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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

University · Troy, NY

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a research university that offers undergraduate and graduate education in architecture, business, engineering, humanities, information technology, web science, and science. The institution conducts research across multiple disciplines and has facilities including an IBM Quantum System One on campus.

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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 51

VC / investors 14

Companies 31

Schools 6

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Semiconductors

Photonics

Drones