Clevel and Rocks the Tech Scene

Let’s be honest. Cleveland isn’t the place people think of when “technology” and “innovation” are brought up in the same sentence.

Silicon Valley has dominated that head space for years, producing hit after hit in the consumer tech market. But times are changing (as they tend to do), and the city of Cleveland is becoming a burgeoning tech zone exploding with startups and homegrown talent across a variety of tech fields.

Tech heavyweights have already made sizeable investments in Cleveland startups. Explorys is a Cleveland-based health data analytics company that is now a part of IBM’s Watson Health, and Cardio Insight, also started in Cleveland, is a noninvasive cardiac mapping system that is now a part of Medtronic. And while Cleveland has really started to make a name for itself wherever tech and medicine marry, it’s also grown in other areas too.

Through Tech Elevator, Cleveland is bringing more tech education to the area than ever before. As Cleveland’s tech zone has evolved, especially in the areas of medical tech and education, it has shown the nation that instead of being mocked or cast aside, it should be taken seriously. And as it continues to grow, the rest of the nation will surely take notice.

The Health-Tech Corridor

The Cleveland Health-Tech Corridor (HTC) was founded in 2010 as a public-nonprofit collaboration between Bio Enterprise, a business formation,  recruitment, and acceleration initiative designed to grow healthcare companies and commercialize bioscience technologies; The Cleveland Foundation; the City of Cleveland; and Mid Town Cleveland, a nonprofit economic development organization.

Recognizing there was a lack of suitable space to house the growing number of health-tech and high-tech businesses spinning out of the city’s anchor institutions, the HTC partners came together to develop, brand, and market the health-tech and high-tech business corridor.