The application period is now open for the fourth iteration of the city’s popular startup incubator, PGH Lab.
Through partnerships with the Department of Innovation & Performance, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the Housing Authority, the Pittsburgh Parking Authority and the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, the city connects startups with local institutions.
Companies can then explore ways to use their beta-stage technology to make local government more efficient, transparent, sustainable and inclusive through a three or four month pilot.
“I am happy to see the program growing and also being replicated in other cities. We want to continue learning and working with our local entrepreneurs, give them access to city government and resources, and together with city employees create and inspire solutions that impact people and improve their quality of life,” Mayor Bill Peduto said in a prepared statement.
Since the program began in 2016, previous participants have included Point Breeze-based Clean Robotics, which tested Trashbot — a smart garbage receptacle that separates recyclables from trash with machine learning and artificial intelligence — in the City-County Building Downtown; NetBeez, a Bloomfield-based company that helps network engineers manage complex infrastructure issues; and South Side-based HiberSense, which creates smart thermostats.
The application period closes Sept. 28 at 5 p.m.
Courtney Linder: clinder@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1707. Twitter: @LinderPG.
First Published: August 31, 2018, 4:49 p.m.
