Firefly Photonics, LLC Selected for the Highly Competitive Luminate Lightning Round

Firefly Photonics, LLC Selected for the Highly Competitive Luminate Lightning Round

Firefly Photonics LLC recently applied for the Luminate (www.luminate.org) startup competition and was selected as one of the startups for the Lightning Round, with the opportunity to receive a $100,000 investment and inclusion in Luminate’s third cohort, as well as the chance to receive up to $1 million in investments at the end of the program. 

The company has decided not to participate at this current time due to other business priorities, but the Iowa-based company is honored to have been selected. We hope to apply again in the future!

More information on Luminate:

“Luminate is a startup accelerator focused on advancing next generation optics, photonics, and imaging enabled companies. We seek visionary entrepreneurs who are solving difficult problems in augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, machine vision, biophotonics, and other fields. Funded by New York State, and based in the optics and imaging capital of the world – Rochester, NY.”

(www.luminate.org)

Firefly Photonics was recently selected to attend Luminate’s Lightning Round, with the opportunity to receive a $100,000 investment and inclusion in Luminate’s third cohort, as well as the chance to receive up to $1 Million in investments at the end of the program. 


A statement from Firefly Photonics’ management: 
“Firefly Photonics will not able to participate in the lightning round due to timing, but we are honored to have been selected. We feel Luminate is a wonderful and exciting program – we hope to apply again in the future!”

More information on Luminate:
“Luminate is a startup accelerator focused on advancing next generation optics, photonics, and imaging enabled companies. We seek visionary entrepreneurs who are solving difficult problems in augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, machine vision, biophotonics, and other fields. Funded by New York State, and based in the optics and imaging capital of the world – Rochester, NY.”
(www.luminate.org)



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