2020 Make It in Brooklyn Innovation Awards

Vote in the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership MIIB Innovation Awards

We are excited to celebrate the best of NYC’s innovators and startups with our annual Make It in Brooklyn Innovation Awards. Nominees have been selected from the Brooklyn tech + innovation community and include startups and organizations who have excelled in 2020. The winning companies will each receive a cash prize of $1,000, and a fabulous trophy!

We need your votes to decide who will be the winner of each of the three prize categories:

Female-founded Startup of the Year
Con Edison Energy Innovator
Tech for Good: COVID-19 Response

You may only cast your vote one time!

Polls close on Thursday, December 31st at 11:59pm EST. We will be announcing the winners in early January!

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* 1. Female-founded Startup of the Year

Sunthetics
Sunthetics accelerates sustainable innovation in the chemical industry by using machine learning to fast-track the development and market adoption of alternatives to widely-used chemicals. The startup was accepted to The Heritage Group x Techstars accelerator in September 2020.

thelighthouse
thelighthouse is a personalized career growth platform that empowers professionals to navigate their ever-changing careers and the fast changing world of work.

We Are Fluide
Mission-driven beauty startup Fluide creates vegan, cruelty-free, and paraben-free cosmetics for all skin shades and gender expressions.

Cognitive ToyBox
Blue Ridge Labs alum Cognitive ToyBox helps children with school readiness and assesses progress with gamified lessons. The startup released free resources to support remote learning earlier this year.

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* 2. Con Edison Energy Innovator of the Year

Urban Energy
Triple-bottom-line startup Urban Energy supports sustainability by helping commercial and multifamily property owners with renewable energy projects, including rooftop solar installation.

Scanifly
Scanifly's drone-based platform uses 3D modeling and AI to automate management, operations, and monitoring for solar energy projects.

Wavelength Lighting
LED lighting startup Wavelength works across the tri-state area on energy-efficient lighting projects, including a retrofit of Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

BlocPower
BlocPower is an energy technology startup that aims to rapidly "green up" American cities with proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and more.

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* 3. Tech for Good: COVID-19 Response

Makelab
3D printing startup Makelab is known for helping its customers create, iterate, and quickly prototype their ideas. This past spring, the company produced hundreds of face shields, face masks, and ventilator parts to support pandemic response.

Edquity
Edquity helps to narrow equity gaps and facilitate social mobility with a digital platform to distribute emergency financial aid and resources to college students in need. The quickly-growing team launched the COVID College Support digital guide last spring to help students navigate financial emergencies during the pandemic.

Opentrons
Biotech startup Opentrons designs and builds affordable, open-source lab robots for biologists. The company has deployed over 500 of its OT-2 robot to COVID testing lines in hospitals and labs throughout the US and Europe, and currently runs NYC's largest COVID testing lab, the Pandemic Response Lab NYC, which processes over 10,000 COVID tests every day for NYC hospitals.

NYU COVID-19 Task Force
The NYU COVID-19 Task Force mobilizes NYU's expertise, talent, and resources to develop rapid-response solutions to critical issues facing our healthcare system. Over the past year, the coalition developed a face shield prototype, engineered and printed respirator clips, and designed additional tools to support medical professionals.