Deep Dives into Secondary Cities
A series in association with New Builders Dispatch

Armory Square Ventures sponsored journalists at New Builders Dispatch for a reporting project looking closely at the innovation underway in regional cities. Growth in secondary markets has been long overlooked by other national media. At the heart of the project is a central question important to all of us:

How best do we drive equitable economic development, ideas and optimism outside primary tech hubs and major markets? See the reporting project now underway below. Each story is originally published either to New Builders Dispatch or in Forbes.


June 16, 2023

Two MIT Profs ID’d An Aging NY City As The Next Innovation Hub. Their Data Is Proving Right
Renewable packaging, femtech, food tech and software inspires new entrepreneurs in today’s Rochester

March 13, 2023

A Crop Intelligence Startup Backed by Salesforce’s Benioff Aims to Help Farmers Feed the World
An agricultural technology company in Westfield, Indiana takes root

February 23, 2023

Yes, The Midwest is Different: Tech, Infrastructure and Values Mark the Rise of a Corn Belt City
Can a place like Indianapolis capably generate its own economic energy?

November 4, 2022

A New Manufacturing Boom Could Come To Pittsburgh, But It’s Not Steel
Will cells and robots be Pittsburgh's new steel and coke?