Biotech / PharmaPittsburgh

Korion Health

Biotech / Pharma

Korion Health is a startup that develops affordable at-home healthcare monitoring tools, including an electronic stethoscope for heart and lung screenings. The company won the $1 million Hult Prize in September 2024 and is affiliated with the University of Maryland's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship.

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About Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh's tech economy grew out of Carnegie Mellon's robotics program, one of the oldest and deepest in the country, with the University of Pittsburgh's own research base sitting right alongside it — two major universities anchoring one relatively compact city. It's also a place that didn't start as a tech hub at all: this was steel country for a century, and that engineering-and-manufacturing inheritance still shows up in what the region builds — robotics, autonomy, and deep tech that comes out of hard industrial know-how, not a recent software boom.

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Total firms 299

VC / investors 6

Companies 286

Schools 7

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Robotics

Autonomy

Deep Tech