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The 2017 Stellar StartUps Winners are …

September 14, 2017

Congrats to our portfolio companies, LeagueSide Inc., and Asset-Map! 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. They are among the winners in the second annual Stellar […]

How the Start-up LeagueSide Aims to Fund and Shake up Youth Sports

August 4, 2017

Evan Brandoff and Zubin Teherani are living the dream as two single guys in their mid-20s sharing an apartment in Center City, free of daunting family responsibilities. In other words, they have no kids. Yet, they work on behalf of them daily as founders of the start-up LeagueSide. Written atop the white board in the […]

Wistar Helps Community College Grads get Hard-core Science Jobs

June 5, 2017

Amanda Moran, 26, spends her days in love with cells, research and science and in love with wearing a white coat and fighting cancer — not with fists up, but with her head bent down over a microscope. “My mom died of breast cancer when I was 14,” Moran said, taking a break at Wistar […]

Binto: Women-focused Start-up Birthed From Wharton

May 23, 2017

Two years ago, Suzie Welsh was working as a nurse at Penn Medicine’s fertility practice, and female patients kept asking her advice on vitamins, probiotics, and all-organic, non-GMO products they felt comfortable putting in their bodies. Then, the lightbulb went off. “There wasn’t one company with health experts in this market space, helping women get the […]

Philly Startup SocialLadder Wins “Best Management Team” From N.J. Tech Council

April 13, 2017

SocialLadder, a Philadelphia-based startup that enables live events to promote and sell tickets through its peer-to-peer marketing platform, beat 44 competitors for the “Best Management Team” honors at a New Jersey Tech Council event. “We are growing rapidly and hope to become the go-to platform where passionate people connect with experiences, things and causes that […]

Philly Geek Award Winners

October 19, 2016

Geekadelphia teamed up with Generocity and Technical.ly on Sunday to host the sixth annual Philly Geek Awards, which this year handed out 14 awards to the city’s most deserving geeks. 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 […]

Penn contest singles out two apps

April 22, 2016

Picking two winners to fund at Thursday’s Third AppitUP Demo Day sponsored by the Penn Center for Innovation wasn’t easy, said an apologetic judge Omar Mencin, a director of Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Culled from a field of 313 submissions from 10 schools across the University of Pennsylvania, all six app finalists presenting before the […]

Philly universities about to get a DOD windfall for smart fabrics

April 1, 2016

Philadelphia universities already deep into research on smart fabrics and wearable technology will earn a major boost from the Department of Defense on Friday that could jump-start the next big things in “smart wear” for health, security, communications, energy, and fashion. Holding court Friday morning at MIT, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is announcing $75 […]

Phila. medical app firm takes a Vegas visit

March 7, 2016

Brendan McCorkle, chief executive of Philadelphia-based medical-software app developer CloudMine, flew to Las Vegas because that’s where his firm’s clients and prospects are congregating. He was bound for HIMSS, the conclave of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which McCorkle calls “the biggest health-care technology meeting of the year,” collecting hospitals, drugmakers, drug researchers, […]

Philly manufacturing no longer dark and dirty; Makers must collaborate

January 29, 2016

Not Your Grandfather’s Manufacturing wasn’t the title of Wednesday’s Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce event on manufacturing. But it could have been, given the panelists on stage at the Hyatt at the Bellevue. Give up the image of “dark, dirty, dangerous, and underpaid,” with “rows of people doing menial tasks,” said panelist Evan Malone, founder […]