| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.10.2016 | Philly Geek Award Winners |
Among the winners: Azavea’s Kathryn Killebrew, who took home the coveted Geek of the Year award, as well as ROAR For Good’s Yasmine Mustafa, who nabbed the Technologist of the Year award for 2016.
Awards were also handed out for topics inc... |
| 07.09.2016 | This is how 3-D bioprinting companies are transforming drug development | Organovo is the leader in 3-D bioprinting at the moment. The publicly traded San Diego company has been selling 3-D liver tissue to pharma companies for about 18 months and is about to expand into kidney tissue. The goal is to support drug ... |
| 29.02.2016 | Where Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Company BioBots |
Cabrera showed off his company’s debut 3D bioprinter, and actually printed out a living 3D model of Vincent Van Gogh’s ear.
Needless to say, we were impressed.
BioBots was named one of the finalists in the Battlefield, and while the compan... |
| 26.02.2016 | Where Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Company BioBots | When we last saw BioBots, company CEO Danny Cabrera took to the Disrupt stage to pitch his 3D printer for living cells to our panel of judges in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY 2015. Cabrera showed off his company’s debut 3D bioprinte... |
| 08.01.2016 | BioBots named to Forbes "30 Under 30" in Manufacturing |
Specifically citing the application of advanced manufacturing for healthcare uses, our friends Danny Cabrera and Ricky Solorzano at BioBots made the Forbes “30 Under 30” list for Manufacturing, among some great companies and technologies.
... |
| 16.12.2015 | The New Horizons of Regenerative Medicine: Danny Cabrera, Founder of Biobots |
Biobots was created in August 2014 with the aim to be “the future of regenerative medicine”: to create a desktop 3D printer that builds functional three dimensional living tissue.
So far, the two founders Ricky Solorzano and Danny Cabrera ... |
| 10.09.2015 | BioBots Announces Commercial Launch of $10K Bioprinter |
The bioprinter, which is now available for ordering, goes to market at $10,000 and is revolutionary for its compact design and ease of use. It includes an intuitive, open- cartridge system, which allows researchers to purchase pre-prepared... |
| 02.09.2015 | BioBots raises $1.25 million | BioBots, the 3D printing company for living cells, recently closed a $1.25 million funding round.
The convertible debt round was from a mix of angel investors, equity crowdfunding investors and seed-stage funds, like DreamIt Ventures and 50... |
| 02.09.2015 | BioBots raises $1.25 million |
BioBots, the 3D printing company for living cells, recently closed a $1.25 million funding round.
The convertible debt round was from a mix of angel investors, equity crowdfunding investors and seed-stage funds, likeDreamIt Ventures and 50... |
| 17.08.2015 | Watch out, Organovo: BioBots launching new line of low-cost 3D bioprinters | BioBots is operating on very lean capital — it’s got less than $1 million in equity raised on the books. The startup spun out last year from University of Pennsylvania, developed by a small team of undergraduates. It also was a member of th... |
| 10.08.2015 | Five new life sciences startups at Philadelphia accelerator | Freenome
This London-based liquid biopsy startup is establishing a new office in Philly – using next-generation sequencing to diagnose cancers with just 1 milliliter of blood. With the potentially low-cost but accurate liquid biopsy method,... |
| 14.07.2015 | Meet BioBot, the 'MakerBot of biology' |
Inside a tiny office on the second floor of a South Philadelphia makerspace, the future looks like a large, greenish booger. The machine responsible for printing such an object: the BioBot, a bioprinter that prints living cell tissue and r... |
| 01.07.2015 | Ben Franklin Approves $2.8M for 14 Early Stage Companies | |
| 04.05.2015 | BioBots Is A 3D Printer For Living Cells | U.S. biotech startup BioBots sits at the intersection between computer science and chemistry. Its debut product, a desktop 3D printer for biomaterials, which was just demoed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY — printing Van Gogh’s ear in rep... |
| 27.04.2015 | 5 Innovative Ideas to Look Out for Before 2016 | 2014 was a great year for innovation in healthcare and we’re on track for another record breaking year in 2015. Venture capital (VC) funding in the IT sector of healthcare more than doubled in 2014 compared to 2013, with total VC funding at... |
| 27.02.2015 | Researchers are using these Philly-made ‘bioprinters’ to make hearts, stomachs | Danny Cabrera was a senior at Penn when opportunity knocked.
It came in the form of Ricardo Solorzano, a recent Penn bioengineering grad who had done his first two years at Miami Dade College, the same state school that Cabrera had transfer... |
| 12.02.2015 | Ben Franklin Approves $1.9M for 11 Early Stage Companies | |
| 03.11.2014 | Almost all 10 DreamIt Health startups are running pilots, raising funding | Nearly all of the startups who participated in the second Philadelphia-based class of the DreamIt Health are running pilots and raising funding, according to startup demos at Demo Day last week. DreamIt Health is DreamIt Ventures’ health IT... |
| 03.11.2014 | Almost all 10 DreamIt Health startups are running pilots, raising funding | Nearly all of the startups who participated in the second Philadelphia-based class of the DreamIt Health are running pilots and raising funding, according to startup demos at Demo Day last week. DreamIt Health is DreamIt Ventures’ health IT... |
| 01.11.2014 | BioBots finds a way to make 3D bioprinter more accessible | Another DreamIt Health grad, TrueClaim, wants to help consumers flag up suspicious claims on their medical bills within a two-day timeframe. The idea is to help people avoid paying higher medicals than they should be. Given that the Nationa... |
| 14.10.2014 | 10 startup pitches from Tech Cocktail’s Philly ‘Showcase’ | Tech Cocktail’s Mixer & Startup Showcase series stopped in Center City late last week to get a quick glimpse of Philly’s startup scene.
Current DreamIt Philly member Pico and wearable tech startup Beacon & Lively (both fresh off tri... |
| 17.07.2014 | DreamIt Health announces second class of 9 startups | DreamIt Health Philadelphia, the health IT accelerator from DreamIt Ventures, Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross, announced its second class of startups.
Throughout the four-month program, startups will get mentorship, access to lead... |
| - | Watch out, Organovo: BioBots launching new line of low-cost 3D bioprinters | This September, Philadelphia startup BioBots will roll out a new line of desktop 3D bioprinters — going up against companies like the capital-heavy Organovo.
The company’s developing smaller, easier to use, cheaper 3D tissue printing machin... |
| - | В конкурсе TechCrunch Disrupt победил не IT-стартап | Вчера в Нью-Йорке прошел финал ежегодной битвы стартапов, организованной изданием TechCrunch.
За призовые $50 тысяч и внимание американских инвесторов поборолись 24 инновационных компании. В финал прошли семь из них: проект по 3D-печати жив... |
| - | 5 Innovative Ideas to Look Out for Before 2016 | 2014 was a great year for innovation in healthcare and we’re on track for another record breaking year in 2015. Venture capital (VC) funding in the IT sector of healthcare more than doubled in 2014 compared to 2013, with total VC funding at... |
| - | This is how 3-D bioprinting companies are transforming drug development | Let’s face it, cells generally like having company, forming communities with other cell types to make complete tissues. However, quite often, researchers isolate cells from their 3-D environments, creating 2-D models that don’t always repli... |
| - | Five new life sciences startups at Philadelphia accelerator | Philadelphia’s University City Science Center’s Port business accelerator just announced it’s fostering some pretty interesting life sciences startups – ranging from cancer diagnostics to 3D bioprinting.
Biobots
In the vein of Organovo, reg... |
| - | BioBots finds a way to make 3D bioprinter more accessible | A company that’s developed its own 3D bioprinter for engineers and researchers interested in advancing 3D printing applications for biologics launched the device at DreamIt Health’s demo day this week.
Most people are familiar with 3D print... |
