Defense / AerospacePittsburgh

Beyond Reach Labs

Defense / Aerospace

Beyond Reach Labs builds deployable solar arrays that deliver orders-of-magnitude more power per launch, providing scalable energy infrastructure for orbital and space applications. Founded in 2023 by Pele Collins and Mitchell Fogelson, the company is a Y Combinator W26 alumnus.

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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

Universities 7

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Robotics

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Deep Tech