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AlphaLab Alumni Updates

Things have been a bit hectic lately.

Aside from preparing for AlphaLab’s Demo Day, we are in the midst of selecting our 7th cycle of companies. While it has always been difficult to decide on which companies to take, this year it has been even more so, as we received the highest quantity and quality of apps since AlphaLab opened in 2008–definitely a good problem to have and just one of the great indicators of Pittsburgh’s blossoming entrepreneurial scene.

Today our SouthSide space is eerily quiet, as four out of the six companies located here are in Detroit participating in Funded by Night. Delirium, Tutor Technologies, Wawadoo, and NoWait are all among the small group of companies that were selected to pitch for a chance to win the $100k convertible note that will be given away at the end of the night.

Since you’ll be hearing all about our current cycle of companies soon enough at Demo Day, I thought now would be a good time to update you on what some of our alumni have been doing.

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Spring 2010 AlphaLab Demo Day in Pictures

This week we welcome the next class of passionate entrepreneurs to AlphaLab for the start of the next session of our program. With that in mind, we take a look back at the most recent Demo Day with a few pictures of the event.

AlphaLab’s Demo Day is the opportunity for our “graduating” AlphaLab companies to present to an audience of investors, potential partners, and other key individuals from across the country. Attendance was standing-room only and the companies all did a great job with their presentations, continuing to raise the bar for the next AlphaLab class.

Innovation Works President and CEO Rich Lunak welcomes the audience with some opening remarks.

John Ganotis of DeviceKnit

Rodrigo Carvalho from Black Locus

Karen Anderson of 80 Degrees West Interior Design

Don Charlton, founder of The Resumator (far right)

The Shoefitr team (who also was featured on CNET.com’s Web Crawler Blog)

Derek Wahila, along with Regina Parundik and David Wells, from Photo Synesi

Startup Pittsburgh provides a round-up of the event on their blog as well.