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 […]
Brenda Gavin, one of the first female venture capitalists who helped guide dozens of local biotechnology firms in their early days, passed away unexpectedly last week at age 67. Gavin — a Missouri native who originally set out to become a veterinarian — was one of the founders of Quaker Partners, a Philadelphia venture capital […]