Performance Profile 2021

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.

New Directions and Tridiuum partnered on a program in Florida that launched in December. As of Jan. 14, the partnership screened more than 450 people, with average speed to first appointment of about four days, according to a release. That compares with a current standard of care average of 25 days.

Tridiuum, founded in 1997, automates behavioral health screening, triage, matching and online scheduling. The company ranks No. 41 on the Philadelphia Business Journal’s List of the area’s fastest-growing companies, with a two-year average revenue growth of 20.69%. Tridiuum reported revenue of $7.3 million in 2020. The company is headquartered in Center City and led by CEO Mark Redlus.

Roundtrip, the leading technology solution for patient transportation, announces the addition of the US’s largest health-focused charity, the American Cancer Society, as a partner.

Every day, thousands of cancer patients need a ride to treatment, but some may not have a way to get there. The American Cancer Society Road To Recovery program provides transportation to and from treatment for people with cancer who do not have a ride or are unable to drive themselves. Together, Roundtrip and ACS will work to ease the stressful process of transportation coordination and allow patients to focus on what is most important – their care and recovery.

Roundtrip is a simple, comprehensive patient ride ordering software that connects patients with non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT). Roundtrip supports all levels of transport: volunteer drivers, rideshare, taxi, medical cars, wheelchair vans, stretcher vehicles, ALS/BLS ambulances, all payers, and all trips delivered when and where they are needed.

As a first grader in Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey, Mike Maher launched his earliest small business: selling Blow Pops and construction paper.

“Back in the day, colored paper was in high demand and kids always like candy, so I thought it was a great way to subsidize my own love of art and candy,” Maher says, laughing at the memory.

Now, as the CEO of Philly-based Houwzer—the five-year-old real estate brokerage firm that’s disrupted the industry both by employing salaried (versus commissioned) brokers, and committing so deeply to doing good that they’re a certified B Corp—Maher is continuing to recognize needs where others miss them, with a deep sense of empathy, hard work and service.

Audigent, the “2.0” data management platform (DMP) and leading edge “data agency” that has pioneered data-driven private marketplace deals through its cookieless HALOM Identity product suite has announced that it has completed a $19.1 million Series B round of financing.

The funding will allow Audigent to continue its expansion as the premier first party data platform for the entertainment, sports, lifestyle and Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) eCommerce verticals as well as further its innovation as one of the leading next-gen data monetization platforms for major retail and CPG partners. The Go Philly Fund, a joint venture between Ben Franklin Technology Partners and EPAM Systems, Inc., has led the investment round with additional participation from both existing and new investors including: Broadscale Group, Raised in Space, MathCapital, Riverpark Ventures and others.

The investment brings Audigent’s total funding to $33.6 million since launch and will help the company broaden the reach of its cookieless PMP products and HALO IDTM while also aggressively expanding its sales and marketing efforts globally.

2020 was a crushing year for the hospitality industry. But ROAR for Good founder Yasmine Mustafa is keeping her eyes on encouraging recovery numbers as the company places its personal safety device technology in more hotels across the United States.

The company just closed a round of growth capital and is planning to add to its team this year, it announced Thursday. The round — Mustafa told Technical.ly she’ll be keeping the size private for now — closes as many states face impending deadlines to reach safety compliance standards.

Often called “panic button laws,” many regions are making it mandatory for hotels to provide their staff with personal safety devices. It’s exactly what Mustafa had in mind when she pivoted ROAR’s original product, the Athena, to this B2B business model a few years ago.

Philadelphia human resources tech startup Employee Cycle is raising a $2.5 million seed round after wrapping up its time at the 2021 Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator powered by Techstars.

Employee Cycle is a human resources startup that takes HR data, analyzes it and presents it on a dashboard. It was one of 11 startups that participated in the recent LIFT Labs Accelerator, and it was the only local startup in the mix this year.

The company already has several investors on board for the seed round, including venture capital firms, family offices and angels, Co-founder and CEO Bruce Marable said. He declined to share the names of investors and how much the company has raised so far.

“The next round of funding is really about us establishing ourselves as a leader in the space,” Marable said. “Now that we’ve built a comprehensive product, our goal is to get as many HR leaders as possible using our product.”

NextFab-based Burro, formerly known as Augean Robotics, has raised a $10.9 million Series A round of financing a little more than two years after its seed round, the company announced Tuesday.

The four-year-old company makes an autonomous, collaborative robot called Burro, which assists in farming labor. And as field labor workforces have shrunk in recent years, the Series A will help in the company in producing more than 500 robots next year for its existing and growing list of customers.

“Fast forward to our having nearly 100 robots running in the field, used by people who almost universally only speak Spanish, and along the way it became pretty clear that none of our end users knew or cared about our original name,” Andersen said.