Digital Dream Labs

Pittsburgh, PA

DDL is the leading provider of hands-on EdTech for children ages 4-9. The company’s products satisfy the need for engaging, language- and system-agnostic designs that allow pre-readers to interface with both on-screen environments and many smart devices.

Founders: Jacob Hanchar (MBA ‘13)

99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Dave Mawhinney (MBA ‘90)

Education, Robotics99 Tartans
Revvo

San Mateo, CA

Revvo created state-of-the-art technology designed to minimize the stress and guesswork that comes with your tire management to keep your drivers on the road. In addition, we help reduce downtime and the cost of your tire management by helping you know and keep track of the status of your tires at all times.

Founders: Sunjay Dodani

99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Dave Mawhinney

Mach9 Robotics

Pittsburgh, PA

Mach9 Robotics was created to build software and integrated sensor hardware to understand how the world is changing. Our team met at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and is based in Pittsburgh, PA. We are building the operating system for cities to equip engineering, contractors, utilities, and other stakeholders with accurate and timely information to make critical decisions. Our mission is to build technology prevents infrastructure failures.

Founders: Alexander Baikovitz(CS, ‘21), Haowen Shi (CS, ‘21)

99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Bruce Gebhardt (MBA ‘84)

Locomation

Pittsburgh, PA

The name Locomation is the convergence of locomotion and automation. It isn’t fixated on one single transport mode, but rather describes our grand vision: automation for anything that moves. We began our journey with middle mile freight automation, the most critical link in the supply chain and the one best suited to integrate human-guided autonomous technology. We’re creating capacity in a world that’s demanding more, faster every day. And from here, we plan to go everywhere autonomous transportation is needed.

Founders: Dr. Çetin Meriçli, Dr. Tekin Meriçli, Michael George, Venkataramanan Rajagopalan, Prof. Dr. Alonzo Kelly

99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Tony Thai (MBA)

Fifth Season

PITTSBURGH, PA

Fifth Season is transforming the indoor vertical farming industry with automation and analytics. The company's mobile robotic solution and software management system increases labor efficiency by 30-50%, increases crop output by 1.5x, and provides an unprecedented level of data collection and analytics to improve farm operations.

Founders: Austin Webb, (TPR ‘17)
99 Tartan Alumni Lead: Robb Myer, (TPR ‘06)
Follow on Investor: Drive Capital

Blastpoint

PITTSBURGH, PA

Powering the customer journey with predictive intelligence, BlastPoint identifies predictive personas that show companies who they should target and how to most effectively engage with them.

Founders: Alison Alvarez, (MBA ‘16, CS ‘07) Tomer Borenstein, (CS ‘16)

99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Mario Reimers (MBA ‘99)

Software99 Tartans
Fractional

San Francisco, CA

Fractional lowers the cost-of-entry and time commitment for real estate investing. It's never been easier to be a rental property owner.

Founders: Stella Han (CS ‘18), Carlos Treviño

99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Severin Hacker (CS PhD ‘14)
Co-investors: YC

Real Estate99 Tartans
Arieca

Pittsburgh, PA

Arieca is an advanced materials tech company that is addressing emerging challenges in thermal management.

Founders: Dr. Navid Kazem (PhD CEE ‘18, MS CEE ’13), Dr. Carmel Majidi

99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Craig Smith (MBA ‘90, ChemE, ‘85)

sovaSage

PITTSBURGH, PA

We are leveraging patent pending artificial intelligence, computer vision and mobile computing technologies to disrupt the $7B sleep apnea care industry.

Founders: Will Kaigler (MBA ‘97)

99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Steve Blackmore (MBA ‘96)

Gather

PITTSBURGH, PA

The world's first software-only autonomous inventory management platform for modern warehouses.

Founders: Sankalp Arora (PhD Robotics ‘18), Daniel Maturana (PhD Robotics ‘16), Geetesh Dubey (MS Robotics ‘17)

99 Tartans Alumni Lead: Robb Myer (TPR ‘06)
Co-investors: Expa, Bling Capital
Follow on Investor: XRC Labs, Xplorer Capital