Pennsylvania's innovation funding system is broken.

can

compete.

The system

can't.

Summary

In FY2025, Innovation Works — southwestern Pennsylvania's Ben Franklin Technology Partners regional center — disbursed only 25 cents of every state innovation dollar directly to founders, down from 42 cents in FY2023. The remaining 75 cents funded salaries, overhead, and intermediary services that AI now delivers for $200/month.

25¢

In some Pennsylvania innovation programs, the ratio of dollars that actually reach founders versus dollars that sustain the apparatus is less than a penny on the dollar. The capital infrastructure is the problem.

1/4

Building a frontier tech company in Pittsburgh costs a fraction of what it costs in San Francisco or New York. The economics are not the problem.

2

CMU. Pitt. Carnegie Mellon's robotics and AI programs rank among the top in the world. The ideas are not the problem.

  • Pittsburgh

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  • Capital Flow

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  • Problem

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1

Start

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2

Ready

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3

Takeoff

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