News Type: News

How a Small Start-up Increased Event Attendance by 690% (And You Can Too)

October 29, 2014

This is a story all about how Ticketleap, an event marketing and online ticketing platform, stood out by empowering employees to share their expertise and lend some personality to the business. Meet Ticketleap. This tech startup helps its customers sell more tickets to their events. But if you’ve ever created an event through Ticketleap, you […]

Philadelphia Surging with Digital Health Innovation

October 28, 2014

EY, Ben Franklin, PACT, Fairmount Partners, CEO Council for Growth Align to Explore; $900M+ invested in sector since 2008 PHILADELPHIA — As a hotbed for sustaining growth within Digital Health, few global markets are so positioned to thrive as the Greater Philadelphia region. In a joint study by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA, […]

What Conshohocken-based company creates mouth-guards designed to reduce the risk of concussion?

October 24, 2014

Brain-Pad Inc. Team sports, particularly football, have been part of the fabric of American life for many years. But any sport involving contact demands a high price from players in the form of head injuries. And recently, the short- and long-term effects of such injuries have been in the news. Thanks to a Philadelphia-area […]

Solar Grid Storage Awarded SunShot Award for Innovative Approach to Solar + Storage Deployment

October 23, 2014

Source: Solar Grid Storage Solar Grid Storage LLC has been awarded U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative Incubator funding of $968,120 aimed at streamlining solar + storage interactivity with the grid and accelerating deployment of innovative solar + storage systems. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz announced the latest round of SunShot Incubator awards this morning […]

Three of these nine innovative technologies are Ben Companies!

October 23, 2014

9 innovative life science and health IT technologies to check out at the IMPACT conference Gene silencing technology as a cancer treatment and diagnostics to predict which colon cancer patients have a higher risk of seeing their cancer return are among some of the more innovative technologies life science entrepreneurs will be pitching to angel […]

Three Ben Company’s make the Philly 100!

October 20, 2014

Congratulations to Brad’s Raw Chips, Greenphire and Coldlight Solutions for making the 2014 Philadelphia 100! Since 1988, the Philadelphia 100 honors the 100 fastest growing, privately held entrepreneurial companies in the Greater Philadelphia Region.

Dell Boomi Joins Salesforce Analytics Cloud Ecosystem, Provides Enterprise-Ready Data on Demand

October 15, 2014

Source: Dell Boomi Blog Real-time access to business-critical data is a huge, multifaceted challenge for today’s companies. Data must be integrated across both cloud-based and on-premises (or even legacy) apps, it must be high quality, and it must be accessible. In a major step forward, Dell Boomi today joined the Salesforce Analytics Cloud Ecosystem to […]

Big-data provider Powerlytics raises $3M

October 15, 2014

Source: Philadelphia Business Journal | Lauren Hertzler Powerlytics, a big-data provider of financial analytics pertaining to the nation’s households and businesses, recently raised a $3 million round of funding. Chicago-based CME Group led the round with a $2 million contribution. Powerlytics, based in Doylestown, Pa., said it would use the new cash to accelerate product […]

AlphaPoint Secures $1.35 Million Investment to Power Digital Currency Exchanges Globally

October 15, 2014

Source: Yahoo Finance Led by fintech and technology veterans, company brings secure, scalable and customizable platform to help organizations offer easy access to digital currencies and resolve liquidity challenges. NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– AlphaPoint, a leading financial technology platform provider, powering the top global digital currency exchanges, today announced it has closed $1.35 million in funding. […]

New Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ initiative connects startups to manufacturers

October 14, 2014

Philadelphia Business Journal | Lauren Hertzler Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania has officially kicked off its new FabNet program. It is a partnership with local manufacturers to boost prototype development for regional startups. So far, Ben Franklin has joined six “different, but complementary companies,” said spokesman Jason Bannon. Initial participating facilities include EFE […]