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.

Locomation

Locomation develops safe and reliable autonomous trucking solutions.

National Robotics Engineering Center

Pittsburgh - We Engineer Robotics Solutions

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

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.

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.

iraLogix

Pittsburgh - iraLogix, an advanced, institutional IRA record-keeping and trading technology offering web-based institutional IRA record-keeping services. By providing the industry's only end-to-end, fully paperless system, they allow their clients to provide high-quality IRA products that offer seamless access to professional advice, education, and institutionally priced investments regardless of account size. iraLogix was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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.

Noveome Biotherapeutics

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

Aurora

Pittsburgh - Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule therapeutics targeting the toxic proteins that cause the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative diseases of the human brain. Toxic proteins play a crucial role in a large class of disease targets, and there are currently no therapeutics available to prevent toxic protein accumulation or block their destructive effects. Cognition is founded on the unique combination of biological expertise around these targets, including proprietary assays that emphasize functional responses and proprietary medicinal chemistry that insures novel, high quality small-molecule drug candidates.

PPG Industries

Pittsburgh - PPG Industries is an American global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products, specialty materials, chemicals, glass, and fiberglass. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PPG operates in more than 70 countries around the globe. Sales in 2012 were $15.2 billion. It is headquartered in PPG Place, a popular office and retail complex in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is known for its glass facade designed by Philip Johnson. Founded in 1883 by Captain John Baptiste Ford and John Pitcairn, Jr., as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company at Creighton, Pennsylvania; the company changed its name to PPG Industries, Inc., on 19 December 1968 to show its diverse offerings. Ditzler Color Company, established in 1902 in Detroit as an automotive color concern, was purchased by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (now PPG) in 1928. In 1990 it founded and continues to operate Transitions Optical as a joint venture with Essilor. On 2 January 2008, PPG acquired the SigmaKalon Group of companies for $3.2 billion from private investment firm Bain Capital, strongly increasing its paint and specialty coatings business. On April 1, 2013 PPG completed the acquisition of AkzoNobel North American architectural coatings business including Glidden, Liquid Nails, and Flood brands.

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.

TrueSense Marketing

Warrendale - At TrueSense Marketing, we measure our impact in lives redeemed. Patients healed. Families fed. Veterans honored. Headquartered outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, TrueSense Marketing is a full-service direct marketing agency with 200 fundraising pros. Our purpose: - To help donors satisfy their innate desire to turn their compassion into action - To help our non-profit clients understand and leverage evolving donor behaviors and analytics, and to utilize communication channels to best generate the net revenue they need to fulfill their mission - To help our employees flourish professionally in a culture of trust, respect, and learning.

Applied Cloud Systems

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

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.

Patron Technology

Wexford - Patron Technology’s virtually limitless event technology solution is redefining what it means to be an event creator. With our ever-evolving suite of tools, you’ll take control of your entire event, transform the attendee experience, and be a leader in your industry. Whether you want to create an in-person event, a fully virtual experience, or anything in between, our technology and team are fully equipped with everything you need.

Locomation

Locomation develops safe and reliable autonomous trucking solutions.

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.

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.

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.

National Robotics Engineering Center

Pittsburgh - We Engineer Robotics Solutions

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