Startups
Traditional PPE Isn’t Made For Everyone. Here’s How One Startup Is Fixing It.
February 24, 2025
AmorSui’s new approach to the safety gear is also more environmentally friendly, and stays usable for longer. It started with an accident that should never have happened. While a PhD student in 2013, Beau Wangtrakuldee was working in a lab when her ill-fitting lab coat got caught, causing a vessel to tip over and spill […]
Philly Trading Card Startup CollX Raises $10M Series A, Will Focus On Growing Community
February 20, 2025
While the company is largely a marketplace for buying and selling collectibles, it wants to help users connect with one another. Philly-based trading card platform CollX raked in millions more dollars last month, once again receiving support from local investors. CollX raised a $10 million Series A, with plans to use the funding for marketing and […]
Experian Accelerates Identity and Activation Capabilities With Acquisition of Audigent
December 4, 2024
December 04 – COSTA MESA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Experian® — the global data and technology company — announced today it has acquired Audigent, a leading data activation and identity platform in the advertising industry. The acquisition further expands Experian’s deeply integrated marketing data and identity capabilities in the advertising ecosystem. With the addition of Audigent’s combined first-party publisher […]
Zenapse Launches AI-Powered Marketing Experience Platform On Google Cloud Marketplace
November 7, 2024
WESTPORT, Conn., Nov. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Zenapse, an AI-powered marketing platform utilizing emotional intelligence, today announced the availability of its ZenImpact Optimization Studio on Google Cloud Marketplace. This launch provides marketers with a powerful tool to enhance business outcomes and gain deeper insights into consumer behavior. Google Cloud Marketplace users can now tap into Zenapse’s AI-driven psychographic […]
AmorSui Announces $3.5M Seed Funding to Revolutionize Sustainable Medical Supplies
September 17, 2024
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AmorSui, a modern personal protective equipment (PPE) brand dedicated to protecting people and the planet, announced today that it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. AmorSui’s mission is to make PPE more sustainable, inclusive, and affordable over time, setting a new benchmark of quality in the medical supply sector. Investors include Gold […]
Philly startup aims to make investing easier for people who don’t come from wealth
June 21, 2024
WealthMore was created by a first-generation American frustrated by gatekeeping in the world of financial literacy. The world of financial advice can be misleading and full of hard-to-spot scams. It can seem purposely opaque, founder Mical Jeanlys-White believes, to keep people out. Organizing and managing financial assets strategically, however, is widely considered a good first […]
AmorSui Upgrades Protective Product Line In Effort To Set ‘New Standard’ In Health Care
May 10, 2024
A South Philadelphia apparel company launched during the Covid-19 pandemic has unveiled its improved and enhanced line of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers and others. 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. […]
Latus Launches with State-of-the-Art Gene Therapy Development Technologies, Two Lead Product Candidates, and an Initial $54 Million in Series A Financing
May 6, 2024
Latus Bio, Inc. (“Latus”), a biotechnology company developing novel gene therapy candidates for disorders of the central nervous system (CNS), today announced its launch and an initial close of $54 million in Series A financing. The funding round is being led by 8VC and DCVC Bio. To date, Samsung Life Science Fund (created by Samsung […]
TIME Names Yellowdig A Rising Star
April 29, 2024
TIME World’s Top EdTech Rising Stars of 2024 April 23, 2024 — Yellowdig is honored as one of the World’s Top EdTech Companies (Rising Stars) by TIME in partnership with Statista, a testament to its commitment to advancing educational technologies globally. This esteemed recognition stems from a rigorous evaluation process that scrutinized over 7,000 companies […]
Philly-Area Startup For Investing In Real Estate Debt Rebrands With Wider Offerings
April 20, 2024
Once known as Yieldeasy, the Newtown company is now called Finresi. It added hundreds of users after a pivot last spring. A Bucks County startup making an alternative real estate investment marketplace has rebranded: The company formerly known as Yieldeasy is now Finresi. The new name squishes together the words finance and residential. “I think […]
