Hardware ManufacturerUpstate New York

Xerox

Hardware Manufacturer · Rochester, NY

The Rochester company that built Xerox PARC — birthplace of the GUI, the mouse, Ethernet, and the laser printer; the overlooked source of modern personal computing.

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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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Region Stats

Total firms 137

VC / investors 61

Companies 59

Schools 17

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Semiconductors

Photonics

Drones