GoodCompany Group

http://goodcompanygroup.org/

Last activity: 10.07.2017

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GoodCompany Ventures accelerates the growth of start-ups with innovative solutions to big, unmet social and environmental challenges.

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Location

United States

Total raised

$500K

Founded date

2009

Investors 1

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Funding Rounds 1

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Nov 22, 2013	Penn develops program to commercialize mobile apps, starting with app challenge	“We want to get ideas from a wide variety of people from doctors to poets. Who knows who may have the next industry shattering idea?” Participants were asked to submit an app in one of three different categories: consumer, specialized, and ...
Nov 4, 2013	GoodCompany Group demos 11, announces new logo	Social enterprise accelerator GoodCompany Group held its annual demo day last week, giving the 11 participating companies a chance to pitch to a room of investors at First Round Capital’s headquarters. It also announced a new logo. This is ...
Oct 28, 2013	GoodCompany Group: director Zoe Selzer leaves accelerator she cofounded	Zoe Selzer has left GoodCompany Group, the social enterprise accelerator she cofounded and led since March 2012, GoodCompany announced Friday. The announcement comes less than a week before the accelerator’s demo day for its summer 2013 cla...
Apr 8, 2013	Apply for GoodCompany Group’s social entrepreneurship accelerator by April 15	Social entrepreneurship in Philadelphia is exploding. The birthplace of America is becoming host to the founding of dozens of businesses that are setting out to solve long standing social and environmental problems, and GoodCompany Ventures...
Mar 14, 2013	Why it matters GoodCompany Group got $500k from Investors Circle	After a half-decade of gaining a reputation in social enterprise without the money to back it, GoodCompany Group will announce today $500,000 in committed capital from Investors Circle Philadelphia. That means if you’re one of a dozen start...
Nov 27, 2012	GoodCompany Group Investor Day: highlights from the summer accelerator’s pitch day	A staffer from GoodCompany Group startup Wash Cycle Laundry dropped in (working gear in tow) for the event. It was a night for GoodCompany Group‘s social entrepreneurs to show off their stuff. Thirteen startups participated in GoodCompany G...
Nov 6, 2012	First Round Capital increases its fund by $158 million [VC Roundup]	Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa...
Nov 5, 2012	Philadelphia Social Enterprise Partnership: Bloomberg Philanthropies names city incubator a finalist in $5M Mayors Challenge	In yet another bet on the city’s entrepreneurs, the Nutter administration has just landed a spot in the top 20 finalists of Bloomberg Philanthropies‘ $5 million Mayors Challenge. The challenge? Develop a scalable idea that can improve quali...
Oct 30, 2012	Safeguard Scientifics sees lower valuations, bigger 3Q loss [VC Roundup]	Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa...
Oct 30, 2012	Safeguard Scientifics sees lower valuations, bigger 3Q loss [VC Roundup]	Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa...
Oct 18, 2012	‘You’re always selling’: what one entrepreneur learned at GoodCompany Ventures’s summer class	“You’re always selling.” That’s one lesson Start Some Good cofounder Alex Budak says he learned from GoodCompany Ventures‘ summer social entrepreneurship accelerator. On the Start Some Good blog, he writes: You’re always selling. It’s easy ...
Sep 25, 2012	Richard Vague: ‘Bootstrap for as long as you can’ and more advice from the Gabriel Investments managing partner	Richard Vague, managing partner at Center City’s Gabriel Investments, says he immediately warms to startups that have bootstrapped and been resourceful. Richard Vague has a few words of advice for entrepreneurs looking to raise capital, and...
Aug 9, 2012	GoodCompany Group summer accelerator startups take over Philly Tech Meetup	Three entrepreneurs from GoodCompany Group’s summer accelerator presented at Philly Tech Meetup last night. From left to right: Sean Steinmarc of PSGive, Dahna Goldstein of Philantrack and Stefan Portay of Desmo. It was the standard scene a...
Jul 9, 2012	Autism Expressed: Philly startup gets a video spot on TechCrunch [VIDEO]	2011 GoodCompany Ventures graduate Autism Expressed was another Philly startup that got a little love on TechCrunch last month with a video spot from TechCrunch’s Mini Meetup in Philly. In an interview with TechCrunch reporter Jordan Crook,...
Jun 11, 2012	Meet the next 12 startups in the GoodCompany Group summer social entrepreneurship accelerator	Social impact accelerator GoodCompany Ventures, now part of GoodCompany Group, has announced the 12 new companies that will be participating in its three-month program this summer. It opened applications in April. Some of the companies, inc...
Jun 7, 2012	Social entrepreneurship: “There are not two different categories of companies”	The crowd at the New Capitalist Junto hosted by GoodCompany Group. You don’t have to be a social entrepreneur to be a social entrepreneur. That’s about what appRenaissance CEO and Philly Startup Leaders president Bob Moul said during a pane...
May 10, 2012	PublicStuff: NYC firm with Philly ties wins long-delayed city 311 app contract, due Labor Day, with real-time API	The City of Philadelphia has chosen New York City-based PublicStuff as the vendor to produce its long-delayed 311 mobile application, and its release will include a real-time API. The deal is a $18,000 one-year contract and is scheduled for...
Apr 10, 2012	GoodCompany Group: summer 2012 Ventures Program accepting applications until April 30	Applications for the GoodCompany Group summer 2012 Ventures Program are open until the end of the month. The Ventures Program is in its fourth year, though earlier this year GoodCompany Ventures merged with Green Village to become the GoodC...
Apr 2, 2012	Desks for Startups: Infrastructure for entrepreneurs or budding startup bubble?	If you have a startup in Philadelphia that has outgrown your local coffee shop, but doesn’t want an office or a storefront, well, you’re in luck. In the last six months, the number of low-cost desks for technology startups, often coupled wi...
	Penn develops program to commercialize mobile apps, starting with app challenge	University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer is entering a new phase by adding mobile apps to its technology portfolio. That includes mhealth apps conceived by students and faculty at its Perelman School of Medicine and nursi...

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FAQ about GoodCompany Group

When was GoodCompany Group founded?

GoodCompany Group was founded in 2009.

How much funding has GoodCompany Group raised?

GoodCompany Group has raised $500K in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about GoodCompany Group?

Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning GoodCompany Group, among them “Penn develops program to commercialize mobile apps, starting with app challenge” (Nov 22, 2013) and “GoodCompany Group demos 11, announces new logo” (Nov 4, 2013).

Is GoodCompany Group still active?

Yes, GoodCompany Group is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 10, 2017.