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Employees: 1-10
Investment Type: Accelerator
Portfolio 50
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 26.10.2025 | SkyFireAI | skyfireai.com | $11M | - |
| 26.10.2025 | Flox | floxintelligence.com | $3M | Sweden |
| 26.10.2025 | Modovolo | modovolo.com | - | - |
| 26.10.2025 | Lamarr.AI | lamarr.ai | $1.1M | United Sta... |
| 26.10.2025 | Lighthouse... | lighthouseavionics.com | - | - |
| 07.10.2025 | Archangel ... | archangelautonomy.com | - | - |
| 16.09.2024 | flyhoundco | flyhound.com | - | United Sta... |
| 16.09.2024 | Aviant | aviant.no | $3.37M | Norway, Tr... |
| 16.09.2024 | INVOLI | involi.com | $85.65K | Switzerlan... |
| 06.11.2023 | Aloft | aloft.ai | - | United Sta... |
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News 27
| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.06.2023 | Eleven Semi-Finalists Announced in GENIUS NY Seventh Round | - |
| 31.05.2023 | GENIUS NY Round 7 Application Period Closes – Over 450 Submissions Received | - |
| 03.05.2023 | UAS Startup Accelerator Awards $3M in Funding – Applications Close May 17 | - |
| 09.03.2023 | - | Cohort 7 applications now open for GENIUS NY – learn more. Starburst, the leading global Aerospace and Defense (A&D) startup accelerator and strategic advisory practice, and GENIUS NY, the Syracuse, NY-based startup accelerator focused ... |
| 27.02.2023 | - | Wonder Robotics establishes New York operations center with the support of the leading accelerator in its field, GENIUS NY. |
| 07.02.2023 | - | The World’s Largest Business Accelerator for Uncrewed Systems is Accepting Applications through May 17 |
| 02.02.2023 | - | Let the countdown begin! GENIUS NY – the world’s largest business accelerator focused on uncrewed systems – is accepting applications for the seventh round of the year-long program starting February 7, 2023. The in-residence accelerator wil... |
| 03.01.2023 | - | Dan Sola of Archangel Imaging (left) and Zakariya Niazi of Circle Optics |
| 29.11.2022 | - | WCNY’s On the Money with J. Daniel Pluff welcomed John Liddy, Interim Vice President of Innovation & Entrepreneurship for CenterState CEO on its Nov. 24, 2022 program. John discussed GENIUS NY, its involvement in our community and excit... |
| 04.11.2022 | - | Archangel Imaging Wins GENIUS NY $1 Million Grand Prize; Four Other Finalists Receive $500,000 investments as Part of $3 Million Awarded to Innovative Companies that will Now Operate in Syracuse Investment Complements “CNY Rising” – The Reg... |
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Mentions in press and media 14
| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.04.2026 | Tilia Impact Ventures Backs Flox Intelligence Turning AI Into a Language for Nature | Tilia Impact Ventures led Flox Intelligence’s USD 3M Seed+ round The startup’s AI-powered bioacoustic system reduces human-wildlife conflicts across critical infrastructure The Flox Edge solution integrates sensing, analysis, and response d... |
| 01.03.2026 | AI Rises: Flox Intelligence Secures $3M to Redefine Wildlife Coexistence | Flox Intelligence, an AI pioneer, raised $3 million to expand its innovative wildlife intelligence platform. The company builds autonomous systems guiding animals away from infrastructure, preventing costly human-wildlife conflicts. Its Edg... |
| 28.02.2026 | Flox Intelligence: $3 Million Raised To Scale AI Wildlife Intelligence Platform | Flox Intelligence, a wildlife intelligence company building AI systems designed to prevent human-wildlife conflict across critical infrastructure, has raised $3 million in a Seed+ round led by Tilia Impact Ventures. The round also included ... |
| 25.02.2026 | Sweden’s Flox Intelligence raises €2.5 million to become a “digital shepherd” guiding wildlife away from danger | Flox Intelligence, a wildlife intelligence company building AI systems enabling infrastructure to prevent human-wildlife conflict, today announced a €2.5 million ($3 million) Seed+ round to accelerate deployments across North America. The r... |
| 09.04.2025 | Avoiding tariffs with a U.S. production partner | Things are going well at INVOLI. The Swiss scale-up has been break-even for the past two years and has paying customers across three continents. As CEO and Co-founder Manu Lubrano explains to Startupticker.ch, the company’s network is toda... |
| 09.08.2022 | ESD announces 5 teams selected for round six of GENIUS NY UAS Accelerator Competition in Central New York | Empire State Development (ESD) today announced the five GENIUS NY companies selected to participate in round six of the world’s largest business accelerator focused on uncrewed systems. The companies, which are developing innovations in the... |
| 26.10.2021 | New York accelerator GENIUS NY Virtual pitch finals to award $3 million for tech startups in the UAS industry | GENIUS NY, the world’s largest accelerator competition for unmanned systems and a business accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, today announced they are hosting the virtual GENIUS NY Pitch Finals Night to award $3 million f... |
| 29.06.2021 | New York accelerator GENIUS NY announces 13 semi-finalists and 5 finalist tech startups to compete for $3M investments | GENIUS NY, the world’s largest accelerator competition for unmanned systems and a business accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, announced 13 teams as semi-finalists in the competition’s fifth round. The companies, which are... |
| 11.12.2019 | Empire State Development (ESD) announces five finalists for the 4th round of GENIUS NY program | Last month when we wrote about GENIUS NY when the New York accelerator announced the semi-finalists and 5 finalist startups to compete for $3M investments. Today, Empire State Development (ESD) today announced the five finalists selected to... |
| 07.11.2019 | New York accelerator GENIUS NY Announces Latest Semi-Finalists and 5 Finalist Startups to Compete for $3M Investments | GENIUS NY, the world’s largest accelerator competition for unmanned systems and a business accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, announced 19 teams as semi-finalists in the competition’s fourth round. The companies, which ar... |
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