The Steel City Startup Guide — Pittsburgh Startup Directory
Our beloved city of Pittsburgh’s startup jungle is filled with so many incredible companies, job opportunities, and people that it can sometimes feel hard to know where to begin. So I made the Pittsburgh Startup Guide, the directory that I wished I had when I was starting out. I hope this helps you find what you are looking for in our thriving community.
If this guide is useful to you, please share it with others who you think it could help. If you have feedback or suggestions to improve this resource, send me a message and I’ll update it. Hope to see you at an event soon!
-Barry Rabkin
Director of Marketing @ Near Earth Autonomy (We’re Hiring!)
PITTSBURGH STARTUPS & JOB OPPORTUNITIES
STARTUPS & TECH JOB LISTINGS AngelList | Build412 Tech | Breakthrough Energy | CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship | CMU T&E Alumni | CMU Tepper School of Business — GEC Startup Recruiting Guide | Code & Supply | CrunchBase | Engineering Jobs | F6S | Get PGH | Growjo — Fastest Growing PGH Startups | Innovate PGH | Innovation Works | Midwest Startups | MKT PGH | Next PGH | Peer Signal Hiring Tracker | PGH Life Sciences | PGH Robotics Network | PGH Tech Council — Career Connector | Purpose.jobs | RoboticsCareer | RustBuilt | Startup.jobs | Teal | Technical.ly | UncrewedEngineeringJobs | Women in Tech | Y Combinator
SELF-DRIVING CAR COMPANIES Aurora | Latitude | Motional | Stack | Waymo
GENERAL JOB LISTINGS American Advertising Federation | American Advertising Federation AD2 PGH | AIGA PGH | American Marketing Association PGH | CareerBuilder | City Paper | Clearance Jobs | CraigsList | Dice | Glass Door | Google Jobs | iHireMarketing | Hired | Imagine PGH | Indeed | JobBoardSearch | Jobs2Careers | Ladders | Lensa | LinkedIn | Monster | Nexxt | American Advertising Federation PGH | PGH Post-Gazette | Recruit | Simply Hired | Snag A Job | StartWire | Tribune-Review | ZipRecruiter
INTERNSHIPS & ENTRY-LEVEL JOB LISTINGS American Advertising Federation PGH | Career Rookie | Chegg Internships | CMU Summer Internship Program | Handshake | Innovation Works Internships | Massive | OneDayOneJob | Venture For America | WayUp
NONPROFIT JOB LISTINGS 80,000 Hours | Glassdoor | Idealist | Indeed | Nonprofit Talent | PANO | Simply Hired | ZipRecruiter
REMOTE JOB LISTINGS 4 Day Week | Clearance Jobs | Dice | FlexJobs | Freelancer | Glassdoor | Himalayas | Indeed | JobBoardSearch | Jobspresso | Linkedin | Massive | OuterJoin | Power To Fly | Remote | RemoteOK | Startup.jobs | Toptal | Upwork | We Work Remotely | ZipRecruiter
PITTSBURGH STARTUP NEWS
PODCASTS Going Deep with Aaron Watson | Pitchwerks | TechVibe
MEDIA & MAILING LISTS Business Journal | Blue Sky — PGH International Airport News | CMU Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Keystone Edge | Next PGH | PGH.AI | PGH Inno | PGH Startup Community | PGH Technology Council — TEQ Magazine | Post Gazette — Technology | RustBuilt | Techstars Startup Digest | The Incline | Tribune-Review
PITTSBURGH STARTUP NETWORKING
GENERAL EVENTS, HACK-A-THONS, & PITCH COMPETITIONS American Marketing Association PGH | Build412 Tech | Cascadia Connect | Corporate Startup Lab — Demo Day | Going Deep Summit | Hacking4Humanity | Invest In Her | PGH Tech Council — Tech 50 | PGH TechFest | ProductCamp PGH | Richard King Mellon Foundation | Robotics Discovery Day | RustBuilt | Startup Week | Startup Weekend | Steel City Codefest | SteelHacks | Xchange PGH
UNIVERSITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EVENTS & PITCH COMPETITIONS CMU Venture Challenge — Demo Day | Duquesne — New Venture Challenge | LaunchCMU | McGinnis Venture Competition | PITT Randall Family Big Idea Competition | PITT Innovation Institute Competitions | PITT Innovation Institute Events | PITT She Innovates | CMU — Project Olympus — Show & Tell
STARTUP COMMUNITIES American Advertising Federation PGH | ASTRI Startup Ecosystem | Black Tech Nation | Build412 Tech | Code & Supply | Connection University | Hackers and Founders PGH | Millennial Entrepreneur Group | MKT PGH | PGH.AI | PGH Entrepreneurs Forum | PGH Robotics Network | PGH Tech Council — Events | PGH Tech Happy Hour | PGH Tech Meetups | PGH Startups & Entrepreneurs | Moss Generation | Open Coffee Club | Speak Freely PGH | Startup Drinks PGH | TIE PGH | Young Entrepreneur’s Society of PGH | Women in Tech
LIFE SCIENCES COMMUNITIES AlphaLab Health | BioBreakfast | Innovation Works | LifeX Labs | PGH Life Sciences Greenhouse | PGH Life Sciences Alliance | Women in Bio
PITTSBURGH STARTUP SERVICES & SUPPORT
GENERAL GUIDES Founder Institute PGH — Startup Ecosystem Canvas | RustBuilt | Steel City Startup Guide
ACCOUNTING Donnelly-Boland | Imperial | Siegel & Co. | Steel City | Wilke
COWORKING SPACES Drop Desk’s Best | Surf Office’s Top 10
GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGN Cassie Brkich | Green Comma | Hey Design Guy | ImageBox | Jay Nesbitt | Joe Zeff | Meg Kurdziolek | Ocreations | Red Tree | Sarah Karwoski | Step2 | TopHat | Werle Creative
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Base | Daedalus | Lexicon | Neoforma | SDI
Financial Modeling Foresight | Ibex
HR & Benefits Donnelly-Boland | JustWorks | Kuzneski | PGH Tech Council Benefits | Rhabit | Zenefits
LEGAL Cherin Law Offices | Clerky | Correa | JGCG | KD Schneider | Leech Tishman | Obermayer | Salisbury | Trellis | Venture Launch
MAKER SPACES City Paper Guide to PGH Maker Spaces | Assemble | Creation Labs | Fab Lab | HackPGH | Makers @ PITT | Makerspaces @ CMU | Protohaven | Prototype | Scale Shop @ Robotics Factory (Open to All IW Accelerator Companies)
MARKETING & GROWTH 412x972 | Built Different | Carney | Castus | Growosity | Piper Creative | Pitchwerks | Sparq | The Machine | Think Big
SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERS (SBDCs) Pennsylvania Universities — Small Business Development Center List
TECH TRAINING PROGRAMS Academy | Apprenti | PGH Drone Services | Tech Elevator
UNIVERSITY INNOVATION COMMERCIALIZATION CMU Center for Tech Transfer and Enterprise Creation | PITT Innovation Institute
PITTSBURGH STARTUP FUNDING
ACCELERATORS Alpha Lab | Alphalab Gear | Alphalab Health | Ascender | First Leap | Founder Institute | Gateways | LifeX | Robotics Factory | Social Venture Partners PGH | Startup Boost
ACADEMIC ACCELERATORS Chatham Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship | CMU Project Olympus | Dorm Room Fund | Duquesne University | Pantherlab Works | PITT Big Idea Center | PITT Pantherlab Works | PSU Corner | CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship | Startable
CROWDFUNDING Indiegogo PGH | Kickstarter PGH | Shine Registry
NON-PROFIT RESOURCES Carnegie Library Nonprofit Resource Center | Catch A Fire | New Sun Rising | Social-Impact Investment Pitch Competition | SVP Pittsburgh
REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INCUBATORS Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute | Arctaris Impact Investors | ASTRI PGH | Ben Franklin Technology Partners | Bridgeway Capital | CMU Swartz Center | Fortyx80 | Idea Foundry | Inclusive Innovation | Innovate PGH | Innovation Works | Invest PGH | IUP Incubator | Localize Capital | Linden Pointe eCenter | PGH Civic Innovation | PGH Gateways | PGH Innovation District | PGH Lab | PGH Life Sciences | PGH Region | Riverside | Startup Alleghenies | Steel Bridge Labs | UPMC Enterprises | Urban Redevelopment Authority
VENTURE CAPITAL EVENTS & GROUPS 3 Rivers Venture Fair | PA Angel Venture Fair | PGH VC Association | AI & Robotics Venture Fair
VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS 1787 | 3PR | 99 Tartans | 412 | Adams | Birchmere | Black Tech Nation | BTVC |Blue Tree Venture Fund | Cathain | Chalet Capital | Draper Triangle | EquityNet | Go PA | Grouse Ridge | Incline Equity | Innovation Works | Keiretsu Forum | LifeX | Magarac | Mountain State | Next Act Fund | PCG | PGH Equity Partners | Possibilian | Preis | Reinforced | Riverfront | Robotics Hub | Rockwell | The Fund | URA
VENTURE STUDIOS 24 and Up | Aiken House | Carnegie Foundry
If this guide is useful to you, please share it with others who you think it could help. If you have feedback or suggestions to improve this resource, send me a message and I’ll update it. Hope to see you at an event soon!
-Barry Rabkin
Director of Marketing @ Near Earth Autonomy (We’re Hiring!)
