Top Pittsburgh Tech Companies

Duolingo

Pittsburgh - Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages. The platform enables anyone to learn languages for free, though they can also pay $7 each month for a premium service that removes ads, delivers offline access, and more. It also claims 30 million users are actively learning languages on its platform, and it has emerged as one of the most downloaded educational apps globally. Duolingo provides "Duolingo for Schools" with features designed to allow teachers to track their students. It uses many services in the Amazon Web Services suite of products, including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, nearly 200 virtual instances in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). The company uses the freemium model; the app and the website are accessible without charge, although Duolingo also offers a premium service for a fee.

Shield AI

San Diego - Shield AI is an artificial intelligence company that serves the national security sector. The company was founded in May 2015 with the mission to protect service members and civilians with artificially intelligent systems by Andrew Reiter, Brandon, Tseng, and Ryan Tseng. Shield AI is headquartered in San Diego, CA and maintains research offices in Pittsburgh, PA. The company develops AI software and systems intended to protect lives.

Gecko Robotics

Pittsburgh - Gecko Robotics develops and operates robots to automate infrastructure inspections. Today, Gecko is focusing on industrial plant inspections using non-destructive testing technology. Every year, over $100 Billion is spent on industrial maintenance. Gecko has developed wall-climbing robots that dramatically reduce downtime resulting in millions saved. Traditionally, these inspections were done by humans resulting in death and injury. Gecko Robotics uses revolutionary robotics technology for industrial infrastructure inspections. The company's wall-climbing robots and inspection teams perform non-destructive testing for clients across the globe. It protects and maintains civilization’s most critical infrastructure through machines and platforms. Gecko’s robots are about enabling industrial companies to carry out regular inspections and capture data at a speed and scale that existing manual methods would be incapable of and minimize the need for humans to engage in hazardous activities to inspect hard-to-reach equipment. Gecko Robotics was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

RoadRunner

RoadRunner is the new standard in waste + recycling. Modern waste + recycling means tech-enhanced, fully-managed commercial waste and recycling services to streamline your operations, drive cost savings and increase landfill diversion to accelerate you on the road to zero waste.

Idelic

Pittsburgh - Idelic is a driver management platform designed to consolidate fleet data systems and automate compliance processes. The platform helps prevent crashes, reduce driver turnover, and lower insurance costs by unlocking the power of data organization, artificial intelligence, and smart driver management. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Astrobotic

Pittsburgh - Astrobotic Technology Inc. is a Pittsburgh based company that delivers affordable space robotics technology and planetary missions.

Fifth Season

Stamford - Fifth Season Financial offers a viable solution to combat the financial strain for those living with cancer and other advanced-stage illnesses. The Funds for Living and Giving (FLAG) Program utilizes an asset often-overlooked – a life insurance policy. The ultimate goal of the FLAG Program is to help relieve financial stress so that clients can focus on their health and quality of life. Fifth Season Financial has eased this financial burden for more than 500 patients nationwide. Unlike a viatical settlement, clients are able to secure an advancement (Funds for Living) and leave funds for their beneficiaries (Funds for Giving).

Alung

Pittsburgh - ALung Technologies is a medical device manufacturing company that develops intracorporeal and extracorporeal gas exchange devices for the treatment of acute and chronic respiratory disorders. Its technology utilizes Hemolung, an extracorporeal gas exchange device that circulates blood through a small catheter; and Hattler Catheter, which is placed within the central venous bloodstream in the primary vein that returns blood to the heart and is inserted directly through the skin into the vein. The company was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Locomation

Locomation develops safe and reliable autonomous trucking solutions.

Petuum

Pittsburgh - Petuum is provides innovative industry solutions using the most advanced artificial intelligence technologies that have been out of reach for most businesses. Petuum’s solutions combine powerful technology, world-class talent and customer domain-specific knowledge to solve complex real-world challenges in a simple, cost-effective manner. These are operationalized on the Petuum Symphony AI platform, which delivers distributed and parallelized data processing as well as machine learning and deep learning workflows, at scale in every environment. The Petuum development platform and gallery of AI building blocks work with any programming language and any type of data, allowing managers and analysts to quickly build AI applications without any coding, while engineers and coders can further re-program applications as needed. With Petuum, many AI applications and hardware can be created and managed from a single laptop or terminal, driving higher productivity, better service, lower costs, and faster delivery. By standardizing AI solutions, Petuum lowers the barrier to AI adoption and allows for the integration of AI into every industry.

Noveome Biotherapeutics

Pittsburgh - Noveome Biotherapeutics is a clinical-stage company focusing on breakthrough therapies for the regenerative repair of inflamed or damaged tissues.

Jarus Technologies

Pittsburgh - Jarus Technologies is a leader in digital and core system transformation solutions for the insurance industry. Their metadata driven Unified Digital Framework enables insurers to create powerful and rich mobile applications and self-service portals. Their innovative, component based Insurance Systems Framework® allows insurers to create their own unique and flexible policy admin system.Jarus helps corporations automate business processes, improve efficiency and cut costs. Backed by a highly-skilled team with extensive domain and technology expertise, Jarus assists customers develop flexible, modern, service-oriented systems that improve agility and profitability.

Carnegie Learning

Pittsburgh - Carnegie Learning is a leading publisher of innovative, research-based math curricula for middle school, high school, and post-secondary students. Providing differentiated instruction to schools across the United States, Carnegie Learning is helping students to succeed in math, creating a gateway to graduation and preparing them for the 21st century.

Forever

Pittsburgh - Forever.com is permanent digital storage, and sharing service, a place to pass down their family’s most important stories, values, and traditions to children and theirs. Upload their cherished photos, children’s artwork, scrapbook pages (and soon videos, recipes, and more), and celebrate them with the people that matter most. Whether they're honoring the life of an ancestor or curating the special moments of their own life, Forever gives them the opportunity to easily organize, share and preserve the stories of their loved ones that will make a difference for generations. Forever is driven by the belief that family stories should never be lost, and families should be able to connect and share in a secure, private environment. Forever does not mine users’ data or sell personal information to third-party advertisers.

Applied Cloud Systems

Carnegie - Applied Cloud Systems is an IT consulting firm that offers cloud migration, application infrastructure and data analytics solutions to businesses.

JazzHR

Pittsburgh - JazzHR is powerful, user-friendly and affordable recruiting software built to help growing companies exceed their recruiting goals. JazzHR's best-in-class solution replaces manual, time-consuming hiring tasks with intuitive tools and automation, empowering hiring managers to recruit and hire the right talent faster. To learn more about JazzHR, visit jazzhr.com.

Locomation

Locomation develops safe and reliable autonomous trucking solutions.

National Robotics Engineering Center

Pittsburgh - We Engineer Robotics Solutions

Gecko Robotics

Pittsburgh - Gecko Robotics develops and operates robots to automate infrastructure inspections. Today, Gecko is focusing on industrial plant inspections using non-destructive testing technology. Every year, over $100 Billion is spent on industrial maintenance. Gecko has developed wall-climbing robots that dramatically reduce downtime resulting in millions saved. Traditionally, these inspections were done by humans resulting in death and injury. Gecko Robotics uses revolutionary robotics technology for industrial infrastructure inspections. The company's wall-climbing robots and inspection teams perform non-destructive testing for clients across the globe. It protects and maintains civilization’s most critical infrastructure through machines and platforms. Gecko’s robots are about enabling industrial companies to carry out regular inspections and capture data at a speed and scale that existing manual methods would be incapable of and minimize the need for humans to engage in hazardous activities to inspect hard-to-reach equipment. Gecko Robotics was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Bacharach

New Kensington - Bacharach is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and service of advanced test and measurement instrumentation. For over 100 years the Bacharach brand has served the HVAC/R industry with products made in the USA and designed for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The company’s extensive product line includes instruments that detect, measure, and record combustion, refrigerant and environmental gases, temperature, humidity, and other air quality and safety parameters. A full line of refrigerant recovery equipment for residential, industrial, and automotive applications further extends Bacharach’s family of products.

RoadRunner

RoadRunner is the new standard in waste + recycling. Modern waste + recycling means tech-enhanced, fully-managed commercial waste and recycling services to streamline your operations, drive cost savings and increase landfill diversion to accelerate you on the road to zero waste.

Carnegie Robotics

Pittsburgh - Carnegie Robotics is a leading provider of advanced robotics sensors and platforms for defense, agriculture, mining, infrastructure and energy applications. CRL was founded by Dr. John Bares and several colleagues in May 2010 as a spinout of Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), the world’s premier research and development organization for advanced field robotics, machine vision and autonomy. Dr. Bares recognized that field robotics markets would not reach their potential until companies emerged who could effectively engineer, manufacture, supply and support the critical sensors, software and components that form robotic systems.

ForAllSecure

Pittsburgh - ForAllSecure was founded on the mission to make the world's software secure. Utilizing patented technology from a decade of research at Carnegie Mellon University, ForAllSecure delivers an advanced fuzz testing solution. Fortune 1000 companies in aerospace, automotive, and high-tech partner with ForAllSecure for scalable, autonomous security testing that keeps pace with increasing development speeds and deployment frequencies. DARPA deemed ForAllSecure the winner in the Cyber Grand Challenge, and MIT Technology Review named ForAllSecure in the 50 Smartest Companies list. To learn more about how to efficiently and effectively secure mission-critical software, please visit www.forallsecure.com