Eddington Joseph

Main Content CEPHAS CAPITAL Cephas Capital was founded in July of 1997 and was approved for a license to operate as a Small Business Investment Company ( SBIC ) in March of 1998. Cephas was organized with $10 million of private capital contributed by six Upstate NY community banks and the general partners. The SBIC license also provides Cephas with access to up to another $30 million of funding from the SBA, generating a total capital pool of $40 million. Since 1997 Cephas has been seeking opportunities to help owners of small and medium sized privately held companies fund rapid growth, recapitalize their businesses or provide financing for management- led ownership changes. Through the end of 2009, the partnership had invested more than $64 million in 43 deserving small businesses located primarily in Upstate New York. The businesses funded by Cephas employ more than 5, 000 people and contribute more than $700 million annually to the economic output of the region.

Financial Management Associates (FMA) is a Pittsford, NY-based firm that offers comprehensive Controller and CFO services to growing companies, emphasizing hands-on involvement and strategic leadership. With a proven track record of success with over 35 Rochester area companies, including many from the Rochester Top 100, FMA is dedicated to enhancing operational financial management and ensuring the financial success of owner-managed businesses. In addition to their core services, FMA provides specialized management assistance on a project basis, covering areas such as business strategy, financial planning, and mergers and acquisitions. Their commitment to flexibility and tailored solutions allows them to adapt to the evolving needs of their clients, ensuring sustained growth and success. Generated from the website

About MiTeGen Mitegen designs, manufactures and distributes products for crystallization, crystallography and X-ray diffraction of proteins, viruses and small molecule/inorganic compounds, and for manipulation and measurement of small samples in cell biology, histology, clinical diagnostics, entomology, archaeology, art restoration and geology. Our customers include academic, medical, pharmaceutical, government and industrial laboratories in more than 40 countries. Our strength and focus is on applying concepts and technologies from physics and related fields to address practical problems faced by our friends and collaborators in the life sciences and other disciplines. We can design and deliver custom products to meet your specifications. MiTeGen was founded by Cornell Professor Robert Thorne. Our first products MicroMounts' and MicroRT' capillaries were developed in his research group, with contributions from graduate students Kevin O'Neill, Zach Stum, Eugene Kalinin and Guanhan Chew, undergraduate students Adam Saltzman, Adam Bartnik and Mariya Bessonov, postdoc Jan Kmetko, MacCHESS staff and postdocs including Andrew Stewart and Richard Gillilan, and our collaborators ( especially Tom Ellenberger and Steve Ealick ). We continue to benefit from input from our collaborators and the dozens of groups around the world who test prototypes.