Recently, 113 semi-finalists were announced in the 2014 43 North $1 million business plan competition. Ten of those semi-finalists are from the Rochester area. Four of those are connected to University of Rochester technologies.
Ovitz Corporation (West Henrietta, NY) intends to develop and commercialize a portable wavefront sensor (a vision diagnosing device) invented by Geunyoung Yoon, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology.