Operating CompanyGreater Orlando

Walt Disney World Resort

Operating Company · Lake Buena Vista, FL

The 25,000-acre Orlando resort complex -- Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom -- operated under Disney Experiences (Disney Parks, Experiences and Products). One of two real linchpins of Orlando's theme-park-tech identity. Parent The Walt Disney Company is HQ'd in Burbank, CA (already tracked separately); this record is the Orlando resort entity itself. Imagineering's planned 2021 relocation to Lake Nona (Orlando) was officially canceled May 2023 -- Imagineering HQ remains Glendale, CA, not Orlando.

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About Orlando

Orlando is built around Walt Disney World, but the region also holds the largest concentration of military modeling-and-simulation companies in the country, tied to the training commands based nearby — theme-park engineering and defense simulation share more underlying technology than the two industries' public images suggest. UCF, one of the largest universities in the U.S. by enrollment, anchors both sides of that work, including its photonics research.

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Total firms 14

VC / investors 0

Companies 13

Schools 1

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Simulation

Photonics

Theme-Park Tech