Rochester Venture Challenge

Apply for the 2017 Rochester Venture Challenge starting Monday, January 2, 2017. Applications accepted through Monday, January 30, 2017.

High Tech Rochester is a non-profit economic development organization driving growth in the Rochester/Finger Lakes region through the Creation, Mentoring, and Incubation of high-tech startup businesses, and through advanced consulting services provided to small manufacturing firms through its NYSTAR-funded Regional Technology Development Center.

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Rochester Venture Challenge is an annual startup business competition that encourages entrepreneurship and recognizes new, high growth ventures in the Greater Rochester Region. Who should enter? To participate in the Rochester Venture Challenge, companies must be for-profit and located in the nine-county Finger Lakes Region: Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates counties.


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