Companies

Strong Arm: Strong Arm Vest provides wearable ergonomic solutions for the everyday worker. Our flagship product is a load-redistribution and postural conformance device. It functions as a passive exoskeleton that is used to correct posture to reduce fatigue and injury. We work with companies who have large warehousing and logistics operations, such as Target Corp. and American Airlines. They are part of a substantial market that is looking to reduce the bottom line effects from lifting injuries, as well as increase worker productivity and morale.

Keen Home is a developer of home automation products and services that combine smart design with an intuitive user interface. Keen Home seeks opportunities where home automation would benefit both the customer and the environment. The company has recently created the Keen Vent, a wirelessly networked home air vent system that maximizes the efficiency and comfort of a home’s heating and cooling system by intelligently redirecting central HVAC airflow. Initial testing has revealed that a system of Keen Vents reduces central HVAC system run times by up to 30 percent. Learn more...

City Climber is an automated surface climbing robot currently in development. The City Climber is designed with capabilities to scale any vertical surface, whether it be made from masonry, glass, or metal. No surface is scalable. The design has flexible capabilities, such as a high definition video camera. This robot is a customizable platform, geared towards applications in the commercial industry, such as window washing, remote inspections, and surveillance.

Deadbeat Drums: When learning the drums, a student is required to learn fundamental beats or rhythms called rudiments. However, keeping track of the rudiments and the progress made with each can be confusing and overwhelming to the drum student. Deadbeat Drums offers the student a visual and interactive approach to learning and practicing the rudiments, by adding low cost electronics to a drum kit. A web/smart phone app allows the student to choose a rudiment to practice and keep track of their progress.

Dynamic Engineering: Dynamic Engineering was founded during the fall of 2010 with the objective to design and market a cheaper, yet effective refreshable braille display by utilizing electroactive polymers developed within the City College research laboratories. We hope to make accessing information cheaper and more accessible for the visually impaired. With the guidance of Professor Daniel Steingart and Professor Ilona Kretzschmar, we demonstrated the feasibility and marketability of our idea and won the inaugural Kaylie Entrepreneurship Competition in 2010.

Julintani is a mobile product company focusing on helping schools maintain communication with alumni with our unique approach, and working to make donating to the alumnus' alma mater as simple as possible. In this way, we hope to give colleges and universities a new way to raise money and keep in contact with their alumni, by both increasing the number of alumni that have the school's mobile app, and driving donations once they do. Currently, there are three members of our team: Crae Sosa handles the Android implementation, web development, as well as some of our business relationships, Johnny Huang has implemented the iOS apps, and Elliot Schrock handles most of the business administration and directs development on all platforms.

NextQ: NextQ tackles one of the most common and insidious of problems; long lines. The system created to solve this problem allows businesses to manage customer flow more effectively and reduce waiting times in lines. By allowing customers to check into a line virtually, telling them their estimated waiting time and notifying them when it is their turn, customers can be free from the traditional waiting rooms. In addition, customer flow analytics will allows businesses to zip through customers like never before. NextQ can be implemented in doctor's offices, hospital emergency rooms, financial aid offices, immigration centers, and the DMV.

Plateau - Mouse Surgical Platform: The MSP is a versatile, innovative, and ergonomically designed surgical platform for mice used in research surgeries. The Plateau MSP is an interdisciplinary device that can be used in areas such as genetics, cancer, cardiovascular and bone research, just to name a few. The Plateau MSP cuts down on set-up time, provides specialized amenities and helps reduce researcher fatigue. Our cutting edge design was inspired by simplicity and molded from months of surgeon and researcher input. The Plateau MSP is a research tool that will bridge the gap between animal models and clinical trials and change the face of research.

Soterix: Soterix provides clinicians and patients with the most safe, effective, and user friendly neuromodulation technology. Driven by our deep understanding of the human body and our close collaboration with physicians, the Soterix platform is the most advanced and targeted non-invasive neuromodulation technology available. Learn more...

Vista Wearable: our team is creating a wireless wearable vibrotactile actuator that is capable of conveying detailed information to wearers. While vibrators have been around for a long time, using them to convey detailed information tactilely through the skin has been a difficult process. Our device will consist of a comfortable strap with a small vibrator, battery, and bluetooth low energy chip. We plan to design this device so that it is capable of delivering the maximum amount of tactile information to the wearer in the widest variety of circumstances. We will also publish a simple communication protocol that allows application developers to be able to implement vibrotactile feedback in their designs without having to design wearable devices or immerse themselves in the subtleties of vibrotactile feedback control. By removing this barrier, we hope to encourage the development of a cornucopia of new vibrotactile feedback applications.

MCE: MCE Interactive is a consulting firm that started in the Zahn Center. We provide a combination of talents and resources to rapidly design and prototype your product.

CUNY Tutors: CUNY Tutors is a program that seeks to give low-cost tutoring to NYC high school students. We are starting with SAT Prep. Our goal is to charge customers $10/hr, pay tutors $15/hr, and give the university more recognition by hosting these services first at CCNY then at other CUNY branches.

Summon Review: This software startup is creating a review aggregation application that online users can download on their smartphones. The user will copy/paste the URL of the product or service they are considering to the app. Our app will aggregate the reviews and present them in single glace "text cloud" visual that gives greater prominence and font size to words that appear more frequently in reviews.

Our app will thus provide a single-glance overview that also conveys key information about the substance of the reviews, thereby providing a “review of the reviews” for the particular product or service. The app will also offer the option of the aggregation process for reviews that appear on any other website, e.g., Amazon, Yelp, NYTimes article comments.We are currently working on aggregating Amazon product reviews.

Sunset Farms: The Sunset Farms is setting out to figure out the best model for entry into the urban farming sector in Brooklyn, NY. It is a small sector, currently being occupied by only a few urban farm operations and scattered gardens none of which are of a major commercial capacity. This allows a huge swath of space with great potential to create a business model that hits two important points for urban food production: engaging strongly with food justice issues, and reaching the full potential of food production right in the city and long lasting commercial viability. As much as this is a food justice project and seizing opportunity of a new and sparsely populated sector, it is also an economic justice and development project, a revitalization project for the target area, a landmark preservation project, a sustainability and Earth saving project, and an education project.

TryMyToy: TryMyToy seeks to revolutionize the way in which toys are purchased online. The website features a curated selection of educational and interactive toys. TryMyToy will enhance the user experience through a simple and interactive webpage; eliminating clustered pages, minimizing clicks and scrolls. All products will have demonstration videos explaining the functions of the toys to maximize customer satisfaction while the unique Virtual Shopping Assistant will provide assistance to customers searching for a toy online, using smart sorting technology. TryMyToy’s mission is to help facilitate the search for that perfect toy while providing an exceptional shopping experience.

YaHerd: YaHerd is a mobile website aggregator that makes it easy for someone attending a live show to "follow" or "like" an artist's across their entire social media portfolio without having to hop around numerous sites to do so. A user can then collect and later access these same bands through yaherd. YaHerd supports real-world music discovery and places it in the palm of your hands.

Gestherapy: Using motion sensing technologies, such as 3D cameras or the Microsoft Kinect, we create a virtual environment that allows physical therapy and rehabilitation to be done with ease. This would allow the patient to undergo a self fulfilled therapeutic experience in the comfort of their own home. In addition the therapist would be able to receive feedback on how their patient is doing which allows for better diagnosis and quicker recovery time. The applications of this software can allow better assessment and execution in areas of: sports, neurological, and orthopedic therapy.

Blue Cast: Blue Cast is a startup trying to revolutionize the exchange of contact information. We have developed a small bluetooth tag that allows users to seamlessly transmit contact, business and sales information to people in their vicinity with smartphones. Through our app, it will be possible to check public information in social media as you approach an individual. You will also be able to add the individual to your network after meeting them without having to worry about exchanging business cards, scanning QR codes or memorizing name tags.

LifeGlo: LifeGlos is working on a reliable, efficient, non-mechanical method of escaping from a fire.

Deans Lab: Our academic lab is constantly contacted by reputable academic institutions asking for specific devices tailored for their experiments. We make high quality and customizable graphene hetero-structures for use in the research and advancement of scientific study. We strongly believe we can start a business centered around this demand that creates profit while advancing the study of the wonder material graphene.

EkiCk: With phones discharging on a regular basis, skate/long boarders are having a difficult time recharging their electronic devices while riding, commuting, or hanging with friends. Some of the current options to recharge are to go back home, go to a cafe, use a 200 ft extension cord or to use an extended battery. These options not only take away time from skating but they can also be inconvenient. At EkiCk we want to solve this issue with our Cruising = Charging technology and help skaters become independent of the grid. Cruising = Charging uses the rider's kinetic energy to power your electronic devices. This means a few things, no waiting for your phone to charge, you get time back to ride, create green energy, independence from charging location and still have practical skate/long board components.

Quinoa Express: The primary product this startup aims to develop is a microwavable rapid quinoa cooker/container with a built-in plastic strainer. A rapid microwavable cooker would help reduce cooking time from 15 to 7 minutes. Combining it with the built-in strainer, it reduces rinse/preparation time/steps to less than 30 seconds . Ultimately, the design overcomes home limitations and enables consumers to prepare/cook quinoa everywhere with water and microwave. The design will have measurement lines to indicate quinoa and water ratios.