From CMU to UPMC to the local startups, there are movers and shakers everywhere — getting access to the right people is easy. Microsoft, which has an office in Pittsburgh, is partnering with UPMC to integrate its technology in three new “digital hospitals” built on UPMC campuses. Pittsburgh spawned several successful companies over the past decades, but most were acquired or no longer have a big presence in the city. “It was so beautiful, so clean, and everyone was so nice.”. One of the top educational institutions globally, CMU has long attracted some of world’s biggest brains. by Taylor Soper on January 25, 2018 at 7:33 amJanuary 25, 2018 at 11:22 am. “And there’s no better place than Pittsburgh to look at how that transformation is happening.”. A high-performance envelope provides maximum thermal efficiency and up to 96% daylight autonomy. 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Pittsburgh saw a 24 percent spike in tech-related employment from 2011-2016, with an average salary of $80,432, double that of the median household income. “Pittsburgh should probably get more attention,” he said. Look for on-the-ground reporting as we visit companies big and small; meet the city’s talented innovators; experience what it’s like to live in Pittsburgh; explore the challenges facing the city; and assess its chances of landing Amazon’s second headquarters. “Hazelwood Green is a living laboratory for the new economy, bridging the gap between research and practice in today’s fast-changing, technology-driven marketplace,” said Farnam Jahanian, president of Carnegie Mellon University. Once an American manufacturing epicenter that nearly imploded in the 1980s as the mighty steel mills closed, Pittsburgh … After working for Google in both Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley, in 2012 he prepared to launch Duolingo, a language learning startup that has raised $108 million. 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And by K&L Gates, a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents. Today, few realize that this industry thrived in the area alongside the steel industry, and actually employed more people than than the steel mills. “You can live like a king here compared to what it costs in San Francisco,” said Sebastian, the Birchmere Ventures co-founder. Amazon, Facebook, Ford, and Yelp have opened their own satellite offices in the past two years. “If there’s one industry that really has a lot of potential to have maximal impact if technology is leveraged well, then it’s the $3.5 trillion industry that is healthcare,” he said. “They felt like they had to go to Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or one of the tech corridors.”, Andrew Moore, the dean of CMU’s computer science school, who first arrived on campus as a professor in 1993, said some people affiliated with the university “got addicted to being in Pittsburgh.”. There’s enough weirdness and charm that some have even dubbed Pittsburgh the “Portland of the East.”. Bethlehem Steel was founded as the Saucona Iron Co. in 1857. By Kiley Koscinski/WESA ; A 133,000-square-foot solar array is now functional at Hazelwood Green’s Mill 19. What else is missing from Pittsburgh’s tech scene? Let us know. Pittsburgh-based companies are raising money, pulling in $302 million in venture capital last year — buoyed by a $93 million round for AI startup Petuum — which marked the region’s largest amount of funding in 17 years, according to data from the latest PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree report.