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The Ben Franklin Q&A with Village Capital’s Jared Marquette

May 25, 2017

Next week Ben Franklin will kick off Workshop #2 of the Ben Franklin Fintech Accelerator, using Village Capital’s peer selection-focused curriculum. As we get ready, we were able to have a Q&A session with Village Capital’s Jared Marquette to discuss what’s different about the VilCap model, why it makes sense for investors and founders, and […]

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Osage Ventures Just Closed its Fourth Fund at $90 million

May 24, 2017

Bala Cynwyd-based venture firm Osage Ventures announced Tuesday it had closed the lid on its OVP IV fund (aka fund four) at $90 million. The venture firm — which began raising capital for the fund in late 2015 — has already made five deals from the instrument, including two deals in Philly soon to be […]

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AlphaPoint Wins 2017 Sell-Side Technology Award for Best Infrastructure Provider

May 23, 2017

AlphaPoint, a growth-stage blockchain technology firm and developer of the AlphaPoint Distributed Ledger Platform, announced it has won the 2017 Sell-Side Technology Award for Best Infrastructure Provider. The annual Sell-Side Technology Awards, hosted by WatersTechnology, recognizes leading technology firms for sell-side professionals and organizations in the financial services industry. “We are honored to receive this […]

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Here’s Who Took Home Enterprise Awards

May 23, 2017

What if everyone took the time to share one Philly success story? During the Enterprise Awards, that was the main prompt from Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) CEO Dean Miller, who emceed the 24th edition of the ceremony last night at the Pennsylvania Convention Center before a crowd of 900. Miller listed, in his […]

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Binto: Women-focused Start-up Birthed From Wharton

May 23, 2017

Two years ago, Suzie Welsh was working as a nurse at Penn Medicine’s fertility practice, and female patients kept asking her advice on vitamins, probiotics, and all-organic, non-GMO products they felt comfortable putting in their bodies. Then, the lightbulb went off. “There wasn’t one company with health experts in this market space, helping women get the […]

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