News Type: News

Business Incubator for Veterans Launches a Local Chapter

November 12, 2014

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer The country’s first business incubator for veteran-owned technology firms will launch a local chapter here Wednesday at the Hub Cira Centre, next to Amtrak’s 30th Street Station. Under the name the Bunker, the new incubator will assist military veteran-owned start-up companies and entrepreneurs. Launched in Chicago earlier this year, the Bunker is […]

Rajant Corp. and the Carmen Danella Foundation Donate $20,000 to Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors

November 12, 2014

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, and Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, celebrated Veterans Day together in Malvern, Chester County, on Tuesday, and both said the federal government needs to help veterans more. Alluding to the recent scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs involving long delays in health care for veterans, Toomey […]

Community Energy to build solar array at Elizabethtown College

November 10, 2014

Source: Lancaster Online Elizabethtown College said Friday it has received a $500,000 state grant to help in building a $6 million solar energy system. The college said it intends to install a 2.6-megawatt ground-mounted photovoltaic array on property it owns in Mount Joy Township. The array would take up about 10 acres of the 33-acre […]

Biomeme’s smartphone diagnostic to be used to track Ebola virus in West Africa

October 31, 2014

Source: MedCity News The race to contain the Ebola virus is getting some new tools in the form of Biomeme’s smartphone-enabled diagnostic. At DreamIt Health’s demo day in Philadelphia today, Perelman said a few of the devices were being deployed to West Africa to track the disease and could soon be used in Ebola clinics. […]

Relmada Therapeutics Adds $15 Million in Capital to Expedite Development of Pain Treatment Drugs

October 30, 2014

Source: CNN Money Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCQB: RLMD), a biopharmaceutical firm with four novel pain treatment drugs currently under development in its pipeline, received a healthy injection of more than $15 million in capital last week that will assist the company in the advancement of its work to bring those products to the largest drug […]

How a Small Start-up Increased Event Attendance by 690% (And You Can Too)

October 29, 2014

This is a story all about how Ticketleap, an event marketing and online ticketing platform, stood out by empowering employees to share their expertise and lend some personality to the business. Meet Ticketleap. This tech startup helps its customers sell more tickets to their events. But if you’ve ever created an event through Ticketleap, you […]

Philadelphia Surging with Digital Health Innovation

October 28, 2014

EY, Ben Franklin, PACT, Fairmount Partners, CEO Council for Growth Align to Explore; $900M+ invested in sector since 2008 PHILADELPHIA — As a hotbed for sustaining growth within Digital Health, few global markets are so positioned to thrive as the Greater Philadelphia region. In a joint study by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA, […]

What Conshohocken-based company creates mouth-guards designed to reduce the risk of concussion?

October 24, 2014

Brain-Pad Inc. Team sports, particularly football, have been part of the fabric of American life for many years. But any sport involving contact demands a high price from players in the form of head injuries. And recently, the short- and long-term effects of such injuries have been in the news. Thanks to a Philadelphia-area […]

Solar Grid Storage Awarded SunShot Award for Innovative Approach to Solar + Storage Deployment

October 23, 2014

Source: Solar Grid Storage Solar Grid Storage LLC has been awarded U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative Incubator funding of $968,120 aimed at streamlining solar + storage interactivity with the grid and accelerating deployment of innovative solar + storage systems. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz announced the latest round of SunShot Incubator awards this morning […]

Three of these nine innovative technologies are Ben Companies!

October 23, 2014

9 innovative life science and health IT technologies to check out at the IMPACT conference Gene silencing technology as a cancer treatment and diagnostics to predict which colon cancer patients have a higher risk of seeing their cancer return are among some of the more innovative technologies life science entrepreneurs will be pitching to angel […]