Oklahoma runs on two cities carrying very different kinds of weight. Oklahoma City calls itself the MRO Capital of the World -- Tinker Air Force Base and its Air Logistics Complex alone carry an $8.6 billion statewide economic impact, and nearly 300 aerospace companies, including Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, and Northrop Grumman, sit around that anchor alongside homegrown energy names like Continental Resources. Tulsa carries the history books' weight and a real, current tech-building push at the same time: the Greenwood District, once called Black Wall Street, was burned down in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history -- and today the George Kaiser Family Foundation has committed $50 million through Tulsa Innovation Labs to build the same city into a real technology hub, with the Tulsa Remote program alone drawing more than 1,300 remote workers to relocate since 2018. Two cities, two different kinds of consequential, both real.
Region Stats
Total firms
48
VC / investors
3
Companies
40
Schools
5
Known For
Aerospace & MRO
Energy
Greenwood
