Author: nicolematthesen

This Philadelphia Startup Tells You What Your Old Baseball Cards are Worth — With Just a Photo

January 19, 2022

Break out those old binders and bins from your mom’s attic — a Philadelphia startup built a new app for collectors to find out what their trading cards are worth. CollX, pronounced “collects,” uses image-based technology to identify trading cards and determine how much they’re worth in real time, while also letting users digitize their […]

One of the Philadelphia Region’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies is Acquired

January 19, 2022

Fast-growing Philadelphia-based digital behavioral health company Tridiuum has been acquired for an undisclosed sum. Overland Park, Kansas-based New Directions Behavioral Health bought the tech-oriented company to dramatically reduce the time between when patients are screened and when they receive care. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. New Directions and Tridiuum partnered on a program […]

ExpressCells and Funakoshi Establishes Japanese Distribution Agreement

December 22, 2021

ExpressCells, Inc., a genetic engineering company that creates genetically edited cell lines for research and production, and Funakoshi Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese distributor of scientific products, announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership where Funakoshi will distribute ExpressCells’ products in Japan. The agreement brings together two companies advancing innovation by […]

Revolutionizing the Manufacture of Medicine and More

December 2, 2021

Making new drugs, vaccines and gene therapy can take up to a decade or longer, and cost hundreds of millions of dollars or more. The process is complex and it requires many steps to go from conception to market. And a new platform from ChromaTan, a startup with roots in Happy Valley, is poised to […]

PACT and Ben Franklin’s All-Star Mentor Connect Line-Up: Could You Be Next?

October 26, 2021

It’s October in Philadelphia. The actual baseball fields here are getting ready for off-season maintenance, but when it comes to entrepreneurial mentorship, we’re already a city of champions. Innovation has no offseason here, so while the Mentor Connect lineup of mentors and leaders is deep, tryouts are always open – and recruiting never stops. If […]

July 1, 2021

Philadelphia Foundation, in partnership with Points of Light and its local chamber partners, is pleased to announce The Civic 50 Greater Philadelphia 2021 honorees. These 50 community-minded regional companies were determined by an independently administered and scored survey to be aligned with national standards for good corporate citizenship. The Civic 50 Greater Philadelphia is the […]

Toast Acquires xtraCHEF to Empower Restaurants with Insights into Menu Profitability and Accounts Payable Automation

June 11, 2021

Acquisition follows successful partnership launched in June 2020 Toast, the end-to-end cloud platform purpose-built for the restaurant community, today announced it acquired XtraCHEF, a suite of back office tools for restaurants, including accounts payable automation and inventory management. Designed from the ground-up for restaurants of all sizes, xtraCHEF arms operators to take control of rising […]

Roundtrip Partners with Clover Health to Provide Medicare Advantage Members with Non-Emergency Transportation Services

May 10, 2021

Roundtrip, the leading digital healthcare transportation marketplace, announces it is working with Clover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV), an innovative technology company improving health outcomes for America’s seniors, to offer non-emergency medical transportation to Clover’s Medicare Advantage members. The goal of the collaboration is to combat one of the most significant barriers to care for seniors in […]

A Veterinarian and a Tech Guru Walk into a (Coffee) Bar…

March 24, 2021

In 2015, an unexpected meeting between two Terps – who graduated 18 years apart – led to the creation of Instinct, a software designed specifically for veterinary hospitals. Here’s how it happened. After graduating from veterinary school in 2008, Dr. Caleb Frankel ’04 hoped to someday open a chain of specialty animal hospitals. But while […]

The Fan Data Goldmine

February 24, 2021

New tech that allows artists to interact with superfans — and turn their data into dollars — promises to open long-term revenue streams Jessie Reyez loves to text, especially with fans. Using a phone number assigned through the celebrity text-messaging startup Community and shared on her social media accounts, the singer-songwriter makes time nearly every […]