Pittsburgh Startup News for the Week of March 3rd
NAES and Gecko Announce $100Mil Deal Deploying AI and Robotics to Transform the American Power Grid - Gecko Robotics
Alphalab selects 15 startups to join its first combined accelerator cohort - PSN
Pitt is among the top 50 universities at producing research that leads to patents - PittWire
2025 Code for Pittsburgh Lenten Fish Fry Map - Code for Pittsburgh
NFL seeks local, diverse businesses for Pittsburgh draft - WESA
Prince William’s Duolingo message in Welsh for St David’s Day - The Times
Pittsburgh’s TOM chapters are creating 3D-printed prosthetics and adaptive devices - NextPittsburgh
Panther Life Sciences partners with Pitt's BioForge on a product used to administer vaccines and other medicines - Post-Gazette
The End of Programming as We Know It - O’Reilly
Why has Pittsburgh's economy stagnated since the pandemic? - KDKA
What’s Happening This Week:
Tuesday, March 4th
BioBreakfast
Riviera Building | 8 AM
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Digital Service Training Series Kickoff: Websites that Work
Chatham Eastside | Noon - 2 PM
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Thursday, March 6th
AI Alliance -Introducing Gneissweb: A State-Of-The-Art LLM Pre-training Dataset
Online | 10 AM - 11 AM
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‘Below the Belt’ Screening with Lotus Fertility, Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation & UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
The Oaks Theater | 5 PM - 8 PM
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Write the Docs Pittsburgh: March Happy Hour
Aslin Beer | 5:30 PM - 7 PM
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Friday, March 7th
Pitch and Run Pgh
Bakery Square | 7 AM - Group Run, 8 AM- Coffee
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Saturday, March 8th
Code & Coffee
Prototype Pgh | 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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In-Person Game Development Meetup
Looking for Group | 1:30 PM
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This Week’s Startup Job Opportunities:
ESTAT Actuation
Data & Testing Engineer | Lawrenceville
Apply Here
Epistemix
Full Stack Software Engineer | Lawrenceville
Apply Here
Gecko Robotics
Full Stack Software Engineer | Northside
Apply Here
Innovation Works
Accelerator Operations Lead | Lawrenceville
Apply Here
Treatspace
Sales Development Representative - Medical Software | East Liberty
Apply Here
Programs Worth Considering:
Ascender’s 2025 Incubation Program—a yearlong incubator that equips entrepreneurs with over $20k in business services, mentorship, and tailored programming through a Pre-Incubation Bootcamp, empowering you to launch, build, and grow a sustainable business.
Beta Testers / Early Feedback Wanted
Join the waitlist for Efficient Computer’s new effcc Compiler Playground.
Apply now to GraySwan’s Agent Red Teaming Challenge: design targeted adversarial test cases, expose decision-making vulnerabilities in AI agents, document your findings, and compete for a share of the $100k prize pool.