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Soaring 76, Part 2: Meet More of Greater Philadelphia’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

August 28, 2020

That’s why the Philadelphia Business Journal is excited to reveal this year’s Soaring 76, our annual list of the fastest-growing companies in the region. As we announce the names of these thriving companies, we hope it reminds us all that Greater Philadelphia will soon soar again. We’re unveiling our 5th annual list in stages. The […]

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Inside Pennsylvania’s Tech Renaissance

August 26, 2020

Pennsylvania played a starring role in the industrial revolution, which explains why so many people still associate the state with its industrial roots. But the entrepreneurial spirit woven into Pennsylvania’s DNA, as well as a strategic decision in the 1980s to substantially invest in tech-based economic development, has given way to a thriving tech scene […]

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NextUp: Roundtrip Is Removing Transportation Barriers From Healthcare

August 26, 2020

Who: Mark Switaj knows patient transportation well. He spent several years working on an ambulance providing direct patient clinical care. In those years, he noticed a recurring issue: the ride to the hospital was stressing patients out. “I saw people giving up on their healthcare, not because of the care they were going to receive, […]

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Money Moves: 3 Life Science and Health IT Companies Raise Funds — and One Goes Public

August 24, 2020

TrekIT Health, creators of a digital platform through which an entire medical team could access documents and care instructions for patients, has raised $1 million in additional seed funding. The round was led by Tech Council Ventures with participation from Boston Millennia Partners Founders Fund and Front Row Fund, who join existing investors including IP […]

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QRS is Expanding its Automatic Anatomy Recognition Software to Help Physicians Personalize Treatment Planning and Response Assessment for Cancer Patients.

August 18, 2020

Quantitative Radiology Solutions (QRS) was awarded a second STTR grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for development of software for automated PET/CT interpretation and reporting. This grant will allow the company to extend the application of its Automatic Anatomy Recognition (AAR) software to automated disease burden estimation and standardized reporting on PET/CT images. “I […]

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