| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.05.2024 | ChromaTan Receives a $2M Phase IIB NIH Grant | The single-use, columnless, steady state continuous elution chromatography platform (Photo: Business Wire)
ChromaTan, a Lower Gwynedd, PA-based bioprocessing and biotools biomanufacturing technology platform development company, received a ... |
| 07.02.2023 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 02.12.2021 | Revolutionizing the Manufacture of Medicine and More | The process is complex and it requires many steps to go from conception to market. And a new platform from ChromaTan, a startup with roots in Happy Valley, is poised to change a significant part of that process, streamlining chromatography ... |
| 11.12.2020 | News briefing: CG Oncology nets $47M Series D for bladder cancer studies; Single-cell transcriptomic startup raises $24M launch cash | CG Oncology has some new cash to play with.
The Irvine, CA-based biotech announced Thursday it closed a $47 million Series D round of preferred stock financing as the company continues to advance late-stage trials for its le... |
| 02.12.2020 | News briefing: Exelixis pays $20M to in-license a preclinical ADC for the pipeline; Another preclinical biotech shoots for a big IPO | Eighteen months after Exelixis signed on to partner with Iconic Therapeutics on an antibody-drug conjugate, more money is flowing.
Exelixis is picking up its exclusive option on the tissue factor-targeting ADC now k... |
| 12.11.2020 | News briefing: Small merger to advance anti-aging program; Sanger Institute spinout nabs $50M from Series C | Small-cap player Akers Biosciences $AKER has engineered a reverse merger with private company MyMD Pharmaceuticals.
The new combined biotech, which will retain the name MyMD, is expected to trade under the new ticker $M... |
| 06.11.2020 | News briefing: Chinese cancer player gets $124M+ Series C; IN8bio sets terms for $86M IPO | A little less than two years after a nine-figure Series B, Apollomics has returned to the venture well.
This time, the company has come out with even more money, pulling in $124.2 million for a Series C round. The funding will ... |
| 19.10.2020 | News briefing: AbbVie and Roche's Venclexta scores another FDA OK; ImmunoGen nabs China deal with $40M cash | AbbVie and Roche’s Venclexta has gotten a new FDA thumbs up.
The pair announced Monday that regulators have approved the drug in combination with azacitidine or low-dose cytarabine for newly-diagnosed acute myeloid leu... |
| 14.04.2020 | Will, Italy’s Instagram-born news startup, raises €1.2 million and launches podcast | Will, the first Italian Instagram-born community for generations interested in becoming more aware of the world around them, has closed a €1.2 million seed round. The lead investors are Davide Dattoli (Founder and CEO of Talent Garden), Fra... |
| 16.03.2020 | Ben Franklin Companies Fighting Infectious Disease and its Effects | While southeastern Pennsylvania has numerous large companies working on novel technologies to address these issues across many aspects of pandemic mitigation – vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, surveillance/epidemiology, devices, manufac... |
| 12.11.2019 | Ben Franklin Approved 1M+ in 6 Early Stage Companies | |
| 04.04.2019 | Cash-hungry news app Qutoutiao raises another USD 33m via public offering | China’s No. 2 mobile content aggregator Qutoutiao has sold approximately 3.3 million American Depositary Shares in a public offering at USD 10 apiece, an 8% discount compared with the closing price on the previous trading day, its prospectu... |
| 02.04.2019 | News aggregator KidzByte raises $290K in seed funding | KidzByte MediaTech Pvt. Ltd, a Mumbai-based news aggregator for children, said it has raised Rs 2 crore ($290,000 at current exchange rate) in seed investment from entrepreneur Pranay Goyal.
Key investor Pranay Goyal is the managing directo... |
| 14.09.2018 | The Inquirer’s 2018 Stellar StartUps Winners Named at Gala |
They are among the Inquirer’s 2018 Stellar StartUps winners. From nearly 100 contenders, winners in nine categories were announced Thursday night at a gala at South Bowl Lounge N’ Lanes in Philadelphia. They were selected by a panel of jud... |
| 03.09.2018 | Exclusive: News aggregator Dailyhunt raises $6 mn as part of larger Series E round | Bengaluru-based news aggregator Dailyhunt, run by Ver Se Innovation Pvt. Ltd, has raised over $6 million (Rs 42 crore at current exchange rates) in what is believed to be the first tranche of a larger Series E funding round from New York-ba... |
| 12.07.2018 | AgriFood News: Olio Raises £6M Series A, Nutreco invests in ViAqua, Farming as a Career, more | The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines from around the globe collected on AgFunder’s news sharing platform #feedit each week. Have news to share? Post it here and engage, share, and debate with your peers. AgriFood Tech Venture New... |
| 15.03.2018 | Deals | Tencent Leads News Aggregator Qu Toutiao’s USD 100 Million+ Pre-IPO Round | Qu Toutiao, China’s news and video aggregator, has raised over USD 100 million in a Pre-IPO round led by Tencent, reports Chinese biztech media 36Kr citing multiple sources. The latest round values the startup at USD 1.3-1.5 billion, making... |
| 15.03.2018 | Funding News: CitrusPay Raises $5.5M, Birds Eye Raises Series A, Ufaber Edutech Secures Seed Funding | Mobile Payments Solutions Company Citrus Pay has raised USD 5.5 million of second round of funding from econtext Asia Limited and Beenos Asia Pte. Ltd. They have come on board as strategic investors. Their existing investors Sequoia Capital... |
| 14.03.2018 | Deals | China’s Largest News Aggregator Toutiao Leads $200 Million Investment in Education Startup 17zuoye | 17zuoye have already covered 80,000 middle and primary schools in China.
Tencent and Baidu have also stepped into the education sector.
Toutiao, China’s largest news aggregator, recently led a $200 million investment in online parent-teache... |
| 05.01.2018 | A Year in Review: 2017 |
We concentrated efforts on bringing more capital to the region through programs that focus on partnerships and relationship building. For example, the First Meeting Program helps entrepreneurs develop relationships with local and national ... |
| 21.12.2017 | Deals | News Flash: Didi Scores $4 Billion Investment to Beef up AI, Global Market Expansion and EVs | Didi Chuxing, China’s top ride-hailing company, announced today it has raised $4 billion in a new equity financing round, envisioning international expansion, development in AI technologies, and investment in new energy vehicles.
This finan... |
| 16.10.2017 | It’s Happening: Benjamin’s Desk Merges With 1776 |
Benjamin’s Desk cofounders Anthony Maher and Jennifer Maher will lead the organization’s daily operations as co-CEOs, and 1776 cofounder and CEO Evan Burfield will become executive chairman of the combined incubator network, which will ope... |
| 14.09.2017 | The 2017 Stellar StartUps Winners are … |
A seventh grader sewing since she was 6. Recent college graduates helping to make youth sports more accessible. Software developers with a system that predicts individuals’ health needs and steers them to the best-fitting insurance plan.
T... |
| 04.08.2017 | How the Start-up LeagueSide Aims to Fund and Shake up Youth Sports |
Yet, they work on behalf of them daily as founders of the start-up LeagueSide. Written atop the white board in the conference room of their Benjamin’s Desk coworking space off Washington Square is this mission statement: “To make youth spo... |
| 14.04.2017 | Introducing the 50+ Innovation Leaders |
Welcome to the first annual compilation of 50+ Innovation Leaders! AARP and the MedCity News team asked readers to nominate digital health companies, entrepreneurs and initiatives they felt best reflect the wide range of technologies and a... |
| 31.01.2017 | The One Health Company Featured at The World Economic Forum | A Young Global Leaders of World Economic Forum alumnus, Lopes was invited to attend the World Economic Forum Healthcare Steering Committee meeting there.
The One Health Company seeks to use pet dogs and cats suffering from the kinds of cond... |
| 27.01.2017 | Attention Startups: Project Liberty is Back! Apply Now. |
Once again, Ben Franklin is working alongside the Philadelphia Media Network. PMN, the parent company to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Daily News and Philly.com, will provide space for the selected startups. The incubator is seeking tech ... |
| 15.10.2016 | India: Local language news aggregator DailyHunt raises $25m led by China’s Bytedance | Premium
Vernacular news content aggregator DailyHunt (Ver Se Innovation Pvt. Ltd) has raised $25 million in Series D funding led by ByteDance, a Beijing-headquartered content service provider that operates content platform Toutiao in China ... |
| 16.09.2016 | News aggregator app NewsDistill raises $100K in seed funding | NewsDistill, a city-based news aggregator app has raised USD 100,000 in seed funding from a group of investors including Ganesh Narasimhan, Ramana Thumu, and Sudhir Mallem.
NewsDistill today said in a statement that it is likely to raise an... |
| 02.02.2016 | Philadelphia Media Network profits from digital incubator partnerships |
When sales representatives for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com call on clients, they know the advertising collateral on their iPads — rate cards, samples, and advertising guidelines — is up to date. T... |
| 05.10.2015 | MSU, Rajant to create wireless network in space |
Robert Schena, CEO and cofounder of Rajant Corporation, told committee members that his company’s technology aboard MSU’s miniature satellites could create a network in space that could be used to keep military defense systems running if t... |
| 30.09.2015 | Conshohocken firm buys local credit-card technology company |
The buyer, Ciright Card Services of Conshohocken, Pa., exchanged an undisclosed amount of cash and equity to absorb GoNow’s assets. It will be rebranded as the Ciright One card, which consolidates debit, credit, loyalty and gift cards into... |
| 18.08.2015 | Watch out, Organovo: BioBots launching new line of low-cost 3D bioprinters |
The company’s developing smaller, easier to use, cheaper 3D tissue printing machines. They’ll cost about $10,000, and are geared to let academicians and industry scientists create their own tissues for preclinical research.
It will debut t... |
| 01.07.2015 | OneTwoSee is throwing much heat this week | Whoa—good shouts for their live sports stats tech in Engadget, Technical.ly Philly, Philly Mag, Sports Business Journal (paywalled), and Multichannel News.
Gotta love that Comcast is proud, too. Here’s their own blog post:
Comcast Corporate... |
| 05.06.2015 | China Business News Receives $193.6M Investment from Alibaba | China Business News (CBN), a Chinese financial media company under Shanghai Media Group (SMG), received a $193.6m investment from Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA).
The investment is part of a strategic agreement between Shanghai M... |
| 23.03.2015 | 850 Sports News Digest Scores $500,000 To Become ‘Summly For Sport’ | “Perfect for the morning commute,” is how 850 Sports News Digest pitches its iOS and Android app.
It has also been described as ‘Summly for sports news’, although the emphasis here is less on algorithms creating mobile-friendly summaries, a... |
| 25.02.2015 | Attention Sports Junkies: OneTwoSee Is Staying With Fox News Gametrax |
Startup Weaves Real-Time Data, Interactivity Into Fox’s ‘GameTrax’
OneTwoSee, a Philadelphia-based multiscreen startup that specializes in interactive apps that sync up contextual data with live sports broadcasts, said it has inked a new m... |
| 28.06.2012 | Fund News: IVP raises $1B for late-stage fund | Investor in Zynga, HomeAway, Twitter, Buddy Media and more raises its largest fund ever
Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), one of the top later-stage venture capital and growth equity funds, announced Thursday that it's raised its 14th f... |