Meet Our New May Members!
Ameresco
Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading energy infrastructure solutions provider dedicated to helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to Net Zero in the global energy transition. Our comprehensive portfolio includes implementing smart energy efficiency solutions, upgrading aging infrastructure, and developing, constructing, and operating distributed energy resources. Our solutions range from upgrades to facility’s energy infrastructure to the development, construction and operation of renewable energy plants combined with tailored financial solutions. We work with customers on both sides of the meter to reduce operating expenses, upgrade and maintain facilities, stabilize energy costs, improve occupancy comfort levels, increase energy reliability and enhance the environment.
Awesome People Leaders
Awesome People Leaders is a decision-intelligence system that improves how people get work done. We help people communicate, collaborate, and lead more effectively, in real time, directly in the flow of work using neuroscience and AI. Our Learn, Apply, and Scale system builds execution capability and provides real-time support to help individuals and organizations perform at their best. The result is stronger execution, higher productivity, and more resilient teams.
CDMG Engineering
CDMG Engineering is built around three core groups—Total Facility Engineering, Integrated Solutions, and Building Systems—working together to deliver a fully integrated, single-source solution for industrial clients. CDMG Engineering provides end-to-end, multi-discipline facility engineering and project management from early feasibility and planning through startup and commissioning. Integrated Solutions provides advanced automation engineering and UL 508A certified control panel fabrication, enabling smarter, more connected systems. CDMG Building Systems delivers Nucor pre-engineered metal building solutions that accelerate facility expansion and development. Together, these groups deliver coordinated, constructible solutions that improve efficiency, reduce risk, and support operational performance.
Courtyard.io
Courtyard.io turns shopping into entertainment. Open digital packs to instantly reveal physical trading cards, comics, watches, and more. Keep what you love – securely vaulted, insured, and ready to ship – or sell back instantly at a guaranteed price. Expanding across new collectibles, fashion, and beyond, Courtyard is pioneering a new model of shopping where entertainment drives demand and liquidity backs every purchase.
Curio412
Curio412 is a social impact consultancy that helps businesses strategically engage their communities while driving measurable business and social outcomes. We partner with organizations to turn purpose into action through thoughtful planning, implementation, and management of community impact initiatives that align with company values and goals. We understand the growing importance of innovation with purpose. Our work is designed to help businesses discover, define, and activate their purpose in ways that build meaningful community engagement strategies, develop scalable impact programs, and implement initiatives that create meaningful change for both the organization and the communities they serve. At Curio412, we believe companies that invest in purpose-driven leadership and community engagement are better positioned to attract talent, strengthen relationships, elevate brand, and make a difference locally and beyond.
EXPLORE Innovation
EXPLORE Innovation is a Pittsburgh-based organization dedicated to strengthening the region's tech ecosystem by connecting people, opportunities, and ideas at the intersection of innovation and community. Operating under the tagline "Where Innovation Meets Community," EXPLORE produces signature programming designed to broaden access to the tech economy and position Pittsburgh as a hub for inclusive innovation. The organization's flagship initiative, EXPLORE Pittsburgh Tech Week, is a citywide celebration that convenes founders, investors, corporate leaders, educators, and students for a week of keynotes, activations, and showcases. Past programming has featured Mark Cuban and partnerships with the Pittsburgh Technology Council, Duolingo, Google, Chase, Innovation Works, and more. Beyond Tech Week, EXPLORE invests in year-round talent development through its Youth Day experience, which has convened over 500 students with hands on STEM activities, connections with industry leaders, and its AI & Tech Pathways Program.
Insight Service Management
Insight Service Management is a security and compliance-first Managed Service Provider that provides enterprise solutions and expertise to businesses of all sizes while supporting everything from end users and infrastructure to AI-initiatives and compliance automation. We are actively expanding regionally and nationally.
Kinetic Cognition
Kinetic Cognition is a private AI advisory practice founded in 2024 by Bjorn Austraat. Drawing on 25 years of enterprise AI experience and leadership tenure at Truist, Wells Fargo, and IBM, the firm provides senior practitioner counsel to executives navigating AI strategy, governance, and implementation. Engagements take three forms: the Executive AI Intensive, a four-week 1:1 program for senior leaders; the Beacon AI Seminar, a hands-on working session for senior leadership teams; and ongoing Advisory and Retainer relationships for organizations where AI is a board-level priority. Recent clients include Fortune 100 financial institutions, leading research hospitals, major law firms, and manufacturing and logistics leaders. The firm's proprietary frameworks, the Five Pillars of Enterprise AI, the 4Ds, and Cognitive Courtesy, emerged from real implementations. Bjorn holds five granted AI patents and was named AIconics AI Innovator of the Year in 2021.
Loopback Systems
Loopback Systems is a Pittsburgh-based technology company that designs, deploys, and maintains industrial data infrastructure for utilities, renewable energy, and oil and gas operators. Our core strength is connecting automation to decision making, delivered as turnkey solutions that span the full lifecycle from hardware through data collection, governance, and presentation. Our work falls into four main areas. Solar delivers monitoring and compliance platforms for grid-connected generation. Consulting provides project management, system design, and technical advisory services for upstream and midstream operators. Steam serves district energy and industrial metering customers with measurement and data capture systems. Services handle field installation, device management, refurbishment, and ongoing maintenance across all verticals. We sit at the intersection of industrial process engineering and operational data systems, applying that combination to solve real problems in critical infrastructure. Every solution focuses on owning the entire data chain, from sensor to enterprise.
Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball franchise with a rich history dating back to 1887. As one of baseball's most storied organizations, the Pirates have captured multiple World Series championships and remain a cornerstone of Pittsburgh's sports culture. Playing at PNC Park, the team is committed to excellence on and off the field, fostering community engagement, developing talent, and creating memorable experiences for fans throughout the region and beyond.
Rotas Security
Rotas Security performs adversarial cybersecurity assessments at our partners' request to help them assess the efficacy of their defenses. They are dedicated to ensuring our partners have a clear path to the highest possible cybersecurity posture. We do this through practical, realistic assessments of IT assets, personnel, and processes. We perform our assessments leveraging adversarial techniques honed over more than two decades of experience executing threat simulations for a wide variety of organizations. Leveraging a threat-informed penetration testing methodology designed to showcase strengths and weaknesses in targeted environments. Rotas’ experience spans multiple industries, including the Military and the private and public sectors.
Seneca Valley School District
The Seneca Valley School District is a suburban district located in Jackson Township, Southern Butler County, Western Pennsylvania. It is approximately 30 minutes north of Pittsburgh, is in close proximity to the Pennsylvania Turnpike and is adjacent to Interstate 79. The district covers 100 square miles and includes Cranberry, Forward, Jackson and Lancaster townships and Callery, Evans City, Harmony, Seven Fields and Zelienople boroughs.
VNET
Since 1990, Velocity Network (VNET) has provided professional IT support and hardware for businesses throughout Pennsylvania and nationwide. VNET strives to give its partners enterprise-level services and solutions at prices that are affordable for small businesses. After more than three decades of MSP experience, they’ve developed a set of best practices and seamless workflow procedures that are designed to keep your business running smoothly.
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