Seed Funding
Innovation Works Energy Program Seed Fund

It’s your vision. We help make it a reality. Helping entrepreneurs create successful businesses is what Innovation Works (IW) is all about. Companies as diverse as 4moms, Aurochs Brewing, Cognition Therapeutics, Diamond Kinetics, IAM Robotics, nanoGriptech & many others were launched with IW’s assistance. IW provides what all successful startups need during their earliest stages: […]

Seed Funding
Idea Transformation Fellowship

Are you a startup looking for your next step? The Idea Transformation Fellowship program provides funding and hands-on support past the accelerator stage to startup companies, helping them get to the critical point where they can obtain follow-up funding or support themselves through earned revenue. Transformation Fellowships are awarded for a period of up to […]

Education & Consulting Services
Innovation Works

Turning ideas into companies Our mission is to introduce, connect, support and expand the startup & entrepreneurial ecosystem within Southwestern Pennsylvania, making our region a center for innovative startups and tech investors from around the country. Our portfolio spans key sectors of strength in the Pittsburgh region including robotics, artificial intelligence, medical devices, retail technologies, […]

Education & Consulting Services
C-leveled

WE’RE ALL IN THE BUSINESS OF GROWING YOUR BUSINESS C-leveled is a company built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. We are a band of successful entrepreneurs, creatives, and tech enthusiasts. We bring you the perfect blend of a business consulting firm juxtaposed with a full-service marketing and creative agency. Our objective is to help companies reach […]

Seed Funding
Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Field Entrepreneur’s Fund

The Open Fields Entrepreneurs Fund (OFEF) at Carnegie Mellon University is a new, groundbreaking model for providing early-stage business financing to Carnegie Mellon alumni who have graduated within the past five years. The OFEF is not a business plan competition in which only entrepreneurs with the best ideas receive funding. Instead, it’s open to recent CMU […]

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