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Game Devs: Learn How to Make $$$ on Red Queen Gaming’s Marketplace

August 2, 2018

Red Queen Gaming, makers of a platform for digital tools that help gamers and videogame developers, want more devs to make tools on their marketplace — and make some moolah in the process. The way the platform will work is by having developers create “Runes,” or gameplay tools like stat trackers, heat maps or analysis […]

America’s Robot Future: Rajant Celebrates New HQ, Plans For Growth

July 17, 2018

Is automation destroying familiar jobs, reducing drudge work, collecting more information than anyone expected, and opening opportunities? 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 Franklin […]

AlphaPoint Raises $15 Million; Enabling Institutions To Tokenize Assets And Power Digital Asset Exchanges

July 12, 2018

AlphaPoint, the global financial technology company that helps institutions launch trading platforms and tokenize assets with blockchain technology, today announced a Series A funding round of $15 million. The capital raise is from Galaxy Digital Ventures LLC, a venture investment firm founded by Michael Novogratz. Broad Customer Base AlphaPoint’s white label exchange and asset digitization […]

10 Best Tech Startups in Pennsylvania

July 11, 2018

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Pennsylvania. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to: Revenue potential Leadership team Brand/product traction Competitive landscape Additionally, all companies must be independent (un-acquired), privately owned, at most 10 years old, and have received at least one round […]

HR Tech Company Phenom People Raises $22M Series B, Plans to Hire 150

June 11, 2018

HR tech company Phenom People raised $22 million in a Series B funding round, the Ambler-based company announced Thursday, bringing its total funding to $31 million to date. The new round, led by AXA Venture Partners with existing investors Sierra Venture, Sigma Prime Venture and Omidyar Ventures also joining in, will fuel global expansion of Phenom […]

Biggest Philly-area raise in a while: Phenom People raises $22M for global expansion

May 24, 2018

Ambler, Pa.-based Phenom People, makers of a human-resources-tech platform to help companies attract talent, is looking to expand its operations to Europe and the Asia Pacific region with fuel from a recently-closed $22 million Series B round. Led by New York VC firm AXA Venture Partners, the round was also joined by several of the […]

The Real Estate Disruptor

April 24, 2018

Have you ever watched someone at 30th Street Station pass up a taxi cab for an Uber? In truth, why wouldn’t they? Uber is cheaper, often times quicker and frankly, much more enjoyable than riding in a taxi cab––it reinvented the transportation game. Well, think of Houwzer, the Philadelphia-based start-up brokerage, as the Uber of real estate. […]

Philadelphia Beats Boston, San Francisco in Attracting Skilled Workers, Analysis Finds

April 18, 2018

Philadelphia beat out powerhouses like Boston and San Francisco in a new JLLSnapshot analysis of cities drawing the most highly skilled workers. In the brief report released Wednesday, JLL used census bureau estimates to measure the growth of a specific segment of the city’s population — adults over 25 with a bachelor’s degree in the region […]

SXSW Day 1: Philadelphia Doesn’t Want to Be the Silicon Valley of Anything

March 12, 2018

Philadelphia wants the world to know that it’s not the Silicon Valley of anything, and down in Austin, Philly entrepreneurs are practically screaming this out on every busy downtown block at South by Southwest this year. The “not Silicon Valley” attitude is also how Philadelphians welcomed the rest of the world to its first ever […]

Amino Payments Raises $4.5M Seed Round to Ramp up Hiring

February 22, 2018

The elusive stealth-mode startup we first knew as Curren-C, is all grown up. Now bearing the banner of Amino Payments, the Center City company that combines the adtech and blockchain worlds has raised a new $4.5 million seed round in a bid to expand its footprint in the Philly office and capture the market. “What this means is expansion right […]