Investor / VCUpstate New York

Rand Capital

Investor / VC · Buffalo, NY

Rand Capital Corporation is an externally-managed Business Development Company that invests in debt and equity securities of privately-held lower middle market companies across various industries. The company has been funding small and growing businesses for over 50 years and seeks to generate returns through current income and capital appreciation from its portfolio investments.

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About Upstate NY

Upstate New York seeded Silicon Valley more directly than most people realize: IBM started in Endicott, GE's research labs sat in Schenectady, and Kodak and Xerox built deep imaging and photonics expertise in Rochester — engineers and ideas from all three migrated west and helped build what came after. Cornell, RPI, the University of Rochester, and the SUNY system now anchor a semiconductor, photonics, and drone corridor that's a direct descendant of that older industrial-research base, not a recent transplant.

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Total firms 137

VC / investors 61

Companies 59

Schools 17

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Semiconductors

Photonics

Drones