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| Jul 30, 2026 | Hellbender Doubles Pittsburgh Campus, Claims Sole US-Owned Physical AI Maker Status | By Adrian Parham
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| Apr 8, 2025 | This startup aims to make 50% of US hospitals less wasteful using smart data |
Within hospitals, injectable medications are a huge and complex supply chain — and data analysis makes it more manageable.
The market for injectable medications is estimated to grow to over $600 billion this year. Some hospitals administer... |
| Feb 24, 2025 | Traditional PPE Isn’t Made For Everyone. Here’s How One Startup Is Fixing It. | It started with an accident that should never have happened.
While a PhD student in 2013, Beau Wangtrakuldee was working in a lab when her ill-fitting lab coat got caught, causing a vessel to tip over and spill a chemical on her that burned... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | The Future of Innovation: How Emerging Startup Hubs Are Shaping the Landscape | In the world of startups, the landscape is shifting. High-cost ecosystems like Silicon Valley and New York City have long held the spotlight. But emerging hubs are stepping into the ring, armed with affordability and specialized expertise. ... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Technical.ly: How Emerging Startup Hubs Can Compete with High-Cost Ecosystems | At Startup Genome, we continuously analyze what drives the success of innovation ecosystems worldwide. A recent article from Research Assessment Lead, Forrest Wright, for technical.ly shares a key insight: affordability alone isn’t enough t... |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Philly Trading Card Startup CollX Raises $10M Series A, Will Focus On Growing Community | Philly-based trading card platform CollX raked in millions more dollars last month, once again receiving support from local investors.
CollX raised a $10 million Series A, with plans to use the funding for marketing and platform development... |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Philly startup aims to make investing easier for people who don’t come from wealth | The world of financial advice can be misleading and full of hard-to-spot scams. It can seem purposely opaque, founder Mical Jeanlys-White believes, to keep people out.
Organizing and managing financial assets strategically, however, is wide... |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Philly is ranked one of the world’s best places to found a startup, climbing to No. 25 globally | Philadelphia moved up two spots from last year’s No. 27 ranking on the annual Global Startup Ecosystem Report from trade association and research group Startup Genome and the Global Entrepreneurship Network.
Diverse talent and collaboration... |
| May 6, 2024 | RealLIST Connectors 2024: In Philly’s Tech And Startup Community, 20 People You Want To Know | This is the fifth edition of Technical.ly’s annual RealLIST Connectors feature, which recognizes the most connected and community-oriented people in the region’s ecosystem. We started in 2020 by listing 100 people. The following year we hig... |
| Apr 20, 2024 | Philly-Area Startup For Investing In Real Estate Debt Rebrands With Wider Offerings | A Bucks County startup making an alternative real estate investment marketplace has rebranded: The company formerly known as Yieldeasy is now Finresi.
The new name squishes together the words finance and residential.
“I think this really he... |
| Apr 16, 2024 | New VP At Philly Chamber Is A Former Tech Industry Pro Who’s All About Building Relationships | For Jason Bannon, relationship building is what makes the Philly tech ecosystem special.
The marketing pro recently left his role as VP of marketing and communications at Ben Franklin Technology Partner of Southeastern PA after 10 years wit... |
| Apr 8, 2024 | Philly Is on the cusp of marrying innovation with inclusion — finally! | As we worked on the US Economic Development Administration’s Tech Hub proposal at the Navy Yard in January, a child heard his father’s voice for the first time at CHOP thanks to that kind of breakthrough. Is any further inspiration needed?
... |
| Apr 8, 2024 | This Philly Founder Is Making Generational Wealth Building More Accessible | The Philadelphia resident in 2022 founded WealthMore, a platform that provides young adults with access to wealth advisors and financial planning.
A first generation American, Jeanlys-White remembers her family saved a lot, but didn’t have ... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | Pitch Deck Teardown: Astek Diagnostics’s $2M seed deck | Astek Diagnostics closed a $2 million round for its urine diagnostics system, despite the fact that raising money for medtech isn’t for the faint of heart. The company’s deck has some good stuff in it and could be a deep source for things w... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | What Does The Philly Tech Community Hope To See In 15 years? A Larger, More Inclusive And More Robust Ecosystem | What were you doing in 2009? That February, Chris Wink, Sean Blanda and Brian James Kirk launched a blog called Technical.ly Philly aiming to cover the growing technology ecosystem in Philadelphia.
Since then, Technical.ly has watched and r... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | This New ‘Digital Bridge’ Could Cultivate A Thriving Impact Investing Ecosystem In Philadelphia | The devastating consequences of divestment, like deteriorating infrastructure, vacant lots, and vast expanses of food and green space deserts, are glaringly obvious in low-income areas of Philadelphia. These inequalities in resources and op... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | ICYMI: Governor Shapiro Launches Commonwealth’s First Economic Development Strategy in Nearly Two Decades to Create Economic Growth and Opportunity for All Pennsylvanians | All across the Commonwealth, Pennsylvanians are reading about Governor Shapiro’s plan to create jobs and grow our economy.
Harrisburg, PA – This week, Governor Josh Shapiro and Secretary of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Rick Sig... |
| Jan 30, 2024 | Meat the Mushroom Secures $150,000 Investment from Shark Tank for Mushroom-Based Vegan Bacon | Baltimore-based startup Meat the Mushroom has secured a $150,000 investment from “Shark Tank” investors Kevin O’Leary and Lori Greiner. This deal, struck on the popular ABC show on Friday, gives the investors a 33.3% stake in the company, k... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Philly Mapmaker Used By National Policymakers And Nonprofits Raises $3M To Expand Product And Staff | A Philly mapping software company has plans to grow its team and share data in 2024, spurred along by new funding from local investors.
PolicyMap closed a $3 million Series A round in December led by local financier and policy research firm... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | The Philly Company That Makes Autonomous Farm Robots Just Raised $24M | Philly’s small-but-growing robotics presence is attracting national attention, as evidenced by a big cash infusion for a company named after a hard-working beast of burden.
Autonomous robotics company Burro, formerly known as Augean Robotic... |
| Jan 5, 2024 | Listen To These 21 Stories Of Philly Startup Founders And Execs | This year, Founding Philly published 21 podcast episodes featuring some of the most prominent founders and executives in the Philly startup community.
We kicked off the year with Justin Rosenberg, founder of the popular fast-casual chain Ho... |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Year in review: What Changes Did 2023 Bring Philly’s Tech Community? | 2023 was filled with fundraising, community gatherings and interesting technology. In Philadelphia, Technical.ly hosted the 13th annual Philly Tech Week, and the city welcomed a new mayor. And across the national tech landscape, we saw arti... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Who Built Philly Startup Leaders? Over 15 Years, These Community Members — And Many More | When thinking about Philly Startup Leaders’ legacy, Bob Moore wants you to consider the ship of Theseus paradox. When your vessel has all new infrastructure — or your organization has all new members — is the spirit retained? Is it still th... |
| Dec 11, 2023 | Philly Power Moves: You Might Recognize These Names On Cherelle Parker’s Transition Team | With just a few weeks to go before her tenure begins, Mayor-Elect Cherelle Parker announced the members of her transition team last week. This includes a leadership team, senior advisors, a steering committee, 13 sub-committees and a transi... |
| Nov 15, 2023 | Philly Money Moves: The Enterprise Center’s Innovate Capital Growth Fund Gets $5M Investment | The Enterprise Center received a $5 million investment from TD Charitable Foundation for its Innovate Capital Growth Fund. The West Philly-based nonprofit, which provides resources and opportunities for entrepreneurs, launched the fund in 2... |
| Nov 14, 2023 | Meet The Winners Of 1Philadelphia’s 2023 Innovation Awards | It’s been a busy couple of days for the Philly tech community, from Founder Factory to CapCon to 1Philadelphia’s 2023 Innovation Weekend, which closed last week with a focus on the people who are passionate about tech equity.
Held last Frid... |
| Nov 10, 2023 | The New $28M GO PA Fund Means Collaboration Between All 4 Ben Franklin Tech Partners, Led By Philly | Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is leaning into statewide collaboration with the other Bens and state government with the new Global Opportunity Pennsylvania (GO PA) Fund II.
The Philadelphia-area arm of the st... |
| Oct 30, 2023 | Meet Emma and Jens Grede, the team behind Kim Kardashian's Skims and Kylie Jenner's new clothing line, Khy | Kim Kardashian, Jens Grede, and Emma Grede pose with the Amazon Innovation Award during the 2022 CFDA Fashion Awards. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Emma and Jens Grede are the power couple behind celebrity brands like Skims and Brady.
Th... |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Food is Medicine Series: 7 Produce Prescription Startups Helping Boost Americans’ Food Security | 9 Mins Read As studies highlight the positive social impact of Food is Medicine programs on American lives and healthcare, here are seven produce prescription startups helping feed more nutritious and affordable meals to Americans.
This art... |
| Oct 25, 2023 | Delaware Nabbed Part Of A Regional EDA Tech Hubs Designation | It’s official, Delaware: We’re a tech hub. Part of one, at least.
The US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) Tech Hubs program is an effort by the federal government to help regions beyond Silicon Valley and B... |
| Oct 11, 2023 | HealthTech Arkansas Cohort Companies in the News | 2022 cohort company Echo IQ has partnered with Cassling, a company that will act as a sales agent for Echo IQ’s EchoSolv software. EchoSolv is a proprietary artificial intelligence clinical decision support platform that supports cardiology... |
| Sep 28, 2023 | What The 2023 Nucleus Awards Winners Hope For Philly’s Innovation Future | Philly has the talent to succeed as an innovation hub, but its people and organizations need to believe in themselves more to make it happen.
This was one of the themes discussed by leaders of Philadelphia’s STEM community at the University... |
| Sep 27, 2023 | RealLIST Engineers 2023: Meet 15 Of Philly’s Most Impactful Technologists Right Now | It’s time again to recognize the people who literally make the tech world function.
This is the fifth year that Technical.ly is recognizing influential technologists in our community who show impressive technical aptitude, community leaders... |
| Sep 18, 2023 | Philly Power Moves: Meet The 4 Honorees Of The 2023 Nucleus Awards | These awards recognize leaders in the science and technology space in Philadelphia. They are:
Read the full article here |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Tech-Enabled Real Estate Brokerage Houwzer Formed A New Parent Company, Newfound | Tech-enabled real estate brokerage Houwzer announced this month the launch of its new parent company, Newfound.
Mike Maher, CEO and cofounder of Newfound and Houwzer, said that when Houwzer acquired Trelora last year, the Center City-based,... |
| Aug 28, 2023 | What should founders keep in mind when approaching investors? | Navigating the funding world as a first-time founder can be overwhelming. Stories abound about all the dos and don’ts of approaching investors. So what practical tips can founders looking to raise some funding follow?
Local investors and ot... |
| Aug 9, 2023 | For EDA Tech Hubs Designation, Philly’s Life Science Leaders Are Reaching Across State Lines | Here’s why orgs from southeastern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware and southern New Jersey have all joined this consortium.
Tech leaders from parts of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are working together to apply for federal EDA Tech H... |
| Jul 31, 2023 | How to succeed in today’s grocery delivery market | The instant grocery delivery market has been on a roller-coaster ride over the past few years, and recently the ride has been down.
For example, Dunzo, a hyperlocal delivery startup in India, reportedly postponed employee salaries for a mon... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | We Believe Everyone Can Lead’: Why NeuroFlow Launched An Integrated Leadership Development Program | As world-changing innovations bubble up from shared workspaces, home offices and huddle rooms around the globe, how can we ensure that employees can see their leadership potential in a modern workplace?
A recent study by the Society for Hum... |
| Jul 15, 2023 | Call The Navy Yard A Mini Smart City | David Desharnais isn’t a huge fan of the term “smart cities.”
Typically, the term refers to using Internet of Things technology, like sensors, to bring solutions to a city’s problems. But the president and COO of Rekor Systems, a Maryland-b... |
| Jul 10, 2023 | The Most Effective Actions These 8 Orgs Have Taken Toward DEI | Some of the most successful initiatives have been from groups that have established histories of investing in their tech and business ecosystems like universities, law firms, accelerator programs, economic development groups, coding bootcam... |
| Jul 1, 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... |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Philadelphia Held Its Top-30 Ranking On This List Of Global Startup Ecosystems | Philadelphia has once again ranked in the top 30 of Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report.
The region stuck to its #27 spot on the global list of best ecosystems for growing companies, which it cracked in 2022 after ranking #28 i... |
| Jun 15, 2023 | Where do tech workers go after layoffs? | Companies have laid off thousands of workers in the first few months of 2023, many of whom signed non-competes or have few local prospects. Such a significant shift in the labor market means many people need jobs. Where do tech workers go a... |
| Jun 15, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: HUNGRY bags $10m, USDA greenlights cultivated chicken labels, making leather from beer | Funding rounds continue to be slow and on the low side. Catering tech startup HUNGRY raised new capital, as did alt-meat startup Higher Steaks, which rebranded as Uncommon. In agtech, agribusiness platform Unnati Agri and alt-leather startu... |
| May 19, 2023 | How To Ensure Tech Economies Are As Diverse As Their Regions? Focus On Early Talent And Local Funding | Social justice-minded tech stakeholders often wax poetic on the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in the majority-white industry. But if intentional steps aren’t being taken to ensure a local tech economy’s constituents look lik... |
| May 1, 2023 | This real estate company helps developers pivot between hotel, short- and long-term living spaces. See the pitch deck behind its $65 million funding round. | Placemakr CEO and cofounder Jason Fudin. Placemakr This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Placemakr runs apartment buildings like hotels, with short- and long-term leases on furn... |
| Apr 22, 2023 | Инфраструктура открытых данных для ИИ — кто и зачем её разрабатывает | Группа независимых американских организаций планирует построить сеть открытых репозиториев с данными. На их основе будут обучать ML-модели в самых разных отраслях — от медицины до климатических исследований. Инициатива пока находится на сам... |
| Apr 5, 2023 | Can An HR Tech Unicorn’s CEO Balance Growth With Impact? | After the thumping pop music and colored spotlights, Mahe Bayireddi walked onstage.
The elevators and escalators were branded. All 1,250 generic hotel conference chairs in the sprawling ballroom were filled. The big user conference is a sta... |
| Mar 15, 2023 | Saved For A Rainy Day: 5 Pieces Of Advice For Founders And Investors Navigating An Economic Downturn | Their advice was given three weeks ago, but since the demise of Silicon Valley Bank, it might have been more prescient than these startup pros realized.
At its annual meeting the end of February, Broad Street Angels (BSA) hosted a panel foc... |
| Mar 14, 2023 | Cvent to go private again in $4.6B Blackstone deal | Meetings and events management software provider Cvent is to be taken private yet again, as part of a $4.6 billion transaction involving two of the biggest players in the private equity sphere.
Today’s announcement continues a recent trend ... |
| Feb 27, 2023 | 5 Lessons About Building A Business This Podcast Host Learned From Philly founders | The Philly startup ecosystem has been on the rise for quite some time. In 2022, for instance, Philly was ranked 27th on Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report, two years after being named a lower-level “emerging” startup ecosystem... |
| Feb 27, 2023 | With A Rebrand And Software Update, Lula Convenience Wants To Serve The Full Scope Of Retail Sales | Adit Gupta and Tom Falzani have been building the tech-enabled delivery service for convenience stores since just after the pandemic hit. The startup’s first iteration was inspired by Gupta’s parents who ran their own convenience store, but... |
| Feb 17, 2023 | Philly’s NeuroFlow Won $500K In A VA Challenge For Suicide Prevention | Veteran-founded mental health tech platform maker NeuroFlow is one of 10 companies to receive prize funding from the US Department of Veterans Affairs for Mission Daybreak, a public-health focused suicide prevention initiative.
The Philly c... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | Across Q1 And Q2, Ben Franklin Tech Partners Is Investing Nearly $3M Into 12 Philly-Area Startups | It’s a busy start to the year for Ben Franklin Technology Partners‘ (BFTP) Southeastern Pennsylvania branch.
The state-backed firm recently announced it’s slated to make investments in seven local startup companies. The investments were dep... |
| Jan 12, 2023 | Pittsburgh’s AI expertise may give rise to an already growing startup market | Emerging markets tend to go in and out of vogue. First, Austin was the next biggest thing, then Atlanta and, more recently, Miami. Pittsburgh has yet to have its moment, but all the signs are there that it could be next. Having local expert... |
| Dec 20, 2022 | ‘Complacency Can Not Be An Option’: Lessons These 10 Orgs Are Carrying Into 2023 | 2022 contained much tumult and transition, and nearly no individual or organization was spared from the world’s chaotic compressions. This was a year to adapt and evolve, to react to rapidly shifting conditions and then adjust again as thos... |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Here are the 34 tech companies most likely to be on the holiday shopping lists of private-equity firms after valuations plunged this year, according to bankers and private data | Francesco Carta/Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
This holiday season, private-equity firms are eyeing discounted public tech companies.
... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Tech-Enabled Real Estate Brokerage Houwzer Has Acquired Competitor Trelora | Tech-forward real estate and mortgage brokerage Houwzer, which got its start in 2015 in Philly and has expanded to neighboring states, has acquired next-gen brokerage Trelora.
The news comes amid a year of growth for Houwzer. The Center Cit... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Most School Districts Still Lack Data-Privacy Personnel | Only a few years ago, before the pandemic, finding a school district with a dedicated leadership position focused on data privacy was like spotting a “unicorn”—something so rare it was practically mythical.
Districts might have been theoret... |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Sports Sponsorship Company LeagueSide Has Been Acquired By TeamSnap | Sportstech company LeagueSide, which planted its Philly roots when cofounders Evan Brandoff and Zubin Teherani met at training camp for Venture for America, is expanding its reach via an acquisition by sports software company TeamSnap.
The ... |
| Nov 23, 2022 | Collx, HeyKiddo and ConConnect all scored big investments at PACT’s 2022 Lion’s Den pitch competition | The dramatics are part of the signature style of the event, meant to be a live-action, localized “Shark Tank” for entrepreneurs attending PACT’s annual Capital Conference. It’s usually a nail-biter; three startups that are chosen as most in... |
| Nov 21, 2022 | Jet propulsion-focused Wave Engine lands $3.5M round alongside new Baltimore facility | The University of Maryland spinout, which develops next-generation jet propulsion engines and aerial vehicles, deepened its presence in Charm City after years of growth and contracts with defense agencies. |
| Nov 19, 2022 | Gopuff launches scheduled deliveries, gifting and in-store pickup | Rapid grocery deliver startups like Getir, Gopuff and Gorillas, once heralded as the next big thing in on-demand ordering, are running up against logistical challenges that might very well be insurmountable. Even faced with competition and ... |
| Nov 18, 2022 | TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Funded): This week in MKE startup success | It’s Friday, finally! Time to catch up on some of the good things happening in our great city’s startup and entrepreneurship scene. Below is a list of click-worthy articles that will end your week with a smile. If you have some startup ecos... |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Mental Healthtech Company NeuroFlow Raised A $25M Growth Round | Following a $20 million Series B round last year, NeuroFlow just closed a $25 million round of financing to continue its growth, the mental healthtech company announced Thursday.
The company makes a platform that facilitates mental healthca... |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Digital health news, funding round up in the prior week; October 17, 2022 | Rite Aid partnered with Google Cloud; Walgreens bought CareCentrix; Brave Health raised $40M
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PointClickCare Technologies, a healthcare technology platform enabling collaboration and access to real‐time insights, announced th... |
| Oct 6, 2022 | Spotted: Milwaukee Rising Summit | Technical.ly reporter S. Sorrina Beecher hosted a panel discussion on the state of Milwaukee at NM’s Cream City Labs on the second day of MKE Tech Week.
Attendees Ellie, Adam, and Jamar become event panelists to share results of breakout d... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | HR Tech Startup Employee Cycle Closes $2.5 million Seed Round | Three-year-old human resources tool Employee Cycle has just closed its seed round with a focus on the development and launch of its Employee Data Platform, the company said Tuesday.
The $2.5 million round was led by Impellent Ventures with ... |
| Sep 11, 2022 | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за последнюю неделю | Соучредители Docquity Амит Витал (Директор по росту), Индранил Ройчоудхури (Генеральный директор), Абхишек Кабам (Организационный директор)
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| Sep 6, 2022 | $15 billion delivery startup Gopuff tried to rip out a page from Amazon's playbook by poaching its managers. Insiders say a newfound metrics obsession 'destroyed' its operations. | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Gopuff hired over two dozen Amazon veterans at various levels of the company to run its operations.
Sources described the result... |
| Aug 26, 2022 | Social Impact Has Value. Are You Capturing It? | Many will suggest that the purpose is to create value. Traditionally that means creating a product or service that customers will pay for and selling it for more than it costs you to make.
Impact entrepreneurs know there is more to value th... |
| Aug 17, 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... |
| Aug 2, 2022 | Hair Scarves And Sea Life Savers Won Big At Pennovation Accelerator’s 2022 Pitch Day | Peach Brown, founder of Sledge Scarves, drove home the strength of her non-slip hair scarves by lifting a bowling ball with one in front of pitch judges.
The feat of strength came during Pennovation Accelerator’s fifth annual pitch day on W... |
| Jul 29, 2022 | Science Center’s New Startup Development Program Is Aimed At First-Gen STEM Students | As Philadelphia expands its reputation and capacity for the life sciences industry, it’s also folding in efforts toward accessibility. A unique program coming to the University City Science Center in the form of a yearlong, immersive curric... |
| Jul 28, 2022 | ‘Is It The Right Time To Do This?’ | As a founder or entrepreneur, when you concentrate hard on the headlines, you’re bound to get a headache.
Even amidst the seemingly strange news cycles of recent years — pandemic, politics, and more — there’s been a thread of constant growt... |
| Jul 25, 2022 | Here are the 37 tech companies most likely to be acquired by private-equity firms after valuations plunged, according to bankers and private data | Four CEOs, from left: Avishai Abrahami of Wix, Tien Tzuo of Zuora, Eric Remer of EverCommerce, and Scott Howe of LiveRamp. Wix; Zuora; EverCommerce; LiveRamp; Alyssa Powell/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers.... |
| Jul 21, 2022 | Just Eat Takeaway scales back in France as market value drops 84% in 10 months | Just Eat Takeaway is cutting 390 jobs from its workforce in France, constituting part of a broader global restructuring effort as the food delivery giant looks to reverse its recent downturn.
Just Eat Takeaway is the result of a $7.6 billio... |
| Jun 22, 2022 | Collectables App CollX Made its First Acquisition: Denver-Based Card Inventory Software | That was the experience of Ted Mann, the cofounder of Haddonfield, New Jersey-based CollX. The visual search function app scrapes pricing data from multiple websites to help a user understand the rarity and price of a sports card.
He had be... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Philly is Movin’ on Up in the Top 30 List for Global Startup Ecosystems | The cities are rated on a scale in six categories: performance, funding, connectedness, market reach, talent and knowledge. Startup Genome considered 300 ecosystems for this year’s list. Philly scored high for performance and market reach, ... |
| Jun 9, 2022 | A strategic relocation to Baltimore supports one biomedical company’s growth | KaloCyte, a thriving startup developing a red blood cell substitute, moved to the BioPark in 2019. |
| May 27, 2022 | What Can Philly Do to Make a Home For Robotics to Flourish? Scenes From ICRA 2022’s Mad Dash | The university had put together a tour of sorts for Anne Nadol, the City of Philadelphia’s new commerce director who’d come to the department in March after leaving a top position at Temple University last summer. Her goal, she told me, was... |
| May 27, 2022 | Tech layoffs top 15K in a brutal May | It’s been a rough month in the tech sector. We’ve rounded up week after week of layoffs, and according to aggregator layoffs.fyi, more than 15,000 tech workers have lost their jobs this month. Hopefully the sun will come out in June.
A numb... |
| May 23, 2022 | Crossbeam Announces Acquisition of Partnered at Inaugural Conference | The company was hosting the first-ever partnerships conference Supernode, a two-day Philadelphia event gathering roughly 250 partnerships pros from far-reaching SaaS companies, when CEO Bob Moore made the announcement. He explained in a blo... |
| May 17, 2022 | How Do You Raise Your First VC Round or Set Your Startup Valuation? These Philly Investors Have Some Advice | How does one know how much to raise or where their valuation lies? It’s a position many startup founders will find themselves in within their first few years. It’s also a task every venture capitalist will probably approach differently.
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| Apr 28, 2022 | Why Houwzer Launched This Nonprofit Fund for Low-Income, First-Time Homebuyers | The Center City company’s new program comes amid a still-hot housing market and the recent re-up of the Philadelphia Housing Development Corp.’s own $10,000 grant program for first-time homebuyers, Philly First Home.
The fund, which receive... |
| Apr 15, 2022 | How Oncora Medical’s CEO Realized its Product Could Help with Healthcare Burnout | The seven-year-old digital health company, which makes a software that provides documentation, workflow and data-capturing for cancer doctors, added two big names to its client list this week. Cancer centers Scripps Health and UT Health San... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | Phrase Health got $1.7M From NIH for its Better Patient Outcomes Dashboard | The funding comes to company after it received a $225,000 Phase 1 STTR grant last year.
Phrase Health, based out of 2001 Market St., was founded by clinical informatics physicians and spun out of technology developed at Children’s Hospital ... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | How Can Investors Get More Capital to Women Founders? ‘Pay Attention to the Barriers at Play’ | Women are consistently left out of conversations with investors, are granted less funding, and only represented a tiny percentage of all venture capital raised over the last 30 years. At the same time, only 11% of investing partners at VC f... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Real Estate Tech Company Houwzer Raised a $118M Series B as it Introduces New Products | The round includes $18 million in equity and a $100 million warehouse line of credit, led by Edison Partners. It brings the total equity funding for the B Corp — which operates locally and in DC, the greater Maryland region and Florida — to... |
| Feb 4, 2022 | Phenom’s Made its 4th Acquisition in 16 Months as the HR Tech Biz Expands its European Reach | Today, the Ambler-based company announced it has acquired 2013-founded Tandemploy, a Berlin-based HR tech company focused on solving key problems associated with employee experiences.
The addition enhances Phenom’s AI-powered Talent Experie... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Philly-Based Robotics Company Burro is Joining John Deere’s Agtech Accelerator | A few months after that name change and a $11 million Series A, Burro will actually be participating in an accelerator with one of those huge brand names.
Starting this week, the NextFab-based company is one of seven in John Deere’s 2022 St... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | 'Microdrink' maker Waterdrop raises $70M | Dive Brief:
Austrian beverage startup Waterdrop, which makes “microdrink” hydrating sugar-free cubes that dissolve in water, has raised 60 million euros ($70 million) in a Series B funding round, according to a press release emailed to Food... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | Startup Storytelling isn’t Just for Closing Deals. It’s Also for Hiring, Bruce Marable Says | “Storytelling is always key, and that’s what’s been reinforced,” he told Technical.ly. “It’s by far, to me, the number one skill you can have as a founder and CEO.”
Marable is no stranger to launching a company or selling people on his idea... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | Respiratory Device Company Strados Labs Raised $4.5M, With 2022 Hiring Plans | CEO and cofounder Nick Delmonico told Technical.ly that cultivate(MD), a medical device venture capital fund, was this round’s lead investor — a “perfect fit,” the CEO said. Local investor Broad Street Angels, as well as SOSV, contributed f... |
| Jan 4, 2022 | Infinite Blue Celebrates Successful 2021 | COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (PRWEB) January 04, 2022
Infinite Blue, a leading provider of business continuity/disaster recovery planning and response management software, enjoyed a remarkable 2021. From corporate growth and recognition to product enh... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | In a Deal That ‘Bodes Well’ for Local Investors, Center City’s Sidecar Has Been Acquired by Quartile | Five-year-old ad optimization platform Quartile specializes in ecommerce marketplace sellers, and Sidecar CEO Andre Golsorkhi said that the deal — for which details were not disclosed — allows the companies for form one “high-growth organiz... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Roundtrip Raised a ‘Strategic Investment’ Round to Drive Expansion (and Hiring) Plans | The Callowhill-based company makes software that connects ride requests to a group of transportation companies. It’s aimed at transporting patients to non-emergent healthcare appointments via the likes of medical cars, wheelchair vans, stre... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | What is 1Philadelphia? Sylvester Mobley on Building Infrastructure For Racial Equity in Philly Tech | After launching the Innovation League, a competition-driven tech skills development initiative, this year, he kept hearing from parents that they didn’t feel comfortable about their kids traveling home from its programming by themselves ami... |
