Deals, News & Events for the Upstate Capital Investment Community
INVEST NY: CLIMATE TECH APPLY TO PITCH NOW OPEN
Startups innovating in technologies and business models that focus on sustainability and decarbonization including energy production and utilization, advanced manufacturing, construction tech, resource use and reuse, or food and agriculture advancements are invited to apply to pitch at the Invest NY: Climate Tech event on October 19 at UAlbany The Emerging Technology and Entrepreneurship Complex (ETEC). Applications are open until September 14.
MEMBER HIGHLIGHT
Introducing Upstate Capital Board of Directors Chairman Randy Bianchi! Randy is the Managing Partner at Lakelet Capital. Lakelet Capital is a private equity group that acquires companies through control equity investments and makes select minority investments. Connect with Randy on LinkedIn and at the Buffalo Private Equity Summit on September 21!
PE + M&A
Paramax advised on the sale of Jacobs Ladder to CORE Health and Fitness. This acquisition will provide Jacobs Ladder with funding and distribution to scale its business, meeting the demand of a growing high-intensity market segment.
VC + GROWTH
John Liddy joins CenterState CEO as interim vice president of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. As the interim vice president of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Liddy is responsible for leading CenterState CEO’s entrepreneurship portfolio and support programming, operated out of its incubator, The Tech Garden, located in downtown Syracuse.
MORE UPSTATE CAPITAL NEWS
Upstate Capital and Think Dutchess Alliance for Business are excited to announce Geraldine Laybourne as the Keynote Speaker for Accelerate Hudson Valley! Geraldine was a cable pioneer, TV visionary and network founder for some of the most iconic names in the industry such as Nickelodeon, Disney/ABC Cable Networks and Oxygen Media. Named as one of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People in 1996 and inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2020, she now focuses her work in the city of Poughkeepsie as the co-founder of DAY ONE Early Learning Community – an innovative project creating early learning opportunities aimed at eradicating generational poverty.
On August 2-3, 2022, Upstate Capital hosted an exclusive event for our Board of Directors, annual sponsors and invited guests in Saratoga Springs. The Annual Saratoga Forum consisted of two days of curated content including CEO and investor conversations and exceptional networking with M&A and PE professionals, entrepreneurs, C-suite executives and industry leaders. Read all about the Saratoga Forum and watch videos from the event in the event recap.
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May 31, 2023
Event Recap: 2023 Buffalo Private Equity Summit
Buffalo Private Equity Summit brought together private equity and M&A transaction professionals from across the Rust Belt and beyond to Buffalo on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. The 4th annual Summit was sponsored by Hamilton Lane, Bluehenge Capital, and our new partners: Bannockburn Global Forex, SLB Capital, and Carleton McKenna. The event would not be possible […]
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May 8, 2023
A CONVERSATION WITH: ASHOK SUBRAMANIAN of CENTIVO
Bullish on Upstate New York If there was a person perfectly suited to keynote Upstate Capital’s Buffalo Private Equity Summit later this month, it is veteran entrepreneur and unabashed Upstate New York cheerleader Ashok Subramanian. Subramanian is no stranger to either private equity or the city of Buffalo. The die-hard Buffalo Bills and Sabres fan […]
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May 5, 2023
Global Capital Markets Strategist Marc Chandler Shares Insights in Buffalo on May 23
It’s likely that attendees at the upcoming Buffalo Private Equity Summit will be familiar with one of the event’s prominent speakers – Marc Chandler. With more than 30 years of experience in the global capital markets, Chandler is a well-known figure and has been regularly featured on major television networks as well as newspapers and […]
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May 3, 2023
Event Recap: Venture NY 2023
Venture NY on April 27, 2023 in Syracuse brought together startups, investors, business leaders, and student entrepreneurs in Syracuse to discuss entrepreneurship and innovation. The event featured the NYBPC Grand Prize Finals where over $100,000 was awarded to winning teams. ACCELERATORS + COMPETITIONS 43 North Central NY Biotech Accelerator CenterStage CEO’s Tech Garden Fuzehub GENIUS […]
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April 21, 2023
A Conversation With: John Hill of Techstars
The Upstate Capital Association of New York is enthusiastic to feature John Hill, Vice President of Network at Techstars, who is truly at the vanguard of assisting fledgling entrepreneurs and start-ups across the US and abroad as one of the keynote speakers at Venture NY on April 27th in Syracuse. Hill, a former Higher Education […]
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March 13, 2023
Bank volatility impact survey and information resources
At Upstate Capital, we are closely monitoring the situation with Silicon Valley Bank and banks more generally. SVB’s failure on March 10 caused shock waves that continue to ripple through the US banking system. Many companies, startups and investment firms alike, are facing challenges in a funding environment that is already difficult. If you are […]
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March 2, 2023
Middle-Market Private Equity + M&A Update – Q4 2022
The Middle-Market PE + M&A Update is a quarterly publication for the Upstate NY deal-making community, presented by the Upstate Capital Association of NY and The Bonadio Group,
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February 16, 2023
Invest Capital Region: Life Sciences + Health
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Lally School of Management, in collaboration with Upstate Capital Association of New York, will host Invest Capital Region: Life Sciences + Healthcare to showcase emerging startups, invite investors to the Capital Region, and build connections within and across the investment, research, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. An afternoon of thought leadership and […]
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February 9, 2023
Event Recap: 2023 Investor Outlooks
Investors and industry professionals gathered to network and discuss outlooks for the upcoming year on February 2nd at the Saturn Club.
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Upstate Capital Announces 2023 Board of Directors
The Upstate Capital Association of NY, the membership organization for private capital investors and transaction professionals across Upstate New York, has announced its 2023 Board of Directors.
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