1st Place: SomaticLabs
2nd Place: Lilu
3rd Place: Lumir
Pittsburgh is one of the top contenders for becoming the next Silicon Valley. Frontier tech startups are launching here, perhaps unsurprisingly, due to its history as the Steel City. Reclaiming old warehouses and factories, startups are setting up shop to advance their visions in the East Coast.
Since Entrepreneur Magazine listed Pittsburgh as one of the top US cities for entrepreneurship in 2010, the city has leveraged that status by scaling its local startup ecosystem through a growing number of incubators, accelerators and university activity.