| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.09.2019 | 12 Philly resources for technologists and entrepreneurs of color | Although many of us in the Philly tech and entrepreneurship arena don’t follow the “back to school” schedule anymore, there’s something about September that still feels like a fresh start. It’s a great time to jump headfirst into a new proj... |
| 26.09.2018 | How I Crossed the Academic Chasm and Entered the Startup Life |
But what I remember most vividly about the Bay Area was the startup culture.
I was in awe at the IPO of Inktomi, an internet-infrastructure company that spun out of a research team at Berkeley. Inktomi, at one time, powered the world’s int... |
| 22.08.2018 | Anchors and Diversity: Lessons From Philly at Madison’s Forward Fest | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Archna Sahay was hired as the city of Philadelphia’s director of entrepreneurial investment in early 2015, after she had spent more than a decade working in investment banking... |
| 12.06.2018 | The PHL Innovation Picnic is Back! |
Last year’s PHL Innovation Picnic attracted a diverse group of nearly 900 people from the area’s tech scene, including entrepreneurs, investors, community builders, and tech leaders to our front lawn, and this year we expect more! And whil... |
| 01.05.2018 | PHL Makers Map: 50 places to get help launching your product | These days a “product” can be anything from a fabricated object to a digital application to a new type of raw material. But at the core of these sometimes-technical products are real places, real people and real makers.
We did a deep dive o... |
| 12.02.2017 | Why Mentors Matter in Entrepreneurship… And How to Find Them |
According to a 2014 survey by The UPS Store, 70 percent of small businesses that receive mentoring survive more than five years. This is double the survival rate of non-mentored businesses. That same survey showed that 88 percent of busine... |
| 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... |
| 13.10.2016 | StartUp PHL just issued its latest Call for Ideas. Here’s how you can apply | StartUp PHL’s Call for Ideas grant program has reached its fifth iteration, and this time the goal looks pretty challenging: applicants must leverage some of the open data sets the City of Philadelphia has released as a tool to reduce the l... |
| 24.08.2016 | Now’s your chance to hang with City Hall’s startup czar | Tony “Reese’s Pieces” Abraham, lead reporter of Technical.ly sister site Generocity.org, has an interview he wants you to sit in on.
For Generocity’s Leaders of Color series, he’s talking to Archna Sahay on our public Slack channel. Sahay h... |
| 15.07.2016 | A look back at the sixth Philly Tech Week | As an effort ages, it must also evolve.
From the inaugural celebration in 2011 to Philly Tech Week 2016 presented by Comcast, the goals of growing and celebrating the technology and entrepreneurship work in Philadelphia haven’t changed. But... |
| 20.04.2016 | The City of Philadelphia wants to play matchmaker | The city’s Commerce Department launched an RFP board to connect startups with anchor institutions that “might not have the flexibility internally to try new ideas to solve problems,” said the Commerce Department’s Rebecca Lopez-Kriss. She m... |
| 13.10.2015 | Nucleus Raises $3.4M To Build A Smart Home Intercom | Available for pre-order today, Nucleus is a connected home device that lets families have two-way audio and video conversations in the home, between homes, or with any mobile device.
Homes using Nucleus will ideally purchase multiple units ... |
| 27.08.2015 | The City of Philadelphia wants to back your poverty-fighting tech project | The City of Philadelphia has awarded nearly $300,000 to projects like developer camps, internship programs and youth STEM initiatives through its StartUp PHL “Call for Ideas” grants.
Now it’s looking for more projects to fund, this time foc... |
| 12.01.2015 | These resources help Philly startups thrive | Hi, my name is Nadia James and I am one of the rare transplants to Philadelphia who moved here with the sole purpose of building a startup. When I first visited Fishtown, I felt with every step that I was in a city with the potential to bec... |
| 12.11.2014 | Medical device startup benefits from Philadelphia seed fund | The two funds are intended to give startups more incentive to stay in the city. Although Philadelphia’s startup ecosystem is growing steadily, it has lacked the investment infrastructure that has made places such as San Francisco, Boston an... |
| 11.11.2014 | City-backed StartUp PHL to announce new angel fund. Here’s why | One year after its first and only public investment to date, the City of Philadelphia’s StartUp PHL fund for local early-stage startups will announce tomorrow four new investments totaling $700,000.
The startups are vendor payment company T... |
| 28.08.2014 | What happened to Philly Tech Meetup? | Philly Tech Meetup, a nearly four-year-old institution in the local tech scene, went dark about four months ago.
It billed itself as “the premier launching pad for tech startups in the Mid-Atlantic region, and one of the largest tech meetup... |
| 28.04.2014 | How these real estate developers used open data to find new business | Streamline Solutions used to drive around neighborhoods to find run-down houses to rehab. But last July, the South Philly development company realized the city had released reams of data on property violations, like which homes had broken w... |
| 17.12.2013 | U.S. gov is biggest supporter of Science Center’s tech transfer funding program | With a grant of $1 million, the federal government is the single biggest supporter of the University City Science Center‘s QED, the four-year-old program that funds local university research in hopes of getting professors’ work to market. Q... |
| 04.12.2013 | Drexel, Temple, Rutgers get $600k from Science Center to support research | The University City Science Center awarded $600,000 in grants to researchers at Drexel, Temple and Rutgers, according to a release.
The grants are through the Science Center’s QED program, which funds local university research in hopes of g... |
| 03.12.2013 | Software to interpret EEG for neurological disorders gets proof-of-concept funding | Dr. Christof Daetwyler of Drexel University College of Medicine produced an online teaching tool to improve physician interactions with patients using practice, assessment and feedback. The company is called WebPatientEncounter. The idea is... |
| 15.11.2013 | Apply for second round of city’s Startup PHL grants, with brain drain focus | If you had $25,000, how would you fight brain drain in Philadelphia?
Now’s your chance to put that idea into action. The city is looking to fund projects that will connect students with the local startup scene as part of its second round of... |
| 18.07.2013 | 4 things for investors and entrepreneurs to consider in new funding landscape | Angel and venture capital investors and entrepreneurs shared their insights and anxieties about the funding environment at the event at shared workspace Benjamin’s Desk.
Lots of new angel investment syndicates popping up As most venture inv... |
| 27.06.2013 | This is a directory of coworking spaces in the city | The City of Philadelphia’s Commerce Department has put together a directory of the city’s coworking, incubator and multi-tenant spaces. Check it out here. Contact the city to be added to the list.
Check out our coverage of these spaces here... |
| 22.05.2013 | How we raised $6.25M as a Philadelphia Startup: RJMetrics | Last week, my company RJMetrics announced a Series A investment from West Coast VC firm Trinity Ventures. One hundred percent of this capital came from outside the Philly region. But this city helped us get that support to grow us to the ne... |
| 15.05.2013 | Predictive Edge raises $2.5M // Curalate in NYTimes // Autism Expressed on MSNBC [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... |
| 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... |
| 18.02.2013 | Startup PHL ‘Call for Ideas’: 20 finalists chosen out of 118 entries for piece of $500K grant | The city announced 20 finalists for its $500,000 Startup PHL ‘”Call for Ideas” grant, which will fund several programs that support the startup community.
The finalists, chosen out of 118 entries, offered a look at what local organizations ... |
| 16.11.2012 | ‘We want the next company that’s born here to mature here:’ PIDC Senior Vice President Sam Rhoads on city’s StartupPHL Fund | During Tuesday’s information session on the city’s StartupPHL matching seed stage investment initiative, Sam Rhoads made one thing very clear: the city does not want the tech startups that get funded by the proposed $6 million city-backed f... |
| 31.10.2012 | University to launch venture fund to enhance Philadelphia’s entrepreneur ecosystem | According to a description of the fund in the university’s strategic plan emailed to MedCity News:
“Drexel Ventures will provide funding and expertise to manage the invention disclosure process, determine patent and market viability, accele... |
| 29.10.2012 | Apply for Startup PHL: unveiling of city-backed $6M seed stage tech startup fund [VIDEO] | The City of Philadelphia has officially opened the doors on Startup PHL, a proposed $6 million early stage investment fund partnership with an outside venture capital firm and a $500,000 open call for ideas to support entrepreneurship, as T... |
| 26.10.2012 | Startup PHL: $3.5M in startup investment and grants from City of Philadelphia and PIDC | A partnership between the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation has earmarked $3.5 million in a two-tiered investment and grant-making initiative called Startup PHL, as Mayor Nutter will announce Frida... |
| 26.10.2012 | Philadelphia mayor launches Startup PHL: Should Seattle follow a similar path? | Can Philly reposition to become the champ of startups? Photo via Wikipedia
Philadelphia isn’t routinely thought of as a startup hub. But the City of Brotherly Love is hoping to now sprinkle some of that love to entrepreneurs — in the form o... |
| 26.10.2012 | Philly launches $3M seed fund for startups — will healthcare get any brotherly love? (video) | Officials declined to talk specifics about the program, pointing out that they will have to wait until an investment firm is selected. There is already speculation that First Round Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm with offices in ... |
| - | A $6M fund will support early stage digital health startups in Philly region | Safeguard Scientifics and Independence Health Group, the parent company of insurer Independence Blue Cross, have teamed up with Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania to set up a $6 million fund. The fund will be used... |
| - | University to launch venture fund to enhance Philadelphia’s entrepreneur ecosystem | Less than a week after Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced a public-private venture fund, a Philadelphia university said it will launch a venture fund next year.
Drexel University president John Fry mentioned the venture fund as par... |
| - | 4 things for investors and entrepreneurs to consider in new funding landscape | At a recent FundingPost event gathering together investors and entrepreneurs in Philadelphia, crowdfunding, provisions in the JOBS Act, and angel and venture investment trends were on attendee minds.
It’s an interesting time to talk about f... |
| - | Healthcare, life science proof-of-concept program gets some brotherly love with city’s $500k investment | A program that invests in health care and life science research projects that can demonstrate proof of concept, typically coming out of universities and medical institutions, is getting a $500,000 investment from Philadelphia’s economic dev... |
| - | Software to interpret EEG for neurological disorders gets proof-of-concept funding | A medical education teaching tool and software to speed up the diagnosis of electroencephalograms were a couple of the research projects picked for funding in the University City Science Center’s QED Proof of Concept program, according to a... |
| - | Medical device startup benefits from Philadelphia seed fund | Two years after the city of Philadelphia launched a $3 million seed fund, the fund has invested in a medical device company — one of four companies to receive investments topping $700,000 and the only healthcare business among them.
Velano ... |
| - | Philly launches $3M seed fund for startups — will healthcare get any brotherly love? (video) | Philadelphia has started a $3 million public-private venture fund to invest seed money in Philadelphia startups and is looking for an investment firm to run it. The aim is to stimulate and grow Philadelphia’s entrepreneur community and keep... |
