By Justin Dawes – Reporter Link to article During the early days of the pandemic when people had a lot of free time, some started side projects to generate extra income. Tom Nardacci wants to help owners learn how to maintain those small businesses long term. One of his coworking spaces, the Troy Innovation Garage, is starting a new six-week accelerator program…
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News from Our Troy, NY Coworking Community
Flexible Private Offices Available Now
There are a limited number of available private offices at Troy Innovation Garage. Office members have full access to the amenities The Garage offers, including unlimited access to private conference rooms, 250 x 250 fiber wifi, refreshments, mail and package handeling, front desk concierge services and more! Click the link below to book a tour of the space or visit our website to learn more about the…
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Troy Innovation Garage Announces “Micro Meetup”, a Microenterpise Accelerator Program to Launch and Support Small Business
Troy Innovation Garage today announced “Micro Meetup,” a new microenterprise accelerator program to help launch and support small businesses in the Capital Region. The first cohort of the 6-week program will take place this fall, from September 7 – October 12, 2022, and participants will learn the basics of business, startup principles and business management. Check this article again soon…
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Troy Innovation Garage Celebrates its 5 Year Anniversary
5 Years! Stop by on March 9 to help celebrate this milestone 5 years ago, we celebrated the opening of Troy Innovation Garage. We had purchased a building that sat mostly vacant for over 30 years on 4th Street in Troy. We started with some vague ideas. We wanted to develop a community of creatives and startups. We wanted to…
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Companies large and small are still trying to figure out a hybrid workspace model that fits
“This type of disruptive growth lines up directly with the strong desires of the employee, and the immediate transformation this pandemic brought in a workplace that was slowly heading in this direction anyhow.” The pandemic has made clear that employees want and prefer flexibility. But after these two long years, business leaders who talk to us at Aurelius Coworks…
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Troy software startup Inspect Point raises $28M
By Justin Dawes – Reporter In its first-ever fundraise, Troy software startup Inspect Point said Thursday that it has raised $28 million. The funding comes from Mainsail Partners in the form of growth equity, a form of private capital typically for relatively mature companies that are looking to grow. Mainsail Partners says it invests exclusively in fast-growing, bootstrapped software companies….
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New York’s first EV factory planned for Green Island
By Justin Dawes – Reporter, Albany Business Review Jan 13, 2022, 9:13am EST An industry veteran wants to make electric vehicles in a new factory planned for Green Island. John Gillie said he plans to build a 150,000-square-foot facility on 15 acres of the 50-acre site bordered by Tibbits Avenue and Cannon Street, formerly home to a Ford factory. And…
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STARTUPS TO WATCH
It’s been a year of significant milestones for several startups in the Capital Region. As 2021 comes to a close, we are considering which startups we expect to reach milestones in the next year as part of Albany Inno’s first-ever Startups to Watch. The companies in this group have each made strides recently that foreshadow growth in 2022. Some of…
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Why this gaming tech startup founder moved from LA to Troy
Glenn Fiedler first flew from Los Angeles to Troy for business in mid-2019. Later that year, he got a one-way ticket, and Troy became the new base for his gaming tech startup, Network Next. He had been visiting to do some work with Velan Studios on its game Knockout City, when Velan founders Guha Bala and Karthik Bala clued him…
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Aurelius Coworks Founder and CEO Tom Nardacci Serving As Business Coach For Columbia University’s “The Greater Good Challenge”
A message from our founder and CEO, Tom Nardacci: “For the second year, I have agreed to serve as a business coach for a startup team for Columbia University’s “The Greater Good Challenge.” The mission is simple – Improve the social, economic, political, technological and environmental conditions of mankind, societies and the planet. The team I helped last year was…
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