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Latest PHILLY ecosystem news
TECFusions spent $250k to sell Pennsylvania on its data center projects
Backed by a $2 million state grant, the first new facility came online earlier this year — shortly after its home township approved a moratorium.
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latest Biotechnology news
After 15 years, ChromaTan’s drug-purification fix is nearing commercialization
The Greater Philly company is exploring a $10 million investment round to take its purification system into clinical manufacturing.
Penn spinout starting clinical trials for a virus that tags cancer cells to kill them
Dispatch Bio is building a system that could broaden treatment for a wide variety of tumors, and it’s about to start testing with human patients.
Temple University spinout’s ‘Goldilocks molecules’ could change how we take our medicine
Blue Bell’s Ladder Bio is utilizing molecular technology to help patients move from injected treatments to oral pills.
Guide for startup founders in biotech, health tech and life sciences: Where to find legal and regulatory help
From patents and FDA pathways to clinical lab rules and state registrations, these resources can help you figure out the best path forward.
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Ballard Spahr is a national, full service law firm with more than 600 attorneys spread across 15 offices. Our attorneys work with entrepreneurs and emerging companies from ideation through exit and understand how to provide expertise while offering our broad network to help businesses grow and achieve great heights.
J.P. Morgan Chase Startup Banking
J.P. Morgan is committed to being the leading bank of the innovation economy — bringing together founders, investors, startups and high-growth companies. With decades of global experience, a robust professional and venture capital network and scalable money-management solutions.
Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs
Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs connects strategically relevant startups from around the world with Comcast to explore partnerships that impact the ways we work and the products and experiences we deliver to our customers and employees.
The Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) is responsible for technology transfer, fostering collaboration with the industry, and driving entrepreneurial endeavors.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
Ben Franklin leads the region’s equitable economic growth by nurturing and investing in innovative, early-stage companies, and through purposeful involvement in regional and national initiatives.
Grow Philly
Grow Philly: Meet 9 small businesses in Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy and Northwest Philadelphia
From gourmet cheese to custom jewelry to pediatric dentistry, get to know your neighborhood entrepreneurs.
Grow Philly: 10 Black-owned small businesses to know in Philadelphia
Learn about local companies serving their community with everything from architecture to readymade cocktails to digital marketing to daycare.
Steven Pan wanted out of the family business. Instead, he returned to transform the Philly importer into a major e-commerce supplier.
Starting with heat-resistant gloves, G&F Products and WorkGlovesDepot.com expanded their catalogs to land safety gear on Amazon and shelves at Home Depot and Lowe’s.
Inside 4 years at the Fallser Club, where 2 tech founders turned a vacant office into a neighborhood music hub
Felicite Moorman and Ryan Buchert now host four weekly shows in East Falls, supporting emerging artists and community fundraisers.
latest Education news
Philly’s Startup Tracker
What’s a startup’s potential for growth and impact on its community — and how does that change over time?
The tracker assigns a RealLIST Score to each company, calculated via proprietary formula using data from industry-standard sources like Crunchbase and PitchBook, plus details from the US Patent & Trademark Office, the Technical.ly Innovation Index and more.
MORE Philly NEWS
How Philly’s GreenIRR sells truckers on sustainability
The climatetech startup, which relocated from Brooklyn and closed a $2M pre-seed, believes its platform can help reduce emissions throughout the supply chain.
How a Philly engineer navigated DACA processing delays to pursue his dream career
Victor Espinoza got caught in the bureaucracy of US immigration, but didn’t let that derail his advancement. He’s now back at work at JP Morgan.
3 things to consider before adding a shiny AI feature to your product
Adding AI to a tech product doesn’t immediately help users solve a problem. Sometimes, it can even have the opposite effect, adding unnecessary hurdles to the user experience. “A useful product gets out of the user’s way.” Elizabeth Garrison, Shaping Development Instead, consultants are saying to start by figuring out what customers actually need, rather…
Wellness is Philadelphia’s missing infrastructure. This couple is building a profession to lay the groundwork.
Learn about a new public school curriculum to change the way Philly thinks about health at the inaugural Techtritionist Summit on Sept. 10-11, 2026.
Philly govtech startup FSH Technologies raises $20M Series A, plans nationwide expansion
The company is hiring to quadruple staff size as founder Lilly Chen bets her people-first approach to public sector IT can successfully scale.
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