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Five Start-Up Companies Competed for $35,000 — One Winner has been named the 2025 Ben Franklin Big Idea Contest Grand Prize Winner! 

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

The May 15th finale was hosted virtually by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin CNP), an initiative of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). Jim Fetzner concluded, Great ideas dont create themselves it takes vision and real work.

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The Pershing Square Foundation Launches Ovarian Cancer Challenge Grant

American Entrepreneurship

In a bold step to confront one of the deadliest and most overlooked women’s health crises, The Pershing Square Foundation announced a $5.25 Tackling a Silent Crisis in Women’s Health Despite being the most lethal gynecologic cancer, ovarian cancer receives a fraction of the funding allocated to other cancers.

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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

Ecosystem Builder Hub

“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

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SOSV is building a New Jersey HAX facility for industrial, healthcare and climate startups

TechCrunch

The five-year development plan utilizes $25 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Since 2015, HAX started investing in more industrial & health startups and today make up 90% of our new investments,” HAX partner Garrett Winther told TechCrunch. companies working toward their seed round.

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STARTUPS RECEIVE INVESTMENT FROM BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

located in Tyrone, PA, developed a product that helps a home inspection company with its core business needs such as booking, accounting, training, and relationship building. For more information: www.dmi-llc.com. For more information: www.gigandtake.com. InspectionGo Inc., For more information: [link]. www.cnp.benfranklin.org.

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Creating Jobs and Helping Grow the PA Economy: Ben Franklin Technology Partners Invests in 17 Tech Startups!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Seventeen 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, processes, or software applications. www.arbitratorintelligence.com. www.boostpoint.com. www.erapeutics.com. www.notepromd.com.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor. As with counterparts in the United States, Brazil’s Black founders have less access to capital.