Upstate Capital Weekly Newsletter – 10/13/22

Meet Clayton Besch! Clayton is the Director of the NYS Innovation Venture Capital Fund at Empire State Development. He works to bolster the critical capital needs of New York State’s innovation economy by providing seed and early-stage venture funding to high-growth startups as they move from concept to commercialization, through early growth and expansion. Connect with Clayton on LinkedIn or at Invest NY: Climate Tech on October 19!

New York Ventures recently welcomed Inso Biosciences to its portfolio. Inso Biosciences is a biotech company in Ithaca working to make genomics more accessible through innovative biological sample preparation tools.

Devon McDonald joined Lippes Mathias as the firm’s Director of Tax. Devon has more than 15 years of diverse tax experience and will play a crucial role in advising the firm’s various transactional teams and their clients on the tax implications of each transaction.

The participants have been announced for Clarkson University’s 2nd Annual Technology Showcase in Buffalo on October 26. More than $70K in funding will be awarded to startup companies and research projects, with a grand prize of $40K to the winning startup company.

The MedTech Annual Awards Dinner & Conference 2022 will be held on November 1-2 at the Albany Capital Center. MedTech’s annual award dinner will be on the evening of Tuesday, November 1st, followed by a day of educational content, roundtable discussions, and networking opportunities on Wednesday, November 2nd.

Would you like to sponsor a table at the Annual Awards Celebration in Rochester on December 7? You will receive 8 tickets to the event so your colleagues and clients can join you. If you’re interested, let us know and we can send along more information and your unique code to register.