News Type: News

Updated: Ben Franklin Approves $2.8M for Sixteen Early-Stage Companies

December 11, 2014

Companies approved for funding: Advent Therapeutics – Bucks County Advent Therapeutics focuses on providing therapies for micro-orphan applications. The company is currently working on its first product which will address a serious disorder in newborn infants in the ICU. Advent Therapeutics is led by President and Chief Business Officer, David Lopez, Esq., CPA. […]

Montco SWAT Wields The Power of Dragonforce

December 9, 2014

Source: PR Web Montgomery County PA’s Department of Public Safety Adopts DragonForce to Improve Emergency Response Operations DragonForce transforms ordinary smartphones, tablets and web browsers into powerful public safety tools with an integrated set of collaboration capabilities including: personnel tracking, file sharing, text messaging, digital forms and white-boarding on maps, floor plans and photos. Drakontas […]

Guess Who’s Buying Dinner Tonight?!? Zonoff Just Raised $32M!

December 4, 2014

Source: Philadelphia Business Journal Zonoff raises $31.8M Series B round Zonoff announced Wednesday that it raised $31.8 million in Series B funding. The Malvern, Pa.-based company develops software that can be used to control thermostats and security cameras in homes from a wide variety of devices. Last November, Zonoff entered into an agreement with Staples […]

InstaMed Just Raised $2M More Than Expected!

December 4, 2014

Source: Philadelphia Business Journal InstaMed raises $17M, $2M more than it intended Healthcare payments network InstaMed recently announced it raised $17 million in private placement funding. The company said the total is $2 million more than it initially intended. InstaMed credits its strong support of new and existing investors for the oversubscription of funding. Some […]

At 1,800 Miles/Second, Santa’s Sleigh Will Be Too Quick To See But AGI Will Help You Track His Progress on Christmas Day

December 3, 2014

Source: Defense.gov NORAD Prepares to Track Santa’s Flight The North American Aerospace Defense Command’s NORAD Tracks Santa website, http://www.noradsanta.org/, launched today featuring a mobile version, a holiday countdown, new games and daily activities and more. The website is available in eight languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Chinese. Official NORAD Tracks Santa […]

Two Years Straight! Centrak Is Again The Fastest Growing Real-Time Locating System Provider According to Deloitte’s Fast 500™

December 3, 2014

Source: PR Newswire For the Second Straight Year, CenTrak is the Fastest Growing Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) Provider on Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500™ The only RTLS provider on the 2014 ranking, CenTrak attributes its rapid growth to the adoption of its Clinical-Grade Visibility™ Technology – enabling workflow efficiencies, cost reductions, and improved patient care. […]

BioNano Genomics Takes on $53M

November 21, 2014

Source: MedCity News BioNano Genomics – a gene mapping startup focused on individual structural variations – gets $53M In this era of personalized medicine, individualized gene mapping is key – which is why San Diego startup BioNano Genomics’ Irys System just attracted a robust infusion of cash. The company just completed a $53 million Series […]

Meet Brad Gruno of Brad’s Raw Foods

November 21, 2014

Source: Keystone Edge In 2006, Brad Gruno was overweight and depressed. He had founded a $30 million business to install fiber optic cable in Atlanta, Ga., and lost everything when the telecom industry crashed in 2001. Returning to Bucks County, where he had been born and raised, he was at a crossroads, unsure what direction […]

MBF Therapeutics’ Anticancer Pet Drug Starting Clinical Trial Testing

November 17, 2014

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer Clinical Trials Help Sick Pets, Further Veterinary Research When our beloved calico Maine Coon cat Katya was diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma in 2003 we took aggressive action. We consulted cancer specialists in Virginia. We took her to a holistic veterinarian in the Washington D.C. area who several years earlier had […]

LexisNexis Announces Intention to Acquire Health Market Science

November 14, 2014

Source: Business Wire LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, a division of Reed Elsevier, today announced its intent to acquire Health Market Science (HMS), a leading supplier of high-quality data on health care professionals and an administrator of one of the largest practitioner-level medical claims databases in the U.S. LexisNexis, together with HMS, will deliver best-in-class data and […]