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How Can Investors Get More Capital to Women Founders? ‘Pay Attention to the Barriers at Play’

March 9, 2022

Gaining access to venture capital isn’t a new challenge for underrepresented founders, or those seeking to work in VC. But approaches to solving it are changing. Women are consistently left out of conversations with investors, are granted less funding, and only represented a tiny percentage of all venture capital raised over the last 30 years. […]

Wireless Panic Button Startup Raises $1.8M in Oversubscribed Round

February 28, 2022

ROAR for Good raised $1.8 million in growth capital to ramp up distribution of its wireless panic button systems for hotels and health care facilities. The Philadelphia startup initially sought to raise $1.5 million, but investors surpassed the company’s goal for growth capital, ROAR for Good Founder Yasmine Mustafa said. She declined to disclose the […]

Meet The Startup Behind The Robot ‘Dogs’ Set To Patrol The Southern Border

February 22, 2022

Jiren Parikh, CEO of Ghost Robotics, dropped out of college to become a back-country skier and ski mountaineer, then wound up selling enterprise software. Today, he runs a Philadelphia-based company making four-legged robot “dogs” for the military and government agencies around the world (allies only), including Singapore, Australia and the U.K., as well as the […]

InfraScan Announces FDA Clearance of the First Hand-Held Diagnostic Device for Traumatic Brain Hemorrhage in Children

February 18, 2022

InfraScan, a medical device firm specializing in traumatic brain injury diagnostic products, announced a newly expanded FDA indication today. The expanded indication includes the use of Infrascanner for the detection of traumatic supratentorial hematomas in adults, and now pediatric patients aged 2 years and older. “We are excited to announce the FDA has granted clearance […]

M&A Moves: Philly’s Piano is Acquiring SocialFlow and Blue Bell’s Anexinet is Merging

February 14, 2022

It’s an acquisition and a merger for two Philadelphia-area companies, as Piano and Anexinet both announced new expansions on Thursday. Piano acquired SocialFlow The Bourse-based B2B media software company, which last spring raised an $88 million Series C, has acquired SocialFlow, a New York City social distribution and marketing platform for media companies. The addition […]