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Venture groups: Sustained investment needed in Knowledge District
Leaders from Cleaveland Clinic Innovation in Ohio, Innovation Works in Pittsburgh and University City Science Center in Philadelphia are in agreement that Rhode Island is well-positioned to expand its creative economy with sustained investments from ... Read More
Local team designs video game based on transplantation
"Doctor Transplant" is a resource management game developed by social media company MogiMe for Howard Degenholtz, associate professor of health policy management at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health. The video game... Read More
InsuranceZebra wants to be the Kayak of the online insurance search
AlphaLab company InsuranceZebra hopes to offer a more transparent approach to shopping for insurance online. Read more in PopCity... Read More
Expanding+Hiring: Industry Weapon, GatesmanMarmion+Dave and kWantera
Three Pittsburgh companies have recently announced expansions and hiring: GatesmanMarmion_Dave, Industry Weapon and kWantera (fka MobileFusion). Read more in PopCity... Read More
Blue Belt Technologies nabs CE Mark; ready for Eruopean sales
Blue Belt Technologies Inc. is ready to get its flagship product in the hands of European surgeons after receiving approval from the European Union of its CE Mark. Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times... Read More
Western Pennsylvania firms strive to provide cyber security solutions
Several companies and researchers in Western Pennsylvania work to identify threats to cyber security and recommend precautions that businesses, consumers and government can take. Wombat Security is of those companies. Read more in the Pittsburg... Read More
Plan, vision helped guide North Shore startup’s success
Cohera is a North Shore-based medical device company that, in five years under Patrick Daly's leadership, developed the absorbable surgical adhesive TissuGlu. Cohera has gone from a one-employee startup in 2006 to a rapidly groing company that ... Read More
Western Pennsylvania seen as haven for entrepreneurs
The support and resources Pittsburgh offers to people with enterprising ideas encouraged Justin Mares to stay in Pittsburgh to launch RoommateFit. Read more in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review... Read More
Western Pennsylvania boasts long record of nurturing talent, ideas
The Pittsburgh region, since its founding more than 250 years ago, has grown to become a major supporter of medicine, robotics and enterprise. ShowClix is just one of those examples. Read more in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review... Read More
A new name and a new office for MobileFusion
MobileFusion, the energy management software firm, change its name to kWantera and the team moved from the South Side to the Cigar Factory in the Strip District. Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times... Read More
