Biotech / PharmaPittsburgh

Headstrait Labs

Biotech / Pharma

HeadStrait Labs is a Pennsylvania-based life sciences company focused on overlooked areas of healthcare, starting with emergency transport. The company is building the EVAC-1 with SMARTmotion technology to bring real-time data and accountability to patient handling and transport.

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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 310

VC / investors 6

Companies 296

Schools 8

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Robotics

Autonomy

Deep Tech