Luminate is a six-month intensive accelerator program located in Rochester, New York, focused on advancing next-generation optics, imaging, and photonics-enabled companies. It provides coaching, mentoring, funding, and workspace to visionary entrepreneurs solving challenging problems in fields such as augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, machine vision, and biophotonics. Luminate is funded by New York State and operates as a program of NextCorps, offering opportunities for startups to receive support, network, and access resources in the optics and imaging capital of the world.