World's Best Technology is Orthogonal, Inc

Recently Ithaca's own Orthogonal Inc. won the first prize in the 2010 WBT Showcase. Today Orthogonal's CEO Fox Holt received this cool trophy in the mail:


WBT also means World's Best Trophy
This puts Orthogonal in strong company with startups like Mesh Networks (acquired by Motorola), Sensant (acquired by Siemens), and Planning Systems (acquired by QinetiQ). I see a positive trend forming!

List of Ithaca Startups: 2010 Edition

My most requested blog posting is my list of startups based in Ithaca, NY, which I now update each year just before the annual Entrepreneurship Celebration symposium at Cornell, here is the 2010 list:

Adenios
Aerofarms
Advion
Assetize
BinOptics
Biophyzica
Bombyx
Catchmakers
cheribundi
Comet Action Sports
DataPoint Labs
DNANO
e2e Materials
Energy In Common
Fortis America
Finger Lakes Aquaculture
Gene Network Sciences
GeneWeave Biosciences
Hybrid Silica Technologies
Illuminaria
Instinctiv
International Climbing Machines
iFyber
Instictiv
M.E.S.S. Express
Mezmeriz
MicroGen
MiTeGen
MouseCare
North Sea Resins
Novasterilis
Novomer
Optigen
Orthogonal
Primet
Red Tail Hawk
ReMarkable Paint
Rheonix
Sanmita
Seamless Receipts
Sound Reading
Spider Holster
Strut Your Hut
Tech S2
Technizzel
Terrenew
Tetragenetics
Veratag
VideoNote
Vybion
WePlace
Widetronix
Zetroz

Special mention needs to go to one company no longer on this list, Kionix, which was acquired in 2009 by ROHM. Congratulations guys!

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