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Philadelphia Edtech Company Digitability Launches New Training Tool as Demand Surges

December 10, 2020

Michele McKeone watched through Instagram as her friends learned new recipes and picked up quarantine hobbies when the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to a halt in March. At the same time, her Philadelphia edtech company Digitability was suddenly moving at a breakneck speed. “We’ve been busier than ever,” she said. School districts are federally […]

TrekIT Health Rebrands to CareAlign, Forms a Partnership with HealthShare Exchange

December 7, 2020

TrekIt Health, the health IT startup that makes a clinical workflow platform used by physicians, is rebranding to CareAlign. The company founded by CEO Dr. Subha Airan-Javia was originally developed at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Earlier this year, it raised a $1 million seed round led by Tech Council Ventures with participation from […]

Fishbox’s Napoleon Suarez is Finding Ways to Deliver During a Year of Constant Change

December 4, 2020

As the son of two people who met while serving in the Navy, Fishbox founder and CEO Napoleon Suarez was determined to find a way to earn his own money in high school. He couldn’t see his parents shelling out $100 for the new sneakers he wanted and had to get creative. He noticed that […]

Forbes 30 Under 30

December 3, 2020

Forbes 30 Under 30 with our portfolio company Orai A Pakistani native who grew up in East Africa, Danish Dhamani (pictured center) was terrified of speaking in classroom presentations and job interviews when he moved to the U.S. He founded speech-coaching app Orai (for “oral AI”) with Drexel University classmates Aasim Sani (COO, pictured left) […]

7 Philadelphia-Area Companies Make Deloitte’s List of 500 Fastest-Growing Tech Firms

November 23, 2020

Seven companies from the Philadelphia region landed on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500 list, with an Ambler firm leading the way locally. The Deloitte list ranks the top 500 North American tech and life sciences companies based on revenue growth averaged across 2016 to 2019. Specific revenue figures are not listed. Phenom People, which has […]