| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.11.2023 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners Completes First Close Of Its Expected $100M Venture Fund For Pennsylvania Innovation | |
| 08.06.2023 | Delaware AI startup WhipFlip keeps streamlining the used vehicle industry | Back in 2021, before “AI” was the hot topic it’s been since OpenAI launched ChatGPT-3, Roger Clappe founded an AI company called WhipFlip.
The company — a 2022 RealLIST Startups honoree in Delaware and a recent finalist for the PACT Enterpr... |
| 15.08.2022 | These 12 startups made it into LIFT Labs’ 2022 cohort, including Philly-area LLUNA | A cohort of 12 companies — one of which is based in Greater Philadelphia — has been picked for the fifth edition of Comcast NBCUniversal’s LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars.
This cycle of the annual accelerator took startups focus... |
| 24.02.2022 | Broad Street Angels close 2021 with over $1.68 million in investments | BROAD STREET ANGELS CLOSES 2021 WITH OVER $1.68 million in investments |
| 26.01.2022 | RealLIST Startups 2022: Delaware, these are your top 20 standout tech companies | Believe it or not, 2021 was a good year for startups. Business owners are even optimistic about the state of their companies coming into 2022.
Yep — even during a pandemic, startups have been growing, in Delaware and beyond. But it’s been s... |
| 01.12.2021 | How can entrepreneurs tackle health inequities with tech solutions? | Tennis icon Serena Williams was vocal about her difficulties as a Black woman who experienced a scary childbirth. Track and field star Allyson Felix also spoke out about the life-threatening complications she faced during her pregnancy.
Whi... |
| 10.11.2021 | Why it matters that Ben Franklin Tech Partners’ new team brings clinical experience to healthcare investing | Oftentimes it is the people closest to problems who best understand the solutions.
That’s why state-backed seed and early-stage funder Ben Franklin Technology Partners has brought on pros with direct experience in the healthcare field to le... |
| 15.10.2021 | Resource Roundup: Campus Philly is hosting a virtual tech career fair for Black and brown students | This is Resource Roundup, a look at open applications for business and career-building programs, funding and other opportunities around the region. Want to share a new resource for entrepreneurs and technologists? Email us at philly@technic... |
| 06.10.2021 | 5 years of ImpactPHL: 15 regional impact investing growth signals to accelerate | What future do you imagine for the Greater Philadelphia region?
When we ask this question, responses touch on everything from climate resiliency to racial justice, eliminating poverty to greater health equity. While the answers are varied, ... |
| 27.09.2021 | Resource Roundup: CCP opened apps for the 10,000 Small Businesses program | This is Resource Roundup, a look at open applications for business and career-building programs, funding and other opportunities around the region. Want to share a new resource for entrepreneurs and technologists? Email us at philly@technic... |
| 20.09.2021 | Resource Roundup: Apps are open for first-time founders program OnRamp | This is Resource Roundup, a look at open applications for business and career-building programs, funding and other opportunities around the region. Want to share a new resource for entrepreneurs and technologists? Email us at philly@technic... |
| 11.01.2021 | 15+ business development resources for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs in Philly | Philadelphia promotes itself as a friendly place to do business. But we also hear in our reporting that opportunities for funding, networks and other resources are harder to come by — both locally and nationally — if you’re a person of colo... |
| 15.12.2020 | Deepwave Digital, Inc. announced that it has received $3 million in funding from Northrop Grumman Corporation, Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network, Lehigh Valley Angel Investors Co., Robin Hood Venture... | On December 15, 2020, Deepwave Digital, Inc. closed the transaction. The company has issued 3,409,091 series seed preferred stock for gross proceeds of $3,000,000 in the transaction. The series seed round of funding co-led by new investors ... |
| 10.12.2020 | Backed by local resources and corporate lessons, Emeka Oguh’s PeopleJoy is on a mission to boost financial wellness | When PeopleJoy founder and CEO Emeka Oguh’s parents emigrated to the United States from Nigeria, they made it clear that education would be his way to success.
Oguh was an astute pupil and earned an undergraduate scholarship to Rutgers Univ... |
| 08.10.2020 | Why I’m optimistic about Philly tech, and why you should be, too: Notes from a former investor | It’s really freakin’ hard to build a company. In fact, there’s no rational reason to do so.
According to private equity research company CB Insights, 42% of the time your startup will fail due to lack of a market need for the product, about... |
| 24.09.2020 | This Week in Jobs, PTW20 Reboot Edition: Get Introduced to your new career | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publishe... |
| 14.09.2020 | Network like a boss: Your who-to-meet guide for Introduced by Technical.ly 2020 | Once a year, some of the most impactful local and national company builders come together at the Introduced by Technical.ly conference. They speak to the future of work. Advise on culture building. And dive deep into the drivers of economic... |
| 09.09.2020 | See the latest sessions added to Sept. 25’s Introduced by Technical.ly — from hyperautomation to inclusive design | Introduced by Technical.ly, our Sept. 25 conference focusing on better workplaces and equitable hometowns, serves as the cap to the all-virtual 10th annual Philly Tech Week presented by Comcast.
Last week we announced our keynote speaker — ... |
| 03.09.2020 | Guy Raz will keynote Introduced by Technical.ly on Sept. 25 | If you’re looking for lessons on building great companies, you could do worse than someone who has developed a reputation for interviewing the most influential entrepreneurs on the planet.
That can describe Guy Raz, the former TED Radio Hou... |
| 01.09.2020 | It’s been a decade. Watch the preview video for the 10th annual Philly Tech Week | Innovation and invention are no stranger to Philadelphia.
That new thinking tends to come in new forms every generation. In the last decade, Philadelphia has seen an explosion of creative communities, from music and food to urbanism and the... |
| 25.08.2020 | The Philly Tech Week community events calendar is live. Here’s a sneak peek | Philly Tech Week 2020 presented by Comcast’s first round of our community calendar is live, with six events you won’t want to miss.
Behind the scenes, our many community event organizers have been working rapidly to pivot their events to ne... |
| 06.05.2020 | Here’s the full schedule for Technical.ly’s Introduced|Virtual conference on May 7 | It’s all happening.
Introduced by Technical.ly, a Philly Tech Week presented by Comcast pillar event since 2018, has evolved to include a timely online counterpart: Introduced|Virtual. Set for this Thursday, May 7, Introduced|Virtual is a r... |
| 29.04.2020 | Sessions are locked and over 20 speakers are lined up for Introduced|Virtual on Thursday, May 7 | One day. Eight sessions. More than 20 speakers. Here’s what you can expect at Introduced|Virtual.
Last week we announced that Introduced by Technical.ly, a Philly Tech Week presented by Comcast pillar event since 2018, has evolved to includ... |
| 24.04.2020 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners companies affected by COVID-19 are getting $4M from the state | Gov. Tom Wolf announced Thursday that Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) had made $4 million in new funding available to help tech-based companies in Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ (BFTP) portfolio tha... |
| 23.04.2020 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners companies affected by COVID-19 are getting $4M from the state | Gov. Tom Wolf announced Thursday that Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) had made $4 million in new funding available to help tech-based companies in Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ (BFTP) portfolio tha... |
| 23.04.2020 | Technical.ly’s signature Introduced conference has gone virtual for May 7. Here’s how to join | Once a year, Technical.ly brings together entrepreneurs, HR leaders and corporate innovation executives for a day focused on building better companies.
Previously, this was done IRL at our Introduced by Technical.ly conference, which is one... |
| 04.04.2020 | Startups Weekly: SaaS companies feel the churn but hope for a brighter tomorrow | [Editor’s note: Want to get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that startups can use by email? Subscribe here.]
There are a few online productivity stocks booming, and a few popular remote-first product companies still announcing fun... |
| 31.03.2020 | Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 has impacted the world of digital health | In December 2019, Extra Crunch spoke to a group of investors leading the charge in health tech to discuss where they saw the most opportunity in the space leading into 2020.
At the time, respondents highlighted startups in digital therapeut... |
| 16.12.2019 | Where top VCs are investing in digital health | The world of healthcare has notoriously been described as “broken” — plagued with high-friction workflows, sky-high costs and convoluted business models.
Over the past several years, a long list of innovative startups and salivating venture... |
| 20.11.2019 | Ben Franklin Tech Partners just pumped more than $1M into these local companies | Navy Yard-based, state-backed investor group Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania announced last week that over the last few months, it had invested more than $1 million into area tech and science companies.
The $1,... |
| 08.08.2019 | Philly startups need more early-stage investments to compete | If Philadelphia ever wants to compete with the likes of Silicon Valley and New York City, it needs to fund the innovative ideas and rapid growth of startups.
And we’re well on our way: Venture capital investments to Philly-based companies s... |
| 01.08.2019 | HGP – Center City Startup Sidecar Raises $7.5M in Latest Round | Marketing tech firm Sidecar Interactive raised a new $7.5 million funding round, the Center City-based company confirmed this week, as it seeks to continue its “tremendous” growth. |
| 11.04.2019 | Pennsylvania's State-Backed VC Firm Is Tokenizing an Investment Fund | The venture capital arm of Pennsylvania's economic development office is tokenizing one of its funds.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, one of four regional outposts formed by the Pennsylvania Department of Comm... |
| 29.05.2018 | Kapsul Secures $400K from Ben Franklin Technology Partners | Kapsul, a Philadelphia, PA-based climate product maker, receives $400k investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
The company will use the funds to commercialize its technology and home climate product of... |
| 23.05.2018 | Strados Labs wins $10,000 from Cisco for respiratory device | Strados Labs was named a runner-up in Cisco’s 2018 Global Problem Solver Challenge.
The startup, makers of a wearable device that helps track respiratory performance in patients with asthma, COPD and other lung diseases, won a $10,000 prize... |
| 21.05.2018 | With $400K from Ben Franklin, Kapsul gets to work on ‘smart’ air conditioner | Kapsul Air, the Center City company behind Philly’s biggest biggest Indiegogo campaign — a whopping $2.3 million in 2016 for preorders of its smart air conditioner — says that after eight re-designs, they should start shipping the sleek pro... |
| 04.05.2018 | What’s Mayor Kenney’s next tech move? | Mayor Jim Kenney has been going to tech office openings and industry events since he took office in January 2016. He’s asked questions to startup founders, he’s strapped techno gizmos to his head and given his blessing at pitch competitions... |
| 15.03.2018 | Ben Franklin will oversee StartUp PHL’s second seed fund, with $3.5M to start | After 18 months searching for the right partner, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation has tapped Ben Franklin Technology Partners to manage StartUp PHL’s second seed fund, which will set out to deploy up to $5 million to Phil... |
| 08.02.2018 | One of StartUp PHL’s original investments is finally out of stealth mode | How old is the longest, still-active email thread in your inbox?
This reporter’s longest-running convo since 2016 is a chat with the cofounders of stealth-mode startup Termaxia that started July 20, 2016. I reached out to inquire about what... |
| 09.10.2017 | A small Pa. city is getting a startup incubator, thanks to two unlikely partners | A former newspaper building in the small Pennsylvania city of Washington is being reimagined as an incubator that would breathe new life into its Main Street business district.
The Washington Area Business Incubator would also be a way to s... |
| 16.08.2017 | 4 Philly tech leaders sat down to talk about inclusivity | Ben Franklin Technology Partners has reached out to local leaders in the tech community to discuss national trending topics before. And today we’ve tackled a tough one: sexual harassment and gender discrimination in tech. The response may s... |
| 05.05.2017 | What does a Philly success look like? | Echoes of Snap, Inc.’s successful IPO were heard in tech ecosystems across the country.
In a sprawling, vivid account, the New York Times described L.A. real estate tigers salivating at the thought of a sudden onslaught of millionaires. Lik... |
| 17.03.2017 | 8 startups repping Philly’s health IT scene at SXSW | Check out our full slate of SXSW 2017 coverage here.
On the first day of SXSW Interactive, former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a powerful message to a captivated crowd. He was in Austin to announce his foundation’s new cancer initiati... |
| 27.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, February 27 | MONEYBALL FOR STARTUPS
Crowdfunding watch: Is it fair to say the realities of equity crowdfunding have not lived up to the category’s promises? Most action in this once-hyped market has been limited to helping same institutional investors a... |
| 14.02.2017 | Fintech accelerator round-up: 14 February 2017 | You can read about fintech accelerators quickly with our latest round-up. Featuring RBS, BNP Paribas, Ben Franklin Technology Partners and the info on how to apply.
Scotland has got its “first” fintech accelerator with the launch set for Ma... |
| 13.02.2017 | Ben Franklin Seeks Emerging Fintech Companies in Greater Philadelphia | Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (“Ben Franklin”) is announcing its Call for Companies for its Fintech Accelerator program, in partnership with D.C.-based Village Capital. The deadline to apply is March 10.
The ... |
| 13.02.2017 | Ben Franklin Seeks Emerging Fintech Companies in Greater Philadelphia | Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (“Ben Franklin”) is announcing its Call for Companies for its Fintech Accelerator program, in partnership with D.C.-based Village Capital. The deadline to apply is March 10.
The ... |
| 08.12.2016 | Philadelphia, Funding Initiative to Deploy $6M in Digital Health Startups | In order to accelerate Philadelphia’s innovative digital health ecosystem, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Independence Health Group, the parent company of Independence Blue Cross and Safeguard Scientifics (NY... |
| 08.12.2016 | Term Sheet — Thursday, December 8 | ET CETERA
KKR has raised $711 million for a new growth equity technology fund called Next Generation Technology Growth Fund. A few notes based on a back-and-forth with David Welsh, the partner leading the effort who joined KKR in October fr... |
| 08.12.2016 | A $6M fund will support early stage digital health startups in Philly region | Each of the fund partners contributed $2 million to the fund. They will also be responsible for sourcing potential companies for investment and provide guidance and support to these seed stage companies, the news release said.
Startups will... |
| 22.11.2016 | BBC’s ‘100 Women 2016’ list features ROAR for Good’s Yasmine Mustafa | As ROAR for Good keeps working on its flagship Athena product (slated to ship early 2017, last time we checked), CEO Yasmine Mustafa landed some more press. This time, it’s international, thanks to a spot on BBC’s 100 Women 2016 list, publi... |
| 21.11.2016 | Next month: Learn how to get funded with state-backed VC firm Ben Franklin Tech Partners | Philly-based hardware and health IT companies: how about kicking off December by having a chat with investors?
The Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) is teaming up with Ben Franklin Technology Partners to host one of tho... |
| 22.09.2016 | Rittenhouse Ventures Raises $18M for Second Fund | Rittenhouse Ventures today announced the final closing of Rittenhouse Fund II. At $18 million of committed capital, Rittenhouse II builds upon the firm's strong performance in the Rittenhouse Fund I portfolio, which includes Tabula Rasa Hea... |
| 15.08.2016 | After 18 years, Alan Kraus steps down from Ben Franklin Technology Partners | When Alan Kraus first joined Ben Franklin Technology Partners, you had to hear this before getting online.
After 18 years as Director of Investments in Information Technology for the Navy Yard-based, state-backed investment group, Kraus wil... |
| 23.05.2016 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners invested $2.5M in Philly-area startups in Q3 | During the third quarter of FY 2016, Ben Franklin Technology Partners invested $2.5 million in 14 companies across the Philadelphia region.
In a report released Friday, the Navy Yard-based, state-backed seed capital provider said 36 percent... |
| 04.01.2016 | Drexel University Launches $10M Seed Fund | Drexel University and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania have teamed up to create a $10m early stage seed fund.
Administered by representatives from Ben Franklin and Drexel Ventures, the University’s enterprise fo... |
| 20.11.2015 | Sidecar raises $8 million Series B | Sidecar, the Center City ecommerce marketing company, raised an $8 million Series B from Boston-based venture capital firm Ascent Venture Partners and a whole slate of local investors.
It’s Ascent’s first investment in a Philly company, acc... |
| 09.10.2015 | Morning Read: FTC gets tough on drug hoppers, Carestream gets FDA greenlight for tool making ECG waveforms viewable on mobile devices | LIFE SCIENCES
Johnson & Johnson has begun a safety and efficacy trial in Sierra Leone for a preventive Ebola vaccine. — Reuters Health
Houston heart failure biotech Procyrion has raised $10 million. – Xconomy
Verastem’s cancer drug has ... |
| 18.09.2015 | Benjamin’s Desk donates to BFTP’s fund for women-led ventures | Benjamin’s Desk donated at least $10,000 to AWE Ventures, a fund for women-led ventures run by Ben Franklin Technology Partners and the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs.
The coworking space joins PACT as a “founding contributor,” a donor of ... |
| 15.07.2015 | What’s right about AWE Ventures and wrong about that guest op-ed | On June 15, the author of a July 10 Technical.ly Philly guest post contacted the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) and Ben Franklin Technology Partners via email to convey her concerns about our recently launched partnership in support ... |
| 04.06.2015 | Two groups are raising a $500K fund for women-led ventures | The Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) has supported high-growth women entrepreneurs since its founding nearly 20 years ago, but for the first time in its history, it’s about to get a dedicated pool of capital to fund early-stage, women-... |
| 04.06.2015 | Medtronic highlights evolving diabetes strategy, Astellas pairs with Swiss biotech in $760M deal (Morning Read) | Japanese drugmaker Astellas and a Swiss biotech startup Anokion are teaming up to launch a joint venture promising up to $760 million with an option to buy the new company. The new venture, Kanyos Bio, will focus on autoimmune disease, usin... |
| 28.01.2015 | Old City carpooling company behind Ride, vRide raises $5M [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Ride Group Parent, Inc., the Old City-based parent company of commute-focused carpooling companies Ride and vRide, raised $5 million, according to an SEC filing. The company relocated its headquarters from Troy, Mich.,... |
| 17.12.2014 | Neat Company to be featured on Celebrity Apprentice [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
The Neat Company, the Center City digital filing company, is going to be on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” in January. Spokeswoman Jessica Fitzgerald said she couldn’t share more details. We profiled Neat over the summer, ... |
| 26.11.2014 | How-to-guide startup Squareknot launches [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
Squareknot, the Center City crowdsourced site for posting how-to guides and one of the recipients of the city’s initial StartUp PHL angel investments, launched today. Sign up on the site to get an invite.
State-backed in... |
| 21.11.2014 | Infant vision test, stroke recovery among medical apps to compete for investment | StrokeVision by Dr. Claude Nguyen, an assistant professor of clinical neurology at the medical school and the director of stroke services at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center developed an app for Google Glass to assist patients with rehabili... |
| 13.10.2014 | Grant program connects early stage companies with manufacturers for product prototypes | The FabNet initiative to encourage more collaboration in the state is being promoted at Pennsylvania Bio’s annual conference Life Sciences Future this week.
Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The publi... |
| 23.09.2014 | How Joanne Lang and a bunch of moms built AboutOne into an online force | Raising a family with four kids while running a tech startup is an impressive task, one that Joanne Lang knows well.
She started out working in information technology at SAP, traveling the world to help the Newtown Square, Pa.-based softwar... |
| 06.08.2014 | What happened when IntroNet got featured on Product Hunt [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners announced its latest round of funding — $1.9 million for 11 companies — and those companies include Chester County-based family planning platform AboutOne, Bristol-based canvassing... |
| 05.08.2014 | This Philly-based social network is awarding $10K to its most-liked user | It’s a contest to get the most “likes” and the winner gets $10,000.
That’s the premise of Spotlight, a mobile app that just launched its public beta. It’s an open social network, meaning you can see everyone’s posts, not just friends, and y... |
| 21.05.2014 | Another Genacast portfolio company exits to Google [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
DuckDuckGo‘s new look is now live, after soft-launching it earlier this month. See it here. Read about the new features here.
VeryApt, the apartment finder founded by Wharton grads, is trying to raise $1 million by Septe... |
| 05.02.2014 | Biomeme raises $1M // BFTP invests $2M in 11 firms [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Biomeme, the NextFab Studio-based startup that developed a smartphone DNA lab, raised nearly $1 million, according to an SEC filing. It’s raising $1.9 million. From that $1 million, at least $300,000 came from equity c... |
| 31.01.2014 | DreamIt Health grad with molecular diagnostic for smartphone raises $1M | Other healthcare startups to get funding from Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ Southeastern Pennsylvania office include:
CloudMine ($100,000): Another DreamIt Ventures grad, the company has a cloud-based HIPAA-compliant enterprise mobility... |
| 27.01.2014 | Geographically cluster your innovation hub: DreamIt roundtable [VIDEO] | If your business is strong enough, the investment will find you. So it follows that if you want a more active local investment community, you need stronger businesses. That’s what prompted three established local entrepreneurs to launch her... |
| 27.01.2014 | Look inside Delaware Valley College’s new $15M life sciences building | Delaware Valley College‘s 1,700 undergraduates now have a new hub for studying life sciences.
The Doylestown, Pa. college recently opened a $15 million, 38,000 square-foot building that has labs, classrooms and a 450-person auditorium, acco... |
| 21.01.2014 | 6k life sciences jobs lost in Philly between 2006-2012: here’s what’s next | The Philadelphia region lost roughly 6,000 life sciences jobs between 2006 and 2012 due to frequent mergers and changes in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, according to data from Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners.
The industry w... |
| 17.01.2014 | BFTP is offering $25k to startups who want to use NextFab’s facilities | If you’re running a startup and want to prototype your product at NextFab Studio, Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners wants to help.
The state-backed economic development agency launched a program that will award up to $5,000 for startups... |
| 13.01.2014 | Meet the 4 Project Liberty startups housed in the Inquirer building | The startup incubator at the headquarters of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com continues with two new startups moving into the building at 8th and Market last October and two startups from the previous class returning.
Th... |
| 02.01.2014 | Safeguard CEO is new BFTP chairman [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Osage University Partners participated in a $12 million Series B for Cambridge, Mass.-based storage performance acceleration software company Infinio, according to a release.
Callowhill couponing app SnipSnap raised $4... |
| 11.12.2013 | Apprennet awarded $150K Science Foundation grant [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Apprennet, an online learning startup, was awarded a $150,000 National Science Foundation grant to study whether or not teacher participation on their platform affects teacher effectiveness, said cofounder Emily Foote.... |
| 06.11.2013 | MentorTech Ventures is raising a $35M fund [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
MentorTech Ventures has raised $24.2 million so far for its third fund, according to an SEC filing. It’s looking to raise $35 million.
Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners invested $2.2 million in nine local companies... |
| 24.10.2013 | Real Food Works gets $200k in first StartupPHL investment | The City of Philadelphia will take part in investing $200,000 in healthy meal startup Real Food Works as the first investment from its $6 million StartupPHL Seed Fund, the city announced today at a press conference with Mayor Michael Nutter... |
| 23.09.2013 | UPenn Education Design Studio Picks Five Startups | Five startups are part of the inaugural group of edtech companies that have won a spot in the newly launched Education Design Studio, Inc. (EDSi) at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. They are:
Apidapter
ApprenNe... |
| 08.08.2013 | Project Liberty: Knight Foundation awards $345k for incubator expansion | After its third class wraps up, the Project Liberty Digital Incubator will return, thanks to a $345,000 grant from the Knight Foundation.
The incubator, housed at the Market East headquarters of Interstate General Media, the parent company ... |
| 07.08.2013 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners invests $1.9M in 10 companies [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Clutch, the mobile shopping app based in Ambler, Pa., raised $5.3 million in Series B funding led by Safeguard Scientifics with participation from Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners. It also acquired two companies t... |
| 11.07.2013 | $75M+ in state tech investment to come with trimmed ‘Innovate in PA’ passage | A total of $100 million in tax credits can be auctioned off in a deal aimed at boosting state-backed early stage capital in Pennsylvania thanks to the trimmed down passage of the ‘Innovate in PA‘ program that was signed by Governor Corbett ... |
| 05.07.2013 | Pa legislature poised to approve $100M tax credit plan for early stage tech investment | A few versions of the bill have been proposed in the past year. Although it has bipartisan support, the amount of insurance tax credits proposed for sale has been a point of contention.
Although other states have passed similar legislation,... |
| 27.06.2013 | Curalate cofounders win E&Y Emerging Entrepreneur award [Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow Start... |
| 12.06.2013 | Dorm Room Fund invests in ZenKars // BFTP invests $1.6M in 9 startups [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow Start... |
| 07.06.2013 | Real Food Works moves from West Conshohocken to Center City [PHOTOS] | Real Food Works has arrived in Center City.
The one-year-old healthy meal subscription service led by tech scene veteran Lucinda Duncalfe moved into a 2,500 square feet space on the outskirts of Chinatown at 13th and Race Streets late last ... |
| 31.05.2013 | Suture alternative that could improve hysterectomy outcomes raises $1.4M | More and more providers are offering laparoscopic surgery because it’s less invasive and recovery times are faster, which helps to reduce medical costs. In the 10 years to 2010, the percentage of hysterectomies that used less invasive surge... |
| 15.04.2013 | With 10,000 jobs, will the Navy Yard stand on its own as an innovation hub? | One of the most historic employment engines of Philadelphia is back in a new way, with more people working in the Navy Yard than ever before. Part of that success is tied to a region-wide buoyant technology business community, but at least ... |
| 19.03.2013 | Healthcare, life science proof-of-concept program gets some brotherly love with city’s $500k investment | The announcement came on the same day as news that venture capital firm First Round Capital would manage the city’s $6 million StartUp PHL Seed Fund.
In an emailed response to questions, University City Science Center spokeswoman Jeanne Mel... |
| 13.03.2013 | Vistar Media raises $1.5M // SnipSnap wins an Appy Award [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 13.02.2013 | Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners invests $1.4M in nine local startups [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| 05.02.2013 | Provider performance transparency tool and test for detecting heart attacks get early stage investment | QLIDA Diagnostics, led by Michael Boyce-Jacino, received $250,000 in a follow-on investment. The Coulter Foundation, a group that funds university research, and UK-based venture firm Net Scientific have also invested in the company.
The com... |
| 21.12.2012 | Philly’s crime data release named one of The Atlantic Cities’ ‘Best Open Data Releases of 2012’ [LINKS] | The Best Open Data Releases of 2012 [The Atlantic Cities] As The Atlantic notes, Philly released its crime data right in the nick of time to make this end-of-the-year list. Read more about Philly’s recent crime data release here.
Will robot... |
| 28.11.2012 | Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners: state-backed fund invests $1.5M in Philly-area startups | The state-backed Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners recently announced $1,535,000 in investments in eight Philly-region startups.
Find the whole list, with investment amounts and company descriptions from the release below.
Alencon Syste... |
| 19.11.2012 | Drug delivery startup using 3D printer to produce nanodose wafers | It’s estimated that the drug delivery market will rise to $199 billion by 2016 according to GBI Research, as patent losses spur pharmaceutical companies to position and reformulate their drugs. The growth in varieties of controlled release ... |
| 15.11.2012 | The $1,000 genome question has turned into, “How can we understand this data?” | Life Technologies and Harvard Medical School professor George Church may be the only ones who have officially thrown their hats in the ring for the $10 million Archon Genomics X Prize, but many others have made ambitious promises in the que... |
