News Type: News

Q&A with William R. McCann of Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology

July 31, 2014

Keystone Edge | Susan L. Pena | July 31, 2014 William R. McCann is a professionally trained trumpeter with a degree in music from University of the Arts in Philadelphia; he graduated cum laude in 1980. He also holds a certificate in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania (1982), and served as a human resourcessystems analyst for theSun […]

Ben Franklin’s Smarter Agent’s Real Estate Apps: 4M+ Downloads in 1 Year

July 30, 2014

Technically Philly | Juliana Reyes | July 30, 2014 Smarter Agent, based in Collingswood, N.J., powers mobile apps for national real estate giants like Keller Williams, Sotheby’s and Berkshire Hathaway. The“white label” apps, which show homes for sale and rent and give you direct access to arealtor, have been downloaded more than four million times in the last year, said cofounder Brad Blumberg. Smarter Agent’s […]

Project Liberty Welcomes 5th Class!

July 16, 2014

Philadelphia–Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) announced the fifth startup company class of the Project Liberty Digital Incubator. The program is hosted by Interstate General Media (IGM), operated by Ben Franklin, and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Project Liberty Digital Incubator is stimulating the establishment and […]

Ben Franklin’s Sidecar Raises 3.1MM in New Venture Capital

July 10, 2014

Keystone Edge | Elise Vider | July 10, 2014 Philadelphia’s Sidecar, an e-commerce startup, is on a roll. The company recently announced that it has raised $3.1 million in funding, led by Osage Venture Partners. They join existing investors such as Ben FranklinTechnology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania which has invested $485,000 in two rounds. Sidecar claims to be the […]

June 30, 2014

Benjamin Franklin once said that an educator should be a scholar, teacher and citizen. In his life and career, Dr. Joseph Bordogna has fulfilled the patriot Franklin’s vision, of innovation with social purpose, with most admirable results. On June 23rd, the Board of Directors of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) […]

June 24, 2014

News Networks | Thomas Bailey | June 24, 2014 With Pfizer’s attempted takeover of AstraZeneca, Merck & Co.’s continued downsizing, and the recent acquisition of Cephalon Inc., the Philadelphia region’s pharmaceutical sector is going through some big changes. As the rate of drug discovery slows and the cost of research and development rises, more and more […]

PeopleLinx gets ‘LinkedOut,’ reworks product

June 17, 2014

Philadelphia Business Journal | Lauren Hertzler | Jun 17, 2014, 2:28pm EDT Startup PeopleLinx learned in March it would get the boot from using LinkedIn’s application programming interface. PeopleLinx is one of many companies recently cut off from using the LinkedInAPI tool for hiring, marketing or sales purposes. (Hence the #LinkedOut hashtags we’ve beenseeing on Twitter.) But it didn’t deter the […]

The Cutting Edge – Graphene Frontiers

June 10, 2014

Philadelphia Inquirer | Diane Mastrull | June 10, 2014 In a University City laboratory, Mike Patterson recently shared his thoughts on the potential impact of the business he has helped launch. In doing so, the CEO of Graphene Frontiers demonstrated an unapologetic inability to understate. “This is changing-the-world stuff,” Patterson said. At the core of […]

Biomeme Expands from NextFab Incubator

May 27, 2014

Joseph N. DiStefano | May 27, 2014 | Philadelphia Inquirer Biomeme Expands from NextFab Incubator Biomeme, a four-person start-up operating out of Evan Malone’s NextFab cool-tools members’ workshop on Washington Ave., has raised $1.9 million in funding for its DNA analysis-on-your-smartphone development project, partly from NextFab itself, Malone tells me. The firm has also been […]

May 16, 2014

Elana Gordon | May 16, 2014 | WHYY The room is upbeat, friendly. About two dozen people, mostly women, filter in to a lecture space at DeVry University in King of Prussia, Pa. But these aren’t students. Their combined expertise could probably run a multi-billion dollar drug company. “We have CEOs, we have MDs, PhDs, […]