| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.08.2026 | From Pittsburgh Startup to Multimillion-Dollar Company, BossmakeHer Invests Back Into the Local Community | A Pittsburgh company built to help accomplished women make bigger career moves is investing back into a local community filled with the very women it was created to serve: executives, leaders, entrepreneurs and working moms balancing ambiti... |
| 09.06.2026 | Shapiro Administration Highlights the Need for Funding to Grow Pennsylvania’s Innovation Economy, Visits AlphaLab Health in Pittsburgh | AlphaLab Health is a start-up accelerator collaboration created by Innovation Works and Allegheny Health Network to address healthcare problems experienced by clinicians and patients.
Pennsylvania has always been a leader in discovery and i... |
| 02.06.2026 | Ilant Health Secures $15M to Expand Value-Based Precision Obesity Management
Defeating the GLP-1 Cost Spiral: Why Ilant Health Raised $15M to Scale Outcomes-as-a-Service | What You Should Know
Value-based obesity management leader Ilant Health has closed a $15M Series A funding round led by Cornucopian Capital, elevating its total funding footprint past $22 million.
The financing round features strategic part... |
| 17.10.2023 | Vote for your faves in the inaugural Pgh Startup Community Awards | Technical.ly and XchangePgh share a mission of convening and informing technologists, entrepreneurs, and other startup stakeholders. Technical.ly is a media partner for the XchangePgh 2023 event series.
Update: This story has been updated t... |
| 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... |
| 22.03.2021 | What does it take for a Bulgarian mom-trepreneur to start a business in the US? | Company:
Hi, I am Valeria Green, and I am the founder and CEO of CHELA Marketplace. CHELA is a two-sided online fashion marketplace where independent designers can open a shop and start running their own virtual shop on CHELA.
During Women’... |
| 30.07.2020 | Incubators are now online. What does it mean for the future of Pittsburgh startups? | In a pandemic, even innovation has to work from home.
Earlier this year, Pittsburgh-based incubators Innovation Works and Ascender opted to switch to remote programming for their newest cohorts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But if s... |
| 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... |
| 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, ... |
| 06.06.2017 | 30 Best Startup Accelerators in the US Ranked | There's no shame in getting a little bit of help, particularly when it comes to running a business. Sure, you can bootstrap a one-man company with no advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and a notable lack of experience yourself, but you know... |
| 20.11.2015 | The Pros And Cons Of Accelerating Your Startup | Frank Vallese Contributor
Frank Vallese is the CEO of advisory firm ePhysics Technologies.
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New rules fuel the growth of the commercial drone industry
Startup accelerators are an excellent way for early stage s... |
| 09.08.2015 | Hardware Incubators Are Critical To The Future Of Making Things | Mike Geyer Contributor
Mike Geyer is the director of evangelism and emerging technology at Autodesk.
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3 pitfalls that can sink any crowdfunded hardware startup
Hardware is hot — and poised to get hotter. Ventur... |
| 02.06.2015 | The Backyard Effect: Finding The Secret Sauce For Growing An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem | Tom Walker Contributor
Tom Walker is president and CEO of Rev1 Ventures
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The Backyard Effect: Finding The Secret Sauce For Growing An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Experts could debate all day long the ingredients ... |
| 11.09.2014 | This founder left Penn to run online art marketplace, Easely | Ashwin Muthiah and Harris Gani aren’t going back to school this year.
They’re taking a year off from Penn and NYU, where they would be seniors, to run their online art marketplace startup, Easely. Muthiah, 21, said he’s already working 16-h... |
| 23.10.2013 | AlphaLab Demo Day: 9 Startups Pitch in Pittsburgh | Today, nine startups took the stage in Pittsburgh to pitch their ideas to investors at AlphaLab‘s demo day.
AlphaLab is a 20-week accelerator program where startups get $25,000 in funding, mentorship, and office space to kickstart their ide... |
| 02.08.2013 | NetBeez Is An Enterprise Network Monitoring Startup Using Raspberry Pis To Simulate Users | Raspberry Pi has unsurprisingly been a smash hit with the maker community. But here’s an enterprise startup that is using the $35/$25 microcomputer — or rather hundreds of them at a time — as a network monitoring tool for corporate networks... |
| 27.07.2013 | Take a look at top accelerators from around the country | Accelerators are popping up in cities such as Kansas City, Atlanta, Baltimore and Indianapolis
We here at Vator have recently been taking you on a tour of some of the biggest accelerators and incubators around the country. We've, of course,... |
| 02.06.2013 | Why VCs should love hardware startups | Skip Fleshman is a partner at Asset Management Ventures.
Venture capitalists hate investing in hardware startups for a myriad of reasons. Design and iteration are more difficult. Margins are low. Manufacturing issues are unpredictable. Inve... |
| 02.06.2013 | Why VCs should love hardware startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Skip Fleshman is a partner at Asset Management Ventures.
Venture capitalists hate investing in hardware startups for a myriad of reason... |
| 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... |
| 11.04.2013 | Like A CarWoo For Used Cars, AutoRef Raises $850K Seed Round | Pittsburgh-based startup AutoRef.com, which is something like a CarWoo for used vehicles, has raised $850,000 in seed funding. The round was led by an interesting, strategic investor: Deutsche Telekom, which owns the large European online c... |
| 29.10.2012 | Hiring Platform The Resumator Raises $2.1M Series B Round Led By Birchmere Ventures, Rincon Ventures Partners & Salesforce | Hiring platform The Resumator has raised a $2.1 million Series B round led by Birchmere Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners and Salesforce.com. Innovation Works and ff Venture Capital also participated in this round. Rincon Venture Partners w... |
| 25.10.2012 | From Gluten-Free Beer to Cosmetics: AlphaLab Accelerator Demos 6 Startups | AlphaLab, the startup accelerator based out of Pittsburgh, is graduating its latest class of six startups today.
The 20-week program provides $25,000 in funding and office space to selected companies.
“This cycle is … a reflection of the ro... |
| 22.08.2012 | Top 15 US Startup Accelerators Ranked; Y Combinator and TechStars on Top | Lately, you can’t scroll through Twitter or browse a tech blog without stumbling on another new startup accelerator or incubator program. And Tech Cocktail is no exception: we cover and promote these programs because they benefit entreprene... |
| 08.08.2012 | Treatspace wants to give doctors control of their online info, patients a trusted source | On Treatspace, doctors create a professional profile — much like they would do on LinkedIn — with verifiable facts about their practice. According to Matt Stadler, one of the company’s co-founders, details about the process and technology t... |
| 23.05.2012 | Demo Day: Pittsburgh’s AlphaLab Launches 6 Startups | AlphaLab was ranked as the 15th best accelerator in 2011, and today it added 6 new startups to its portfolio.
Since 2008, Innovation Works’ AlphaLab has offered 5-month programs in Pittsburgh to mentor and kickstart startups, with office sp... |
| 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... |
| 02.05.2011 | Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators & Incubators Ranked; TechStars, Y Combinator Top Rankings | There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with pure co-working spaces) as they offer entrepreneurs a way to spend a few months laser focused on a... |
| 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... |
| - | Treatspace wants to give doctors control of their online info, patients a trusted source | It happens all the time. People Google a doctor and find one website that says he’s an optometrist while another says he’s an ophthalmologist. Or, it says he’s located at an old address.
This kind of inconsistent or outdated information abo... |
