GENIUS NY

Congratulations to Aviant, the $1 million grand prize winner of this year's GENIUS NY competition! The other four teams, Aerialoop, Crover, Flyhound and INVOLI each receive $500,000. The teams will use these investments to continue to accelerate their growth and expand their presence in the region. Read the full press release here: https://hubs.la/Q02Wk3410

Wow, I'm lost for words... Aviant won a $1 Million investment from GENIUS NY! 🚀 In August, Aviant was selected as one of five drone companies to join the GENIUS NY accelerator (out of 600 applications). Yesterday, we won the competition, securing a $1 Million investment. I attribute this victory solely to the hard work, dedication, and results delivered by the Aviant team. This is just the beginning; let's go! 🚀

We are thrilled to announce that last night INVOLI took home the $500,000 prize at the GENIUS NY finals! 🎉 This incredible milestone marks the start of an exciting new chapter as we grow our presence in the U.S. from #Syracuse, an ecosystem perfectly aligned with our vision. With access to advanced drone testing facilities and a thriving community of drone tech companies, Syracuse is the ideal launchpad for our airspace surveillance solutions. A huge thank you to Empire State Development, CenterState CEO, and The Tech Garden at CenterState CEO team for their incredible support. 🚀 #droneindustry #airspacesurveillance #GENIUSNY #INVOLI Olivier Quero Cristina Mihalachioiu Manu Lubrano

✨What a night!✨ GENIUS NY crushed it tonight at the live pitch finals where Aviant (Oslo, Norway) took home $1M for their advanced drone technology to provide autonomous last-mile delivery solutions, enhancing efficiency and reliability in logistics! Accessibility for our humans in rural and urban communities. Your tech creates #access for our humans, bravo! Runners up received $500K to keep innovating while creating local, #upstateNY jobs!👏🏼 Crover from Edinburgh, Scotland that developed uncrewed vehicles/systems that can “swim” through grains and powders. Keeping our food safe and available for our humans #foodsecurity #agtech Aerialoop (Miami, FL) creating efficiencies to middle-mile delivery reducing time and cost to organizations that can be passed on to humans. #performance Flyhound (New York, NY) that utilizes drone and new tech to identify humans during a natural disaster. But also think of locating criminals and lost/abducted humans. #savinglives And INVOLI (Lausanne, Switzerland) keeping our sky’s safe with cutting edge drone tracking and monitoring which is not covered by aviation today and will become a massive problem with further use of drones. Keeping our sky’s safe for our humans. #airsafety The judges had a TOUGH job! Thank you Somak Chattopadhyay, Charles Green, Pete Mathias, Mariah Murray, Kevin May, and Jennifer Tegan! Notice the trend on #humans? #Tech, #AI, #Drones, and #Innovation don’t have to take away, but add to our experience on this planet. If you are worried about any of the above, please get out and see the work being done in your startup communities to better our human existence while leveling the playing field. You’ll be #inspired. The transformational power of technology is beyond cool! What I also love is the cross-pollination happening throughout upstate! Olivia Goldstein, Jonathan Wess, Josh Nelson, Ian Gauger, Jennifer Sertl (thanks for being such a professional Uber and inviting me), James Senall, David Thiemecke, and all of us willing to support our neighboring communities… gives me so much hope for our future as a State leading the way in Innovation. Kara Jones… you are a ROCKSTAR!✨ I feel privileged to be a part of our NY tech ecosystem. sayhii had to be a product of New York, we have to create and keep local jobs, while supporting and cheering each other on along the way. sayhii is here to keep all these employees safe and well in the workplace! ✨ Upstate Venture Connect Upstate Medical University New York State Economic Development Council (NYSEDC), Armory Square Ventures Alumni Ventures #techforgood #innovation #community #raisethebar #sayhii #sayhiieveryday

What an exciting night ⚡️🔥 GENIUS NY record attendance. $3M awarded. Teams making a huge impact! Congrats Cohort8 Aviant, INVOLI, Crover, Aerialoop and Flyhound! Working with each of you was a blast and an honor! You're all rockstars! ❤️👊⚡️ - Flyhound [New York, NY] delivers patented drone technology enabling rapid location of missing persons, lost hikers, backpackers, AMBER, Silver Alerts and more. 👏 Manny C, Antonio Albanese - Aerialoop [Miami, FL]builds drone delivery networks over cities to revolutionize the urban logistics infrastructure, enabling faster, more efficient, and sustainable transportation of goods. 👏 Santiago Barrera Pedro M. - Crover [Edinburgh, Scotland] helps grain storage operators reduce losses and maintain optimum storage conditions, while helping humanity reach below the surface. 👏 Lorenzo Conti, Sarah Ostberg - INVOLI [Lausanne, Switzerland] provides air traffic receivers, drone trackers and visualization platforms to safely operate drones and aircraft flying in the same area. 👏 Manu Lubrano, Olivier Quero - Aviant ($1M grand prize winner) [Oslo, Norway] delivers an end-to-end drone transportation service, which has a big focus on medical supplies deliveries such as blood, water and milk samples, as well as equipment for windmill farms. 👏 Lars Erik Matsson Fagernæs, Jacob Fagerlund Hambro Kara Jones and team Rebecca B. CenterState CEO crushed it! ⚡️🔥🔥 Jennifer Sertl... upstate NY founders... just saying ;) Nathan Gold what an impact you've had on the teams, amazing! Great to see and meet everyone! Jonathan Grutka, Christianne R. Radziewicz, James Senall, Ian Gauger, ✨Amy Gurske, Elle Hanna, Jason Scharf, Reece Wilson, Aaron Proujansky, + teams! Let's create something impossible! The best is still ahead! #UAS #UAV #AAM #AcceleratingInnovation #startuptoscaleup #syracuseNY #GeniusNY #UpstateNY Vad Melnyk #Startup #Entrepreneurship

Loved listening to innovative ideas by entrepreneurs with some great sales pitches! Great event CenterState CEO! Thanks Mary Hawkins and Charles Jerred.

Exciting things happen in Syracuse., NY! The innovations pitched last night at the GENIUS NY, the world’s largest business accelerator for uncrewed aerial systems, 2024 Innovation Night blew my mind. Congratulations to Aviant for taking the $1 million prize! CenterState CEO #innovation #economicdevelopment #CNY

Thrilled to welcome Aviant to the Central New York ecosystem! Congratulations to all the teams and winners! #Innovation #Collaboration #AAM #UAS GENIUS NY CenterState CEO AUVSI — Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International Commercial UAV News The Tech Garden at CenterState CEO #CNY

What an incredible night at the GENIUS NY pitch competition. Over 3M in funding was awarded to some incredibly innovative companies in the drone and UAV space. These startups are truly shaping our future and they doing it right here in Syracuse, NY! Proud to represent AppHammer and connect with several of our clients at this event. It’s exciting to see our region driving innovation and fostering such an supportive and exciting startup atmosphere. The future is now and it’s happening right here! #GeniusNY #Innovation #DroneTechnology #SyracuseNY #Startups #AppHammer CenterState CEO

Had a great time at CenterState CEO’s Innovation Night for the GENIUS NY Pitch Finals. GENIUS NY - the world's largest accelerator for uncrewed systems - showcased five incredible pitches from startups. I enjoyed hearing the success and vision from each company and am excited they are all looking to make Syracuse their HQ, continuing to help shape the tech landscape here in central NY. While they don’t need my money after winning anywhere from $500k-$1M last night - I look forward to investing in their growth! #innovation #geniusny #centralny #uncrewedsystems #drones