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A Partnership Ripe for the Region

December 9, 2016

At Philly Startup Leaders’ Founder Factory event yesterday, the $6M Ben Franklin/Independence Health Group/Safeguard digital health funding initiative was announced. Safeguard’s David Luk shared the organization’s perspective on why the time is right for the partnership. By now, most people are aware of Safeguard’s rich history of fostering innovation and supporting entrepreneurs along their path to disruption. Our […]

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Biomeme Says its New Office is a Longterm Commitment to Philly

December 6, 2016

Biomeme cofounder Max Perelman is pumped about the two meeting rooms at the company’s new Center City office. “Our old meeting room used to be the bathroom,” Perelman joked (we think?). “It used to get awkward when someone came in to pee.” The biotech company just moved into a 4,500-square-foot office at 10th and Chestnut. The move is almost […]

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MBF Therapeutics Teams Up With Wistar

December 1, 2016

A Montgomery County company seeking to develop ways to treat cancer in dogs and cats has secured a new partner and new investment to help it achieve its goals. MBF Therapeutics of Ambler raised more than $100,000 in new capital from private investors and converted existing debt and notes into equity in a $1.1 million […]

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BBC’s ‘100 Women 2016’ List Features ROAR for Good’s Yasmine Mustafa

November 23, 2016

As ROAR for Good keeps working on its flagship Athena product (slated to ship early 2017, last time we checked), CEO Yasmine Mustafa landed some more press. This time, it’s international, thanks to a spot on BBC’s 100 Women 2016 list, published on Monday. “I was speechless when I first got the news in August […]

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MilkCrate for Communities comes to Philadelphia University

November 23, 2016

A week from Thanksgiving, MilkCrate CEO Morgan Berman published an article titled “A bevy of thank yous and news” in which she announced the company would be pivoting toward a business to-business model under the MilkCrate for Communities platform. “Free sustainable lifestyle consumer app? Not anymore! Welcome to the world of B2B enterprise software and the […]

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