RIT Venture Creations Incubator

The RIT Venture Creations Incubator (VCI) helps startups commercialize their products, and prepare for outside risk capital. VCI offers active coaching by on-staff mentors, educational events, and access to a highly specialized set of vetted partners across legal, HR, accounting, sales, marketing, and other relevant areas, to help the startups maximize their probability of success. Startups can also access relevant RIT resources such as the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, NYS Pollution Prevention Institute (P2I), Global Cybersecurity Institute, intellectual property research, Pitchbook, and more. VCI has been a keystone RIT initiative since 2003, with 33 active companies in 2021. Companies should be, or have the potential to become high-growth startups. Companies don’t have to be RIT affiliated, but the incubator has a slight preference for companies and products in these industries because of RIT’s expertise and ability to add value: - Clean energy & climate tech - Photonics & imaging - Cybersecurity - Gaming - B2B software - Access technology If your startup is based outside the USA we offer an additional suite of services to help the company start selling in the US faster, cheaper and before an A-round.