Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania is a charitable organization established in 1982 and based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As part of a state-funded economic development initiative, the organization connects early-stage technology firms and established manufacturers with funding, people, technology, universities, and other resources to support their growth and success. By facilitating these connections, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania plays a vital role in driving economic growth in the northeastern region of the state.

R. Chadwick Paul

President and CEO

Janet L. Stainbrook

Director of Government and Community Relations

Angelo J. Valletta

President and CEO

272 past transactions

Prova Systems

Seed Round in 2012
Prova designs and manufactures electronics and software used in vehicle diagnostics for use in fleet management, consumer vehicle management, drive-by emissions systems, secure vehicle ID systems and usage based insurance (UBI) programs. The company builds wireless, bi-directional OBD-2 monitors and trip loggers (VHMs) that monitor a vehicles use and performance to maintain optimal running efficiency and monitor usage, driver behavior and maintenance schedules. The system also decodes vehicle DTCs (diagnostic trouble codes). These monitors are wireless and use Zigbee/802.15.4 wireless to communicate vehicle data to the management software, Fleet Genius. The company also makes a vehicle and fleet management application, Fleet Genius, which collects the data created by the VHMs and analyzes that for use by the vehicle owner or fleet manager. Fleet Genius runs on a standard windows PC. VHM data can also be sent to 3rd party management applications via an XML based API for intergration into 3rd party platforms. Zigbee wireless operations are managed by a family of Access Point basestations that provide support for small and larger drive-by installations.

Core Business Solutions

Seed Round in 2005
Develop product enhancements to Core’s DocBase Direct ™ software application, an Internet-based document management solution. DocBase Direct reduces the cost of achieving and maintaining ISO9000 certification by automating the required work processes. The five new modules developed will completely automate the development, review, approval, and distribution of any electronic or paper document, form, or file.

Cernostics

Debt Financing in 2012
Cernostics is a life science company developing new molecular diagnostic tests for the fight against cancer. Most current diagnostic approaches offer a limited view of cancer because they fail to evaluate the tumor as a system composed of multiple cell types, not merely tumor cells. Its patent-protected technology platform, TissueCypher, uniquely analyzes whole slide digital images with multiplexed fluorescence, providing greater information and accuracy than traditional subjective tissue diagnostics.

US Specialty Formulations

Seed Round in 2015
US Specialty Formulations manufactures sterile injectable pharmaceuticals used by healthcare providers or in new drug or vaccine clinical trials. Millions of Americans require specialized and custom-manufactured drugs, and the current infrastructure is insufficient to support their therapies. These specially prepared drugs are U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications and are provided globally.

HB Custom Media

Seed Round in 2014
HB Custom Media Inc. (HBCM) is a supplier of custom tissue culture media, reagents, supplements and animal embryo culture media to the Research Use Only (RUO) market for cell culture and the culturing of embryonic stem (ES) cells, both human and animal.

Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 cranberry growers in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and other parts of Canada as well as 35 Florida grapefruit growers. Ocean Spray was formed over 80 years ago by three cranberry growers from Massachusetts and New Jersey. Florida grapefruit growers joined the Cooperative in 1976. Ocean Spray is North America’s leading producer of bottled juices and juice drinks, and has been the best-selling brand name in the bottled juice category since 1981. Ocean Spray posted fiscal 2012 gross sales of $2.2 billion and net proceeds of $338 million. Headquartered in Lakeville-Middleboro, Massachusetts, Ocean Spray employs some 2,000 people worldwide.

webCemeteries

Seed Round in 2016
webCemeteries.com owns and operates a platform that computerizes cemetery records. The company provides scanning and data entry, enterprise sales application, cemetery application. It also provides solutions for mapping of grave locations. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Virginville, Pennsylvania.

MindBridge Innovations

Seed Round in 2015
MindBridge Innovations, LLC, offers the OrthoBike™ dual-action stationary therapy bike to orthopedic surgeons and therapists, providing a consistent and systematic therapy tool for early range of motion rehab after total hip and knee replacement and other knee repair surgeries. Therapists use the OrthoBike tools in the outpatient clinic to increase the flexion and extension of the affected knee or hip while increasing upper leg strength and improving gait. They can also send them home specifically to help slower patients, as a “second therapist, 24/7.” Compliance at home is monitored by digital technology and on-line data. Their headquarters and fabrication group are in Allentown, PA.

Medtrics Lab

Seed Round in 2014
Medtrics Lab LLC provides medical education technology solutions. The company offers a cloud based graduate and undergraduate medical education management and collaboration platform. It provides solutions for institutional level administration, program administrators, trainees, and faculty. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
O'Pake Institute for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship educates students to participate in the global economy. The institute serves as a catalyst for educational and business expansion, including a student-centered business incubator in downtown Reading. The O’Pake Fellows Program provides elite undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on distinctive experiential learning opportunities. Students of high academic standing, from diverse majors and backgrounds, can work directly with regional entrepreneurs, small business owners, faculty researchers and industry leaders.

Micro Interventional Devices

Private Placement in 2018
Micro Interventional Devices is developing disruptive technologies that are revolutionizing percutaneous and minimally invasive structural heart repair procedures. Their proprietary technology is based on a breakthrough in soft- tissue anchoring and associated delivery devices that enable off-pump procedures.
Optimo IT is a full-service, technology solutions provider to customers throughout the federal and commercial markets. the company provides innovative digital-product-development services with a focus on the end-user experience. Optimo delivers enterprise-level information technology solutions to clients nationwide.

PlanGuru

Seed Round in 2017
PlanGuru, LLC develops business budgeting, forecasting, and financial analytics software. The software provides tools needed to project and interpret their financial results & KPIs. The company offers software solutions on a subscription based model. It offers solutions for small businesses, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and accountants. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in White Plains, New York.

B. Braun Medical

Debt Financing in 2020
One of the biggest challenges facing health care providers today is enhancing safety and patient care while managing workflow efficiencies. As a division of the 13th largest global medical device manufacturer, B. Braun Medical Inc. (B.Braun) is uniquely poised to address this challenge. Guided by our Sharing Expertise® philosophy, B.Braun leads the way in developing infusion therapy and pain management products and services that meet the highest standards for quality, safety, sustainability and efficiency.

Lyralux, Inc

Private Placement in 2018
Lyralux, Inc commercializes a light-source technology that enhances colors of objects at low light levels. It serves museums. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in State College, Pennsylvania.

IntelliGreen

Debt Financing in 2020
IntelliGreen is driven by the fundamental belief that the better you feel, the better you'll do.

ABEC

Seed Round in 2016
ABEC, Inc. is a world-leading provider of engineering, equipment, and services to the Biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. For forty years, pharmaceutical companies from around the globe have relied on ABECs' expertise to develop reliable and cost effective manufacturing solutions. Founded by Jack Wilson in 1974, their goal continues to be to provide custom engineered solutions to the Life Science Industry in support of their efforts to provide the world with life changing therapies.

Third Eye Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2008
Third Eye Diagnostics is developing the Cerepress, a first-of-its-kind non-invasive intracranial pressure monitor that gathers information from the patient's eye. The technology is based on one issued patent, one pending patent, and two applications in progress on methods and apparatus that correlate ICP with measurements taken from the blood vessels within the eye. The Cerepress measures blood pressure in the eye’s central retinal vein (CRV) which highly correlates to intracranial pressure.

CEWA Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
Founded in April 2009, CEWA Technologies develops and markets CSP point concentrators that utilize solar technology in innovative ways to generate sustainable power at a price competitive with fossil fuels. Available NOW, CEWA’s CSP point concentrators utilize dual-axis solar tracking, polished aluminum reflective surfaces and unique unibody construction, offering best-in-breed efficiency with minimal ongoing operating and maintenance costs.

Carenade

Private Placement in 2018
Carenade Health operates an online marketplace that enables users to compare prices, read reviews, and purchase in-home healthcare services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

EggZack

Seed Round in 2015
EggZack is an automated sales and marketing system that does 3 things: 1- It automates your marketing to generate leads 2- its make it convenient for leads to convert to sales 3- It keep your customers informed and buying more EggZack is the first closed loop system that automates the sales and marketing process for local business owners/operators. EggZack's Software-as-a-Service model has 4500+ clients and received a patent for its technology. EggZack provides an automated sales and marketing system that is specially designed for businesses that serve local markets. The web and mobile based platform makes local marketing easier and more effective for sole proprietors, franchises and national chain stores by integrating and automating the management of their website, social media, local marketing, search engine optimization, email marketing, blogs, video, local search/directory optimization and online marketing to generate more local leads. The system then makes it convenient for the leads to convert to transitions. The company is backed by private investors and is headquartered at the Ben Franklin Technology Center in Bethlehem, PA. For more information, visit www.EggZack.com.

Medtrics Lab

Seed Round in 2015
Medtrics Lab LLC provides medical education technology solutions. The company offers a cloud based graduate and undergraduate medical education management and collaboration platform. It provides solutions for institutional level administration, program administrators, trainees, and faculty. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Spray-Tek

Seed Round in 2017
Spray-Tek, Inc. handles the conversion of pharmaceuticals, vitamins, flavors and fragrances, cosmetics, soft chemicals, and food additives for small and mid-sized companies, and Fortune 500 firms with international facilities. The company serves its clients from California to Florida and New England. Spray-Tek, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is based in Middlesex, New Jersey with a facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Universal Cross-Connection Control

Private Placement in 2018
Universal Cross-Connection Control provides software-supported services to water companies helping them to implement backflow prevention equipment testing and certification programs. It specializes in the design, implementation, administration, and automation of cross-connection control and backflow prevention programs. The company’s third-party cross connection control program coordinates the efforts of regulators, water providers, water customers, and backflow prevention professionals with surveys and notices to maintain compliance and protection of the drinking water supply. Its solutions are used by water providers, NGO’s, and environmentally responsible commercial/industrial companies to stay compliant with local-global water regulations. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bethlehem, Massachusetts.

XiGo Nanotools

Seed Round in 2012
XiGo Nanotools provides innovative tools for the nanomaterials industry. Its aim is to provide researchers, scientists and corporations with the technology needed in order to usher the transition of nanomaterials from the research laboratory to commercial applications.

Signallamp Health

Seed Round in 2016
Signallamp Health was founded on a clear understanding that human interaction is essential to improving the management of chronic health conditions. While they leverage world-class technology to empower their Nurse Assistants with relevant and real-time data, the heart of their approach is rooted in time-tested, evidence-based care management, and behavioral economics.

Icon Legacy

Seed Round in 2008
Icon Legacy Custom Modular Homes is transforming the status quo of the modular home building industry. They are a modular home builder and manufacturer of prefabricated homes from Pennsylvania, employing a management staff with more than 200 years combined experience in the modular housing and prefab home building business. Their staff knows the modular system-built industry and what it takes to design, build and sell quality constructed custom modular homes. Their attention to detail and commitment to quality is the foundation for every home, commercial structure and multi-family unit they build.

CDC Software

Seed Round in 2015
Expand commercialization of CDC Software’s DTK product that greatly reduces the time and cost of integrating telephony systems with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and business systems. Highly configurable and supporting all major telephony providers, the DTK software provides complete customer data immediately to a representative answering a customer’s call.

PDQ Printing

Seed Round in 2017
Founded on June 3rd 1975, PDQ has grown from a small 2 person Print Shop to rank in the “Top 100 Quick Print Giants in the U.S.” Over the past 30+ years, PDQ expanded into three locations: their flagship location on Mulberry Street in Scranton; our second location on Market Street in Kingston; and, most recently, the opening of their state-of-the-art Production and Mailing Center in the Stauffer Industrial Park in Taylor. In January, 2008, the location in Kingston was consolidated with the Production Center in Taylor. As the largest Commercial Quick Printer in Northeastern Pennsylvania, PDQ has evolved to a full-service facility including large format color printing and direct mail services. They are proud to have had strong roots in our community for several years. They pride themselves on being a complete source for all of your printing needs and have always been on the leading edge of technology. They understand that investment in technology can actually save client costs by improving efficiencies.

Discovery Machine, Inc.

Seed Round in 2008
Discovery Machine is focused on helping you leverage knowledge assets across your organization. With our knowledge capture techniques and artificial intelligence technology, Discovery Machine has perfected an approach to capturing and deploying expertise. The latest addition to Discovery Machine’s product line is RESITE. RESITE enables the creation of robust virtual training simulations in minutes using drag-and-drop interfaces. Imagine the possibilities of creating a virtual simulation that: - Exactly matches your facilities and equipment, - Lets you define objectives to monitor for completion, - Highlights real consequences virtually to emphasize key safety standards, - Immerses trainees in a virtual world instead of relying on tired slideshows and manuals, and - Automatically assesses performance with built-in student monitoring.

Fragrance Manufacturing, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Fragrance Manufacturing, Inc. operates as a contract manufacturer of fragrance, household, and personal care products. The company focuses on serving cosmetic and toiletry marketers. Its services include product development, inbound and outbound logistics, compounding, and filling. Fragrance Manufacturing, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Galaxy Brushes

Seed Round in 2004
Galaxy Brushes manufactures pencil brushes for pipeline cleaning and inspection applications in oil companies. The company offers flat wire brushes, including block brushes, wrap brushes and flange brushes; and pigs and urethane brushes. It also provides engineering, pig and brush design, and consulting services. The company serves customers worldwide. Galaxy Brushes was founded in 2002 and is based in Moosic, Pennsylvania.

RATECentric

Grant in 2020
RATECentric provides online proprietary small-group insurance platforms used by national group insurance carriers that allow agents to reduce the quoting, enrollment, and submission process from three weeks to one hour. Providing real-time rates in a highly complex industry is a paradigm shift in the way group insurance is currently sold and administered. HBT also builds and maintains group insurance premium billing platforms and offers agent license tracking and commission payments online.

Core Business Solutions

Seed Round in 2005
Develop product enhancements to Core’s DocBase Direct ™ software application, an Internet-based document management solution. DocBase Direct reduces the cost of achieving and maintaining ISO9000 certification by automating the required work processes. The five new modules developed will completely automate the development, review, approval, and distribution of any electronic or paper document, form, or file.

Precision POS

Grant in 2020
Precision POS Software is a premier technology resource for restaurants. Precision POS offers advanced tablet and cloud-based point-of-sale, on-line ordering, and various other supporting products for the restaurant industry and other related food and beverage industries.
Carbondale Technology Transfer Center is a business incubator that provides rental space, technical assistance, and guided access to financing for startup companies. It operates a fully functional small business incubator, divided into Office (Technology Users), Light Industry, Mixed-Use, Kitchen, and Electronics Incubator sections to allow us to serve technology-oriented, light industry, and light. Carbondale Technology Transfer Center was established in June 1996 and is headquartered in Carbondale, PA.

JED Pool Tools

Seed Round in 2017
JED Pool Tools, Inc comes to the rescue for all your pool supply and accessory needs! They have got it all! Check out their JED catalog, which includes pool maintenance equipment--skimmers, leaf rakes, thermometers, pool vacuums, leaf sweeps, chlorinators, pool maintenance kits, through the wall skimmers, backwash hose and filter accessories, pool safety equipment, pool signs, repair kits, floating candles, pool fountains and even water toys!

Bosch Rexroth

Seed Round in 2016
Bosch Rexroth is driving the next industrial revolution as a lead operator and lead supplier of Industry 4.0 solutions. With a portfolio of drive and control products for mobile and industrial applications and production experience from our own plants, we can offer automation and manufacturing solutions using loT enabled products.

webCemeteries

Grant in 2020
webCemeteries.com owns and operates a platform that computerizes cemetery records. The company provides scanning and data entry, enterprise sales application, cemetery application. It also provides solutions for mapping of grave locations. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Virginville, Pennsylvania.

Cerora

Seed Round in 2014
Cerora, Inc., a healthcare information technology company, provides neuro diagnostic information with a focus on mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI or concussion) and Alzheimer’s disease to patients, physicians, and companies. The company offers MindReader, a portable objective neuro diagnostics-as-a-service technology that is used to monitor brain health; diagnose neurologic injuries, such as mTBI; diagnose diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and mild cognitive impairment; and diagnose neuropsychiatric disorders, such as post traumatic stress disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and Bi-polar. Its products are also used in sports concussion and pharmaceutical compound development and monitoring. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

studio BE

Venture Round in 2021
studio BE is a wellness technology company that reimagining collective well-being, one breath at a time. It serves companies, non-profits, and individuals. We teach both in-person and online, offering down-to-earth, expertly-crafted training modules to executives, management, and their teams. It teaches both in-person and online, offering down-to-earth, expertly-crafted training modules to executives, management, and their teams. It believes in the power of using technology for good and coming together for the betterment of all. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

B. Braun Medical

Private Placement in 2018
One of the biggest challenges facing health care providers today is enhancing safety and patient care while managing workflow efficiencies. As a division of the 13th largest global medical device manufacturer, B. Braun Medical Inc. (B.Braun) is uniquely poised to address this challenge. Guided by our Sharing Expertise® philosophy, B.Braun leads the way in developing infusion therapy and pain management products and services that meet the highest standards for quality, safety, sustainability and efficiency.

Hill Crest Laminating

Seed Round in 2008
Hill Crest Laminating, LLC was established in 2007 in Danville, Pennsylvania, by Keith T. Fletcher, Jr., and Terry L. Holdren. With more than 40 years of combined experience in lamination manufacturing, Hill Crest’s founders quickly grew the company into an industry leader.

viihealth

Seed Round in 2015
viihealth, Inc. is a next-generation Customer Engagement and Digital Solutions Company helping life sciences companies drive commercial success. Our leading mobile-savvy solutions increase salesforce effectiveness and drive increased patient adherence – with deeper impact and faster time-to-market in multiple markets worldwide.

Orbweaver

Seed Round in 2014
Orbweaver enables the digital supply chain, transforms the management of part information, mobilizes the digital conversation between buyers and sellers of components, and automates sales & purchasing workflows.
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania is a mere two miles from the New Jersey border, 70 miles from New York City, and 90 miles from Philadelphia. With eight residence halls and a 1,000-seat dining hall located on campus, students will have plenty of opportunities to meet new people and make the most of college life. If you enjoy camping and outdoor activities, then you can take full advantage of Stony Acres, and off-campus campgrounds that include a lodge, cabins, a lake and a campsite. ESU works to combine academics with real world experience in order to help students become not only knowledgeable, but also desirable to employers and graduate schools. Students are encouraged to learn as much about their prospective careers as possible, so ESU strongly encourages students to participate in internships, field studies and community service projects. If you are interested in studying abroad, ESU has shared programs with the International Student Exchange Program, which offers more than 150 destinations for students to choose from. To help cover the cost of tuition, ESU has several scholarships and financial aid options available to eligible students. While many are based solely on academic merit, a student’s major, athletic ability, geographic area and teacher recommendations can all play a role in eligibility for financial aid.

Sealstrip

Grant in 2020
s, Sealstrip Corporation provides flexible packagers with the resealable and easy-open packaging solutions that are essential to compete in today’s consumer market. The company designs and manufactures applicators that retrofit to customers’ existing wrapping machinery. Sealstrip also manufactures the pressure-sensitive tapes used to form the easy open and resealable features on flexible packages. Although Sealstrip distributes worldwide, products are designed and made in the USA.

Transparent Health Marketplace

Private Placement in 2020
Transparent Health Marketplace, Inc. operates an online marketplace for the procurement and delivery of healthcare services in workers' compensation. It offers THM, a platform that connects payors and providers in a marketplace model for the procurement of workers’ compensation healthcare services. Its THM is a platform connecting healthcare service providers with carriers, third-party administrators, and employers responsible for helping injured workers get the care they need. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Grovara

Grant in 2022
Grovara is the 1st B2B Global Marketplace for US Wellness Brands, connecting natural and organic brands with international retailers. Our marketplace connects wellness brands and global retailers on a single B2B platform, streamlines the entire product discovery, order processing and fulfilment for export, while empowering brands and retailers with wellness focused insights-driven data to accelerate growth and scale.
Bridgeworks Enterprise Center is a business incubator focused on primarily to manufacturing startups. They also provide mentoring and advisory services from AEDC staff members as well as a network of experienced and knowledgeable service professionals such as lawyers, accountants, consultants, angel investors, and others. Its goal to provide the resources needed to help startups move from their garage to self-sustaining profitability, then on to graduate into the City of Allentown or the greater Lehigh Valley.

FrameCrafters

Seed Round in 2016
FrameCrafters International operates as an e-commerce platform for eye care professionals.

Simplex Homes

Seed Round in 2016
Simplex Industries, Inc. designs and builds modular homes and custom homes. The company provides two story, ranch, cape, beach, modern, duplex, triplex, fourplex, and townhouse homes, as well as garage plans; and commercial buildings that range from dormitories to hotels, and from professional office space to light industrial buildings. It offers modular homes to builder network in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The company was founded in 1971 and is based in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

GiveGab

Seed Round in 2013
GiveGab helps nonprofits go beyond basic fundraising to raise more, engage more, and do more in a fun, simple, and social platform. We help these nonprofits build long-lasting relationships for repeat giving. We provide all aspects of online fundraising including: a.) general donations, b.) event fundraising, c.) p2p and team based fundraising, d.) days of giving e.) general crowdfunding campaigns f.) donor CRM. We make campaign managers and p2p fundraisers successful using automated coaching features. We make THE ASK easy and fun. Additionally, we help nonprofits engage their supporters through volunteer management features for long-term repeat giving.

Brentwood Industries

Seed Round in 2016
Brentwood is a leading provider of thermoformed plastic solutions to a wide variety of consumer, manufacturing, and environmental industries. With diverse production capabilities, engineering expertise, and a focus on innovation, Brentwood applies a team approach to solve the challenges facing our customers. Established in 1965 as a small thermoforming facility, Brentwood has transformed into a vertically integrated corporation and experienced rapid growth both domestically and internationally. This continuous progress has allowed Brentwood to engage developing markets and further establish its global footprint. Brentwood supplies custom and proprietary products of the highest quality and develops forward-thinking strategies for the most complex applications. We emphasize customer service and work closely with clients throughout the design, engineering, and manufacturing phases of each project to create targeted, tailored solutions.

Bio Med Sciences

Seed Round in 2016
Bio Med has successfully developed its IPN technology into the Silon, Oleeva and SeaAllure lines of products. The company sells direct to patients, consumers and clinical practices as well as through distributors. Silon products are available exclusively from Bio Med Sciences and through authorized business partners.

Nazareth Pallet

Grant in 2020
Nazareth Pallet is a family-owned and grown business now proudly celebrating over 35 years of service to the industry. Nazareth Pallet is the Lehigh Valley's premier source for recycled pallets and decorative mulch. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
US Specialty Formulations manufactures sterile injectable pharmaceuticals used by healthcare providers or in new drug or vaccine clinical trials. Millions of Americans require specialized and custom-manufactured drugs, and the current infrastructure is insufficient to support their therapies. These specially prepared drugs are U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications and are provided globally.

UBMe

Pre Seed Round in 2017
UBMe, Inc. develops a social networking app. The product can be used by people to discover local businesses, connect with new people and find local business deals. UBMe, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Gateway Ticketing Systems, Inc. provides access control, admission control, and ticketing software for the attraction, amusement, and intercity bus transportation industries. It offers Galaxy, a product suite that integrates ticketing, access control, resource management, group sales, online ticketing sales, retail, food and beverage, and membership management. The company also provides strategic consultation, sales, service, and support for point-of-sale and ticketing systems in North America and worldwide. Its ticketing software is used in attractions, theme parks, waterparks, tours, zoos, aquariums, museums, and historic sites. Gateway Ticketing Systems, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Boyertown, Pennsylvania.

Freshpet

Post in 2017
Freshpet, Inc. manufactures and markets natural fresh products, refrigerated meals, and treats for dogs and cats in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company sells its products under the Freshpet brand; and Dognation and Dog Joy labels through various classes of retail, including grocery, mass, club, pet specialty, and natural, as well as online. Freshpet, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Infinera

Series E in 2004
Optical networking systems based on photonic integration technology in the united states

Xverity

Seed Round in 2016
Xverity's transformative thinking and products focus on outpatients related services. The number of patients being treated at home has grown exponentially and is facing uberization. Great financial risk has been thrust upon those servicing patients. New Models, Readmission Fines and a change from Fee for Service to Fee for Performance. That patient must deal with multiple providers & services that are disconnected from one another, the Hospital's EHR, and the Patient, which creates dissatisfaction, poor engagement & higher costs.

Build My Team

Debt Financing in 2021
Build My Team engages in hiring employees for technical projects. It provides clients an automated, proven, and proprietary screening process that includes detailed profiling. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mystic Mountaintop

Grant in 2020
Mystic Mountaintop Productions is full-service lighting, sound, and video production company that also has three product divisions that design and manufacture sound, lighting, and video products that we use in our production services.

Effort Foundry

Grant in 2020
Effort Foundry, Inc. manufactures and supplies steel castings and cast valve components for pump, valve, nuclear, power generation, and military industries, as well as other general manufacturing applications. It offers pattern constructing and repairing, molding, melting, sand reclamation, blasting, arc-air/cutting/welding, burning, grinding, heat treating, quality assurance, laboratory, and machine shop services. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Bath, Pennsylvania.

OnlySky

Seed Round in 2017
Only Sky is a venture-backed company providing an activity booking and management platform to the mountain destination space, with partners across the U.S., Chile, New Zealand, Japan, and Europe. they enable consumers across the globe to book bespoke mountain experiences with Pros from top destinations.

Galaxy Brushes

Grant in 2020
Galaxy Brushes manufactures pencil brushes for pipeline cleaning and inspection applications in oil companies. The company offers flat wire brushes, including block brushes, wrap brushes and flange brushes; and pigs and urethane brushes. It also provides engineering, pig and brush design, and consulting services. The company serves customers worldwide. Galaxy Brushes was founded in 2002 and is based in Moosic, Pennsylvania.

Rocket Cloud, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Rocket Cloud, Inc. develops cloud and machine learning-based software solutions. It specializes in the integration software for Legacy ERP systems and build material wholesale. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

RocketCloud

Seed Round in 2017
Rocket Cloud helps industrial wholesalers successfully sell online. The firm creates visibility for clients’ inventory on marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, and Walmart by connecting directly with their ERP systems. Rocket Cloud’s enterprise suite handles inventory replenishment, repricing, and accounting/reconciliation, along with providing analytics to monitor performance. Rocket Cloud is also rolling out an industrial marketplace, ProSupplyDirect, which will address limitations on B2C marketplaces. .

Tower Products

Grant in 2020
Tower Products Inc. manufactures chemical products that are used in offset and flexographic printing. Its products include fountain solutions and alcohol replacements, conventional press washes, UV/EB press washes, low VOC press washes, flexographic products, specialty pressroom products, metering roller cleaners, plate cleaners, and ink fountain liners. Tower Products Inc. was formerly known as Tower Chemical Corporation. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Saladax Biomedical

Seed Round in 2004
Saladax develops rapid blood tests for point-of-care and for laboratory analyzers for use in psychiatry and oncology. The firm has been supplying laboratories and clinicians worldwide with revolutionary diagnostic solutions for more than 15 years.

UBMe

Private Placement in 2018
UBMe, Inc. develops a social networking app. The product can be used by people to discover local businesses, connect with new people and find local business deals. UBMe, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

TekRidge Center

Grant in 2021
TekRidge Center supports the growth of relocating and expanding business in developing new and innovative technologies. Businesses located within the incubator space will receive the support, infrastructure, resources, and mentorship needed to achieve long-term success, with the end goal of creating jobs, commercializing new technologies, and strengthening local and national economies. The facility features telecommunications, utilities, and offers easy access to an array of local amenities, including restaurants, hotels, and retail shops.

Vitrius Technologies

Seed Round in 2012
Vitrius Technologies is a Pennsylvania based firm specializing in proprietary cutting edge window and door products for commercial, architectural, historic, and luxury applications. Their team leverages fifty years experience within the industry, and has established key strategic partnerships with some of the industry’s most well respected manufacturers, allowing us to offer solutions for any building design. Their goal is to become a global market leader in the design and fabrication of the most energy efficient smart and dynamic fenestration systems. Vitrius is committed to continued technological advancements in glazing and framing materials; offering building owners, architects, engineers, and developers the most advanced products which exceed industry performance standards and set the benchmark for others to follow.

Viddler

Seed Round in 2006
Viddler, Inc. provides an online video platform for interactive training. It offers Viddler, a video-based SaaS platform for training professionals to deliver knowledge, practice skills, and measure performance. The company’s Viddler enables to select and watch an interactive video; watch examples of what to do in situations from industry experts; and record and review their own work. Viddler, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Saladax Biomedical

Grant in 2020
Saladax develops rapid blood tests for point-of-care and for laboratory analyzers for use in psychiatry and oncology. The firm has been supplying laboratories and clinicians worldwide with revolutionary diagnostic solutions for more than 15 years.

EggZack

Seed Round in 2014
EggZack is an automated sales and marketing system that does 3 things: 1- It automates your marketing to generate leads 2- its make it convenient for leads to convert to sales 3- It keep your customers informed and buying more EggZack is the first closed loop system that automates the sales and marketing process for local business owners/operators. EggZack's Software-as-a-Service model has 4500+ clients and received a patent for its technology. EggZack provides an automated sales and marketing system that is specially designed for businesses that serve local markets. The web and mobile based platform makes local marketing easier and more effective for sole proprietors, franchises and national chain stores by integrating and automating the management of their website, social media, local marketing, search engine optimization, email marketing, blogs, video, local search/directory optimization and online marketing to generate more local leads. The system then makes it convenient for the leads to convert to transitions. The company is backed by private investors and is headquartered at the Ben Franklin Technology Center in Bethlehem, PA. For more information, visit www.EggZack.com.

Gilson Snow

Grant in 2020
Gilson Snow manufactures innovative snowboards and skis. Gilson products have a three-dimensional base that offers the “Gilson Edge” for a buttery and “surfy” feel not offered in traditional products. Gilson builds snowboards and skis from sustainably harvested Pennsylvania poplar and focuses on both technological innovation and aesthetic design. The company ships to customers worldwide.

Galaxy Brushes

Seed Round in 2008
Galaxy Brushes manufactures pencil brushes for pipeline cleaning and inspection applications in oil companies. The company offers flat wire brushes, including block brushes, wrap brushes and flange brushes; and pigs and urethane brushes. It also provides engineering, pig and brush design, and consulting services. The company serves customers worldwide. Galaxy Brushes was founded in 2002 and is based in Moosic, Pennsylvania.

JED Pool Tools

Seed Round in 2017
JED Pool Tools, Inc comes to the rescue for all your pool supply and accessory needs! They have got it all! Check out their JED catalog, which includes pool maintenance equipment--skimmers, leaf rakes, thermometers, pool vacuums, leaf sweeps, chlorinators, pool maintenance kits, through the wall skimmers, backwash hose and filter accessories, pool safety equipment, pool signs, repair kits, floating candles, pool fountains and even water toys!
Acurlite Structural Skylights, Inc. is a company committed to providing the ultimate in customer service. In today's world, it often boils down to just that. It's not always about price, although that certainly plays a big role. But it IS always about how you serve your customers before, during and after a project is done. And that's where Acurlite shines. Their customer service is second to none! Their qualified team of experts have 100 plus cumulative years of custom architectural glazing experience. They are a company on the move, keenly aware they are judged everyday by the work they do and service they provide.

ProdHealth

Debt Financing in 2021
ProdHealth is a digital health wellness platform that provides individualized care solutions for employers and individuals. They committed to bringing its users a wholistic ecosystem of health and wellness that not only focuses on the physical and mental health of individuals but also the health of their planet. The company's mission to improve the awareness of every individual around the world that they hold the power to make an enormous change with every bite they take. ProdHealth was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
United Gilsonite Laboratories (UGL) has been delivering superior solutions to help people make their homes more comfortable, entertain with pride, expand their living space, and increase their home value. UGL operates four manufacturing facilities in the United States: Scranton, PA; Jacksonville, IL, and Jackson, MS. UGL's progressive management team, having recently repositioned the company for growth, is committed to embracing and leveraging the latest technologies so our products meet or exceed the most stringent industry standards

EthosGen

Seed Round in 2010
EthosGen LLC develops utility-grade power generation systems that convert waste heat into electrical power. The company offers Sorption-Energy System, which works within existing systems to capture waste heat and turn it into electrical power and cooling capacity. EthosGen LLC serves industrial, military and defense, technology, data centers, and renewable industry. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Noble Biomaterials

Grant in 2020
Noble Biomaterials is a global leader in intelligent materials. Noble leverages world-class antimicrobial and conductive technologies to protect, save, heal, and improve lives. The company uses its proprietary silver bonding technology for mission-critical applications in the performance apparel, healthcare, industrial and emerging wearable technology markets. Its flagship brands, X-STATIC®, Ionic+™, DFENSE, and CIRCUITEX®, are used by hundreds of world-class licensees to provide odor elimination, infection prevention/management, biometric monitoring and conductive protection benefits. Its headquarters and manufacturing facilities are in Scranton, PA, and the company has offices in Europe, Asia and South America.

Indoor Sky

Seed Round in 2016
Indoor Sky, LLC manufactures interior daylighting and shading systems. Its products include dayliter and skyliter shading systems, and fabric options. It serves customers in healthcare, education, office, and residential markets. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Play Impossible

Private Placement in 2018
The Play Impossible Gameball™ is a multi-sport, mobile device-connected ball designed for indoor and outdoor recreational activities. The company has developed a smart, connected inflatable ball that looks completely normal from the outside but has a bevy of electronics inside — accelerator, barometer, microcontroller, ultracapacitor, etc. — and sends real-time data via Bluetooth to an accompanying iOS or Android smartphone app, which lets people play different games and record highlight videos. A charging stick gives the ball two hours of play in just 20 seconds.

OnlySky

Debt Financing in 2016
Only Sky is a venture-backed company providing an activity booking and management platform to the mountain destination space, with partners across the U.S., Chile, New Zealand, Japan, and Europe. they enable consumers across the globe to book bespoke mountain experiences with Pros from top destinations.

Infinera

Series F in 2005
Optical networking systems based on photonic integration technology in the united states

Icon Legacy

Seed Round in 2009
Icon Legacy Custom Modular Homes is transforming the status quo of the modular home building industry. They are a modular home builder and manufacturer of prefabricated homes from Pennsylvania, employing a management staff with more than 200 years combined experience in the modular housing and prefab home building business. Their staff knows the modular system-built industry and what it takes to design, build and sell quality constructed custom modular homes. Their attention to detail and commitment to quality is the foundation for every home, commercial structure and multi-family unit they build.

Ethnic Beauty Store

Seed Round in 2016
Ethnic Beauty Store is a one-stop destination to learn, share and purchase beauty within the Ethnic community.

Freshpet

Private Placement in 2018
Freshpet, Inc. manufactures and markets natural fresh products, refrigerated meals, and treats for dogs and cats in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company sells its products under the Freshpet brand; and Dognation and Dog Joy labels through various classes of retail, including grocery, mass, club, pet specialty, and natural, as well as online. Freshpet, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Build My Team

Private Placement in 2019
Build My Team engages in hiring employees for technical projects. It provides clients an automated, proven, and proprietary screening process that includes detailed profiling. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

CEWA Technologies

Seed Round in 2011
Founded in April 2009, CEWA Technologies develops and markets CSP point concentrators that utilize solar technology in innovative ways to generate sustainable power at a price competitive with fossil fuels. Available NOW, CEWA’s CSP point concentrators utilize dual-axis solar tracking, polished aluminum reflective surfaces and unique unibody construction, offering best-in-breed efficiency with minimal ongoing operating and maintenance costs.

Prova Systems

Debt Financing in 2011
Prova designs and manufactures electronics and software used in vehicle diagnostics for use in fleet management, consumer vehicle management, drive-by emissions systems, secure vehicle ID systems and usage based insurance (UBI) programs. The company builds wireless, bi-directional OBD-2 monitors and trip loggers (VHMs) that monitor a vehicles use and performance to maintain optimal running efficiency and monitor usage, driver behavior and maintenance schedules. The system also decodes vehicle DTCs (diagnostic trouble codes). These monitors are wireless and use Zigbee/802.15.4 wireless to communicate vehicle data to the management software, Fleet Genius. The company also makes a vehicle and fleet management application, Fleet Genius, which collects the data created by the VHMs and analyzes that for use by the vehicle owner or fleet manager. Fleet Genius runs on a standard windows PC. VHM data can also be sent to 3rd party management applications via an XML based API for intergration into 3rd party platforms. Zigbee wireless operations are managed by a family of Access Point basestations that provide support for small and larger drive-by installations.

East Penn

Seed Round in 2016
Since 1946, East Penn Manufacturing Co., Inc. has developed an enviable reputation for world-class quality products.

Infinera

Series D in 2003
Optical networking systems based on photonic integration technology in the united states

Rea.deeming Beauty

Seed Round in 2017
Rea.deeming Beauty manufactures a range of makeups for its clients. The company’s product portfolio consists of all.about.face, micro.mini.bubble, beautyblender bubble, liner.design.pro, body blender, blotterazzi pro, sur.face simple, red.carpet, the detailers, blotterazzi, bling.ring, and air.port pro. Rea.deeming Beauty was founded in 2003 and is based in Pennsylvania.