Top Tech Startups in Pittsburgh, PA in 2027

Chowbus is a food ordering platform which curates featured dishes from selected ethnic restaurants daily and delivers them fresh and hot to your home or office affordably with the tap of your cell phone. We provide dish-centric mobile ordering experience for consumers to easily explore and order authentic ethnic food and we empower local ethnic restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their business.

Behaivior is a digital health company that is making mental health recovery and wellness more accessible using AI, behavioral health tech, and wearables for crisis aversion & mental health support, including return to use. We reduce gaps in care when crisis events are most likely to occur and support care providers with retention and patient risk.

Mach9 builds location intelligence software to help civil engineering and government customers analyze massive amounts of geospatial sensor data. We've been working on software automation for common surveying workflows and are driven to bring perception software from self-driving to industries that need it today. Our team spun out of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and previously worked at Tesla Autopilot, SpaceX GNC, and Apple Performance Engineering. We went through YC last summer, raised a seed round last December, and have been rapidly growing our team.

Gray Swan AI is a cybersecurity company focused on enhancing the safety and reliability of artificial intelligence systems. The company specializes in identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs). Its core offerings include Cygnet, a secured version of Meta's Llama 3-8B model, and Shade, a continuous red-teaming tool that simulates adversarial attacks to expose system weaknesses. Gray Swan AI also operates the Gray Swan Arena, a platform where researchers and developers can participate in challenges to improve AI model security. The company aims to protect AI deployments from threats such as prompt injections, adversarial inputs, and data extraction.

Saddle Up AI is a digital marketing agency built for the trades. We work exclusively with MEP contractors (plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies) and help them turn online searches into booked calls. What we do: - AI-built websites designed to turn visitors into calls - Google Ads and Local Services Ads (LSA) - Meta (Facebook & Instagram) Ads - SEO and local search visibility Contractors are great at what they do, but most don't have time to run their own marketing. We handle it end to end so owners can focus on running jobs while we keep the phone ringing. We're a remote team and we're growing. If you like working with small business owners, selling real results, and getting rewarded for performance, we'd love to hear from you.