Semiconductors / HardwareUpstate New York

Eastman Kodak

Semiconductors / Hardware · Rochester, NY

Rochester imaging giant; the optics/photonics legacy under upstate NY's photonics cluster.

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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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Total firms 137

VC / investors 61

Companies 59

Schools 17

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Semiconductors

Photonics

Drones