Tech News

PeopleLinx raises $3.5M on top of its Series A

August 26, 2015

PeopleLinx has raised an additional $3.5 million on top of its Series A round. The Philadelphia-based social sales startup plans to use that capital to speed up development on its product, hiring 10 engineers to help with the acceleration, according to PeopleLinx chief marketing officer Michael Idinopulos. The company’s platform, PeopleLinx 4, integrates Twitter, LinkedIn […]

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, […]

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. […]

Morgan Berman of MyMilkCrate on Finding your Unicorn

August 6, 2015

A good bit of motivation from MyMilkCrate founder Morgan Berman. Sometimes it takes experience and confidence to admit that a unicorn has always been there.

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 […]

Zagster Raises $3.5 Million to Take Bike-Sharing Across the U.S.

July 14, 2015

Public bike-sharing programs in North America have performed variably, with less than hoped-for ridership in Chicago, Denver, Chattanooga and Minneapolis, and technical glitches and disputes over where to place bike kiosks in New York. One supplier of bikes and related technology to a public bike-sharing program in Toronto, Bixi, even went bankrupt. But venture investors […]

Meet BioBot, the 'MakerBot of biology'

July 14, 2015

A $5,000 desktop bioprinter developed by two University of Pennsylvania grads lets nearly anyone print living tissue. Inside a tiny office on the second floor of a South Philadelphia makerspace, the future looks like a large, greenish booger. The machine responsible for printing such an object: the BioBot, a bioprinter that prints living cell tissue […]

Location-sharing app for sporting events raises $1.5 million

July 2, 2015

A real-time location sharing navigation app called MeetBall, which is based out of Doylestown, Pa., just finished raising $1.5 million in its pre-Series A round. Philadelphia-based Ben Franklin Technology Partners led the round. MeetBall plans to direct the capital to its tech team and toward MeetBall’s launch in the fall, during the heat of NASCAR […]

OneTwoSee is throwing much heat this week

July 1, 2015

Whoa—good shouts for their live sports stats tech in Engadget, Technical.ly Philly, Philly Mag, Sports Business Journal (paywalled), and Multichannel News. Gotta love that Comcast is proud, too. Here’s their own blog post: Comcast Corporate Blog: Watch A Game Like Never Before With New Baseball Extras For The X1 Platform When I sit down to watch a […]