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These 11 companies and leaders won 2019 PACT Enterprise Awards

May 16, 2019

Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies, better known as PACT, honored tech and healthcare pros and companies at its 2019 Enterprise Awards event on Monday evening at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. The gala — its 26th annual — also awarded the Legend Award to Howard Ross, cofounder of LLR Partners, and the […]

Four Reasons Why: Pennsylvania Should Invest in Tech Innovation

May 13, 2019

For more than 35 years, Ben Franklin Technology Partners has served as the gold standard of tech-based economic development. However, despite our success, state funding for Ben Franklin has dropped more than 50 percent since 2007-08, from roughly $28 million per year to $14 million per year. The impact of that reduction will be felt […]

Leggy Bots, Flying Bots, Building Bots: Here’s What Penn’s Robotics Hub is up to

May 10, 2019

Celebration is critical and today we’re celebrating robots, Dean Miller said to the crowd gathered in Pennovation Center, the University of Pennsylvania’s research hub in Grays Ferry on Wednesday morning. “Sometimes when you think about robotics, you think about MIT, you think about [Carnegie Mellon University], you think about Stanford,” Miller, president and CEO of […]

This Precision Medicine Company Just Raised $5M to Help Save Preemies

May 9, 2019

Astarte Medical, a Yardley, Pa.-based software company in the precision medicine space, announced Tuesday it raised a $5 million Series A round led by Keiretsu Forum MidAtlantic. The company, founded in 2016 by former investors Tracy Warren and Tammi Jantzen, will use the funding to complete the development of its flagship product: NICUtrition, a suite of digital tools and diagnostics […]

Roundtrip’s Medical Transport Coordination Platform Reports $5.1M Series A

May 1, 2019

Roundtrip, a software platform for organizing medical transport, has raised $5.1 million in Series A financing. The round was led by Motley Fool Ventures with participation from existing investors Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, as well as from an unnamed “multi-billion dollar international healthcare software and medical device company.” […]