Operating CompanyUpstate New York

Uncaged Innovations

Operating Company · Albany, NY

Uncaged Innovations is a biomaterials company founded by Stephanie Downs and Dr. Xiaokun Wang that engineers premium, sustainable biomaterials and cruelty-free leather alternatives for global brands. The company combines natural science and technology to reimagine leather with sustainable biomaterials. While listed with an Albany, NY association, the company's LinkedIn lists New York as its headquarters.

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About Upstate NY

Upstate New York seeded Silicon Valley more directly than most people realize: IBM started in Endicott, GE's research labs sat in Schenectady, and Kodak and Xerox built deep imaging and photonics expertise in Rochester — engineers and ideas from all three migrated west and helped build what came after. Cornell, RPI, the University of Rochester, and the SUNY system now anchor a semiconductor, photonics, and drone corridor that's a direct descendant of that older industrial-research base, not a recent transplant.

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Total firms 51

VC / investors 14

Companies 31

Universities 6

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Semiconductors

Photonics

Drones