Philadelphia’s ever-expanding healthcare industry was a key topic of discussion during last week’s B.PHL Innovation Festival. A team of local titans in business, healthcare and science, including Comcast, Independence Blue Cross, and the University City Science Center, organized the three-day, citywide festival that attracted thousands of attendees across nearly 200 sessions. Through curated panel discussions, interactive workshops and other events, the […]
It’s continued to be a big year for this 2017 RealLIST company: Center City health IT startup Oncora Medical announced it had raised $3 million and entered a partnership with a California-based medtech company last month. The software company spent 16 weeks earlier this year at an accelerator at the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute in Houston, where it has a full-time staff member. […]
Every day, we at Technical.ly talk to technologists, entrepreneurs and leaders building in Philadelphia. They span different categories of company and job title, and have different paths and plans for getting to the ultimate destination. Through them all, a couple of threads become clear: a resounding commitment to making an impact in their city, and the […]
To mark its 40th anniversary, Inc. is matching 40 aspiring founders with 40 experienced mentors in the Founders Project. The most recent mentor-mentee pair each has a mission to improve lives: Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker, and Yasmine Mustafa, founder of ROAR for Good. Neil Blumenthal co-founded Warby Parker in 2010 with a dual […]
Tech startup TrekIT Health is moving forward in efforts to get its Penn-grown, patient-focused workflow software into other health systems, securing fresh funding and naming a new CEO. The Philadelphia-based company said co-founder Dr. Subha Airan Javia is taking over as its top executive from former CEO Brendan McCorkle. The C-suite shift comes as the […]
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