Student Ventures

Activ Music Agency

Activ Music Agency LLC is a concert booking and interactive media company.  The company’s objective is to organize interactive concerts and help independent musicians develop their digital brand. It organizes shows where fans can communicate with their favorite musicians before, during and after live events and request songs in real time. Activ Music is also developing a music request mobile application that will integrate more crowd participation and communication in live entertainment venues.

Website: Activ Music Agency

 

Bloodhound

Bloodhound is a desktop and tablet application that helps you satisfy the rabid fan within us all. It crawls the Internet for information about users’ favorite authors, and sends it out to the feeds of those who have requested it. Users can customize which authors they follow and specify, which sources their information will be retrieved from.

 

Cans for Causes

Cans for Causes provides collection and redemption services to everyone who donates their deposits to a good cause. With its service, you are able to support a cause you select by donating your can and bottle deposits to that cause. Founded in 2008, Cans for Causes has been dedicated to growing in Central New York, and will eventually expand across New York State. Its mission is to collaborate with worthy non-profits to assist them in raising money, to reduce the number of unclaimed deposit while increasing recycling rates, and to make a lasting financial impact on good causes.

Website: Cans for Causes

 

Calibr

Calibr is a mobile networking app that is your compass in navigating social meet-ups.

 

Cinaste

Cinaste is an e-portfolio platform for the entertainment industry.

 

GrowndSwell

GrowndSwell is an itinerary-based app that helps users to efficiently create social agendas that enable them to broadcast and share with friends the numerous events that they will be participating in throughout the course of the day. It covers all aspects of a college student’s social life and encourages this activity to occur with friends to optimize social interaction including going to bars, restaurants, and clubs, staying in to watch movies and shows, and studying with friends or classmates. GrowndSwell aims to provide its users with necessary information to fully understand the constantly changing social environment, while enhancing social interaction between friends.

Website: GrowndSwell

 

Helios

HELIOS Innovative Technologies Inc. is a product based medical device company in the realm of sterilization. It is specifically geared to producing innovative sterilization systems that use UV-C light technology to kill and eliminate bacteria. Helios’ sterilization systems are designed for direct integration within a hospital setting and its goal is to relieve hospitals of their major yearly expenses, as well as reduce the rates for readmitted patients for hospital acquired bacterial infections.

 

iGetMoreFit

iGetMoreFit connects a users iPhone or iPod Touch to four types of wireless fitness sensors (heart rate monitors, foot pods, weight scales, and ANT+ multi-sport GPS), from over twenty of the most popular names in fitness, including Adidas miCoach, Garmin, and Timex. It is an integrated system consisting of two parts—FitBridge and the iGetMoreFit App. FitBridge utilizes the same ultra-low power license-free wireless protocol used by these manufacturers in their sensors. It wirelessly picks up information being broadcasted by sensors in range, and feeds it to the iGetMoreFit App with 98% accuracy. In essence, iGetMoreFit turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into the ultimate all-in-one fitness computer.

Website: iGetMoreFit

 

Lujo

Lujo is a mobile solutions company with a focus on building apps in the health and fitness fields. Its applications create simple, easy to understand informational graphic representations of data compiled from its vital statistics. The applications measure and take readings through internal mobile phone devices and various external monitors. Its mission is to provide accurate analysis and transparent feedback of personal health information so users can utilize this knowledge to create a healthier lifestyle.

 

Luukxi

Luukxi is a development platform enabling apps and organizations to leverage geo-location.

 

Meeting Sprout

MeetingSprout is an online, calendar-based community that coordinates individuals, groups, and businesses in a secure and efficient way. Merging your calendar with others in the form of a shadow to keep a clean look and prevent information overload. Compare your calendar with individuals to plan things as complex as a meeting, or as simple as a round of golf and send them reminders in the form of a post it note. Keep a group page to manage group projects and meeting times while staying informed of the members schedules. View businesses calendars to see when they are open and deals that they are offering. Categorize events to control who can view what information on your calendar.

Website: MeetingSprout 

 

PortfolioPortal.com

PortfolioPortal is the online gallery for people and companies’ best work.

Website: ProtfolioPortal

 

ProActive Computer Services

ProActive Computer Services is a technology service and integration company that provides creative computing systems and network solutions for businesses.

 

SafeSip Technologies

SafeSip Technologies offers date rape prevention solutions for college students.

 

Stampede.It

Stampede.It combines the power of group buying and daily deals together with digital goods and services. Much like GroupOn did for local businesses, Stampede.It will harness groups of consumers to purchase mobile apps, social games, digital content, web services, and software.

 Website: Stampede.it

 

SqueezeMyTees

SqueezeMyTees sells t-shirts in response to viral campus events.

 Website: SqueezeMyTees

 

Touch-Not

Touch-not is focused on re-defining the way we interact with devices. By removing the requirement for contact, Touch-Not enables interaction with everything, from iPods to walkie-talkies to computers and machinery, despite accessibility and dexterity impairments. It is working to turn the user’s body into a canvas for contactless wireless control. From winter gloves and a thick coat to a Haz-Mat suit, nothing should impair user control. Touch-Not aims to make interaction convenient, accessible and intuitive.

 

UNY Startups

UNY Startups is a blog launched on March 14, 2011 about startups and entrepreneurs in NYS. It tracks the Upstate startup ecosystem. This includes profiles of startups, entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, the occasional announcement of startup related events and our coverage of those events. Our goal is to promote the growth of entrepreneurship and increase connectivity between entrepreneurs across the state. After we made the decision to focus on both Upstate and Downstate, we changed the meaning of UNYstartups from “Upstate NY startups” to “Uncovering NY startups.”

Website: UNY Startups

 

Venue Spy

Venue Spy is that focuses on broadcasting live, streaming audio and video from venues near you.

Website: Venue Spy

 

Write.Flick

WriteFlick is a transparent layer across the web that allows you to highlight, annotate and draw on any website then share it privately between you and whomever you choose. Instead of diverting a users’ attention away from a web page to open an email, the WriteFlick process reaches out and travels with the user while he/she browses the web. WriteFlick’s mission is to create another dimension within the internet world that makes the current World Wide Web more efficient and more controllable for the user.