| Date | Title | Description |
| 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... |
| 07.04.2025 | TerraVolt Soil Remediation Unveils Bold New Chapter: New Name, New Leadership, and $3.1M Financing Effort | Revolutionizing Soil Remediation
Privately held 12974533 Canada Inc. O/A ElectroKinetic Soil Treatment, is stepping into a transformative new era as TerraVolt Soil Remediation. CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA, April 7, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- T... |
| 16.10.2024 | The Chamber Of Commerce For Greater Philadelphia Announces New Board Of Directors And Executive Committee Members | Read the full article |
| 13.05.2024 | New Gold Increases Exposure in New Afton Copper/Gold Mine to 80% and Launches US$150 Million Bought Deal Financing | - |
| 13.05.2024 | New Gold Increases Exposure in New Afton Copper/Gold Mine to 80% and Launches US$150 Million Bought Deal Financing | (All dollar figures are in US dollars unless otherwise indicated)
TORONTO, May 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New Gold Inc. (“New Gold” or the “Company”) (TSX and NYSE American: NGD) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreemen... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 23.09.2023 | 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... |
| 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,... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 29.06.2023 | NUBURU Announces Subsequent Private Placement to Increase the June 2023 Capital Raise to $9.2 Million from Existing and New Investors | We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. By clicking “Accept”, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies.
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| 15.06.2023 | Philadelphia Startup Ecosystem Ranks Among World’s Top 30 And Has A Value Of $68B, Report Finds | In its annual report released Thursday, Startup Genome ranks the city at No. 27 out of more than 280 regional ecosystems around the world based on factors like startup growth and activity, innovation and research, capital availability, tale... |
| 03.06.2023 | New PennWest portal helps families stay connected | Online platform delivers 24/7 access to important news, deadlines and resources.
Pennsylvania Western University has partnered with CampusESP to launch the Parent and Family Portal, a web-based resource designed to enhance the PennWest fami... |
| 23.04.2023 | First All-Metal Patient-Specific Instrument In Ankle Arthroplasty | Restor3d has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first all-metal patient-specific instrument (PSI) in ankle arthroplasty. This product, named Axiom PSR, will be added to Kinos Medical’s total ankle system, ... |
| 13.04.2023 | Philadelphia Lands Among Top Five Most Active Regions For Venture Capital In 1Q | Greater Philadelphia ranked fifth in the U.S. for the most closed venture capital deals in 2022 and held that spot to begin 2023, according to the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report.
The combined statistical area (CSA) — which str... |
| 29.03.2023 | How Philly-Area Businesses And Start-Ups Can Tap Into $584M In New Federal Funding | Millions in federal funding is earmarked for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware to help small businesses. But where does it come from and how can local entrepreneurs get it?
The money is coming from a new $10 billion funding round appro... |
| 21.03.2023 | Alcadon has completed a directed new share issue to existing and new investors and thereby raising proceeds of approximately SEK 52.6 million | Alcadon has completed a directed new share issue to existing and new investors and thereby raising proceeds of approximately SEK 52.6 million
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| 07.03.2023 | Philadelphia Venture Report 2022 | The city has taken in more than 1,000 investments over the past two years, worth $12.7 billion altogether. Long known as a biotech hub, Philadelphia is also gaining ground in fintech and consumer and enterprise tech. Perhaps the biggest shi... |
| 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... |
| 02.02.2023 | Exploring A New Model In “Human Capital Development” |
That’s partly why initiatives such as Guild Education, which uses corporate training dollars to pay tuition and other program costs at colleges and universities, has received so much media adoration.
The jury is still out on Guild’s model ... |
| 19.01.2023 | How This Woman Went From Walter Mondale’s Secretary To Top Executive Recruiter | Judith von Seldeneck built the largest woman-owned executive search firm in the world. The Forbes “50 Over 50” honoree shares how she got her start at a time when opportunities for women were few and far between.
It wouldn’t be an exaggerat... |
| 12.01.2023 | ‘A Little Company With A Big Vision’: Temple Spinout Advancing New Way To Treat Autoimmune Disorders | A Temple University spinout working on a new way to treat autoimmune disorders has been approved to begin human testing of a potential treatment for an inflammatory liver disease.
SFA Therapeutics of Jenkintown received Food and Drug Admini... |
| 13.12.2022 | Tech-Enabled Real Estate Brokerage Houwzer Has Acquired Competitor Trelora | Tech-forward real estate and mortgage brokerage Houwzer, which got its start in 2015 in Philly and has expanded to neighboring states, has acquired next-gen brokerage Trelora.
The news comes amid a year of growth for Houwzer. The Center Cit... |
| 25.11.2022 | Primark to invest £140m in new stores and upgrades creating 850 new jobs | - |
| 02.11.2022 | Neuraptive Therapeutics Raises $19.5M, Expands Management Team | The equity financing was disclosed in documents Center City-based Neuraptive Therapeutics filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Company officials were not available to comment on the stock sale. Neuraptive is led by Robert Radi... |
| 01.08.2022 | Jefferson Lands New CEO From One Of The Country’s Largest Health Systems | Dr. Joseph Cacchione will be the next CEO of Jefferson, effective Sept. 6.
Cacchione is executive vice president for clinical and network services at Ascension Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country. St. Lou... |
| 29.07.2022 | Science Center’s New Startup Development Program Is Aimed At First-Gen STEM Students | As Philadelphia expands its reputation and capacity for the life sciences industry, it’s also folding in efforts toward accessibility. A unique program coming to the University City Science Center in the form of a yearlong, immersive curric... |
| 22.06.2022 | Collectables App CollX Made its First Acquisition: Denver-Based Card Inventory Software | That was the experience of Ted Mann, the cofounder of Haddonfield, New Jersey-based CollX. The visual search function app scrapes pricing data from multiple websites to help a user understand the rarity and price of a sports card.
He had be... |
| 15.06.2022 | Philadelphia on The Cusp of Becoming a Top 10 Startup Ecosystem in The U.S., Report Finds | The city inched forward one spot in both the international and national rankings after coming in at No. 28 and No. 12, respectively, in 2021. This year, the report lauded Philadelphia for being “a vibrant Life Science hub and a particularly... |
| 25.05.2022 | A Gusher of $584M in Federal Aid Will Soon Open for Pa., N.J., and Del. Business Owners. Are You getting Yours? | So is this the end? With the expiration of both the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loans from the Small Business Administration, does this mean that all federal aid for small businesses has run out?
The answer ... |
| 14.02.2022 | M&A Moves: Philly’s Piano is Acquiring SocialFlow and Blue Bell’s Anexinet is Merging | Piano acquired SocialFlow
The Bourse-based B2B media software company, which last spring raised an $88 million Series C, has acquired SocialFlow, a New York City social distribution and marketing platform for media companies.
The addition o... |
| 09.02.2022 | Real Estate Tech Company Houwzer Raised a $118M Series B as it Introduces New Products | The round includes $18 million in equity and a $100 million warehouse line of credit, led by Edison Partners. It brings the total equity funding for the B Corp — which operates locally and in DC, the greater Maryland region and Florida — to... |
| 08.02.2022 | ‘Shark Tank’ Company Simply Good Jars Strikes Deal with Wawa After Sales Soar 1,200% | The Philadelphia startup, which appeared on ABC’s “Shark Tank” last March, has seen exponential sales growth of about 1,200% since January 2021, CEO Jared Cannon said. That has allowed his operations to expand and his ambitions to elevate.
... |
| 19.01.2022 | One of the Philadelphia Region’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies is Acquired | Overland Park, Kansas-based New Directions Behavioral Health bought the tech-oriented company to dramatically reduce the time between when patients are screened and when they receive care.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
New Direction... |
| 14.12.2021 | In a Deal That ‘Bodes Well’ for Local Investors, Center City’s Sidecar Has Been Acquired by Quartile | Five-year-old ad optimization platform Quartile specializes in ecommerce marketplace sellers, and Sidecar CEO Andre Golsorkhi said that the deal — for which details were not disclosed — allows the companies for form one “high-growth organiz... |
| 14.12.2021 | Philadelphia Adtech Startup Sidecar, Backed by $33.5M in Funding, Acquired by New York Competitor | The deal closed last week, and the terms were not disclosed. Sidecar will take Quartile’s name, and the company will retain its office at One South Broad in Philadelphia. The acquisition will fold Sidecar’s 180 employees into Quartile, brin... |
| 09.12.2021 | Roundtrip Raised a ‘Strategic Investment’ Round to Drive Expansion (and Hiring) Plans | The Callowhill-based company makes software that connects ride requests to a group of transportation companies. It’s aimed at transporting patients to non-emergent healthcare appointments via the likes of medical cars, wheelchair vans, stre... |
| 10.11.2021 | Why it Matters That Ben Franklin Tech Partners’ New Team Brings Clinical Experience to Healthcare Investing | The four-person health care investment team will led by Jennifer Hartt, who will serve as its managing director. Since 2006, Hartt has closed more than 150 investments totaling about $45 million in more than 80 companies while in the role o... |
| 06.10.2021 | Philly’s BIPOC Entrepreneurs Get New Promises to Fund Businesses and Correct a Historic Deficit | Kimberly Wilson, a Black woman who struggled to get white doctors to take her symptoms seriously after a 2017 fibroids diagnosis, founded digital start-up HUED a year later to enable Black and Latino patients to find culturally sensitive me... |
| 22.09.2021 | Philadelphia’s Startup Ecosystem Climbs 15 Spots Into the Top 30 Worldwide, Report Says | Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report ranked more than 275 regional ecosystems based on factors like startup growth and activity, innovation and research, capital availability, talent and support for companies. Silicon Valley, Lo... |
| 07.09.2021 | RecoveryLink and 2 More Startups Got Investments From Penn’s New $5M Fund for Health | Over the next three years, the Fund will invest $5 million in early-stage businesses addressing the social determinants of the health of economically disadvantaged Philadelphians.
Philly-based RecoveryLink is the maker of an online suite of... |
| 01.09.2021 | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Issues New Code for Encala® | This decision establishes the S9432 code, “Medical Food for Non-Inborn Errors of Metabolism,” in response to Envara Health’s initial application.
“By issuing this code, CMS is recognizing the uniqueness of Encala and the strength of our Nat... |
| 20.08.2021 | Comcast Unveils 2021 LIFT Labs Class, 1 Philadelphia Company Selected | The Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by seed accelerator TechStars, is now in its fourth year. The 2021 cohort begins the 12-week program on Monday in a hybrid virtual and in-person format, either from Comcast’s offices i... |
| 12.04.2021 | Temple Spinout ExpressCells Adds New Investors to Meet ‘Rapidly Growing Demand’ | Founded in 2018, ExpressCells is using its own proprietary genome editing technology in combination with CRISPR to create advanced “knock-in” cell lines to enhance drug discovery and support other types of biological research. The speed of ... |
| 30.03.2021 | How Piano’s CEO is Thinking About Growing the B2B Software Company’s Workforce During the Pandemic and Beyond | Piano helps media companies and brands design unique content experiences to drive subscriptions and advertising revenue, as well as increase customer lifetime value, using an end-to-end SaaS platform. The company raised a $22 million Series... |
| 03.03.2021 | The Philly Founder of This Healthy Meal Startup Will Appear on ‘Shark Tank’s’ Season 12 Premiere | Chef Jared Cannon, founder of four-year-old healthy meal startup Simply Good Jars, will be vying for investments from sharks Mark Cuban, Kevin O’Leary, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec and Daymond John.
Cannon launched a line of jarred, ready-... |
| 11.02.2021 | ROAR for Good is Launching Its Wearable Safety Tech in 3 Local Hotels | The company had switched its focus from B2C to B2B in 2019, and it was hospitality that ultimately checked the boxes — financially and from a social impact stance — by offering housekeepers a tool to help them feel protected against sexual ... |
| 17.12.2020 | LeRoy Jones Exited a Company. Now, he’s Using His Biz Experience to Help New Entrepreneurs Thrive |
He sold bus tokens at one point before eventually pursuing his bachelor’s degree in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and later his master’s degree in management of technology from the University of Pennsylvania.
In his role a... |
| 10.12.2020 | Philadelphia Edtech Company Digitability Launches New Training Tool as Demand Surges | “We’ve been busier than ever,” she said.
School districts are federally required to offer transitional work training to certain students with special education needs starting at age 14, McKeone said, but when Covid-19 hit, schools’ usual go... |
| 04.12.2020 | Fishbox’s Napoleon Suarez is Finding Ways to Deliver During a Year of Constant Change |
He noticed that many of the kids he knew in his Brown Mills, New Jersey neighborhood had paper routes and knew that working as a paperboy would be his way to extra money. The only problem was there were 50 people ahead of him on the list o... |
| 16.11.2020 | Meet the Tiny Philadelphia Startup Behind Joe Biden’s Victory Drone Show | As the world’s eyes were transfixed on Wilmington last weekend for President-elect Joe Biden’s victory celebration, viewers watched as the post-speech fireworks show was upstaged by a high-tech drone light show. Red, white and blue lights m... |
| 22.10.2020 | The Pandemic Helped Fuel Philly’s Already Growing Life Sciences Sector, CBRE Report Shows | The region placed eighth among the country’s top life sciences clusters in 2019, and this year, it rose to seventh place. It’s ranked above New York City, Seattle and Los Angeles, but falls just short of New Jersey, Raleigh-Durham and the W... |
| 28.08.2020 | Soaring 76, Part 2: Meet More of Greater Philadelphia’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies | As we announce the names of these thriving companies, we hope it reminds us all that Greater Philadelphia will soon soar again.
We’re unveiling our 5th annual list in stages. The first 26 private companies were announced Tuesday, and below ... |
| 26.08.2020 | Inside Pennsylvania’s Tech Renaissance | But the entrepreneurial spirit woven into Pennsylvania’s DNA, as well as a strategic decision in the 1980s to substantially invest in tech-based economic development, has given way to a thriving tech scene that rivals more well-known tech h... |
| 29.07.2020 | This Tech CEO Raised a $1M Seed Round While Treating Covid-19 patients, and Relying on Her Own Product | Not only did she and her fellow clinicians rely on the product she created, in-patient workflow management app TrekIT Health, she was also busy raising a $1 million seed round at the same time.
Airan-Javia, now back to overseeing TrekIT ful... |
| 23.07.2020 | Can an Animal Vaccine Developer be the One to Tame Covid-19? MBF Therapeutics Places its Bet | The collaboration with MRIGlobal, Rymedi, SSI Strategy and Aldevron will seek to advance MBF Therapeutics’ SARS CoV-2 vaccine candidate COVE-001. Financial terms of the partnership are being kept confidential.
“Our goal is a better long-ter... |
| 13.07.2020 | NextUp: The Philly Company Improving Rapid Molecular Tests for COVID-19 | It all started with an idea, an iPhone and a hairdryer.
The trio had a shared interest in personal health and wanted to give individuals access to the same scientific capabilities that trained scientists have in a central lab. To do so, the... |
| 10.07.2020 | Philadelphia is the Top Emerging Startup Ecosystem in the U.S., Report Says | The list of the top 100 emerging startup ecosystems in the world was released as part of Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report released Thursday. Unlike its rankings focused on the top ecosystems overall – in which global powerho... |
| 23.04.2020 | Cagent Vascular Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance for its Serranator Device for the Infrapopliteal Indication and Completion of its PRELUDE-BTK Clinical Trial Enrollment | WAYNE, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
The Serranator device is the first and only angioplasty balloon FDA Cleared and CE Marked that embeds serration technology into a semi-compliant balloon for treating Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). It is designe... |
| 18.03.2020 | How These Philly Startups are Faring (or Pivoting) Amid COVID-19 | Technical.ly reached out to founders of companies in the meal service, business ratings and reviews, skills training and health IT industries about the current and future state of their business.
For some, business is picking up in drastic ... |
| 24.02.2020 | New Genomic Tests Aim to Diagnose Deadly Infections Faster | Ryan Springer’s mystery illness began last summer with a dull ache in his chest. Over the next few days, the symptoms grew more alarming: sharp pain with every breath, a rapid heartbeat and a spiking fever.
Emergency room doctors at Carle F... |
| 23.01.2020 | Patient Transportation Startup Roundtrip Gets a New Partnership Amid Year of Growth | Roundtrip was founded in 2016 with the mission of connecting patients, care managers and relatives or friends with a way to book and pay for non-emergency medical transportation options. It’s essentially rideshare for medical transportation... |
| 16.12.2019 | Center City Behavioral Health Startup Lands $7.5M in Series A Round |
The funding, led by San Francisco-based firm VC Builders, brings NeuroFlow’s total capital raised to date to $11 million.
Also joining the round are local investors Dreamit Ventures, Spring Point Partners and Red & Blue Ventures, along... |
| 30.10.2019 | Accolade Expands Partner Ecosystem with New Trusted Supplier Program, Integrating Best-in-class Benefit Solutions for Employers | With the Accolade TSP, employers have an opportunity to achieve marked increases in employee benefit engagement, while HR teams can experience significant time saving around benefit selection and management. Accolade will demonstrate its pl... |
| 25.10.2019 | New Ben Franklin Roles to Build More BENefits for Companies and Partners |
These moves and new roles will work to support both current and new programs and services our clients and partners use daily – each a part of our Circle of BENefits. There are always new things developing at Ben Franklin!
Check out all the... |
| 16.10.2019 | Oncora Medical Gets a New Partnership and $3M to Develop its Oncology Software | The software company spent 16 weeks earlier this year at an accelerator at the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute in Houston, where it has a full-time staff member.
And at the end of Q3, Oncora announced a partnership with Palo Alto-... |
| 02.10.2019 | She Came up With a Device to Keep Hotel Workers Safer. Warby Parker’s Co-Founder Weighs In on How to Take the Startup to the Next Level | Neil Blumenthal co-founded Warby Parker in 2010 with a dual purpose: bring down the cost of prescription eyewear for consumers, and outfit glasses to the billion people worldwide who lack access to them. The company, with a valuation of $1.... |
| 02.10.2019 | Health Care Startup TrekIT Gets New CEO, Funding | The Philadelphia-based company said co-founder Dr. Subha Airan Javia is taking over as its top executive from former CEO Brendan McCorkle. The C-suite shift comes as the company said it raised $450,000 in a pre-seed fundraising round.
The f... |
| 25.07.2019 | Sports Sponsorship Startup LeagueSide Has a New Office and Plans for Growth |
The startup is still in its seed round of fundraising after it was officially launched in 2015 by cofounders Evan Brandoff and Zubin Teherani. The pair met during a training camp for Venture for America and realized their shared love of vo... |
| 04.04.2019 | South Philly Agtech Startup Augean Robotics Raises $1.5M | The company, which makes an autonomous, collaborative farming robot called Burro, raised some initial cash as part of its participation in the RAPID accelerator, but this is its first formal venture capital round.
Founded in 2017, the compa... |
| 21.03.2019 | Why Chef Jose Andres & TGI Friday’s are Using this Philly Restaurant Tech Firm |
Three years ago, local entrepreneurs Andy Schwartz, Bhavik Patel and Chaz Brown set out to make restaurant back-of-the-house operations more streamlined. Enter XtraChef in late 2015, which in real time captures, digitizes, maps and auto-co... |
| 10.01.2019 | Piano Raises $22M Series B Round Led by Updata Partners |
The award-winning Piano platform is comprised of an integrated suite of intelligent business tools and includes a subscription commerce engine (Piano VX), a customer experience toolkit (Piano Composer), and a user management system (Piano ... |
| 07.01.2019 | Tridiuum Raised $9.5M Series B to Scale its Behavioral Health Platform |
The round was led by New York-based Sopris Capital, with participation from Fresenius Medical Care Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (which previously joined the company’s Series A... |
| 13.11.2018 | Lia Diagnostics Adds New Investor and $2.6 Million in Venture Capital |
CEO and cofounder Bethany Edwards declined to comment on specific terms of the round, but she confirmed that investors included past backers of the startup (like Ben Franklin Technology Partners and Robin Hood Ventures) plus Raleigh-based ... |
| 01.11.2018 | There’s a New Crop of Wellness Brands Bringing Women’s Health Care Into the Digital Space | As healthcare becomes an even more rapidly expanding industry, a slew of companies in the tech space has sought to re-imagine the way patients access medical services — with an aim toward catering to millennial and Generation Z consumers, o... |
| 21.10.2018 | The MedTech Conference Winners | Judges of the 2018 final competition included Jennifer Kozak, Vice President, New Business Development, Johnson & Johnson; Anne E. Sissel, Vice President and Head / Baxter Ventures, Baxter Healthcare Corporation; Christos Monovoukas, Vi... |
| 26.09.2018 | InstaMed’s Stellar Growth Fueled by Surging Patient Payments |
Founded in chief executive Bill Marvin’s condo on Washington Square, InstaMed recently expanded its headquarters at 18th Street and JFK Boulevard to include a third floor. The larger space includes a new 3,200-square-foot “Collaboration Ce... |
| 17.09.2018 | New Seasons Market Selects Clutch for CRM and Campaign Management | This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180827005078/en/
“Supporting our customers and the communities they live in is integral to our founding mission as a brand,” stated... |
| 11.09.2018 | NeuroFlow Just Raised $1.2 Million To Scale Up |
Though the company raised a $1.25 million seed round last fall, this funding round — led by New Brunswick, N.J.-based angel investor group NJ JumpStart — isn’t yet a Series A. Through a spokesman, the company called the funding a “post-see... |
| 10.09.2018 | ‘Critical’ Point for Philadelphia’s Global Identity |
And, for the family-owned firm’s chief executive, it’s been a long overdue project he’s been advocating for years.
In January, the Brookings Institution chose Philadelphia and three other U.S. regions to take part in a project testing how ... |
| 07.08.2018 | Allevi and Made In Space Partner Up for New Initiative: 3D Bioprinting in Outer Space | But now, Allevi is preparing to take its 3D bioprinting work out of this world with a new initiative.
Ever since the space race began in the late 1950s and led to the first man on the moon, humanity has been working hard to conquer the vast... |
| 07.08.2018 | Monetate Names New CEO, Lucinda Duncalfe to Remain on Board of Directors |
A new CEO has been announced in Stephen Collins, the former president and CFO of AI-based adtech company Quantcast. The Asheville, N.C.-based exec and investor will relocate to Conshohocken to be close to the largest of the company’s four ... |
| 02.08.2018 | He Will Not Rest |
“Man plans, and God laughs.”
That’s an old Jewish axiom that Jeremy Nowak—public intellectual, Philadelphia civic icon, and our Chairman here at The Citizen—liked to say. He’d chortle at the vicissitudes of fate, while always modeling for ... |
| 30.07.2018 | University City Science Center Names New President and CEO | A member of the center’s board of directors since 2014, Zarrilli will assume the role almost a year after the former president and CEO, Stephen S. Tang, stepped down in January to become CEO of OraSure Technologies, the Bethlehem-based make... |
| 17.07.2018 | America’s Robot Future: Rajant Celebrates New HQ, Plans For Growth |
Yes, yes, yes, and yes, say Robert Schena and Paul Hellhake, founders of Rajant, a leader among Pennsylvania’s growing network of automation hardware and software firms. Several of them, including Rajant, are backed by the state-funded Ben... |
| 12.06.2018 | The PHL Innovation Picnic is Back! |
Last year’s PHL Innovation Picnic attracted a diverse group of nearly 900 people from the area’s tech scene, including entrepreneurs, investors, community builders, and tech leaders to our front lawn, and this year we expect more! And whil... |
| 24.05.2018 | Biggest Philly-area raise in a while: Phenom People raises $22M for global expansion | Led by New York VC firm AXA Venture Partners, the round was also joined by several of the company’s previous investors: San Mateo Calif.-based Sierra Ventures, Boston-based Sigma Prime Ventures and Redwood City, Calif.-based Omidyar Partner... |
| 18.04.2018 | Pennovation Center Gets Two New Biotech Startups | Opened in 2016, the spot houses several elements of Penn’s entrepreneurship ecosystem: from alumni-focused venture firm Red & Blue Ventures to the Penn Center for Innovation (PCI).
Anne Papageorge, Vice President of Facilities & Rea... |
| 22.01.2018 | Philly Makes Amazon’s List of Top 20 HQ2 Finalists | Congrats, Philly.
Amazon has narrowed its list of potential host cities for its second headquarters, and Philly made it through the first round of cuts.
The company announced on Thursday morning that just 20 cities – out of 238 – remain in ... |
| 11.01.2018 | 5 Philly Startups Spotted at CES 2018 |
Naturally, chaos ensued at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: some attendees were evacuated, some people got their phones trapped in fancy charging stations and others fumbled in the dark unable to get their usual doses of peppy d... |
| 02.01.2018 | Philadelphia Ranks 7th in Tech Job Growth Projections for 2018 |
San Diego, Atlanta and New York top the list, released Wednesday by the company as part of its “IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report.”
“CIOs in Philadelphia are already thinking about the future when it comes to adding new team member... |
