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LIA Diagnostics, Perpay and LeagueSide are up for PACT Enterprise Awards

February 14, 2018

The list of nominees is out for the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies’ 25th annual Enterprise Awards. We spy startups like LIA Diagnostics — which shone earlier this year on the global stage with its flushable pregnancy test — and LeagueSide — a realLIST ’18 honoree — on the list. The awards ceremony takes place May 9 at the Kimmel Center. Also on the nominee list: Clutch boss Ned […]

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Can These Philly Startups Help Bridge the VC Diversity Gap?

February 5, 2018

In a hypothetical room filled with 100 venture-backed entrepreneurs, only four are women. That’s not only the real-life experience of women entrepreneurs: that’s what the statistics say of 2017, a year in which 98 percent of venture capital dollars went to companies founded by men. Attempting to level the vast gender gap and racial inequality […]

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Margaret Bradley: Turning Philadelphia Institutions into Impact Investors

February 5, 2018

Margaret Bradley is on a mission to make Philadelphia “the center of the impact investment universe.” Bradley cut her at teeth at The Reinvestment Fund, one of the nation’s top community finance institutions. Now with Ben Franklin Technology Partners, a regional economic development fund, she’s charged with deploying $15 million into Philly startups tackling education, […]

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10 Philly Startups to Watch in 2018

February 2, 2018

The startup state of mind is alive and well in Philadelphia, and we’ve got ten young companies to prove it. We put a call out to Philly’s innovation community to get a pulse on the startups we’re most excited about for 2018. The city answered the call with much momentum — we received more than 150 […]

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Mapping Investment in Female-Founded Companies Across 10 key US Metros

January 30, 2018

“When women want change, we get it.” That’s what Shelly Bell, founder and CEO of Washington, DC-based Black Girl Ventures, told PitchBook when we asked her if she thinks the tech industry is poised for a massive cultural shift. Over the course of several months, PitchBook set out to better contextualize our dataset on VC […]

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