| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.05.2026 | LadderUp: Richard King Mellon Foundation Investment To Expand Rent-To-Homeownership Model In Western Pennsylvania | LadderUp Housing announced it has secured a $250,000 investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to support its expansion into Allegheny and Westmoreland counties in Pennsylvania. The funding will be used to acquire and renovate home... |
| 11.03.2026 | Rasa Legal: $5 Million Raised By Legal Technology Company To Scale Criminal Record Clearance Nationwide | Rasa Legal, a legal technology company focused on making criminal record clearance simple and affordable, has raised $5 million in a late seed funding round led by Rethink Education, with participation from Social Finance, Halogen Ventures,... |
| 11.02.2026 | The “Smart Home” for the Caregiver Crisis: Wisdom Raises $1.3M to Automate Aging in Place | What You Should Know
The Funding: Wisdom, a smart home startup for older adults, has raised a total of $1.3M, including a new $315k social-impact investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
The Tech: Unlike traditional medical alert... |
| 11.12.2025 | Harness Raises $240M in Series E Funding | Harness, a San Francisco, CA-based AI software delivery platform company, raised $240M in Series E funding.
The round comprised a $200M investment led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives and a planned $40M tender offer with participation from IVP... |
| 11.12.2025 | Zegenex Receives $215K Social-Impact Investment from Richard King Mellon Foundation | Zegenex, a Pittsburgh, PA-based biotechnology company specializing in innovative healing solutions, received a $215k social-mission investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
The funding will support formulation optimization and pr... |
| 05.09.2025 | Joint Ai Receives $315K Funding from The Richard King Mellon Foundation | Joint Ai, a Pittsburgh, PA-based provider of an AI-powered triage platform designed to help automate the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment for patients suffering from knee and hip arthritis, received a $315K investment from the Richard Ki... |
| 04.09.2025 | Joint Ai Secures $315K to Expand AI-Powered Triage Platform for Knee and Hip Arthritis | What You Should Know:
– Joint Ai, an AI-powered triage platform for patients with knee and hip arthritis, has received a $315,000 investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
– The funding will accelerate technology development, deep... |
| 02.09.2025 | Surface Design Solutions: Funding Raised For Addressing Skilled Labor Loss | Surface Design Solutions, a player in the realm of next-generation manufacturing software, recently made an exciting announcement: they have secured $365,000 in funding from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. This investment will play a cr... |
| 27.08.2025 | Surface Design Solutions Raises $365K in Funding | Surface Design Solutions, a Pittsburgh, PA-based manufacturing software provider, raised $365K in Funding.
Richard King Mellon Foundation made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to support its efforts to scale their newly ... |
| 14.08.2025 | Conduit Secures $375K in Funding | Conduit, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based workforce management platform reimagining frontline scheduling and training for the modern workforce, secured $375,000 in funding from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
With this new funding, Cond... |
| 26.07.2025 | AI Drives New Era in Transplant Diagnostics | Plexision, a biotechnology leader, secured significant investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. This funding fuels the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning into advanced blood tests. The goal is revolutiona... |
| 25.07.2025 | Plexision Receives $365K from Richard King Mellon Foundation | Plexision, a Pittsburgh, PA-based biotechnology company developing blood tests, received a $365K investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The funds will be used to accelerate the integrat... |
| 24.07.2025 | Plexision Secures Investment to Accelerate AI in Transplant Diagnostics | What You Should Know:
– Plexision, a biotechnology company, today announced a $365k investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The funds will be used to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learnin... |
| 12.11.2024 | TCSL Receives $2 Million Grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation Foundation for MLK Center for Scientific Excellence | TCSL receives a $2M grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, funding Pittsburgh’s new MLK Center for Scientific Excellence and TCSL operations.
Having TCSL’s programs headquartered in the Hill District will only advance their efforts ... |
| 08.01.2024 | STEM Coding Lab Awarded $635K grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation | PITTSBURGH, PA, USA, January 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- STEM Coding Lab (SCL) has been awarded a $635,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to expand its work in providing computer science (CS) education to under-resourced ch... |
| 19.05.2023 | University Of Pittsburgh Launches National Sports Brain Bank | A new National Sports Brain Bank at the University of Pittsburgh will study the effects of contact ... [+] sports on brain injury and disease.getty |
| 07.02.2022 | Philly-based Fabric Health plans for Pittsburgh expansion after a $500K pitch competition win | Health interventions might be coming soon to a laundromat near you.
Philadelphia-headquartered startup Fabric Health announced its expansion to Pittsburgh following its first place win in Richard King Mellon Foundation’s first-ever pitch co... |
| 26.01.2022 | These social enterprises won Richard King Mellon Foundation’s first pitch competition | Yet another wave of philanthropic money will support new projects in Pittsburgh tech.
Richard King Mellon Foundation announced today that it had invested a total of $3.39 million to winners of its first-ever pitch competition. The prominent... |
| 17.11.2021 | University of Pittsburgh, Richard King Mellon Foundation Announce Transformative Gift, Partnership To Make Pittsburgh Region A National Leader In Life Sciences Manufacturing | PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Pittsburgh and Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced a $100 million gift that will advance the region's burgeoning life sciences economy by creating an anchor bioresearch ... |
| 25.08.2021 | Events Roundup: Fill your September calendar with Pittsburgh tech conferences, startup pitches and Slack AMAs | Events Roundup is a Technical.ly column where we highlight events happening in the Pittsburgh area each month. Got a submission? Email us the details so we can consider it for our next roundup.
With the complicated combination of new vaccin... |
| 29.06.2021 | Robotics/AI Industry Leaders Announce Commitment to Make Pittsburgh the ‘Robotics Capital of the World’ | On June 29, nearly 100 leaders from top robotics companies, government officials and universities in the Pittsburgh area, convened to officially launch the Pittsburgh Robotics Network. “We have created one of the world’s largest platforms w... |
| 20.05.2021 | Carnegie Mellon University Receives Record $150 Million Gift From Richard King Mellon Foundation | Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania will use a $150 million gift from the Richard ... [+] King Mellon Foundation to advance three major initiatives in science and advanced manufacturing. getty |
| - | Old money seeds new: How RK Mellon Foundation cultivates Pittsburgh’s startup scene | Few shape Pittsburgh’s high-tech future like the heirs to its industrial past.
Since its new strategic plan kicked off in 2021, the Richard King Mellon Foundation — Pittsburgh’s wealthiest foundation, with an endowment over $3 billion — has... |
