Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Every year, dozens of PA startups get their start with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. At the March 2020 Board of Director’s meeting, six companies were approved to receive an investment: CPNet, located in Harrisburg , is an industrial IoT and AI company founded to bring Industry 4.0 www.cnp.benfranklin.org.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. Taktile’s innovative technology is transforming how businesses make automated decisions, disrupting the insurance, lending and financial services industries. This is big!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego , the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. Other new backers include General Catalyst, whose founder and MD, Joel Cutler, joins Zego’s board.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

Orb powers billing for high-growth B2B technology companies including Airbyte, Dune, and Materialize, saving them engineering costs and enabling them to unlock more revenue. High-growth B2B technology companies use Orb to automate billing and enable pricing experimentation. Learn more about Orb at withorb.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

For pharmaceutical companies, especially medical affairs, the important lesson from this sad and sordid affair is as simple as it is powerful: Your advisory board matters — a lot. Those five words characterize Theranos’ board. focused on cardiac transplants who switched to politics long before he joined Theranos’ board.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2022

Eleven companies located in central and northern PA recently received an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners that will allow them to further develop and commercialize new products and/or software applications or stabilize operations in a long-standing manufacturing business. Creating Jobs and Helping Grow the PA Economy!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Raleigh, NC – September 19, 2023 — Pryon , the pioneer in bringing AI to knowledge management, today announced that it closed a $100 million Series B investment led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT). In order for the U.S. My previous roles at Oracle and Salesforce defined that ‘shift happens’ in our industry.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

“This funding marks a significant milestone, enabling Fuel Me to accelerate the development of advanced technology while continuing to deliver unparalleled service to our customers. Eddie Leshin is a Board Member & Senior Business Advisor at Sheer Logistics and a partner at Woodlawn Partners. Full press release here.

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HPA

MARCH 22, 2024

Packback’s proprietary AI technology provides inquiry-based online discussion and long-form writing support. Packback’s AI-enabled platform helps students build and master foundational skills such as critical thinking, writing, and research.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

TheCut , a technology platform designed to handle back-end operations for barbers, raised $4.5 The app also enables barbers, perhaps for the first time, to have a list of clients and keep notes and photos of hair styles, as well as track visits and spending. million in new funding. The latest funding gives theCut $5.35 told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kenyan edtech startup Craydel , a platform for comparing colleges, course options and tuition fees, has secured $1 million in a pre-seed round that will go toward improving its search and recommendation technology and enhancing its online resources. . This paradox of choice is sometimes not a good thing,” Premji said.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA provides investment capital and business support services to tech-startups and small manufacturers located in our 32-county footprint. At the December 2019 Board of Director’s meeting, six companies were approved for funding. www.boostpoint.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Enter Emi , the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial intelligence recruiting tool. The technology automates communication between global enterprises and candidates using a conversational interface. Poor onboarding is the enemy of good hiring.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc.,

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 6, 2024

State College, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (CNP) is pleased to announce the selection of ten outstanding entrepreneurial teams to participate in the Spring 2024 TechCelerator Business Bootcamp.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2024

The platform enables clients to drive growth across the digital marketing funnel, using deep artificial intelligence and machine learning. With this powerful technology, marketers are now able to deliver personalized experiences across the web, mobile web, mobile apps, and ad channels.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Now that, too is starting to change: today, a company called Silverflow that’s built a new take on one aspect of that, with an API to enable data-based payment processing, is announcing $17 million in funding to capitalize on interest that it is seeing for its technology among payment service providers.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 30, 2024

The platform provides them with technology, data, and financing strategies enabling them to scale their businesses. Using Backflips’ purpose-built technology and capital products, real estate entrepreneurs are able to efficiently manage their investment pipelines, secure funding, and grow their real estate investment business.

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OurCrowd

JULY 28, 2023

Nasdaq: RWLK) (“ReWalk” or the “Company”), a leading provider of innovative technologies that enable mobility and wellness in rehabilitation and daily life for individuals with neurological conditions, today announced that two members of the Board of Directors (the “Board”), Arik […] MARLBOROUGH, Mass.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future. Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. “Our as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC.

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HPA

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Alphathena platform enables clients to build and optimize investment strategies truly customized to their individual needs at scale,” said John Crosson, HPA Deal Lead. “We The objective is to make this technology accessible to a broader range of independent advisors and other growing firms. “We

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HPA

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We’re excited to announce that NanoGraf , an advanced battery materials company and enabler of the world’s most energy-dense lithium-ion 18650 cell, raised $65 million in Series B funding. NanoGraf’s patented silicon-anode technology enables longer-lasting, higher-energy, and higher-power lithium-ion batteries.

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Forward Cities

MAY 13, 2024

The CEO will be responsible for providing leadership to the Forward Cities staff, developing and managing resources that enable them to achieve the organization’s goals and priorities, while unlocking the potential that each diverse staff member brings to the organization. The CEO will report to the Board of Directors.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

A startup called causaLens has developed causal inference technology — presented as a no-code tool that doesn’t require a data scientist to use to introduce more nuance, reasoning and cause-and-effect sensibility into an AI-based system — which it believes can solve this problem.

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HPA

MARCH 3, 2022

We’d like to thank HPA Deal Lead Andy Bokor and HPA Managing Director Pete Wilkins, who served as a Board Observer, for their contributions and counsel to the company throughout the years. Catalytic is designed so anyone can build automated workflows.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2023

offers training based on the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) syllabus, which is widely acknowledged as the industry standard by software testers. With the increasing adoption and use of artificial intelligence technologies, ensuring the quality and reliability of these systems has become a critical concern.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

not building your own pipeline and rather seeking to enable a partner biopharma organizations), projections on deal volume and average deal size are a must. Providing access to raw data for few key experiments to enable plot replication will send a positive signal on your underlying position on data transparency.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With the conclusion of Series A2, the company has also announced that John Suh, the former CEO and Executive Chairman of LegalZoom (NASDAQ: LZ) and a current venture partner at Spring Ventures, is joining Law&Good’s board of directors as part of this transaction.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

Proceeds of the financing will enable the company to prepare for commercialization of its groundbreaking non-invasive cardiac assessment platform, Cardiac Performance System (CPS ). This funding will enable us to accelerate our march to commercialization by expanding development and operations for our CPS platform.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

James Kilkelly is founder and CEO of Tellerex , a company that enables its customers in the banking and banking technology industry to manage their ATM assets in a secure, compliant and environmentally responsible manner. Their metals, plastics and circuit boards can be separated and reused for other products.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Just over a year after launching its flagship product, Landing AI secured a $57 million round of Series A funding to continue building tools that enable manufacturers to more easily and quickly build and deploy artificial intelligence systems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

“We started our journey at WaveOne, realizing that machine learning and deep learning video technology could potentially change the world. Apple saw this potential and took the opportunity to add it to their technology portfolio.” YouTube’s already doing this.

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