Author: Jason Heritage

Watch out, Organovo: BioBots launching new line of low-cost 3D bioprinters

August 18, 2015

This September, Philadelphia startup BioBots will roll out a new line of desktop 3D bioprinters — going up against companies like the capital-heavy Organovo. The company’s developing smaller, easier to use, cheaper 3D tissue printing machines. They’ll cost about $10,000, and are geared to let academicians and industry scientists create their own tissues for preclinical research. It […]

Greenphire Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies for Third Consecutive Year

August 14, 2015

Greenphire, the leading provider of payment technologies for the clinical trials industry, today announced that it has been included in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. for the third consecutive year. Based on a three-year growth rate of 317%, the company has been ranked in the top third, […]

The PSL BBQ photos are here!

August 12, 2015

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La Salle professor out to ‘change the standard’ of cancer care

August 11, 2015

Name: David Zuzga Title: Co-founder and CEO of BioDetego Other title: Faculty member in the biology department at La Salle University His company: BioDetego was founded three years ago to commercialize cancer diagnostic technology Zuzga developed with his mentor GianMario Pitari while a graduate student at Thomas Jefferson University. Pitari is the company’s other co-founder. […]

Cloudnexa Named to List of Top 25 Most Promising Cloud Services Providers

August 7, 2015

Cloudnexa, an industry-leading managed cloud provider that helps clients realize the full utility power of cloud computing on Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced it has been chosen as one of the Top 25 Most Promising Cloud Services Vendors by Outsourcing Gazette, a leading platform for news, analysis and thought leadership in the outsourcing community. […]

FDA Green Lights First 3D Printed Drug From Ben Franklin Alum: Aprecia

August 6, 2015

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Aprecia’s Spritam, 3-D printed drug used in the treatment of partial onset seizures, myoclonic seizures and primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures in adults and children with epilepsy. Spritam uses Aprecia Pharmaceuticals Company’s proprietary ZipDose Technology platform that includes three-dimensional printing (3DP) to produce a porous formulation that rapidly […]

How SEPTA picked TicketLeap for its Pope Ticket Lottery

July 31, 2015

Since it was founded in 2003 by a Wharton grad, online ticketing platform TicketLeap has been organizing events small and large. Now, they’re gearing up for their — and Philly’s — biggest yet. TicketLeap was tapped by Amazon and SEPTA to help sell passes to ride the Regional Rail from the ‘burbs during Pope Francis’ visit […]

Textizen just got acquired by GovDelivery

July 29, 2015

It’s a win for Code for America and for Philadelphia, too — both of which incubated Textizen in their own ways. Textizen, the civic tech startup from Code for America fellow Michelle Lee, has been acquired by government communications platform GovDelivery, Textizen announced this morning. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Textizen’s team is split […]

Rajant’s New Wireless Application Device Brings HD Video and Terabyte Storage Capabilities to Network Edge

July 23, 2015

CacheCrumb™ Provides a Distributed Way to Scale and Manage Big Payloads and High-speed Sensors over Wireless PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rajant, a manufacturer of kinetic mesh™ technology for building private wireless networks, today announced the launch of its CacheCrumb node, a wireless transceiver with built-in processing power that enables applications to be pushed to the edge of a […]

SmartCEO Names Felicite Moorman a 2015 Brava! Award Winner

July 23, 2015

BuLogics and StratIS’ CEO Felicite Moorman selected one of Philadelphia’s powerhouse business leaders as part of the Brava! Awards Program. PHILADELPHIA, PA – July 21, 2015 – BuLogics, Inc., which designs, builds, and certifies devices and ecosystems for the Internet of Things, together with spinout StratIS, Llc., the leading provider of access, energy, and automation […]