MONEY

High Tech Rochester adds 4 businesses

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Four new startup companies have moved in at High Tech Rochester's Lennox Tech Enterprise Center, 150 Lucius Gordon Drive, Henrietta.

The program works with entrepreneurs to evaluate business concepts, financial and business plans, manufacturing and distribution sources, market strategies and the many other long-range and day-to-day initiatives. The program also helps find funding, outside investors, strategic partners and potential clients and customers.

The companies are:

ADVIS (advis-inc.com), founded by University of Rochester electrical engineering professors Mark F. Bocko and Zeljko Ignjatovic. ADVIS works on integrated circuit design, analog to digital converters and integrated signal processing electronics.

Lucidity Works (lucidityworks.com), founded by Linda Stevenson, offers software for search, retrieval and report generation in the pharmaceutical intelligence sector to support a research requirements for analysts.

Empire Robotics (empirerobotics.com), a Cornell University technology spinout. The company has an exclusive license to intellectual property developed at Cornell and is now commercializing a robotics technology through its first product, a universal robot gripper for use in food processing, auto, consumer goods, and other industries.

Localized Therapeutics LLC (localizedtherapeutics.com), a biotech venture developing and commercializing a trademarked Laser Switch technology for gene therapy. The technology enables production of unique laser-inducible DNA drugs that can be localized to a specific organ or tissue in the body and repeatedly activated for therapy-on-demand.