Operating CompanyUpstate New York

HeronAI

Operating Company · Buffalo, NY

HeronAI is a Buffalo, NY-based AI company that connects fragmented business data and automates financial reporting, transforming Excel and QuickBooks exports into ready-to-use dashboards and action-ready insights. The company was a 2024 43North competition winner.

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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 51

VC / investors 14

Companies 31

Universities 6

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Semiconductors

Photonics

Drones