DeepTech / OtherUpstate New York

General Electric Research Laboratory

DeepTech / Other · Schenectady, NY

Founded 1900 under Willis Whitney -- one of the first true corporate industrial research labs, arguably the first, predating Bell Labs by 25 years. Developed the improved tungsten filament and the Coolidge X-ray tube.

Founded

1900

Region

Upstate New York

Investors

People

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.

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Total firms 137

VC / investors 61

Companies 59

Schools 17

Known For

Semiconductors

Photonics

Drones