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DisSolves, Inc

Personal Care & Household CPG

DisSolves, Inc. is a material science company that has developed patented biodegradable and edible film technology using food-grade, GRAS-certified components, enabling dissolvable, plastic-free packaging with no mess or measuring. The company was acquired by Generation Food Rural Partners and subsequently merged with TerraSafe Materials, Inc. in 2025.

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About Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh's tech economy grew out of Carnegie Mellon's robotics program, one of the oldest and deepest in the country, with the University of Pittsburgh's own research base sitting right alongside it — two major universities anchoring one relatively compact city. It's also a place that didn't start as a tech hub at all: this was steel country for a century, and that engineering-and-manufacturing inheritance still shows up in what the region builds — robotics, autonomy, and deep tech that comes out of hard industrial know-how, not a recent software boom.

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Total firms 299

VC / investors 6

Companies 286

Schools 7

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Robotics

Autonomy

Deep Tech