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Ben Franklin Technology Partner of Southeastern Pennsylvania
https://www.sep.benfranklin.orgLast activity: 13.09.2026
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Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives.
For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $175 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives.
For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $175 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.
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Location: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Employees: 11-50
Phone:+1 215-972-6700
Founded date: 1982
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
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| 04.08.2026 | Ben Franklin Invested $6.5M in 28 Companies in 2025 | Annual report highlights diverse, growing regional innovation ecosystem Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) approved more than $6.5 million in funding to 28 companies throughout the five-county regio... |
| 16.07.2026 | Doc Parghi Assumes Role as Board Chair for Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania | PHILADELPHIA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) announced Doc Parghi as the organization’s new Chair of its Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2026. Parghi assumes the role formerly occupied by... |
| 20.04.2026 | SRI Capital Leads $2M Pre-Seed Round in DreamVu to Accelerate Physical AI Data Infrastructure | PHILADELPHIA, PA — March 31, 2026 — SRI Capital today announced that it has led a $2 million pre-seed equity round in DreamVu, a physical AI data infrastructure company that captures 360° omnidirectional 3D video to train humanoid robots an... |
| 26.02.2026 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania Moves Headquarters to Center City | Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) announced today it has relocated from Building 100 at South Philadelphia’s Navy Yard to new offices at 1600 Market Street in Center City. The move, completed Feb. ... |
| 10.02.2026 | Mitch Vidovich appointed to Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority Board | Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) announced the appointment of Mitch Vidovich, Vice President of Government Affairs at Independence Blue Cross, to the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority ... |
| 07.01.2026 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania Appoints Four New Board Members | New leadership and the upcoming Center City move underscore the organization’s commitment to Greater Philadelphia’s innovation community. PHILADELPHIA (Jan. 8, 2026) – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Frank... |
| 06.08.2025 | Ben Franklin Invests $6.5M to Drive Growth in Regional Tech, Health-Care Sectors in 2024 | PHILADELPHIA (Aug. 6, 2025) – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania approved nearly $6.5 million in funding to 28 companies throughout the five-county region in 2024, according to the latest annual impact report, whi... |
| 30.07.2025 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania relocating to Center City | The nonprofit will move out of its current offices at the Navy Yard at the end of 2025. Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) announced today that, as part of its strategic plan to build its entreprene... |
| 12.06.2025 | Philadelphia Climbs 12 Spots, Ranking #13 Globally in 2025 Global Startup Ecosystem | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — June 12, 2025 — Startup Genome, in partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Network, has released its flagship report in its 13th year – the 2025 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) – today at VivaTech, Paris.... |
| 08.04.2025 | 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... |
| 24.02.2025 | 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... |
| 20.02.2025 | 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... |
| 29.01.2025 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania Announces Leadership Transition in Tech Investment Group | Contact: Calan Wilson, Ben Franklin calan.wilson@sep,benfranklin.org Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) announces the departure of Omar Mencin, Managing Director of the Tech Investment Group, and th... |
| 04.12.2024 | Experian Accelerates Identity and Activation Capabilities With Acquisition of Audigent | December 04 – COSTA MESA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Experian® — the global data and technology company — announced today it has acquired Audigent, a leading data activation and identity platform in the advertising industry. The acquisition fur... |
| 01.12.2024 | PolicyMap Integrates Maternal Health Index to Combat Disparities | PHILADELPHIA, PA – PolicyMap, an online data and mapping company, has announced the integration of Surgo Health’s Granular Maternity Vulnerability Index (gMVI) into its platform. This powerful tool aims to address maternal health disparitie... |
| 20.11.2024 | BioBuzz Announces The Finalists For Its 2024 Life Sciences Awards In The BioHealth Capital Region And Greater Philadelphia | Six categories are recognized annually. An open community nomination period, followed by a 4-week community voting period precedes a celebration of the winners which will have both digital and physical elements this year within each market.... |
| 12.11.2024 | Vittoria Biotherapeutics Completes $25 Million In Private Financing To Propel Groundbreaking Cell Therapy Candidates | PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vittoria Biotherapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage immunotherapy company specializing in the development of innovative cell therapies for hard-to-treat diseases, today announced the successful co... |
| 07.11.2024 | Zenapse Launches AI-Powered Marketing Experience Platform On Google Cloud Marketplace | WESTPORT, Conn., Nov. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Zenapse, an AI-powered marketing platform utilizing emotional intelligence, today announced the availability of its ZenImpact Optimization Studio on Google Cloud Marketplace. This launch provides... |
| 16.10.2024 | The Chamber Of Commerce For Greater Philadelphia Announces New Board Of Directors And Executive Committee Members | Read the full article |
| 17.09.2024 | AmorSui Announces $3.5M Seed Funding to Revolutionize Sustainable Medical Supplies | NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AmorSui, a modern personal protective equipment (PPE) brand dedicated to protecting people and the planet, announced today that it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. AmorSui’s mission is to make PPE more susta... |
| 11.09.2024 | Neuraptive Therapeutics Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation For NTX-001 And Provides Update On The Advancements Of NTX-001 For The Treatment Of Peripheral Nerve Injury Requiring Repair | CHESTERBROOK, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Neuraptive Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that NTX-001 has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation, thus providing the potential for accelerated development for patients with peripheral nerve inju... |
| 11.09.2024 | GO PA Fund Invests In $5M Growth Financing Round In Rimsys, A World-Leading Provider Of Regulatory Information Management Software For Medical Technology Companies | Contact: Sam Gorodetzer, sam@ceislermedia.com PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 10, 2024) — Global Opportunity Pennsylvania Fund II, L.P. (GO PA Fund) has recently invested in the Pittsburgh-based Rimsys, a company specializing in the development of regu... |
| 04.09.2024 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners Puts Longtime Navy Yard Building Up For Sale, Eyes Move | The organization occupies about 12,000 square feet of the 30,000-square-foot building at 4801 S. Broad St., also known as Building 100. The remaining space is leased to other tenants. An asking price for the property has not been disclosed.... |
| 29.08.2024 | The Founder Building A Wealth-Management Product Her Grandmother Would Have Loved | She spent years on Wall Street, building products at American Express and serving as a managing director at JPMorgan Chase. She realized the finance industry still had a long way to go when it came to helping consumers build and understand ... |
| 11.07.2024 | How This Company’s AI Tools Help Prevent Suicide And Mental Health Crises | NeuroFlow’s platform uses natural language processing to evaluate suicide risk in patients. |
| 21.06.2024 | 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... |
| 11.06.2024 | 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... |
| 10.06.2024 | Startup Genome, Ben Franklin Technology Partners Of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Drexel University, And University City Science Center Launch The World’s Most Comprehensive Research On Startups | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — June 10, 2024 — The 2024 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) by Startup Genome and the Global Entrepreneurship Network launched today at London Tech Week. The GSER, powered by the world’s most quality-controlled d... |
| 29.05.2024 | Pennsylvania’s Innovation Economy: Powered By Ben Franklin | - |
| 10.05.2024 | AmorSui Upgrades Protective Product Line In Effort To Set ‘New Standard’ In Health Care | AmorSui was launched in 2020 by Beau Wangtrakuldee, a scientist and entrepreneur who founded the company after a chemical spill in a lab left her with severe burns. Wangtrakuldee was wearing proper PPE at the time, but the improper sizing a... |
| 06.05.2024 | Latus Launches with State-of-the-Art Gene Therapy Development Technologies, Two Lead Product Candidates, and an Initial $54 Million in Series A Financing | The funding round is being led by 8VC and DCVC Bio. To date, Samsung Life Science Fund (created by Samsung C&T, Samsung Biologics, Samsung Bioepis and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation), The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Foun... |
| 06.05.2024 | 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... |
| 01.05.2024 | What Contenders In The $500M Tech Hubs Race Can Learn From The Past | - |
| 30.04.2024 | Philadelphia Sits Among Nation’s Elite Life Sciences Hubs In New Colliers Rankings | The analysis conducted by the commercial real estate services firm Colliers International focuses on a region’s ability to support and sustain industry growth using factors such as venture capital funding, National Institutes of Health gran... |
| 29.04.2024 | TIME Names Yellowdig A Rising Star | - |
| 20.04.2024 | 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... |
| 16.04.2024 | 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... |
| 11.04.2024 | Pennsylvania, Delaware, And New Jersey Collaborate To Develop Precision Medicine Powerhouse In Greater Philadelphia Region | Contact: Calan Wilson, Ben Franklin calan.wilson@sep,benfranklin.org PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (April 11, 2024)—The Greater Philadelphia Region Precision Medicine Tech Hub, a coalition of more than 100 total organizations and community partners fro... |
| 08.04.2024 | 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? ... |
| 08.04.2024 | 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 ... |
| 12.03.2024 | Statewide Venture Fund Makes First Investments | What’s the fund: A venture fund launched last fall with a goal of investing in some of the more than 600 startups funded statewide by Ben Franklin entities, including Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania. W... |
| 07.03.2024 | GO PA Fund Makes First Investments | Contact: Jason Bannon, Ben Franklin jason.bannon@sep.benfranklin.org PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (March 7, 2024)—Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (“Ben Franklin”), a leading seed stage capital provider, today announced th... |
| 04.03.2024 | Ben Franklin Tech Investments: $300K In Three Companies | - |
| 29.02.2024 | Ben Franklin Healthcare Investments: 1.3 Million in Four Companies | - |
| 26.02.2024 | 2023 Philadelphia Venture Report | VC dealmaking slowed across the entire US in 2023, and Philadelphia was no exception. But maintaining its reputation for gritty resilience, the Philly ecosystem held stronger than many other, larger venture hot spots, particularly at the pr... |
| 22.02.2024 | Cagent Vascular Raises $30 Million Series C Financing | Cagent Vascular, Inc., a rapidly growing commercial stage medical device company, today announced a Series C Financing close in excess of $30M. U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), led the round. Participation included new investor Blue Ridge Medi... |
| 13.02.2024 | 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... |
| 13.02.2024 | Fast-Growing Swarthmore Fintech Raises $28M, Plans Hiring Spree | The Series A was led by Connecticut-based Sageview Capital, with participation from Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ Go PA Fund. The $27.85 million infusion brings LoanStar Technologies’ total funding to roughly $33 million since its found... |
| 02.02.2024 | 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... |
| 18.01.2024 | Aston Pierce Joins Ben Franklin As Investment Director For GO PA Fund | Contact: Jason Bannon, Ben Franklin jason.bannon@sep.benfranklin.org |
| 16.01.2024 | Aston Pierce Joins Ben Franklin As Investment Director For GO PA Fund | Contact: Jason Bannon, Ben Franklin jason.bannon@sep.benfranklin.org |
| 11.01.2024 | 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... |
| 11.01.2024 | 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... |
| 10.01.2024 | Philadelphia Startup Burro Raises $24M With Plans To Expand Its Fleet Of Robots And Triple Revenue | The Philadelphia startup’s Series B round was co-led by New York-based Catalyst Investors and Palo Alto-based Translink Capital and joined by existing investors S2G Ventures, Toyota Ventures, F-Prime Capital and the Cibus Capital LLP. The c... |
| 05.01.2024 | 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... |
| 05.01.2024 | Judith Von Seldeneck’s Capital Fund To Award $2M To Local Women-Owned Businesses | Applications for the latest round of the JVS Philadelphia Fund for Women are now open and will be accepted through March 6. To be eligible, companies must be headquartered in southeastern Pennsylvania, be woman-led or owned, and focus on pr... |
| 29.12.2023 | Philadelphia Data Mapping Startup Founded By Former White House Staffer Raises $3M To Fuel Growth | PolicyMap Inc. was founded in 2018 by Maggie McCullough, who has also held roles with the City of Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It was spun out of the Reinvestment F... |
| 20.12.2023 | 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... |
| 14.12.2023 | 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... |
| 11.12.2023 | 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... |
| 08.12.2023 | WealthMore & Emmeline Ventures Talk About Capital Markets Supporting More Inclusive Fintech Products | The New York Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is by far the world’s largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$30.1 trillion as... |
| 07.12.2023 | Vittoria Biotherapeutics Announces FDA Clearance of IND Application for VIPER-101 to Treat T-Cell Lymphoma | For the initiation of a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the Company’s lead candidate, VIPER-101, a gene-edited, autologous, CAR-T cell therapy for treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory T-cell lymphoma. “The FDA... |
| 16.11.2023 | Ben Franklin Healthcare Investments: $785K In Four Companies | |
| 15.11.2023 | 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... |
| 14.11.2023 | 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... |
| 14.11.2023 | Ben Franklin Tech Investments: $610K In Three Companies | - |
| 13.11.2023 | Fulton Bank Commits $10 Million To PA Growth-Stage Technology Companies Fund | Fulton Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of Fulton Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: FULT), today announced it is investing up to $10 million in the GO PA Fund, a venture fund launched for Pennsylvania-based technology companies. The fund was formed by... |
| 10.11.2023 | 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... |
| 09.11.2023 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners Has Closed On $28M As Part Of Largest-Ever Fund | Ben Franklin Technology Partners has raised its largest ever amount of capital, securing $28 million towards its $100 million statewide fund in a bid to retain and grow startups in Pennsylvania. The Global Opportunity Pennsylvania Fund, or ... |
| 09.11.2023 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners Completes First Close Of Its Expected $100M Venture Fund For Pennsylvania Innovation | |
| 25.10.2023 | 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... |
| 24.10.2023 | The Philadelphia Region Won A New Federal Tech Hub Designation For Life Sciences | The Philadelphia region has been selected as one of 31 federal innovation and technology hubs, making the area eligible to compete for a grant of up to $75 million to advance the area’s life sciences industry, the Biden administration annou... |
| 23.10.2023 | Biden-Harris Administration Designates Tech Hub In Philadelphia Region To Develop Precision Medicine And Improve Health Equity | WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden-Harris administration, through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), today announced that Greater Philadelphia Region Precision Medicine Tech Hub in Pennsylvania was designat... |
| 23.10.2023 | Greater Philadelphia Region Precision Medicine Tech Hub Earns US EDA Designation | Contact: Jason Bannon, Ben Franklin jason.bannon@sep.benfranklin.org |
| 18.10.2023 | SAIL Fusion Announces First Implantations Of Its BowTie™ Sacroiliac Fusion System | The surgeries began on October 14th and were conducted by Dr. Peter Whang, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the Yale University School of Medicine, and Dr. Abdufarrukh Karimov, Head of the Division of Neurosurgery S... |
| 10.10.2023 | PACE Aerospace And Nexteon Technologies To Provide FPO-SR Real-Time Optimization For JetBlue Fleets | FPO-SR enables JetBlue pilots to optimize their route, altitude, and speed to save fuel and cost, and provide environmental benefits. PACE Aerospace and Information Technology GmbH (PACE), a subsidiary of TXT e-Solutions Spa (STAR:TXT:MI), ... |
| 30.09.2023 | Soaring 76 rankings 2023: Greater Philadelphia’s fastest-growing companies, Nos. 1-25 | Surviving those challenges is laudable, but thriving in them is astounding. These 76 companies did just that, weathering storms and coming out stronger than before. Each year, the Philadelphia Business Journal identifies the region’s fastes... |
| 29.09.2023 | Black Professionals In Private Equity & Finance – Dealmaker Spotlight: Alex King | Q: What attracted you to PE and venture capital? Alex King: My pathway to private equity and, more significantly, venture capital was part of my entrepreneurial journey. That journey started when I was in high school. I was an avid reader o... |
| 28.09.2023 | 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... |
| 27.09.2023 | 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... |
| 23.09.2023 | New Hope’s Cecilian Partners Raises $11M After Tripling Revenue | The funding round was led by Baltimore-based Resolve Growth Partners. Founded in 2019, Cecilian Partners creates software platforms and other technology for homebuilders and homebuyers. CEO John Cecilian Jr. said that the fresh capital will... |
| 21.09.2023 | Peep How This Wealth Advising App Strives For Equitable Financial Futures | In August 2023, Jeanlys-White launched a tech-centered investing and planning service company called WealthMore. According to Forbes, Jeanlys-White learned valuable lessons from her grandmother, her Haitian-American family’s financial plann... |
| 21.09.2023 | Astarte Medical And Tiny Health Join Forces To Optimize Gut Health For Vulnerable Preterm Infants | - |
| 21.09.2023 | Ben Franklin Healthcare Investments: $250K In Two Companies | - |
| 21.09.2023 | Von Seldeneck: Philadelphia must embrace change, collaboration to unlock full potential | Now, it’s time for us to add another feather to our cap with the first female mayor. As Cherelle Parker breaks through glass ceilings, she brings with her a fresh perspective and a determination to create a culture that fosters growth and p... |
| 21.09.2023 | This Haitian-American Founder Launched A Wealth Advising App To Make Financial Freedom A Reality For All | She didn’t have any formal planning education, but she knew enough to understand the importance of saving. The matriarch taught her Haitian-American granddaughter to live below her means and would often tell her adages like, spend money as ... |
| 20.09.2023 | Nobias Therapeutics Announces Acceptance Of Late-Breaking Abstract | From a Phase 2 clinical trial of NB-001 (fasoracetam) for the treatment of the neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (“22q11DS”) in children have been selected for a poster presentation at the 52nd Child Neurol... |
| 19.09.2023 | Ben Franklin Tech Investments: $75k In Two Companies | - |
| 19.09.2023 | Investment Deals Slow For Ben Franklin Technology Partners In ‘Tightened’ Capital Market. | Ben Franklin receives state funding, so it isn’t as pressured by external market conditions as a traditional venture capital firm, but it still saw fewer companies raising money as valuations sank in the past 12 months. The result was Ben F... |
| 18.09.2023 | 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 |
| 14.09.2023 | SkillCycle Upgrades Talent Development Platform To Help Customers Drive ROI Through Coaching And Upskilling | C-suites and leadership typically look for growth opportunities and competitive advantages when the economy begins to thaw. Today, they increasingly focus on investing in their workforce through technology. More specifically, they’re lookin... |
| 13.09.2023 | FY 2023: Ben Franklin Approved $6.4 Million in 31 Companies | |
| 07.09.2023 | ERPHealth Acquires Manifesto, Expanding Its Behavioral Health Outcome Tracking Platform To Include Peer Support And Health Coaching. | Today marks a groundbreaking milestone as the company has successfully acquired Manifesto, a comprehensive, evidence-based peer support and health coaching platform, solidifying its position as a best-in-class end-to-end outcome tracking so... |
| 05.09.2023 | Orim Graves Elected As Board Chair For Ben Franklin | Contact: Jason Bannon, Ben Franklin jason.bannon@sep.benfranklin.org |
| 01.09.2023 | 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,... |
| 31.08.2023 | Penn Employees Receive Over $2 million In Student Loan Forgiveness Service | Penn offers the free service to help faculty, staff, and postdoctoral researchers and fellows navigate the nationally offered Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program. The loan has helped 29 employees save more than $2 million in less... |
| 28.08.2023 | 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... |
| 18.08.2023 | Two Philly-Area Groups Vie For New Federal Regional Tech Hub Designation | Two Philly-area groups focused on biotechnology and precision medicine want to win a new federal designation as regional tech and innovation hubs under a U.S. Department of Commerce program that aims to boost the country’s global competiti... |
| 15.08.2023 | Four Leaders To Be Honored By The Science Center At 2023 Nucleus Awards | The Nucleus Awards, taking place on September 26th, is the Science Center’s annual celebration convening the region’s leaders in support of cementing Philadelphia as a hub of innovation and discovery. Executive Vice President, Chief Scienti... |
| 09.08.2023 | 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... |
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| 06.08.2026 | Meduloc Raises $4M in Series B Funding | Meduloc, a West Chester, PA-based orthopedic medical device company, raised $4M in Series B funding. The round was led by GenHenn Capital, with participation from Life Sciences Greenhouse Investments (LSGI), Ben Franklin Technology Partners... |
| 23.10.2025 | Moberg Analytics Raises $600K In Seed Funding | Moberg Analytics, a Philadelphia, PA-based advanced brain monitoring and critical care informatics startup, raised $600k in seed funding. The round was led by Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Pennsylvania’s technology-based economic develo... |
| 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... |
| 06.02.2023 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners Invests $2M In 7 Philadelphia-Area Startups, Plans New $25M Fund | The investments were made in two groups, with $1.3 million going to five tech startups and $700,000 doled out to two health care startups. The seven companies to receive investments from Ben Franklin Technology Partners are: The seven compa... |
| 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... |
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