Biotech / PharmaPittsburgh

CranioSense

Biotech / Pharma

CranioSense is a clinical-stage medical device company developing IPASS, a non-invasive technology that measures intracranial pressure in seconds using a forehead patch and handheld reader — without drilling into the skull or inserting a sensor. The company is on a mission to enable on-demand neurological insight and treatment.

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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

Autonomy

Deep Tech