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Ben Franklin Tech Partners Wins Grant to Boost Philly Life Sciences

August 28, 2019

Ben Franklin Technology Partners (BFTP), the region’s largest tech investor, just won a $633,555 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) to support the development of a new life sciences innovation cluster. The grant will be matched with more than $600,000 in funds from BFTP and its local partners and will […]

Bainbridge Health Partners with Tabula Rasa HealthCare’s subsidiary DoseMe To Expand Medication Management Capabilities to Health System(s)

August 23, 2019

Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc (TRHC) (TRHC), a healthcare technology company advancing the field of medication safety, today announced a partnership between its precision dosing software subsidiary DoseMe and Bainbridge Health, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) spin-off. “Managing medications to prevent patient harm and to reduce waste is an incredibly complex and challenging process for […]

NeuroFlow is Teaming up with a Genetic Testing Biz to Advance its Mental Health Platform

August 21, 2019

Mental health platform NeuroFlow has been making moves this year. When we checked in with the 2019 realLIST company last month, the team had grown its staff to 26, was on pace to do more than $2 million in annual revenue by the end of the year, and had partnered with Jefferson Health to create […]

GO Philly Fund Reveals First Investments

August 20, 2019

Marketing technology firms Sidecar Interactive and Clutch are the first companies to land an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ new Global Opportunity Philadelphia, or GO Philly, Fund. The regional, state-backed seed fund announced the investments Tuesday morning, about six months after it launched the GO Philly Fund in an effort to close a gap in the […]

Philly Startups Need More Early-Stage Investments to Compete

August 19, 2019

If Philadelphia ever wants to compete with the likes of Silicon Valley and New York City, it needs to fund the innovative ideas and rapid growth of startups. And we’re well on our way: Venture capital investments to Philly-based companies set a record in 2018, injecting about $1.4 billion and propelling the City of Brotherly […]