Companies

BEST companies develop commercially viable products and services — from bio-sensors to information technology. Our companies are generally in the start-up or early development stage, and have been selected to join BEST because they exhibit strong business potential, sound technology that can be commercialized, and a strong management team.

On-Site Tenants

August Ninth Analyses Inc.

August Ninth Analyses Inc is a Westchester-based startup that enables small and medium-sized chemical process companies to become more competitive by reducing energy costs and waste as they increase their productivity.

Contact: Henry Weber
914-552-3890
henryweber@augustninthanalyses.com
augustninthanalyses.com

ChromoSense LLC

ChromoSense LLC develops innovative optical sensing and monitoring technologies for a variety of cleantech applications. Focusing on environmental and infrastructure health diagnostics, ChromoSense is developing a series of products aimed at providing flexible, scalable, and reliable solutions for a broad spectrum of monitoring and detection needs.

Contact: Filip Mlekicki
718-260-3857
f.mlekicki@chromosense.com
chromosense.com

NIRx Medical Technologies LLC

NIRx Medical Technologies LLC is a world-leader in providing integrated solutions for NIRS tomographic imaging. It provides custom technology solutions to the investigative community for a wide range of NIRS imaging applications.

Contact: Randall Barbour
516-759-8750
rbarbour@nirx.net
nirx.net

Polytechnic Design Seminar

Polytechnic Design Seminar is a company dedicated to impacting the world of design by advancing the skills and capabilities of designers. PDS offers a variety of design seminars and workshops on subjects such as architectural drafting, rendering, LEED exam prep, portfolio development for design schools, and various types of design software, e.g., Autocad, Revit. Founded not to substitute, but to complement formal design education, PDS hopes to help transform design by assisting one designer at a time.

Contact: Evangelos Limpantoudis
718-260-4054
info@polydesignseminar.com
polydesignseminar.com

Polytechnic Reporter

The Polytechnic Reporter is Polytechnic Institute of NYU’s student newspaper. It serves the NYU-Poly community with reporting about news, sports, and events happening in and around the school.

Contact: Yangzi Isabel Tian
718-260-3513
ytian01@students.poly.edu
poly.edu/polytechnic-reporter

Transcendent Enterprise

Transcendent Enterprise delivers high-quality multimedia — from commercials to promotional videos to event recordings. It provides video editing services, converts video for the web, and records a range of events.

Contact: Chris or Danielle
718-260-3289
Chris@transcendententerprise.com

Zignage

Digital Signage (DS) represents the next generation of out-of-home advertising and communication.  In DS, posters, signs, and billboards become electronic, with instantly updatable and customizable content.  The rapid growth of the DS market has been spurred by plunging LCD prices, wide area network reliability, and the vast potential of this new marketing medium. For the first time, marketers can reach customers at the point of purchase, create dynamic and captivating ads, tailor ads to individual characteristics, and receive immediate feedback on ad uplift.  Zignage is a software and services start-up with unique solutions for enhancing the appeal, and growing the market for Digital Signage.

Contact: Geoffrey Gelman
718-260-3678
geoff@zignage.com
zignage.com

Virtual Tenants

Anzenna Inc

Anzenna Inc develops point-of-care molecular diagnostic devices. It creates biosensors that move in-vitro medical diagnostics out of the laboratory and into hands of physicians. Its unique label-free electrochemical transduction method to detect molecular binding interactions provides a platform technology that can address many areas of the global healthcare industry — from personalized medicine and infectious diseases to the agriculture and food markets. Anzenna’s technologies are built on NYU research and patents.

Contact: Samir Ajmera
914-316-2916
sajmera@anzenna.com
anzenna.com

First Lightwave Inc

First Lightwave Inc has developed a unique medical home that uses advanced wireless technologies and a social networking application to enhance the medical home experience that has been developed by Geisinger and others. It is launching a pilot program of its medical home model in Brooklyn.

Contact: Neil Shabman
917-439-4430
neil@firstlightwave.com

MyHomie LLC

MyHomie.com helps roommates manage the day-to-day events and finances of a single household, both online and through a new mobile phone application. Users can split bills and budget effortlessly, share important dates on a shared calendar, organize lists on the go, and search important messages posted to their bulletin board.

Contact: Michael K. Davis, President / Co-Founder
Mobile: 917-445-8500
Fax: 212-504-7913
mdavis@myhomie.com
myhomie.com

NovaWave Technologies

NovaWave develops next-generation, laser-based chemical sensors for a wide range of civilian and military applications — from chemical and biological agent detection to pollution monitoring. Its sensors employ cutting-edge laser and photonics technologies, enabling commercially viable sensors with unprecedented detection sensitivity, chemical selectivity, precision, and accuracy.

Contact: Stephen Holler
650-610-0956
sholler@novawavetech.com
novawavetech.com

Service Channel

ServiceChannel provides leading retailers with a web-based payment platform for maintenance, repair, and construction services. It also provides a real time, online view of service data across all trades, locations, and contractors. Service Channel serves 50,000+ locations online. Its clients include Apple, Best Buy, Gap, Nike, ToysRUs, Kohl’s, and Petco.

Contact: Steven Gottfried
516-365-1511
sgottfried@servicechannel.com
servicechannel.com