Last Friday, Innovation Works (IW) announced the creation of AlphaLab, a rapid-product development accelerator for software, game development and internet-related startups. As mentioned in these articles in the Pittsburgh Business Times and Tribune-Review, we are hopeful that AlphaLab will serve as a focal point for software developers in the Pittsburgh region, and can [...]
Jack Thorne, an important figure in the modern history of Pittsburgh tech entrepreneurship passed away this week. Jack’s decades of work helped to create much of what we now view as Pittsburgh’s entrepreneurial infrastructure. For anyone who didn’t know Jack, below is an email from Frank Demmler, a friend and former colleage of [...]
For several years, Innovation Works (IW) has been tracking data about venture investment in the Pittsburgh region, which we view as one of the most objective ways to measure the health of the local early-stage tech community. Our 2006 year-end report noted that the region’s 2006 VC investment total of $230 million was the highest [...]