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Oya Apparel

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Oya Apparel (also known as Oya Femtech Apparel) is a femtech activewear company that designs cooling, moisture-control underwear and apparel to address feminine health issues through patented fabrics and designs. The company received backing from investor ZeroTo510 for its plan to detect infections through its garments.

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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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