Resources
The Pittsburgh ecosystem is built from a wide array of resources for all types of entrepreneurs.

Coworking Facilities
Alloy 26
North Side
Providing great companies with office space, amenities and programming to help you build the next big thing!

Avenu
Uptown
Pittsburgh nonprofit coworking campus. Dedicated to equitable revitalization of the 5th/Forbes corridor & supporting startups & social impact.

Beauty Shoppe
A 24/7 network of neighborhood coworking and office spaces, designed for individuals, small businesses, and enterprise-level corporations.

Catapult
Lawrenceville
A coworking community of independent workers with an awesome space in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville. We are designers, developers, writers, entrepreneurs, comedians, and creatives of all types.

Code and Supply
Friendship
Software events, communities, and media that people are excited to be a part of.

Factory Unlocked
North Side
A product start-up manufacturing co-working space offering affordable, accessible tools & tech, designed to meet 21st century market economy needs.

Industrious Pittsburgh
Downtown
Elegant and welcoming work environments for growing businesses and established professionals. Private glass offices surrounding beautiful communal space.

Novel Coworking Golden Triangle
Downtown
Private offices, co-working, and meeting space for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Serendipity Labs: 3 Crossings
Strip District
Accelerates innovation with a network of on-demand private and collaborative workspaces.

Spaces Bakery Square
East Liberty
A creative platform for an international entrepreneurial community. We offer dynamic work areas for you to think, create and grow.

The Shop
Homewood
A community workspace for creatives and entrepreneurs, artists, change makers, and anyone else building something with their best talents.

Work Hard Pittsburgh
Allentown
A cooperative of digital workers. Our CoOp supports businesses of all sizes by providing access to talent, capacity, & capital.

Accelerators / Incubators / Programs
AlphaLab
East Liberty
A startup accelerator providing seed capital, mentoring & space to innovative companies.

AlphaLab Gear
East Liberty
A hardware and robotic startup accelerator that provides physical product companies with investment, mentorship and connections.

Ascender
East Liberty
A hub for Pittsburgh’s starters and builders, providing programming, incubation, and coworking.

Founder Institute of Pittsburgh
Downtown
Premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program.

Idea Foundry
Oakland
A non-profit, economic development organization that invests in and works with entrepreneurs to transform innovative business ideas into commercial activities, and leverage global programs to attract talent and investment to the region.

LifeX Labs
South Side
A purpose-built space for collaboration and invention in the Life Sciences.

New Sun Rising
Millvale
Provides programs and services which help social businesses and nonprofits plan, connect, and access resources to build vibrant communities.

PGH Labs
Downtown
The PGH Lab program provides a platform where local startups use technology to make the City of Pittsburgh more efficient, sustainable, and inclusive.

SteelBridge Labs
Strip District
An early-stage FinTech incubator. Organically grown from our experience as world-class management consultants at SteelBridge Consulting, the founders of SteelBridge Laboratories (The Lab) identified the need to create a welcoming community for financial services technology companies.

Investment Firms / Groups
Birchmere Ventures
Partners with entrepreneurs to help build high-growth technology companies.

BlueTree Allied Angels
A members-only group of accredited investors focused on funding promising startup companies.

Comeback Capital
Innovation. Talent. Hustle. Small town. Big city. It doesn’t matter. Your work. Your life.Your customers. Your partners. Your network. It is all here in the Midwest.

Draper Triangle
Providing venture capital to extraordinary midwest entrepreneurs who are changing the world. Proud member of the Draper Network.

Grouse Ridge Capital
A single family office that acts as both an investment vehicle and advisor.

Innovation Works
Seed-stage investor in Southwestern PA, with 370+ portfolio companies, and the organization behind AlphaLab, AlphaLab Gear, and Startable PGH.

Keiretsu Forum Pittsburgh
Offers access to a wealth of international angel funding opportunities.

Localize Capital
Localize Capital positions regional stakeholders at the forefront of creating a self-sustaining economic movement that creates a blueprint for growth without needing to seek validation, capital, or resources from the coasts.

Next Act Fund
Women Investment Community supporting local Women-owned & led businesses.

Riverfront Ventures
An early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in southwestern PA.

University Programs
Blast Furnace
University of Pittsburgh
The student accelerator that provides student entrepreneurs with the knowledge and skills they need to commercialize their ideas.

Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship
Chatham University
Creates economic opportunities for women through entrepreneurial education and training, mentoring, and networking.

Project Olympus
Carnegie Mellon University
A startup incubator program that encourages and supports entrepreneurship on campus. It helps faculty, students, and staff turn their cutting-edge research and great ideas into startups.

Community Groups
Build412 Tech
Build412 Tech is Pittsburgh’s most collaborative, cooperative and interactive community of technology professionals.

Moss Generation
An exclusive event group for early-stage, investable tech startup founders in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Entrepreneurs Forum
Their mission is to serve the Pittsburgh entrepreneurial community by connecting people through events focused on different facets of the region’s entrepreneurial development.

Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association (PVCA)
The PVCA fosters the growth of venture capital and businesses in western PA through educational, investment and networking programs and events.

TiE Pittsburgh
A non-profit organization for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, we foster entrepreneurship through networking, education, funding and mentoring.

Women in Technology Pittsburgh
WIT PGH offers a fresh new take on the #womenintech movement and continues to authentically build connections with folks from all ages and industry backgrounds in order to create and retain a pipeline of strong talent.