Children's Museum of Science & Technology

What Children's Museum of Science & Technology does

The Children's Museum of Science & Technology is a small organization headquartered in Troy, New York, United States, operating from the web domain cmost.org. Per the available firmographic record, the organization has approximately 5 employees and is presented as a standalone entity (no stock symbol is disclosed, consistent with a non-profit or community-based institution rather than a publicly traded company).

No further operational, programmatic, product, financial, or strategic information about the museum is present in the input source material. All supplementary data blocks supplied alongside the firmographics explicitly pertain to Cakhia TV, a Vietnamese-language sports streaming platform, and are flagged in-source as not applicable to the Children's Museum of Science & Technology; that material has therefore not been incorporated into this description.

As a result, the factual record for the museum is limited to the firmographic signals above. From those signals alone, the organization can be characterized as a small-scale, locally rooted educational institution with a minimal staff footprint, based in New York's Capital Region. Any deeper claims about exhibit content, visitor demographics, program mix, revenue composition, partnerships, or strategic direction would require source data that was not provided and have therefore been omitted.

Name

Children's Museum of Science & Technology

Website

https://cmost.org

Company type

Private

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Children's Museum of Science & Technology is a small children's museum focused on science and technology education, based in Troy, New York, operating with approximately 5 employees and serving local families and young learners in the Capital Region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Children's Museum & Educational Services

NAICS

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712), Museums (71211)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHAJADAD

Science & Technology Museums

Travel & Hospitality/Tours, Attractions & Experiences/Museums, Galleries & Cultural Institutions

SECONDARYTHAJADAE

Children’s Museums

Travel & Hospitality/Tours, Attractions & Experiences/Museums, Galleries & Cultural Institutions

SECONDARYEDAMABAA

Hands-on Science Exploration & Experiments (Lab Kits, Science Clubs)

Education/Supplemental & Enrichment Programs (Arts, STEM, Language)/STEM Enrichment & Science Programs

Keywords

• Children's museum
• Science education
• STEM programs
• Interactive exhibits
• Family learning

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Advertising Revenue: Banner advertisements displayed on homepage from large partner brands. Committed to avoiding disruptive ads during live match broadcasts to maintain user experience quality.
2. Affiliate Marketing - Casino/Bookmaker Partners: Referral links to betting partners (8XBET prominently featured) generating affiliate commissions. Website explicitly mentions partnership with major Asian bookmakers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Children's Museum of Science & Technology is a small children's museum serving the Troy, New York community with hands-on science and technology exhibits and educational programs. Based on the organization name and 5-employee footprint, it operates as a local nonprofit educational institution providing interactive STEM learning experiences for children and families rather than producing, licensing, or distributing technology products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 5+ million registered members and thousands of daily visits since launch
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• 8XBETcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2018Official advertising partner and affiliate relationship. 8XBET banner advertisements prominently featured on Cakhia TV homepage. Cakhia TV identified as official partner of 8XBET in Asian market. Primary revenue-sharing arrangement through affiliate referral links. Operates as main betting partner linked throughout website.
• 8xbetviet.net (8XBET Vietnam)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerRegional Vietnam-facing brand of 8XBET, identified as primary sponsor of Cakhia TV content in Vietnamese market.
• Manchester City FCminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCakhia TV website identifies 8XBET as official partner of Manchester City FC. This is an indirect association through the betting partner's sports sponsorship rather than a direct partnership with Cakhia TV.

Scale indicators3 records

Broad incumbents

• Children's Museum of Manhattan: A mid-size children's museum in New York City with health, arts, and science programming for young children. Comparable in hands-on educational format though operating in a much denser, higher-traffic urban market.
• Please Touch Museum: A Philadelphia-based children's museum with hands-on, learning-focused exhibits for young children. Comparable in age-targeted, interactive museum format but significantly larger in attendance and budget.
• Children's Museum of Indianapolis: The largest children's museum in the world, offering broad STEAM and science programming. Comparable mission and audience, but with dramatically greater scale, exhibit investment capacity, and national draw.
• Boston Children's Museum: One of the largest and oldest children's museums in the U.S., serving the broader New England family market. Comparable in core offering (interactive exhibits for young children) but operates at far greater scale and resources than CMOST.

Direct peers

• Sci-Tech Discovery Center: A small interactive science museum in Frisco, Texas, similar in size and operating model. Directly comparable as a community-scale STEM-focused children's museum reliant on school visits and admissions.
• Mid-Hudson Children's Museum: A children's museum in Poughkeepsie, NY with a similar hands-on, family-and-school audience in the Hudson Valley region. Comparable in scale, mission, and dependence on local visitation and school programs.

Regional players

• miSci (Museum of Innovation and Science): A science-focused museum in Schenectady, NY, roughly 15 miles from Troy. Comparable as a small-to-mid upstate New York science museum competing for the same Capital Region school groups and family visitors.
• Rochester Museum & Science Center: A larger science-focused museum in Rochester, NY with similar STEM education programming and school-group audience, though operating at a meaningfully larger scale than CMOST.
• MOST (Museum of Science and Technology): A hands-on science and technology museum in Syracuse, NY serving a similar upstate New York audience. Comparable in mission (interactive STEM exhibits for families and schools) though larger in scale.
• Berkshire Museum: A small general museum in Pittsfield, MA combining art, history, and science exhibits. Comparable in scale and New England/upstate regional audience, and overlaps with CMOST on the science-and-technology exhibit component.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/children's-museum-of-science-&-technology

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Funding overview

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M&A

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