 GENIUS NY, a business accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, announced 13 teams as semi-finalists in the competition’s fifth round. The companies, which are developing innovations in the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), internet of things (IoT) and big data industries, were selected from a highly competitive pool of nearly 600 submissions from more than 50 countries. Of the 13 semi-finalists, five are international teams representing Germany, Israel, Poland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Five teams are from New York state.
 The world’s largest accelerator competition for unmanned systems, IoT and big data technology start-ups has extended applications for its fifth cohort to April 30, 2021. Five finalists will be selected for this year’s program and split a total of $3 million in cash with the winner taking home a $1 million top prize. To apply, click here.
 Empire State Development (ESD) today announced that the application window is now open for the fifth round of GENIUS NY– the world’s largest business accelerator competition focused on unmanned systems.
 A Q/A with Jason Dean Co-founder/CEO of Eget Liber
Company HQ: Syracuse, New York Team Size: 8 Focus: A multi-vehicle response to mitigating toxic algae Website: https://eget-liber.com/  A Q/A with Skyy Network
Company HQ: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Team Size: 12 Focus: Automated drone traffic management Website: https://skyy.network/  A Q/A with Geopipe
Company HQ: NYC and Burlington, VT Team Size: 6 FTE + 6 PT - 2 in Syracuse Focus: Next-generation geospatial data Website: geopi.pe LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geopipe-inc./  A Q/A with DroneSeed
Company HQ: Seattle, WA Team Size: 30 and counting Focus: Put a dent in climate change by making reforestation scalable. Website: https://www.droneseed.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/droneseed/  A Q/A with BotsAndUs
Company HQ: London, United Kingdom Team Size: 10 full-time Focus: Service robotics Website: https://www.botsandus.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bots-and-us/  Syracuse, NY – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently awarded a $1.6M contract that will advance unmanned traffic management (UTM) at the New York (NY) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Test Site. CAL Analytics will lead a team of five commercial companies in the development of a single, integrated contingency management platform (CMP) for unmanned aircraft integration. Together with NUAIR and Oneida County, the companies will integrate and test their CMP technology to address specific safety and risk mitigation concerns for operating UAS in the national airspace the NY UAS Test Site.
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