Helping Startups Grow

Last November, the Luminate accelerator—a New York–based project to nurture promising startups in optics, photonics and imaging—announced its first cohort of 10 participants. Each selected company will receive an initial investment of US$100,000, and the opportunity to participate in a six-month, intensive program to move its ideas toward commercialization. To learn about what’s in store for the 10 firms, OPN caught up with Sujatha Ramanujan, Luminate’s managing director (and a planned keynote speaker at the OSA Foundation’s Innovation School this summer).