TAWR Energy, Inc. has developed a technology proven line of high-efficiency Diffuser Augmented Wind Turbines (DAWTs). Their products are capable of extracting more energy from the wind and producing more annual energy output (AEO) starting at lower wind speeds than traditional open-bladed systems of the same size.

D.A. Smith and Associates is a management consulting firm helping companies improve performance by effectively integrating their business processes, people, and technology. The firm has an extended team of associates that are among the best in their respective fields. Some associates specialize in a specific industry, such as health care or education, while others specialize by business function, such as information technology and human resources. D.A. Smith and Associates is a verified veteran-owned business and certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by New York State and the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC).

Darkwind Media is a software development company that has developed a platform for 3-D design called Luster. Luster is a powerful software utility that takes two and three dimensional assets and integrates them to produce a single scene display in real-time. Luster is used by hardcore graphics programmers, designers, and game developers looking to avoid expensive game engines targeted to one specific market. Darkwind on selling this software and will continue to do projects for clients using it.

Dumbwaiter Design focuses on building web experiences that present innovative solutions to clients' business problems - everything from highly functional website back-ends with the most user-friendly, visually-appealing front-ends to motion graphics-based marketing pieces, brand identity creation and all kinds of print collateral pieces. Areas of expertise include:

• User experience and user interface design
• Information architecture optimization
• Custom content management systems development
• Custom web application development (catalog systems, registration systems, shopping/donation systems)
• Flash, motion and 3D development (including games, web commercials, viral videos, interactive experiences, virtual tours)
• Video, photography, social media integration
• Print design (identity, capital campaign materials, brochures/books, wearable)

Dumbwaiter Design is staffed primarily by RIT graduates and is a RIT faculty-owned company.

Emerald Technologies is a leading provider of ultra green data center cooling solutions. Our technology is exceptionally energy efficient and is the most effective cooling technology for data centers on the planet.

EnergyWise Partners (EWP) provides energy metering and online billing services that enable the creation of locally owned renewable energy utilities, disrupting the highly fragmented Heating Oil and Propane delivery markets. We focus on clean, renewable solar energy stored in the ground and concentrated into the home with a ground-source heat pump (GSHP). Called "geothermal" heating and cooling in the US, the up-front cost of installation keeps most homes and businesses bound to the high price of traditional fuels.

EWP overcomes the financial barrier by enabling a Utility model for Geothermal similar to Power Purchase Agreements for Solar. Private investors, property managers and consumer cooperatives can then invest in the superior returns of geothermal energy while bringing the many economic and environmental benefits to consumers and tenants. The consumer simply pays for the thermal energy brought into the home through a multi-year contract.

FluxData, Inc., develops and manufactures multispectral and polarimetric imaging systems for aerospace, defense, industrial, medical and scientific markets. FluxData is a privately held, women owned company located in Rochester, NY. FluxData's imaging and system integration expertise helps guide customers from camera specification to delivery of the final system. Their staff of imaging experts works with customers to frame the problem, and deliver an optimized system based on a broad suite of options. Every product comes with FluxData's commitment to first-rate customer support.

Jorsek emerged out of the Simone Center into an incubator business at Venture Creations. Their main product is software that facilitates the rapid development and user-friendly management of Internet applications and websites. Their focus is on developing software that allows users, under a variety of security options, to edit and restructure their websites as easily as they edit a Word document. The incubator has provided them with access to office facilities and business coaching services by the RIT staff.

Lake Country FracWater Specialists provide mobile, cost effective treatment for removal of barium, strontium, calcium and other trace metals in frac/flowback water at the well site. Pit water may be recycled by removal of solids and organics.

Significant quantities of water used for hydraulic fracturing may be recycled using our proprietary, patent pending processes reducing the demand on regional watersheds. High purity barium sulfate and strontium sulfate are by products of our processes.

In an industry that is still dominated by manual functions, Lucidity™ (U.S. Patent No. 7,827,164), the latest advance in search and report generation software, reduces the volume of search clutter, extracts only the most meaningful data, and automatically formats that data into an individually customized Word report. With Lucidity, companies gain a competitive advantage. Lucidity increases productivity more than 75% and accelerates time-to-market. Lucidity is targeted to analysts in the life sciences, financial services, and energy sectors. When you don't know what you don't know yet need to know, Lucidity will find those nuggets for you and display the rough draft of your report in your browser window as the first set of results. Lucidity won the AIIP 2010 Technology Award. Venture Creations has assisted Lucidity Works in developing their management team.

MCB Cleanroom Solutions, LLC, is developing a Micro Vibrational Energy Harvester (µVEH) that converts environmental vibrational energy into electrical power. The µVEH is a fingernail-sized microchip, the smallest of its class, and will provide enough energy to power a wireless sensor. This technology can be used to recharge or replace the batteries in wireless sensors, eliminating costly battery changes and disposal. The µVEH enables a host of other wireless sensor applications previously impractical because of their inaccessibility for battery changes. MCB won an award from the National Science Foundation to support the initial development of the µVEH. With the most recent award of a NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Agency) grant, MCB has specifically targeted HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) and building energy monitoring applications to provide savings in energy costs and greenhouse emissions. MCB is also working with Cornell University's Center for Materials Research (CCMR) on a materials development collaboration with support from New York State's JumpStart Program.

Newdigs.com is developing a national online apartment listing site to feature comprehensive private listings and managed community listings on a map-based interface. The company's unique business model allows properties of less than 25 units to be listed free, while charging large properties a nominal monthly fee. Newdigs.com was engineered for property managers to list and manage their portfolio on the same integrated platform that renters use to search. Major innovations include integrated property management functionality, renter pre-qualification, advanced reporting and analysis, comprehensive listing coverage and a robust rental property transaction database.

Palantiri Systems is transforming business collaboration with a unique platform that combines social networking with Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, known as the Internet of Things. Within this platform, intelligent sensors and devices are able to participate in the community as full and equal members. These devices have profiles, friends, activity streams, etc. and can blog, chat, and otherwise be truly interactive participants in the collaboration process. Utilizing our platform enables our customers to focus on creating the vertical market specific, value-added applications that drive new revenue streams and significant cost savings. In short, this platform is changing the rules of how companies engage and interact with both the people and devices that make up their ecosystem, providing a pathway for dramatically differentiated value-added services that can be offered to their customer base.

How would you like to own your own social network? QuoJax lets you do just that. QuoJax is a social network that provides users privacy, ownership and control when it comes to content creation, communicating, and sharing on the Internet. QuoJax uses a point system called Quo to give you control over how you interact with others and to earn prizes. Heavy users of the system earn votes, called Jax, which give them more influence over the future of QuoJax – recent votes have been on what features to add, what charity to give money to, and on whether to dilute the Jax of the founders (we voted to dilute). Come join us!

Venture Creations is an invaluable resource to QuoJax. The majority of the QuoJax team is associated with RIT. The support of Venture Creations and its staff has been invaluable to us. We have gotten great advice, access, and been able to use facilities we would not have been able to afford otherwise.

RNY Solar LLC
Efficiency Focused CPV

RNY Solar LLC was formed in 2009 to commercialize a novel concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system that converts sunlight into electrical power using proprietary spectral-splitting technology.

RNY Solar's CPV Module is expected to establish a new commercial record of 40 percent for "system efficiency" for solar-to-electricity conversion. The current "best in class" system efficiency is 28 percent.

For more information or to contact us, please visit http://www.rnysolar.com.

"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
- Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

SalesCongo is cloud-based software firm focused on Sales Readiness Management. We are a Salesforce.com ISV Partner and continue to bring innovative applications to the market that improve sales productivity.

Sweetwater Energy uses ensiled biomass to produces both cellulosic-based and starch-based concentrated liquid sugar feedstocks for others to use in the production of bio-fuels, bio-plastics, and bio-chemical. SweetWater's decentralized business model utilizes portable processors located on or near biomass producing farms which dramatically reduces the transportation costs of feedstocks. Sweetwater has gone from two unpaid employees in December 2009 to 11 full time employees as of April 1, 2011. Initially SweetWater used two RIT MBA students to help with development of the company's business plan and investor presentation, and currently employee's two RIT graduates. SweetWater is also current doing work with RIT (CIMS) Dr. Michael Haselkorn in development of waste streams to energy. The company was awarded a NYSERDA grant, which allowed the company to scale-up its processes and undertake more comprehensive material and nutritional testing. Currently, Sweetwater is currently shipping sugar to its first customers using its scale up processors pilot system that was developed with Seed Round funding and is located at their 3,500 square foot pilot plant located at 120 Mushroom Blvd. and the corporate offices and analytical lab are located at RIT's Venture Creations.

Tenrehte Technologies creates wireless products to enable connectivity in Smart Grid devices. We empower consumers to take a more active role in the Grid, to eliminate wasted energy costs, and reduce their carbon footprint. Spank the Grid!

ThirtySix Software is the creator of SmartDocs.

SmartDocs is a powerful content management and content reuse solution for Microsoft Word. With SmartDocs, content is authored once, approved once, and then reused over and over again. Track, share, search, find, and reuse your content across documents and across departments.

SmartDocs is used by teams of writers — technical writers creating documentation, sales teams writing proposals, instructional designers developing training, and more — to create documents faster and improve the quality of the documents they create. Regardless of the type of documents you work with, SmartDocs will save your company time and money. Every SmartDocs feature has been designed with the writer in mind. The result is an extensive set of features that are powerful, flexible, and easy to use.

TopDown Conservation LLC provides seamless, scalable and sustainable web-based software solutions for the $752B global Environmental Remediation (ER) market. This first-to-market system, EcoManager™, provides data visualization and real-time sensing solutions for portfolio management that minimizes insurance risk, reduces operational costs and cycle times. EcoManager reduces the time it takes for management to receive actionable, operational data from weeks and months to < 1 day.

EcoManager provides a proactive risk management solution to users and an annuity-based solution to TOPDOWN. EcoManagers’ open architecture is designed to accept digital signals sent by any hardware and is manufacturer agnostic. We monitor and record real time data for immediate action by receiving remote sensor (water quality, soil, air, water flow and level, weather, et.al.) and hand held data on the property which allow for immediate resolution of a problem. This data is visually represented with GPS-located assets on the site. EcoManager creates consistent processes for reporting and decision making efforts by all stakeholders which allows the entire team a real-time status and a lead time to correct developing problems before discovery on the next site visit … when it may be too late. BP, Sunoco, El Paso Energy, ConocoPhillips and other ER companies that remediate brownfields sites globally have identified the need for data consolidation, GPS-located data visualization and ease of access to real time data. EcoManager fills these needs.