Top tech startups to watch
The ingenuity of entrepreneurs in Pittsburgh is changing lives, simplifying daily tasks and improving our health.
The region is on the forefront of promising technologies and products, from a polka-dot robotic stroller that unfolds in a snap to apps that easily teach foreign languages to the world and surgical glues that hasten healing. These companies are growing and supplying the region with jobs.
With dozens gaining traction, narrowing the list to a worthy handful was no easy feat. To assist in the selection, local business leaders and investors were asked to offer nominations.
The following 14 companies were mentioned repeatedly as among the rising stars based on their successful track record in raising money, employee hires and new product launches and sales.
In a two-part series, here are the Top 14 companies to watch in Pittsburgh in 2014, beginning with the first seven.
Aquion Energy
Industrial-strength batteries that go easy on the environment are one of the most promising areas in energy today. Aquion makes large-scale, energy storage systems so impressive that Microsoft’s Bill Gates ponied up his own funds to get the enterprise off the starting block last year.
Aquion is currently ramping up production at its battery factory in the former Sony site in Westmoreland County and has raised a whopping 0 million, million in 2013 alone.
The production line will be running at full capacity by later this year and will have the ability to produce over 200 megawatt-hours of storage per year. Aquion currently employs 125 people and will continue to hire throughout the year.
The plant is expected to create more than 400 skilled manufacturing and engineering jobs. Its headquarters is in the old railcar building in Lawrenceville.
Avere Systems
Facilitating fast and seamless connections with The Cloud (aka data storage) is what Avere is all about. The company is on the forefront of data storage systems, revolutionizing the way enterprise applications interact and network within the data storage environment to provide higher capacity storage and greater flexibility at a better price point.
Ron Bianchini is leading the charge from his command post on the North Shore in the Old Del Monte building. His force is 104 strong with noses-to-the-grindstone, building cutting-edge systems for some of the biggest names in the computing world, several of which are never-to-be-named.
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Q&A
When a technician repairs a nail inside a tire, do they take the nail out or push it inside the tire?
i just had a nail taken out of my tire. when i was watching the tech do it, it looked like he cut off the top part of the nail to the tire (by accident maybe) and stuck a piece of metal inside where the nail went to push the remainder of the nail back inside the tire. is this normal procedure if the top part of the nail was cut off accidentally when trying to pull it out?
That's a quick and dirty fix. Some shops will do this to avoid having to dismount the tire, remove the nail properly, and remount it. IT should NEVER be done that way!!! Having a nail floating around inside the tire can damage the tire, leading to failure, i.e., blowout.
I don't see any way to "accidentally" cut off the top of a nail. It takes some serious effort.
Sounds like you witnessed a bad repair job.
