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NextFab is Launching a $100K Follow-on Fund for its Accelerator Startups

May 18, 2018

Add access to follow-on cash to the list of perks at NextFab’s RAPID accelerator program. The South Philly makerspace — which also has locations in North Philly and Wilmington, Del. — launched a follow-on fund worth $100,000 to invest in companies from its accelerator program, which kicks in $25,000, office space and access to mentorship. No investments […]

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Spun Out of Wistar, Isoma Diagnostics Aims to Improve Brain Cancer Treatment

May 11, 2018

A few years ago Steve Davis lost a close friend to glioblastoma. Today, he is leading a company developing a new approach to better diagnose and guide treatment for the common and deadly type of brain cancer. “Glioblastoma has been treated as one type of cancer for more than 20 years with very little clinical improvement,” said […]

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What 7 Companies Got Out of the Philly Startup Leaders Accelerator

May 2, 2018

A comedy club really is a great stand-in for a pitch room: under the bright, hot spotlight, seven startups pitched their stuff on Tuesday at Helium Comedy Club, as part of the finale of this year’s Philly Startup Leaders accelerator program. The room had gravitas: from government officials like Mayor Jim Kenneyand Councilman Allan Domb, to corporate giants like Comcast and IBM, reps from […]

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How the VC Pathways Program is Boosting Equality in Philadelphia’s Startup Scene

May 2, 2018

The problem: people of color and women are drastically underrepresented in Greater Philadelphia’s tech and startup ecosystem. One potential solution Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Village Capital and UBS just tried out: prepping those founders for investment and growth at the ground level. Last week, the three organizations marked the end of the VC […]

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Wistar, Ben Franklin Technology Partners teaming up to help develop startups

April 30, 2018

The Wistar Institute and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania signed a Memorandum of Understanding Friday to work together to accelerate the advancement of early-stage life sciences start-ups coming out of Wistar. Under the partnership, Ben Franklin and Wistar will be developing a mentoring program around technology development for both translational scientists and entrepreneurs. […]

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