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| 17.10.2024 | Innovation and Compassion: Transforming Pennsylvania's Economic and Health Landscape | In the heart of Pennsylvania, two powerful initiatives are reshaping the landscape of innovation and health. Innovation Works (IW) and the Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Healthy Food Center (HFC) are not just programs; they are lifelines. T... |
| 17.10.2024 | Innovation Works: Interview With President & CEO Ven Raju About The Early-Stage Investor | Innovation Works (IW) is one of the most active early-stage investors in the country and the most active early-stage investor in the State of Pennsylvania. So far, IW has financially supported over 761 companies that have gone on to raise $... |
| 07.05.2024 | AHN, Innovation Works AlphaLab Health Joint Venture Receives $10 Million Grant to Create Revolving Investment Fund | AlphaLab Health at AHN Suburban
Grant will support the program's start-up companies, creating the region's most active source of early-stage capital for life-science technologies
BELLEVUE, Pa., May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- AlphaLab Hea... |
| 29.11.2022 | Third Cohort of AlphaLab Health Launches to Accelerate Growth of Local Life Sciences Companies | AlphaLab Health Cohort 3 Founders with Allegheny Health Network (AHN) and Innovation Works staff "This cohort of ALH includes a strong set of clinician-entrepreneurs who developed solutions to address the challenges they and their pati... |
| 26.05.2022 | Gig economy service startup Gridwise closed a $12.7M Series A | A Pittsburgh mobility startup just added to the flow of early-stage funding rounds the city has seen so far this quarter.
Gig economy business platform startup Gridwise announced today that it had closed on a $12.7 million Series A round. T... |
| 16.05.2022 | SpIntellx Appoints Industry Leader B. Dusty Majumdar, Ph.D. as Chief Executive Officer to Spearhead the Next Phase of Growth | Dr. Majumdar possesses the strategic vision, commercial experience and strong track record of execution to successfully scale SpIntellx focusing on accelerating our breakthrough Precision Pathology solutions to the market for shaping the fu... |
| 05.04.2022 | SpIntellx is ushering a new era of unbiased spatial analytics and explainable AI in precision pathology at AACR 2022 | SpIntellx at AACR 2022, New Orleans SpIntellx has the first-mover advantage in precision pathology by applying truly unbiased spatial analytics to decipher the complex cancer biology.
PITTSBURGH (PRWEB) April 05, 2022
SpIntellx, Inc. create... |
| 18.03.2022 | SpIntellx announces the new era of precision pathology at USCAP 2022 | SpIntellx announces the new era of presicion pathology at USCAP 2022 “SpIntellx is transforming computational and systems pathology into the new era of precision pathology based on our unbiased spatial analytics and explainable AI. We are a... |
| 07.02.2022 | On the Market: A civic tech department, cryptocurrency firm and startup accelerator are all hiring in Pittsburgh | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings. Have a submission? Email us at pittburgh@technical.ly.Pittsburgh’s Department of Innovation and Performance is hiring a senior project coordinator
The City o... |
| 03.12.2021 | Alpha Lab Health Announces Second Cohort of Startups Accepted to Life Science Accelerator | “AlphaLab Health wraps entrepreneurs with a network of clinical and business experts who know how to help them succeed in the complex health care system,” said Megan Shaw, managing director for life sciences at Innovation Works.
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| 03.12.2021 | AlphaLab Health’s second accelerator is growing these 6 health and medtech startups | A new crop of startups will help advance Pittsburgh’s goal of becoming a life sciences hub.
AlphaLab Health — one of three startup accelerators run by Innovation Works — announced its second cohort of companies this week. The six month-prog... |
| 24.11.2021 | Events Roundup: Fill your December calendar with these Pittsburgh tech networking opportunities before the holidays | Events Roundup is a Technical.ly column where we highlight events happening in the Pittsburgh area each month. Got a submission? Email us the details so we can consider it for our next roundup.Looking to get a start on your 2022 resolutions... |
| 08.11.2021 | What comes after your startup’s friends and family round? Meet the plus one round | So, you have kicked off your startup funding with a small raise from friends and family. What next?
If you are in academia, you may also have received research grants to support your work. Your technology commercialization office, or your e... |
| 07.09.2021 | Resource Roundup: CMU is ready for a fall of tech entrepreneurship with a startup bootcamp and seminar series | Resource Roundup is a look at open applications for business and career-building programs around the region. Want to tell us about a program or new opportunity for entrepreneurs and technologists? Email us at pittsburgh@technical.ly.
As sum... |
| 13.07.2021 | Amid Duolingo’s impending IPO, Pittsburgh tech leaders hope for increased wealth and community aspiration | Amid the economic recovery boom of the waning pandemic, Pittsburgh’s tech scene is getting ready for its first major public offering — one that local industry leaders hope will propel the city’s status as a hotspot for further growth.
In la... |
| 25.06.2021 | ‘Built to last’: How can Pittsburgh support its biggest homegrown tech companies? | Pittsburgh has earned a reputation as a blue-collar city, with companies that thrive due in large part to the region’s storied work ethic.
Over the last three decades, as the Pittsburgh region has tried to rebuild and rebrand as a technolog... |
| 21.06.2021 | Here’s how Pittsburgh’s accelerators helped startups survive the pandemic, and lessons learned along the way | Accelerators, like almost everything else, took their programming almost completely online last year, doing their best to simulate in-person innovation over video chat. And while some leaders of Pittsburgh’s accelerators and incubators foun... |
| 14.06.2021 | Meet the 7 life science startups of AlphaLab Health’s inaugural accelerator cohort | Seven promising life science startups started off 2020 with a shot of support from two of the region’s health and economic development-minded orgs.
Launched in September 2020, AlphaLab Health is an initiative of Innovation Works, which also... |
| 05.04.2021 | Seven early-stage health companies selected for Pittsburgh's inaugural AlphaLab Health accelerator cohort | Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, Chief Physician Executive for Community Health and Innovation at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) “This is a unique collaboration between two world-class organizations, and the first cohort marks a key milestone for our par... |
| 14.12.2020 | Pittsburgh doesn’t know how to leverage its Black tech talent. Could startup growth fix that? | For Deonna Johnson, getting behind on the IT tickets that her workplace expected her to complete not only cost her a job, but propelled her to leave Pittsburgh’s tech industry altogether.
The 34-year-old cloud security engineer said the tro... |
| 09.09.2020 | Pittsburgh Passport program uses football, drag queens, and tech to sell the city to college grads | Image: iStockphoto/Joecho-16 Must-read CXO coverage
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| 05.03.2020 | How to hire the right candidate. There are lots of options. That’s good — and bad — for startups | Team development is everything in the beginning. If a startup doesn’t staff wisely, the ship can quickly flounder. But finding a great hire is no easy task in a saturated job market, especially when the perfect candidate might not be lookin... |
| 13.02.2020 | Will Duolingo, Pittsburgh’s first unicorn, bring more investment to the region? | Twenty-five years after Fore Systems, a Warrendale-based networking company that built and sold ATM switches, went public, Pittsburgh has added another homegrown startup company to the billion-dollar-plus valuation club: Duolingo, the compa... |
| 19.12.2019 | Raising funds from small investors pays off for Digital Dream Labs | When it comes time for the next growth phase, conventional wisdom for many startups is to dust off their pitches and reach out to angel investors. But education technology company Digital Dream Labs, which is at an inflection point this yea... |
| 30.11.2018 | Pittsburgh: An Emerging Hotbed Of Robotics, AI Companies | 259 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Pittsburgh has historically been known as the “Steel City” because it’s home to hundreds of steel-related businesses. It’s also called the “City of Bridges” because, you guessed it, it’s home to hu... |
| 14.11.2018 | RoadBotics Secures $3.9M To Transform Road Management | RoadBotics, developer of advanced computer vision technology for inspecting roads and infrastructure, has raised $3.9M in its series seed round of financing, led by Boston-based Hyperplane Venture Capital. The capital will help the company ... |
| 23.08.2018 | Innovation Works’ 20 years of supporting Pittsburgh startups: ‘We’re not resting on our laurels’ | When Rich Lunak first came to Innovation Works in 2005, fewer than 100 startups per year would approach the organization for help. Now marking its 20th anniversary, the seed investment engine has blown past those early numbers, to the benef... |
| 23.05.2018 | Carnegie Mellon and Innovation Works hold ‘venture fair’ for Pittsburgh AI and robotics startups | Pittsburgh’s robotics and artificial intelligence sectors are gaining more attention than ever before, thanks to continued interest from tech giants like Facebook and Google, which opened offices there, as well as local university Carnegie ... |
| 15.02.2018 | Inside AlphaLab: Pittsburgh’s tech accelerator aims to solve the city’s startup challenge | Seth Glickman (center) and Fu Yen Hsiao are co-founders of Music Everywhere, an AlphaLab startup that develops augmented reality piano learning technology. (GeekWire photos / Taylor Soper)
PITTSBURGH — Inside this city’s startup launchpad, ... |
| 08.03.2017 | Udacity adds robotics and digital marketing Nanodegree programs, 21 new hiring partners | Today at the inaugural Udacity Intersect conference, the online education startup announced new robotics and digital marketing variants of its popular Nanodegrees — an effort to expand its corpus of 21st century skills-based courses. In add... |
| 02.06.2015 | The Backyard Effect: Finding The Secret Sauce For Growing An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem | Tom Walker Contributor
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| 14.10.2014 | Drop Gets Its First $2 Million In Seed To Prep For More Products To Come | Drop, the startup that hopes to turn anyone into the perfect chef using an iPad-connected digital baking scale, has raised $2 million in cash. The round, led by Frontline Ventures and Innovation Works with participation from PCH and WI Harp... |
| 07.10.2014 | Innovation Works Launches $24M Venture Capital Fund | Pittsburgh, PA-based Innovation Works is announcing a new $24m venture capital fund.
Backed by the McCune Foundation, several family offices and individual investors, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, the City of... |
| 08.05.2013 | Innovation Works and Startbot Launch AlphaLab Gear | Seed-stage investor Innovation Works has teamed with Startbot, an investment firm specializing in early-stage robotics companies, to launch a hardware and robotics startup accelerator.
Pittsburgh, PA-based AlphaLab Gear will provide physica... |
| 12.04.2013 | AutoRef.com Raises $850k in Seed Funding | According to TechCrunch (read here) AutoRef.com, a Pittsburgh, PA-based service that allows users to compare offers for new and used cars from local dealers, raised $850k in seed funding.
The round was led by European online car marketplace... |
| 14.03.2013 | Kextil Receives Seed Funding from Innovation Works | Kextil, a Pittsburgh, PA-based developer of contextual voice enabled mobile workforce software for Field Service, received seed funding from Innovation Works.
The company intends to use the capital to continue the development of the Kextil ... |
| 14.11.2012 | Drug developer advancing Phase 2 drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease raises $15M | Product: Its lead product is dexpramipexole for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease and is being developed with Biogen. It is designed to protect stressed neurons and other cell types from dying, according to its website. ... |
| 30.10.2012 | The Resumator Raises $2.1M in Series B Financing | The Resumator, a Pittsburg, PA-based provider of a cloud hiring platform, has raised $2.1m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Birchmere Ventures, existing investor Rincon Venture Partners, and Salesforce.com, with participation fro... |
| 08.08.2012 | Cancer diagnostics company using genomics analysis raising $1.3 million | Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Solution/product: The biotechnology company uses genomics analysis to detect cancer. PathFinder TG uses molecular analysis of mutations in genomic DNA to provide a more accurate reading in cases where tra... |
| 28.10.2011 | Shoefitr Receives $1.2M in Funding | Shoefitr, a Pittsburgh, PA-based early-stage technology company that provides a shoe fitting application, has received $1.2m in funding.
Backers include Vital Financial LLC, which committed $500k, BlueTree Allied Angels and Innovation Works... |
| 12.05.2011 | AlphaLab Launches 5 Pittsburgh Startups | In Pittsburgh yesterday, AlphaLab, the three year old startup accelerator program which is part of Innovation Works, one of the most active seed-stage investors in the country, hosted their annual demo day launching five new startups. Innov... |
| 10.01.2011 | The Resumator Raises $100,000 from Innovation Works | The Resumator, a Pittsburgh, PA-based recruiting software startup, recently raised $100,000 from seed-stage investor Innovation Works.
The funds will be used to continue to expand the company’s marketing and sales efforts.
Launched in Janua... |
| 02.11.2010 | Intimate Bridge to Conception Raises $475K | Intimate Bridge to Conception, Inc., a Pittsburgh, PA-based newly formed medical device company focused on reproductive health to aid in natural fertility and conception in the privacy of the patient’s home, has received $475k in equity fun... |
| 27.07.2010 | VC Roundup: DreamIt in Forbes Magazine | Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to p... |
| 14.10.2009 | AlphaLab Demo Day Showcases Pittsburgh’s Finest | Pittsburgh-based startup incubator AlphaLab hosted its Fall demo day earlier this morning. Created by seed funding group Innovations Works, AlphaLab provides 6 promising startups with funding, office space and business advice over a 20-week... |
| 03.10.2009 | ‘Smart’ bone-cutting tool developer Blue Belt raises $2.4 million | Promoted
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| 02.10.2009 | ThermalTherapeutic Systems raises $2.75 million to develop perfusion device | Originate Ventures lead this round, and ThermalTherapeutic’s previous investors include the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse and Innovation Works.
Vannare once ran a multimedia software business and served as a leading executive in two m... |
| 16.07.2009 | Alzheimer’s-blocking drug developer Cognition Therapeutics raises $1.2 million | Cognition moved to Pittsburgh about two years ago from California. The advancements developed by the company are licensed from California State University Channel Islands.
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| - | ‘Smart’ bone-cutting tool developer Blue Belt raises $2.4 million | PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Blue Belt Technologies, which is developing a line of computer-assisted, robotic bone-cutting tools, has raised $2.4 million to prepare a U.S. Food and Drug Administration application for its first product.
Blue B... |
| - | ThermalTherapeutic Systems raises $2.75 million to develop perfusion device | PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — ThermalTherapeutic Systems, which is developing a portable device to inject fluids into sections of the body, raised $2.75 million to bring its product to market.
The company in July submitted its application to t... |
| - | Cancer diagnostics company using genomics analysis raising $1.3 million | Company name: RedPath Integrated Pathology.
Industry: Cancer diagnostics.
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Solution/product: The biotechnology company uses genomics analysis to detect cancer. PathFinder TG uses molecular analysis of muta... |
| - | Alzheimer’s-blocking drug developer Cognition Therapeutics raises $1.2 million | PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Cognition Therapeutics has raised $1.2 million to further study of its tests and treatments of specific proteins that could detect and stop Alzheimer’s disease.
Cognition focuses on detecting the Abeta proteins fo... |
| - | Drug developer advancing Phase 2 drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease raises $15M | Company name: Knopp Biosciences
Industry: Biotechnology
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Product: Its lead product is dexpramipexole for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease and is being developed with Biogen. It is desig... |