcare by providing easier, more convenient and inexpensive technology for health monitoring and wearables.
