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How CEO Mike Maher got a Seven-Figure ‘Yes’ from Investor Ira Lubert — on the Fourth Try

January 9, 2019

It took some persistence, but real estate startup Houwzer, a tech-enabled real estate brokerage, just closed a $4.5 million “seed extension” round of funding aimed at growing its presence in Philly and Washington D.C, while expanding to a third big market over the next year. Among the backers are past investors such as Ben Franklin […]

Halo Labs Raises $5.6M in Series B Financing Round

January 8, 2019

Halo Labs, a life science instrumentation company developing tools for biologics researchers, today announced it has closed a $5.6M Series B financing round led by Research Corporation Technologies (RCT). The funding will be used to support the promising commercialization of Halo Labs’ Horizon® subvisible particle analysis instrument and the continued development of the company’s product […]

Tridiuum Raised $9.5M Series B to Scale its Behavioral Health Platform

January 7, 2019

Tridiuum, a venture-backed maker of a software platform that tracks behavioral health indicators, just raised a $9.5 million Series B round with an eye to scaling its sales, product and marketing operations. The round was led by New York-based Sopris Capital, with participation from Fresenius Medical Care Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (which previously joined the […]

Lia Diagnostics Adds New Investor and $2.6 Million in Venture Capital

November 13, 2018

Center City’s Lia Diagnostics, makers of a flushable pregnancy test, just took on $2.6 million in venture capital as it continues to work on bringing the test to the consumer market. CEO and cofounder Bethany Edwards declined to comment on specific terms of the round, but she confirmed that investors included past backers of the startup (like Ben Franklin […]

There’s a New Crop of Wellness Brands Bringing Women’s Health Care Into the Digital Space

November 1, 2018

Conversations about health care in 2018 are — for many reasons — quite fraught. On an individual level, between the all-too-common struggles with insurance, far-off appointment dates, excessive wait times, lack of communication and clarity with various providers and access to medications (with fluctuating costs), there’s no denying that there’s a lot of work to […]