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Incubator Adds Six New High-Tech Tenants
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s incubator – one of the oldest incubators in the U.S. and the first to be wholly sponsored and operated by a university – has six new high-tech tenants. The Rensselaer Incubator Program also saw three companies “graduate.” 1st Playable Productions, a video game developer is moving to office space in Troy while software company Web Scribble Solutions and digital imaging firm Applied Science Innovations are on their way to the Rensselaer Technology Park.
The new tenants are:
Archimedes Group
Focuses on commercializing technology developed in the Ukraine. Technologies include vibro-diagnostics of infrastructure such as bridges and dams.
Hestia BioEnergy
A New York City company relocating to Tech Valley to work on the construction, procurement and operation of biomass power plants that create environmentally clean electricity, heat, chemicals and fuels.
Landform Logic
Produces high-precision three-dimensional digital elevation models. Services include topographic data preparation, design and visualization, as well as software customization and training for the earthwork design, construction and land development communities.
Simplicita
Developed software for Internet service providers - including cable TV and telephone companies - that identifies, isolates and fixes virus-like programs. Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. are among its customers.
VoiceFlight Systems
Provides speech recognition systems in commercial aircraft. The product will allow pilots to enter information into selected aircraft systems more effectively.
Zomega Terahertz
Produces terahertz instrumentation for scientific, homeland security and industrial applications. The device produces imaging and sensing technologies for biomedical imaging, genetics diagnostics, microelectronics, and chemical and biological material identifications.
"I think they represent some fantastic technologies," Michael Tentnowski, director of the incubator program, told the Times Union.
The Rensselaer Incubator Program occupies 42,000 square feet in an RPI-owned building in Troy. Including the six newcomers, there will be 21 tenants at the incubator with 23 “virtual” members that are located in their own space.
“As a place devoted exclusively to giving life to new ideas, the incubator acts as a 'living laboratory' where ideas generated in classrooms, research centers and beyond can be tested and applied in real-world environments,” Tentnowski told The Business Review. For more information about the Rensselaer Incubator Program visit http://www.rpi.edu/dept/incubator/homepage or call 518.276.6658. 
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