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Etsy for Gaming Tools? Meet the Philly Startup That Wants to Help You Ace That Video Game

March 1, 2019

Once upon a time, video games were pretty basic. Consider Pac-Man, the chomping mouth that devoured small dots while moving through a maze. Now, games are so complex that players need Excel spreadsheets, calculators, and troop-deployment schedules to wage virtual wars, capture castles, and build strategic alliances with players in other states and countries. Having […]

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Roundtrip and Oncora Medical are Joining an Accelerator Inside the ‘Largest Medical Complex in the World’

February 20, 2019

At over 2.1 square miles, the Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston boasts of being the largest medical district on the planet. With 9,200 hospital beds and over 106,000 employees, the center is also a hub for innovation in the Lone Star state, with its TMC Innovation Institute running a yearly accelerator for companies in the healthcare space. On Monday, when […]

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Allevi Made the MedTech FierceMedTech’s 2018 Fierce 15

February 20, 2019

These are the ideas that can move the needle. FierceMedTech’s Fierce 15 class of 2018 is aimed at advancement—whether it’s simply combining new know-how with old methods, making definitive improvements in well-trodden fields, or pushing us to reconsider how far we can reach with the means available today. They are about taking steps over, around or […]

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Orai Raises $2.3M to Make You a Better Speaker

February 20, 2019

Orai, a startup building communication coaching tools, is announcing that it has raised $2.3 million in seed funding. CEO Danish Dhamani said that he co-founded the company with Paritosh Gupta and Aasim Sani to address a need in his own life — the fact that he was “held back personally and professionally” by lackluster “communications […]

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Immuno-oncology Startup Finds a Home at College

February 20, 2019

When Nicholas Nicolaides decided to part ways with the company he co-founded two decades ago and launch another startup, one of his first tasks was finding lab space. He considered the University City Science Center, the place where he co-founded Morphotek in 1999, but ended up instead becoming the first biotech startup to set up shop at […]

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