Biotech / PharmaPittsburgh

EXG Wear

Biotech / Pharma

EXG Wear is a Pittsburgh-based health and wellness technology company developing a compact earbud sensor that generates actionable commands from brain wave signals, eye movements, and facial gestures. The device is designed to augment human wellness and productivity in everyday life. The company is a portfolio company of Innovation Works.

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Pittsburgh

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Innovation Works

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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

Known For

Robotics

Autonomy

Deep Tech