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Philly Geek Award Winners

October 19, 2016

Geekadelphia teamed up with Generocity and Technical.ly on Sunday to host the sixth annual Philly Geek Awards, which this year handed out 14 awards to the city’s most deserving geeks. Among the winners: Azavea’s Kathryn Killebrew, who took home the coveted Geek of the Year award, as well as ROAR For Good’s Yasmine Mustafa, who […]

ROAR for Good, Dreamit, BioBots, RevZilla featured on CNBC

October 3, 2016

“Startups are thriving in the City of Brotherly Love.” The final segment in CNBC’s Nightly Business Report dedicated six minutes to recapping the hustlin’, bustlin’ Philly tech scene. First up in the dispatch from reporter Kate Rogers was ROAR for Good CEO Yasmine Mustafa, who spoke about the company’s flagship Athena product. Mustafa herself showcased […]

And the Stellar StartUps Winners Are . . .

September 30, 2016

Our very own, Omar Mencin, director investments in information technology, was one of the judges for the Stellar StartUp’s competition. The stars of Stellar StartUps, the inaugural competition of the parent company of the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com to highlight new businesses in this region’s vast and thriving entrepreneurial economy, were revealed Thursday night. […]

Livegenic Announces Global Partnership With ClaimLogik

September 30, 2016

Livegenic, a global provider of cloud-based, real-time video solutions to property and casualty (P&C) insurance organizations, is pleased to announce a global partnership with Australian-based solutions provider, ClaimLogik. Livegenic’s suite of real-time video collaboration, field loss documentation, and customer self-service solutions are fully-integrated into the ClaimLogik claim fulfilment platform to help facilitate faster damage assessments, […]

Monetate Announces the Launch of its Revolutionary Dynamic Testing Solution

September 30, 2016

Monetate, the leading personalization provider for brands worldwide, today announced the launch of its newest innovative marketing solution, Dynamic Testing. Today’s marketers face more competition than ever before. They’re struggling to cut through the noise and win on the most strategic battleground: the customer experience. To address this new reality, Monetate is launching a solution […]

WealthHub Solutions Raises $1.6M To Accelerate Growth

September 27, 2016

WealthHub Solutions, the 2-year-old provider of software for trusts administration professionals, has completed its first round of institutional financing. The Conshohocken-based company raised $1.6 million from individual investors and institutions including Rittenhouse Ventures and Ben Franklin Technology Partners. WealthHub CEO Jim Marks said the company will use the financing to accelerate its growth and expand […]

Green in many senses: Holganix and Greenphire make the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies

August 25, 2016

Thanks to Holganix, the grass is literally greener on our side, and on the Inc. 5000. Add in Greenphire, and “green” becomes more than a trend of color for the Philadelphia region. Both organizations are on Inc. Magazines’s elite list of organizations that have demonstrated consistently high growth. Holganix, the manufacturer/supplier of organic, bionutritional turf and […]

Dell Boomi Named a 2016 Best Places to Work by Philadelphia Business Journal

August 23, 2016

Dell Boomi today announced the Philadelphia Business Journal has honored Dell Boomi with a 2016 Best Places to Work in Philadelphia award. The Philadelphia Business Journal partnered with Quantum Workplace to create this scientific employee engagement survey, which is based on anonymous employee responses to questions related to work environment, personal growth, professional development, people, […]

Edtech startup Byndr raises $700K

August 11, 2016

Byndr, an edtech company based in Hyderabad, India, and Conshohocken, Pa., raised $700,000 from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, the University of Pennsylvania’s Education Design Studio, and a group of private angel investors. The raise, announced on Friday, will go toward expanding the company’s sales and development team, as the organization aims to offer more educational content to students and more […]

Help ROAR for Good develop its personal safety app

August 11, 2016

ROAR for Good hasn’t just been sitting around as the drop date for its flagship Athena product comes around. Together with Philly-based designer Kyle Martin and developer Kostas Nasis, the company will be releasing its Personal Safety app this month. The mobile app will let users check in with their loved ones if they feel anxious about their […]