Stony Brook's Calverton Incubator Welcomes New Tech Company

A Riverhead company that has its roots in Stony Brook University is expanding to become the newest addition at Stony Brook's Calverton business incubator, the university announced Wednesday.

That company, buncee, employs Stony Brook graduates, actively participates with the university's career center, and has turned to the entrepreneur-in-residence of the university's Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology for consulting and other support services. The company provides creative digital content to businesses that don't have the technological savvy to develop their own, emphasizing "interactive digital canvas and easy-to-use tools that give users a whole new way of creating and sharing customized online and mobile content," the university said.

Larry Weber, the CEWIT's entrepreneur-in-residence and business development manager, said he has been working with buncee for about a year.

"They have been aggressively refining their offering and revenue strategy, while leveraging their efforts via Stony Brook University resources and identifying new markets," Weber said. "It looks to me that they have assembled the elements of success."

buncee was founded following the death of the Arturi family's daughter, when the family found the need for a better way to send thank-you letters and other digital messages to supporters of its charity, the Daniella Maria Arturi Foundation.

"The caliber of talent that comes out of that university is unmatched, and we look forward to hiring more Stony Brook students in the future," said Marie Arturi, the company's CEO. "I can only imagine that someday Stony Brook University will be to buncee what Stanford University was to Google!"