Investor / VCUpstate New York

Rochester Angel Network

Investor / VC · Rochester, NY

Rochester Angel Network is a group of over 60 accredited investors founded in 2005 that provides early-stage funding to high-growth startups in Upstate New York through member investments in pooled funds and direct company investments. The organization connects entrepreneurs with product-market fit seeking capital with angel investors interested in startup opportunities.

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Upstate New York

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About Upstate NY

Upstate New York seeded Silicon Valley more directly than most people realize: IBM started in Endicott, GE's research labs sat in Schenectady, and Kodak and Xerox built deep imaging and photonics expertise in Rochester — engineers and ideas from all three migrated west and helped build what came after. Cornell, RPI, the University of Rochester, and the SUNY system now anchor a semiconductor, photonics, and drone corridor that's a direct descendant of that older industrial-research base, not a recent transplant.

Region Stats

Total firms 137

VC / investors 61

Companies 59

Schools 17

Known For

Semiconductors

Photonics

Drones