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OctaPulse

AI Application

OctaPulse is an aquaculture technology company (YC W26) that develops AI-powered computer vision systems to automate quality inspection in fish hatcheries. Its platform automates juvenile fish grading, deformity detection, and broodstock phenotyping to improve efficiency and outcomes for fish farms.

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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