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Yasmine Mustafa’s ROAR for Good raises $150K

June 24, 2015

It’s the first round of funding for Mustafa’s wearable-tech startup focused on women’s safety. Yasmine Mustafa’s wearable tech startup has raised its first round of funding from all local investors. The startup, called ROAR for Good, raised just over $150,000 following its graduation from DreamIt Ventures. (That number includes the $25,000 DreamIt investment for 6 […]

This Philly startup raised $100K for a plate that can count calories

June 24, 2015

Founder Anthony Ortiz put aside his initial startup, a healthy meal delivery service called Fitly, to focus on SmartPlate. Fitly hadn’t been a homerun, he said. Anthony Ortiz’s healthy meal delivery service — Fitly — was doing fine. It wasn’t a huge success but it wasn’t an utter failure, either. He’ll tell you as much. […]

On Success: Ryan Caplan, Bob Moul, Brendan McCorkle, Stephen Stewart and Josh David

June 17, 2015

It was a morning full of complicated meetings moving at a complicated pace, so we were relegated to a weird little curved room downstairs. The “we” in question was a gathering of some interesting folks: Ryan Caplan, founder/CEO of ColdLight, just sold his Internet of Things predictive data firm for $105 million; Bob Moul, CEO […]

InstaMed Releases 2014 Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report

May 27, 2015

InstaMed, the leading Healthcare Payments Network, has announced the release of the 2014 Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report. This is the fifth year for the report compiled by InstaMed and features key market trends impacting the healthcare payments industry. These trends are based on quantitative data derived from the InstaMed Network and qualitative proprietary […]

Clutch just raised another $5M from Safeguard Scientifics

May 26, 2015

The Ambler, Pa., tech company, focused on white-label shopping apps, has raised a total of $14.4 million — ditching the consumer market in favor of B2B in early 2014. Clutch just got another infusion of venture capital, thanks to previous investor Safeguard Scientifics. The local venture firm invested $5 million in Clutch, the Ambler-based company […]

This Smart Plate Tells You How Many Calories You're Eating—And Whether You're Eating Too Fast

May 5, 2015

The ultimate in portion control: a plate that yells at you. Put your dinner on a new Wi-Fi connected SmartPlate, and it will tell you not only what you’re eating, how many calories are involved, which nutrients, and even whether you’re chewing too fast. All the data feeds into an app that tracks your nutrition […]

BioBots Is A 3D Printer For Living Cells

May 5, 2015

U.S. biotech startup BioBots sits at the intersection between computer science and chemistry. Its debut product, a desktop 3D printer for biomaterials, which was just demoed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY — printing Van Gogh’s ear in replica, no less — combines hardware, software and wetware. It’s the latter area where the core innovation […]

PTC builds Internet of things analytics strategy with $105 million acquisition

May 5, 2015

This is the manufacturing software company’s third big buyout in the past 18 months, along with ThingWorx and Axeda. Manufacturing software company PTC believes predictive maintenance will be one of the first clear killer apps for the Internet of things, a credible theory given big investments in this area by GE and Caterpillar. Naturally, PTC […]

Zonoff Celebrates Malvern Headquarters Location

April 27, 2015

Zonoff, Inc., creators of the Zonoff Home Automation Platform held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to celebrate the expansion of its executive team and to mark the opening of its brand new headquarters. Zonoff provides a software platform that enables partners such as electronic device makers, service providers and retailers to deliver new products and services […]

'Souping' Cleanse is Latest Detox Diet Trend

April 26, 2015

A new detox diet called “Souping” is getting a lot of buzz. It follows in the footsteps of a juice cleanse, but you consume soup instead. And just like juicing, the coup cleanse claims to help boost weight loss, give you energy and even make your skin glow. 20-year old Andrea Shen was looking for […]