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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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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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See Which Companies Made the Final Cut to Pitch Investors at IMPACT 2016

November 17, 2016

The major mid-atlantic capital investment conference IMPACT will kick off in just four weeks in Philadelphia, bringing together more than a thousand players from the venture capital, private equity and entrepreneurship communities for the day-and-a-half conference. IMPACT, run by Philadelphia Alliance for Capital Technologies, or PACT, gives up and coming companies the chance to present […]

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Greenphire Is Upgrading Clinical Trials Worldwide

November 16, 2016

Who knew clinical trials were still so stuck in the past? Besides the big ethical questions the studies raise, enrollees also face a number of taxing hurdles that can sometimes bar participation. For those with rare orphan diseases, for example, just traveling to the studies can be a financial and logistical nightmare. And when it’s […]

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How To Enroll Your Dog in a Cancer-Drug Trial

November 16, 2016

Why pets might make better research subjects than lab animals. DRUG development is a risky—and costly—business. Many promising compounds fail to cut the mustard when put through clinical trials. One reason is that drugs which work on laboratory animals may not work quite so well in human tests. Being able to pick winners and losers […]

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