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Meet BioBot, the 'MakerBot of biology'

July 14, 2015

A $5,000 desktop bioprinter developed by two University of Pennsylvania grads lets nearly anyone print living tissue. Inside a tiny office on the second floor of a South Philadelphia makerspace, the future looks like a large, greenish booger. The machine responsible for printing such an object: the BioBot, a bioprinter that prints living cell tissue […]

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Location-sharing app for sporting events raises $1.5 million

July 2, 2015

A real-time location sharing navigation app called MeetBall, which is based out of Doylestown, Pa., just finished raising $1.5 million in its pre-Series A round. Philadelphia-based Ben Franklin Technology Partners led the round. MeetBall plans to direct the capital to its tech team and toward MeetBall’s launch in the fall, during the heat of NASCAR […]

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Ben Franklin Approves $2.8M for 14 Early Stage Companies

July 1, 2015

In the final quarter of FY ’15, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania approved $2.8M in investments to 14 companies in IT, Health, Digital Health, Advanced Manufacturing, and Physical Sciences. Companies included are American Aerospace, BioBots, Core Solutions, DECNUT, Defend Your Head, Gencore, Grand Round Table, KickUp, MeetBall, Optofluidics, ROAR, Rocker Tools, Yorn, and […]

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OneTwoSee is throwing much heat this week

July 1, 2015

Whoa—good shouts for their live sports stats tech in Engadget, Technical.ly Philly, Philly Mag, Sports Business Journal (paywalled), and Multichannel News. Gotta love that Comcast is proud, too. Here’s their own blog post: Comcast Corporate Blog: Watch A Game Like Never Before With New Baseball Extras For The X1 Platform When I sit down to watch a […]

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AWE Ventures—Powered by Ben Franklin aims to raise capital for women-led businesses

June 25, 2015

In 1995, a small group of Philadelphia-region women entrepreneurs got together for mutual support and access to capital. Now, 20 years later, the group — renamed the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) — is the Mid-Atlantic’s largest organization dedicated to fostering high-growth businesses founded or led by women. Still, according to Executive Director Victoria Burkhart, “there is […]

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