| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.03.2021 | Pegasus Tech Ventures Launches US $50 Million Fund with Japanet Holdings | SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 10, 2021–
Pegasus Tech Ventures (“Pegasus”), a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, announced a partnership with Japan’s television shopping giant Japanet Holdings (“Japanet”) to establ... |
| 26.12.2017 | Indian Tech Ventures Attract $1.3B Funding In 12 Months, Ecommerce Rules! | Technology investors and venture capitalists are betting big time on India: $1.3 billion or Rs 7800 crore worth of investments have already been done in the last 12 months, with 82% of all investments going to startups and early stage inves... |
| 16.05.2017 | When Jet.com was young: the early years | The timeline of events that led to Walmart buying Jet.com to go after Amazon
As our readers know, Vator has started a series called When they were young.
It's a look back at the modest days of startups, what traction they had in their first... |
| 13.04.2017 | goTenna Series B fuels vision to make local communication possible anywhere on the planet | Founded in 2012 with the small goal of enabling connectivity-free communication, goTenna has ballooned to more than 23 employees and delivered real hardware to market in the process. Today the startup is adding another $7.5 million to its c... |
| 28.04.2016 | Win $10,000 in seed money plus Philly Tech Week prizes with UberPITCH | Philly entrepreneurs, inventors and self-starters — your big break is arriving shortly.
UberPITCH is returning to Philadelphia for Philly Tech Week presented by Comcast. And this year, the transportation company is upping the ante. The entr... |
| 03.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 3, 2016 | TravelStart secured $40M; GeoFeedia received $17M; DisputeBills raised $400k funding
DisputeBills, provider of a medical bill reduction solution for individuals and businesses, closed a $400,000 seed round led by Chicago angel investor Step... |
| 13.01.2015 | This Philly venture firm is helping Jet.com take on Amazon | Marc Lore, Penn grad and founder of the Jersey City-based Diapers.com, sold his company to Amazon in 2011 and is now vying to take them on with his new company, a Montclair, N.J.-based wholesale shopping club called Jet.com. The news made t... |
| 13.12.2013 | DreamIt Ventures partners with Science Center, university | The move fits Drexel’s plans to add more startup resources for its School of Entrepreneurship that opened this fall and its broader strategic plan for an innovation neighborhood. It also added a venture arm in the past year. The Science Cen... |
| 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... |
| 01.11.2013 | MentorTech Ventures raises more than $24m for third fund | Early stage investment firm MentorTech Ventures has raised more than two thirds of its latest fund, AltAssets has learne |
| 18.07.2013 | 4 things for investors and entrepreneurs to consider in new funding landscape | Angel and venture capital investors and entrepreneurs shared their insights and anxieties about the funding environment at the event at shared workspace Benjamin’s Desk.
Lots of new angel investment syndicates popping up As most venture inv... |
| 06.11.2012 | First Round Capital increases its fund by $158 million [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| 31.10.2012 | ‘Everywhere you look there are artifacts of entrepreneurship and innovation’: runner-up of General Assembly story contest | One of the likenesses of Benjamin Franklin that Justin Sapolsky references. Photo courtesy of PhillyHistory.org
By Justin Sapolsky
Last month we asked you to write us a 250 word story about why you love Philly for a chance to win $250 in Ge... |
| 10.10.2012 | Spreecast partners with Viacom digital properties | Social video platform inks deals with VH1 Digital and Logo Digital
Spreecast, an online platform that lets anyone broadcast with multiple people, has inked a pretty big deal with a major media company - Viacom.
Viacom's VH1 Digital and Logo... |
| 09.10.2012 | Councilman David Oh to hold Council hearings on job creation this week | Councilman David Oh will hold joint City Council and State Senate hearings on local job creation today and tomorrow, and he’s invited several local business leaders and entrepreneurs to speak on panels throughout the day.
On Wednesday at 1 ... |
| 07.09.2012 | Spreecast raises $7M Series A for social-video platform | Meakem Becker Venture Capital, GGV Capital, MentorTech Ventures and top media angels invest
Spreecast has attracted another nice chunk of funding. This time, the San Francisco-based social-video platform founded by Stubhub founder Jeff Fluh... |
| 27.06.2012 | MetaLayer competes in the Knight News Challenge, hopes to make everyone a data scientist [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... |
| 22.06.2012 | Battlefield Startup SnipSnap Sees Over 1M Coupons Clipped, Locks Up $900K In Funding | It’s only been a few weeks since SnipSnap co-founder/CEO Ted Mann took to the Disrupt stage to talk about his super-simple coupon saving and sharing app, and now it seems the young company has already hit some major milestones.
Mann reveale... |
| 16.04.2012 | Company developing MRSA test raises $1.9 million | In 2005, 90,000 people were diagnosed in the U.S. with severe MRSA infection and 19,000 people died of severe MRSA in the United states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it has been on the decline as a result... |
| 28.02.2012 | Josh Kopelman, Michael Nutter and Ellen Weber to judge Switch Philly 3 during PTW | Switch Philly 3
Where: The Levitt Auditorium, Gershman Hall, 401 South Broad Street, Center City
When: April 25, 6 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
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First Round Capital Managing Partner Josh Kopelman, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and Robin ... |
| 29.07.2011 | Q&A: Terrence Hicks, VP of investment at Ben Franklin Technology Partners | A linchpin of the local entrepreneurial community for nearly 30 years, Ben Franklin Technology Partners is one of the unique advantages of starting a company in Pennsylvania.
Partially funded by the state government, BFTP of Southeastern Pe... |
| 23.06.2010 | Molecular Detection raises $1.4M for disease diagnostics | Molecular Detection characterized the $1.4 million fundraise as “part of a follow-on” to the Series C round. The company is looking to bring the amount up to $2.5 million, according to the regulatory document.
The company will use the new f... |
| 23.06.2010 | Molecular Detection nets $1.4 million for disease diagnostics | By Brandon Glenn
Molecular Detection Inc. raised $1.4 million in equity to develop a series of tests for infectious diseases.
The company says its Detect-Ready technology offers a quicker and more accurate means of diagnosing diseases. Its ... |
| 02.03.2010 | TicketLeap stealthily raised $2.5 million in additional funding last year | Update: edited MentorTech info.
According to SEC filings, TicketLeap scored $2.5 million in a funding round that included MentorTech Ventures.
While the money was raised in September of last year, the appropriate SEC filings didn’t get file... |
| 05.08.2009 | The Neat Company raises $7.3 million | Scanner software business nabs capital for sales, marketing, and development
Scanning for small and medium-sized businesses just got a boost today.
The Neat Company, which started out in 2002 as a group seeking to improve management of expe... |
| 24.06.2009 | Shop Talk: Philadelphia’s venture capital community on Twitter | If you have ever shown a friend or relative Twitter, you were probably met with a response along the lines of, “Why would I ever want to use this?”
Mostly, it’s hard to quantify the usefulness of a tool such as Twitter, but the startup and ... |
| 02.03.2009 | Recap: 2009 Wharton Business Technology Conference | On Friday, Technically Philly was invited to attend the 2009 Wharton Business Technology Conference, held at the Park Hyatt at the Bellevue. The event included 50 speakers, panelists, and moderators from the technology industry and boasts t... |
| - | 4 things for investors and entrepreneurs to consider in new funding landscape | At a recent FundingPost event gathering together investors and entrepreneurs in Philadelphia, crowdfunding, provisions in the JOBS Act, and angel and venture investment trends were on attendee minds.
It’s an interesting time to talk about f... |
| - | DreamIt Ventures partners with Science Center, university | In the latest indication that venture capital groups in Philadelphia are aligning themselves more closely with the city’s universities, DreamIt Ventures is moving onto the University City Science Center’s campus where it will open up an inn... |
| - | Molecular Detection raises $1.4M for disease diagnostics | Molecular Detection Inc. has raised $1.4 million in equity to develop a series of tests for infectious diseases, according to a regulatory filing. with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company says its Detect-Ready technology off... |
| - | Company developing MRSA test raises $1.9 million | An infectious disease test developer has raised $1.9 million in a series B financing round to advance its MRSA screening panel. It will also use the funds to develop its new molecular diagnostic panels to detect sepsis and gastrointestinal ... |
| - | Pegasus Tech Ventures Launches US $50 Million Fund with Japanet Holdings | SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 10, 2021--
Pegasus Tech Ventures (“Pegasus”), a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, announced a partnership with Japan’s television shopping giant Japanet Holdings (“Japanet”) to estab... |
