Z80 Labs Technology Incubator

Z80 Labs’ mission is to serve as a catalyst, transforming Buffalo and Western New York into a technology hotbed. By creating an environment that gives entrepreneurs exposure to industry leaders typically available only in New York City or Silicon Valley, Z80 Labs will kick-start entrepreneur-driven tech businesses within an accelerated environment, bolstering the local economy. Founded by investors, Jordan Levy and Ron Schreiber, to ignite the Internet-based technology sector in Buffalo and Western New York. Z80 Labs will be funded by Softbank Capital, with additional funding from SCP Incubator LLC via a $5 million Innovate NY grant awarded by Governor Cuomo’s Empire State Development (ESD). Corporate support in services and personnel will be provided by The Buffalo News, Campus Labs, PC Business Solutions and Synacor.

36 past transactions

CloudInsyte

Pre Seed Round in 2019
CloudInsyte's "Smart Vendor Marketplace" uses data to ethically and accurately match IT teams with the vendors and service providers that are the right fit based on their unique needs and preferences. The company is also a brokerage for cloud, software, security, and data center infrastructure. Joshua Ferry and Kate Huber established the company in Buffalo, New York in 2019.

Graspie, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
Graspie, Inc. is a B2B Saas company the seeks to change the way employer engage, train and inspire their employees. Our product GRASPIE™, a mobile-first training and engagement platform for the new connected workforce that allows employers to onboard employees faster and cheaper leveraging dynamic content and innovative technologies.

Buffalo Automation

Convertible Note in 2018
Buffalo Automation is an autonomous navigation technology company that makes AutoMate, which can lookout, steer and dock vessels automatically.

Graspie, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Graspie, Inc. is a B2B Saas company the seeks to change the way employer engage, train and inspire their employees. Our product GRASPIE™, a mobile-first training and engagement platform for the new connected workforce that allows employers to onboard employees faster and cheaper leveraging dynamic content and innovative technologies.

Thimble

Seed Round in 2017
Thimble believes making is for everyone. They strive to be the optimal guided path to making through their inclusive learning environment - a makerspace without physical boundaries. Theysucceed when their subscribers apply skills they have mastered using Thimble's kits and community to create their own projects, a process that includes supporting users who extend, personalize, and remix their kits for their own objectives. They are fully committed to the spirit of open source, releasing not only their schematics, designs, and code, but also their design methodology, for all of their kits.

Heads Up Display, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Heads Up Display offers a wearable two-way communication platform for industrial settings. It allows operators to receive personal safety and time critical updates while maintaining focus by providing alerts within their peripheral vision. The system also notifies workers of acoustically dangerous and hazardous environments, and helps operators locate them in real-time. Heads Up Display caters to clients in the construction, demolition, mining, energy, oil and gas, and manufacturing industries. Heads Up Display was founded by Brendon Dever, Ralph W. Lewis, and Clark Dever in 2014 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

LenderLogix

Convertible Note in 2017
Mortgage Origination and Point-of-Sale Software for Independent Mortgage Banks, Credit Unions, Depositories & Brokers Founded in 2016, LenderLogix is headquartered in Buffalo, New York, United States.

Heads Up Display, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Heads Up Display offers a wearable two-way communication platform for industrial settings. It allows operators to receive personal safety and time critical updates while maintaining focus by providing alerts within their peripheral vision. The system also notifies workers of acoustically dangerous and hazardous environments, and helps operators locate them in real-time. Heads Up Display caters to clients in the construction, demolition, mining, energy, oil and gas, and manufacturing industries. Heads Up Display was founded by Brendon Dever, Ralph W. Lewis, and Clark Dever in 2014 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

3AM Innovations

Pre Seed Round in 2017
3am innovations has created a software based mobile command platform called FLORIAN. This software gives emergency responders complete oversight of incident pre-planning, total on-scene awareness of their personnel and tactics as well as detailed records for their after action review & training. All on a singular screen that is adaptive to the ever evolving world of emergency services.

POP Biotechnologies

Seed Round in 2016
POP Biotechnologies is a Buffalo, NY, life sciences company committed to improving the health of individuals with next-generation nanomedicine solutions

Buffalo Automation

Convertible Note in 2016
Buffalo Automation is an autonomous navigation technology company that makes AutoMate, which can lookout, steer and dock vessels automatically.

ACV

Series A in 2016
ACV provides a pricing application (app) for franchise dealers. It offers ACV, a mobile auction platform that enables wholesale dealers to sell trade-ins by creating app-based auctions.

Efferent Labs, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Efferent Labs, Inc. is an award winning biotechnology company focused on biosensor systems for life sciences. Our proprietary technology is showcased in the CytoComm™ Living Biosensor System, an in vivo, real time monitoring system for biological signaling and cellular responses. CytoComm™ is unique as it employs living cell lines, a powerful tool to assess cellular function in vivo. The system transmits live data through the cloud to our data acquisition and analysis software, providing real-time information to researchers and clinicians. The CytoComm™ Biosensor Platform has multiple applications including preclinical R&D, clinical R&D, oncology, cardiology, and metabolic diseases. For more information, please see our website, www.efferentlabs.com

Rachel's Remedy

Seed Round in 2016
Rachel's Remedy helps breastfeeding moms' increase milk supply and relieve breastfeeding discomforts. The company develops a product called Rachel's Remedy Breastfeeding Relief Packs are FDA-Cleared Moist heat or cooling relief that provides nursing mothers with simple and therapeutic treatment for their breastfeeding conditions

Energy Intelligence

Seed Round in 2016
Energy Intelligence's patented technology captures waste energy from braking vehicles to generate cheap electricity onsite and for local use. Energy Intelligence is developing a road-mounted energy generation system for use at commercial sites with steady traffic. The technology captures energy wasted by braking vehicles and puts it to use as cheap, clean electricity generated onsite that can power local equipment. Depending on the installation, levelized system costs are projected at 7 cents per kWh and payback of upfront capital expenses at 2 to 3 years. This technology can be adapted to a wide range of applications and addresses a universal opportunity.

Rachel's Remedy

Seed Round in 2016
Rachel's Remedy helps breastfeeding moms' increase milk supply and relieve breastfeeding discomforts. The company develops a product called Rachel's Remedy Breastfeeding Relief Packs are FDA-Cleared Moist heat or cooling relief that provides nursing mothers with simple and therapeutic treatment for their breastfeeding conditions

ClearView Social

Seed Round in 2015
Clearview Social is an employee advocacy platform created to help companies increase revenue through more effective and systematic use of social media. With Clearview Social, employees can share on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter without leaving their inbox - helping companies bring in more business and increase exposure. Clearview Social gives marketers the ability to create a queue of content to be shared by the lawyers.

Rachel's Remedy

Seed Round in 2015
Rachel's Remedy helps breastfeeding moms' increase milk supply and relieve breastfeeding discomforts. The company develops a product called Rachel's Remedy Breastfeeding Relief Packs are FDA-Cleared Moist heat or cooling relief that provides nursing mothers with simple and therapeutic treatment for their breastfeeding conditions

CoachMePlus

Seed Round in 2015
CoachMePlus, a Virtuvia product and a Z80 Labs-backed start-up, is a web-based software application developed to ‘Design, Manage, Track & Report’ the training efforts of an athlete. CoachMePlus is unique in a few ways; the software can interface with any device, allowing tracking and reporting that's unmatched by any other platform in the space. CoachMePlus can pull data from treadmills, GPS-based devices, heart rate monitors, Tendo, and just about any other device used by coaches and trainers. We can also pull live game data, and cross-reference all of these metrics in to consolidated reports.

Loupe

Series B in 2015
Loupe is a customer loyalty tech company. We build products that help sit-down restaurants retain and reward loyal diners. Grow your restaurant with loyal diners and Loupe! Loupe has been committed to connecting great restaurants with hungry diners since 2010 and works with hundreds of restaurants across North America. A team of restaurant and small business experts, Loupe is based in Buffalo, NY.

Turbulent Energy

Venture Round in 2015
Turbulent Energy has developed revolutionary technology in the form of a portfolio of devices for the mixing, separation and the homogenization of liquids with liquids, liquids with gasses and gasses with gasses. The devices have no moving parts and all mixing is accomplished dynamically using a unique internal geometry. They require no additional chemicals or emulsifiers and the desired action is accomplished in fractions of a second. They are easily and inexpensively manufactured in materials including a variety metals and plastics (depending on application) by conventional CNC and other machining technologies. Utilizing the well-known physics principals of Bernoulli, Ranque-Hilsch and Joule-Thomson and a minimum of energy, the unique, patented geometry of the homogenization devices break the input materials to the low micro to the nano scale and create intense, high speed collisions in its vortex chamber where the input materials are combined into a single form, nano-scale homogenized mixture. This mixing technology may be applied to a wide variety of mixing applications including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, cosmetics, agricultural, water treatment and purification and hybrid fuels.

ClearView Social

Venture Round in 2015
Clearview Social is an employee advocacy platform created to help companies increase revenue through more effective and systematic use of social media. With Clearview Social, employees can share on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter without leaving their inbox - helping companies bring in more business and increase exposure. Clearview Social gives marketers the ability to create a queue of content to be shared by the lawyers.

ACV

Seed Round in 2015
ACV provides a pricing application (app) for franchise dealers. It offers ACV, a mobile auction platform that enables wholesale dealers to sell trade-ins by creating app-based auctions.

OnCore Golf Technology

Series A in 2015
"OnCore Golf Technology, Inc. (“OnCore”) was formed to acquire, develop, and commercially exploit a patented new golf ball – the hollow metal core ball – which has the potential to be the most accurate and straightest golf ball ever developed. There has not been a major advance in ball technology in the past twenty years and the market is ready for something different and better. The management team at OnCore believes that the combination of real performance advantages with an entirely new approach to ball construction will excite both new and seasoned golfers and that capturing 10% of the ball market within the next three to five years is possible. OnCore is taking this exciting product forward with a combination of product improvements, professional endorsements, testimonials, partnerships, and creative, non-traditional marketing and promotional approaches. All of the manufacturing has been outsourced to minimize the facilities, personnel, and capital requirements of the business and to permit OnCore to focus on creating the market buzz, product awareness, brand loyalty, interest and excitement that it believes the ball is capable of generating."

Heads Up Display, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Heads Up Display offers a wearable two-way communication platform for industrial settings. It allows operators to receive personal safety and time critical updates while maintaining focus by providing alerts within their peripheral vision. The system also notifies workers of acoustically dangerous and hazardous environments, and helps operators locate them in real-time. Heads Up Display caters to clients in the construction, demolition, mining, energy, oil and gas, and manufacturing industries. Heads Up Display was founded by Brendon Dever, Ralph W. Lewis, and Clark Dever in 2014 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

First Wave Technologies

Venture Round in 2014
First Wave Technologies is a technology firm established to assist researchers and corporations advance their technologies to market. However, First Wave's model is to provide a complete management team that can partner with researchers to accelerate introduction of ideas into the hands of customers.

Decision Pace

Venture Round in 2014
We didn’t understand why turning data into effective visualizations had to be so expensive and time consuming. We started Decision Pace to enable businesses to generate intelligent data visualizations on the fly without proprietary software, ETL or programming. Decision Pace is now being used by businesses, partners and developers across industries and geographies around the world.

Empire Genomics

Series A in 2014
Empire leverages genomics technologies, its keen understanding of the medical system, the needs of clinicians to deliver precise and continuous testing expertise for the best in class oncology disease management tools. Empire is a leader in the field of molecular diagnostics services.

TouchStream Solutions

Seed Round in 2014
TouchStream was founded in 2010 with the simple goal: help seniors and people with disabilities achieve greater independence. TouchStream is a tablet-based monitoring system that helps people live independently and gives their families peace of mind. The system provides assistance managing medications, chronic health conditions, doctor appointments, and activities of daily living. Optional wireless health devices take the anxiety out of tracking blood sugar, weight or blood pressure and reduce errors from manual logging. It also creates a safer living environment by helping families detect problems early, before they become a crisis. TouchStream’s web portal and mobile alerts empower caregivers with tools they need to help their loved-one stay safe, healthy, and socially engaged.

CrowdBouncer

Series A in 2014
CrowdBouncer provides an API-driven solution for back-office pain points of any online alternative investment platform. The company provides transactional, compliance, and fiduciary services to crowdfunding portals that allow them to close crowdfunding transactions in compliance with the JOBS Act, 2012.

ClearView Social

Venture Round in 2014
Clearview Social is an employee advocacy platform created to help companies increase revenue through more effective and systematic use of social media. With Clearview Social, employees can share on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter without leaving their inbox - helping companies bring in more business and increase exposure. Clearview Social gives marketers the ability to create a queue of content to be shared by the lawyers.

CoachMePlus

Seed Round in 2013
CoachMePlus, a Virtuvia product and a Z80 Labs-backed start-up, is a web-based software application developed to ‘Design, Manage, Track & Report’ the training efforts of an athlete. CoachMePlus is unique in a few ways; the software can interface with any device, allowing tracking and reporting that's unmatched by any other platform in the space. CoachMePlus can pull data from treadmills, GPS-based devices, heart rate monitors, Tendo, and just about any other device used by coaches and trainers. We can also pull live game data, and cross-reference all of these metrics in to consolidated reports.

GradFly

Seed Round in 2013
GradFly is a repository for hardware projects like Github is for code. Tinkerers and innovators document, collaborate, and showcase projects from concept to finished product. Contributors on the platform are part of a global "crowd-instructing" community where they share tips, insight, ask questions, debate, and celebrate successes around their maker projects.

Decision Pace

Seed Round in 2013
We didn’t understand why turning data into effective visualizations had to be so expensive and time consuming. We started Decision Pace to enable businesses to generate intelligent data visualizations on the fly without proprietary software, ETL or programming. Decision Pace is now being used by businesses, partners and developers across industries and geographies around the world.

GradFly

Convertible Note in 2013
GradFly is a repository for hardware projects like Github is for code. Tinkerers and innovators document, collaborate, and showcase projects from concept to finished product. Contributors on the platform are part of a global "crowd-instructing" community where they share tips, insight, ask questions, debate, and celebrate successes around their maker projects.

Turbulent Energy

Venture Round in 2012
Turbulent Energy has developed revolutionary technology in the form of a portfolio of devices for the mixing, separation and the homogenization of liquids with liquids, liquids with gasses and gasses with gasses. The devices have no moving parts and all mixing is accomplished dynamically using a unique internal geometry. They require no additional chemicals or emulsifiers and the desired action is accomplished in fractions of a second. They are easily and inexpensively manufactured in materials including a variety metals and plastics (depending on application) by conventional CNC and other machining technologies. Utilizing the well-known physics principals of Bernoulli, Ranque-Hilsch and Joule-Thomson and a minimum of energy, the unique, patented geometry of the homogenization devices break the input materials to the low micro to the nano scale and create intense, high speed collisions in its vortex chamber where the input materials are combined into a single form, nano-scale homogenized mixture. This mixing technology may be applied to a wide variety of mixing applications including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, cosmetics, agricultural, water treatment and purification and hybrid fuels.
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