Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania

We’re (not just) investors. We’re (more than) advisors. We’re (beyond) connectors. Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives. For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $170 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.

Jason Bannon

VP, Marketing and Communications

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Jonathon Beschen

Investment Director, IT Investment Group

Margaret Berger Bradley

VP, Strategic Initiatives

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Patrick J. Foley

Former Member of Physical Sciences Investment Advisory Committee

Elaine Fulton

Operations Associate

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Richard E. Genzer

Director of Investments and Information Technology

Rick Genzer

Investment Director, IT Investment Group

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Mark de Grandpre

Portfolio Executive

Anthony P. Green

Chief Scientific Officer

Jennifer Hartt

MD, Healthcare Investment Group

Alan R. Kraus

Senior Director of Investment Group for Information Technology

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John A. Loftus

Director

Tristan Ly

Director, Portfolio Administration

Adare Mcmillan

CFO

Omar G. Mencin

MD, IT Investment Group

Scott Nissenbaum

President and CEO

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Douglas R. Petillo

Member of Information Technology Investment Advisory Committee

Matthew Rieke

Director and Member of Life Sciences Investment Advisory Committee

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Charles M. Robins

Director

RoseAnn Rosenthal

CEO Emeritus

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Stephen Spinelli

Director

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Sri Sriadibhatla

Investment Director, Healthcare Investment Group

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Christopher Starr

Member of Information Technology Investment Advisory Committee

Mark S. Trabbold

SVP, Strategic Initiatives Group

Stephen T. Zarrilli

Vice Chairman

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Kate Srinivasan

Client Engagement Manager

221 past transactions

ZSX Medical, LLC

Venture Round in 2015
ZSX Medical, LLC, is a pre-clinical stage medical device company improving minimally-invasive surgery. They are developing Zip-stitch, a surgical closure system that is designed to make difficult surgical closures fast and easy for physicians, saving money for hospitals and improving outcomes for patients. They love to tell people what they're doing, but they're not web developers and they don't sell anything on their website, so don't expect us to make this site too fancy.

CD Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2012
CD Diagnostics is developing assays for orthopaedic surgeons and rheumatologists who would like greater diagnostic confidence in joint fluid analysis. Unlike current technologies, which often yield vague and ambiguous results, CygnaSure™, our lead product, offers orthopaedic surgeons and rheumatologists a rapid, accurate and reliable diagnostic answer.

Instadiagnostics

Seed Round in 2016
Instadiagnostics Inc. develops a point-of-care (POC) diagnostic platform with the aim of bringing centralized laboratory testing to the patient’s bedside. The platform allows early diagnosis, and/or treatment monitoring of patients at the POC (primary care centers, community clinics, emergency departments etc.) without requiring additional trips to have blood drawn, lengthy wait times for results or having to wait for diagnosis/follow up testing. Instadiagnostics Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Powerlytics, Inc.

Venture Round in 2014
Powerlytics helps organizations address significant risk and compliance-related challenges. Powerlytics does this by providing unique economic and financial reports, and analytical insights, that mainly leverage U.S. government-supplied data. These products utilize intelligence about individuals, customers, suppliers and competitors to enable organizations to make more informed decisions. Powerlytics’ initial product allows companies to generate benchmarking and market sizing reports covering 27 million businesses and 140 million individuals broken down to very granular geographic, industry and size (sales, assets, employees) parameters. Powerlytics was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA.

EyeIC, Inc.

Venture Round in 2012
EyeIC, Inc. develops and commercializes imaging technologies for medical applications. The company serves eye care professionals and eye clinics. It offers MatchedFlicker, a device for monitoring the advent and progression of glaucoma through change detection in time series retinal photographs. The company's software works by aligning and registering two images of the same object taken at different points in time, and then generating a superimposed view that is alternated back and forth. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

CyberCrunch

Seed Round in 2016
CyberCrunch provides nationwide computer recycling and hard drive shredding services. CyberCrunch, provides secure data destruction and electronics recycling services. The company provides recycling solutions for computers, computer accessories and components, monitors, networking, consumer electronics, light bulbs, point of sale equipment, servers, server components, printers/copiers/scanners, freon appliances, commercial non-electronics recycling, and batteries. The company also destruction services that include on/off site shredding, magnetic degaussing, low level wiping, mailback, secure transportation, imaging, secure storage, and videotaping.

Wearwell LLC

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Wearwell LLC offers online apparel retail on subscription. It provides women cloth. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Astarte Medical Partners

Series A in 2021
Astarte Medical Partners, Inc. develops a software that provides a universal view of clinical data in real time to assess the state of the preterm infant’s gut health to make more informed decisions. The product enables NICU clinical care teams to standardize and streamline the practice of feeding. Astarte Medical Partners, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

RecoveryLink

Pre Seed Round in 2021
RecoveryLink™ offers a full-scale SaaS digital recovery support platform including an electronic recovery record, asynchronous digital training, one-on-one telerecovery peer services, and live video group-based recovery supports.

Halo Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Halo Labs (formerly Optofluidics) is a venture backed scientific instrumentation company that commercializes high throughput biopharmaceutical quality control tools using the latest optics, image processing and microfluidics. Our investors and development partners include BioAdvance, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Ben Franklin Technology Partners. In 2012 Optofluidics was named Philadelphia Life Sciences startup of the year.

Telefactor Robotics

Seed Round in 2014
Telefactor Robotics makes advanced vision & dexterity solutions for robots, telepresence, and human-machine interfaces. ​ The company's goal is to empower robotic systems to better perform tasks that would otherwise be performed by a human and to provide advanced technologies for projecting the operational capabilities of a skilled human into remote and potentially hazardous or extreme environments. Product areas include high performance camera systems, dexterous gripper solutions, and intuitive control interfaces. Telefactor Robotics is focused on bringing these technologies to bomb disposal robots and other robotic platforms.

CrowdJoy

Venture Round in 2015
CrowdJoy is a mobile application that enables its users to privately share their locations with friends. The application also develops a mobile application that helps fans to find and enjoy parties on game days and other events. It was founded in 2012 and is based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States.

LiftDNA

Debt Financing in 2011
LiftDNA is the only yield optimization platform that is a first party to the publisher's ad server, and is the industry's most advanced yield optimization platform for publishers. We believe that maximizing demand competition for every impression is the key to maximizing revenue yield for publishers. We also believe that the publisher's ad server is where the data and value should remain. With direct ad server integration, LiftDNA derives unparalleled insight for data-driven optimization, audience segmentation and performance-driven campaign management.

AgileSwitch

Grant in 2011
AgileSwitch plug and play drivers were designed from the ground up to address these challenges and the drivers are among the most efficient and reliable in the market. Furthermore, AgileSwitch drivers can be fully customized to meet the needs and demands of virtually any customer application. With an ongoing product development commitment, AgileSwitch is continuously expanding the product line of gate drivers.

KickUp

Seed Round in 2016
Kickup, Inc. develops and operates a collaboration platform that helps school districts to design, coordinate, and assess their professional learning activities. Its platform also give educational leaders an actionable picture of their program's effectiveness. The company serves superintendents, directors of PD, and district leaders. Kickup, Inc. was formerly known as Pedagology, LLC and changed its name to Kickup, Inc. in February 2015. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Switchboard Live

Convertible Note in 2020
Switchboard is a live video, social media management platform that helps Creators, Producers, and Brands to manage their live streams, create workflows, that extend reach to online audiences and social connections. Switchboard develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of live streaming activations to social video platforms and broadcast destinations. We are always looking for innovative ways to simplify the "how you do live" process by combining best in practice tools and technology. Switchboard Live Inc. was founded in February 2016, ​headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

MyDealerOnline

Convertible Note in 2017
MyDealerOnline, LLC offers a digital product that allows car dealers to broker wholesale auto auction inventory straight from their Websites. The company offers MyDealerOnline, a data syndication platform that aggregates auction listings to help dealers buy the right car, at the right price, at the right time from auction, as well as instantly places auction inventory on licensed automobile dealers’ Websites for consumer shopping. It serves dealers, auctions, consignors, and consumers. The company is headquartered in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.

Cecilian Partners

Convertible Note in 2021
Transforming customer experience for home builders and community developers through data, technology, and human capital. Cecilian Partners offers unique consultative services coupled with a remarkable proptech SaaS solution called the XO.

Switchboard Live

Seed Round in 2017
Switchboard is a live video, social media management platform that helps Creators, Producers, and Brands to manage their live streams, create workflows, that extend reach to online audiences and social connections. Switchboard develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of live streaming activations to social video platforms and broadcast destinations. We are always looking for innovative ways to simplify the "how you do live" process by combining best in practice tools and technology. Switchboard Live Inc. was founded in February 2016, ​headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Stabiliz Orthopaedics

Seed Round in 2014
Stabiliz Orthopaedics’ mission is to develop novel enhancements to orthopedic medical devices utilizing FDA approved technologies to foster greater clinical outcomes while reducing costs for burden healthcare systems.

Real Food Works

Seed Round in 2013
Real Food Works is dedicated to helping people live healthier by eating more plant-based whole foods. It offers a new kind of subscription program, featuring wholesome, delicious, nutritionally optimized meals prepared by local independent restaurants and delivered fresh to our customers each week. The program philosophy is best described by author Michael Pollan: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Food is prepared by a network of local independent restaurants. Each partner creates dishes that reflect their own culinary vision yet still meet strict nutritional requirements. Meals arrive fresh, ready to eat, in individual portions of breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Dishes are offered in a rotating weekly menu of 25 different options each week, with a wide variety of cuisines represented.

Essential Medical

Seed Round in 2010
Essential Medical is a family owned & operated business that was started in 1985. We are a broad based supplier of home medical and health related products designed with the needs of the user in mind. Within this online website you will find many different product options to meet a variety of life styles and physical conditions. If you are a home medical equipment dealer and would like to be set up to order Essential products, please click on the Prospective Dealers tab. If you would like to purchase products for yourself, family member or friend, our fine products are available through your local medical equipment dealer or pharmacy. Please consult the yellow pages of your local telephone book under Hospital and Medical Equipment.

Polynetworks LLC

Grant in 2020
Polynetworks is a privately held company headquartered in Narberth, Pennsylvania which provides a variety of services in the field of Telecommunications and Networking. They provide research, consulting, integration, and product design and development services to a myriad of government, government contractors, and commercial entities in the field of wireless communications. They have more than 5 years of experience in broadband wireless networks – both static and mobile. They have extensive hardware and software knowledge and expertise to create practical real-world systems – having a holistic approach for deployable products. They have performed training, installation, and troubleshooting of tactical and mission-critical wireless solutions in the field.

PurpleCloud Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
PurpleCloud Technologies owns and operates team and service optimization software platform for hotel operators. Its flagship product is Cielo which is a platform consisting of four operational modules that work seamlessly together in real-time. The modules are built for the Housekeeping, Engineering, Front Office, Service Person and Management departments within a hotel. Hotel staff members can access the program on a variety of mobile devices and desktops. Cielo is used to complete hotel staff’s tasks, communicate supplies that they need, and report items that are missing or broken. It serves its clients in the hospitality industry. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

AmorSui

Seed Round in 2022
AmorSui provides durable surgical gowns made 100% of eco-friendly fabrics and processes, and developed a first-in-class mobile application for wash tracking and management of our products to supply essential PPE to hospitals and companies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Our solution provides sustainable PPE alternatives for the healthcare industry to implement reusable PPE, and save 50% of average costs and reduce regulated medical waste by an average of 65%.

OneTwoSee

Venture Round in 2011
OneTwoSee is a Philadelphia-based company that sits at the intersection of digital media, sports and technology. We're on our third-generation of a highly scalable technology platform that delivers real-time sports gamecenters by combining statistics, game data, advanced analytics and social media into a rich, engaging fan experience. Our gamecenters are white labeled and easily integrate into customers' own branded sites and platforms -- be it on browser-based PCs, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs and in-arena displays. Our licensed products -- applications spanning major collegiate and professional sports including baseball, football, basketball, hockey and soccer -- enable anyone with an audience interested in big-time sports to further monetize their audiences with new, high-value ad and sponsorship inventory. Customers easily plug into our managed platform and see immediate ROI. OneTwoSee's customers now include some of the largest names in sports media along with leading companies in the publishing, consumer electronics and enterprise technology sectors.

Houwzer, LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Houwzer, LLC provides real estate brokerage services for buying and selling a home. It also provides industry insights for home buyers and sellers. In addition, it offers communication tools, featured listings, total transaction management, social and email marketing, and direct mail campaign services. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with additional offices in Washington, District of Columbia; Baltimore, Maryland; and Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Larger Than Life Prints

Seed Round in 2009
Larger Than Life Prints provides a platform for users to create, buy, and sell large-format repositionable wall graphics. It offers premium wall graphics and multiple custom cutouts; and prints user-generated and curated content on demand. The company also provides branded wall graphic catalogs for partners in the entertainment, sports, fashion, design, retail, and art industries. It offers its services in various areas, such as animals/pets, art, business, college, and entertainment; famous places, including food and drink; gift certificates; maps; money, murals, music, and nature; NCAA; people, which include pro-sports, shapes, and sports; and start soma art gallery that consist of subjects, symbols, and vehicles. The company serves artists, designers, and brands. Larger Than Life Prints was founded in 2008 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

New Age Blast Media

Seed Round in 2011
New Age Blast Media® is sandblasting media manufactured from 100% Recycled Bottle Glass, which means it is non-toxic and completely inert, that can be used near and around water. In addition to worker safety benefits, New Age Blast Media® works great for sandblasting thick or soft coatings, aluminum, brass, bright metal, and “spot and sweep” applications. Because of its light weight, it is good for remote operations and because glass is less dense than other sandblasting medias, it will often be possible to use fewer pounds of material, saving money. Bottle or try-mix glass is chemically known as “Amorphous Silica” it contains virtually no free silica which is commonly found in blasting sand and other abrasive sandblasting medias.

Textizen

Seed Round in 2015
Textizen is a mobile platform dedicated to connecting difficult-to-reach audiences with the public institutions that serve them in scalable, efficient ways. Their customers in 35+ cities nationwide span public participation, human services, and youth outreach. Textizen is a spinoff of Code for America and winner of the Knight News Challenge: Mobile.

DrayNow

Series A in 2020
DrayNow is the first real-time marketplace for matching intermodal freight and carriers. The company's intermodal marketplace uses technology to connect intermediaries to more carriers on short notice, maintain visibility of the shipment's location and status at all times, and helps truckers to compare rates, view load details, and select available loads in their area in real-time, enabling companies in the intermodal industry to operate with increased efficiency in order to maintain optimal levels of capacity, service, visibility, and profitability.

AboutOne

Venture Round in 2014
AboutOne.com is a secure and easy-to-use online family management journal that helps busy families manage what matters most: family memories and household information. AboutOne.com was designed to help manage this information in a fun and fast way.

DECNUT

Seed Round in 2015
DECNUT LLC craft and create point care solutions to improve clinical decision making in a variety of health care settings.

Ceptaris Therapeutics

Series B in 2006
Ceptaris Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that is developing a proprietary gel formulation of mechlorethamine hydrochloride for the treatment of early stage (stages I-IIA) mycosis fungoides, a type of Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (CTCL). If approved, Ceptaris' investigational drug would be the first topical mechlorethamine product available to treat the signs and symptoms of this rare cancer.

Exyn Technologies

Debt Financing in 2020
Exyn Technologies is a spin-off of the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and is commercializing over a decade of research and development in the area of autonomous flight and aerial robotics. Exyn is creating drone platforms that do not rely on human control or GPS information. Exyn's unique technology is built upon the fusion of multiple redundant sensors, mapping for obstacle avoidance, and autonomous flight planning. Exyn’s robots are highly differentiated and robust, making them ideal and practical for complex commercial environments.

Defend Your Head

Seed Round in 2015
Defend Your Head of Chester Springs, PA has developed a patented soft shell protective helmet, the “ProCap”, to significantly increase the protective abilities of existing sports helmets and reduce head injury on the field. While helmet advances over the last 20 years focused on internal padding to prevent skull fracture, DYH’s unique technology and design works in tandem with existing helmets to provide superior protection, while outperforming its competition in both ease of use and application. In independent lab tests it was shown to absorb and dissipate energy, reduce the speed of impact, and deflect glancing blows to significantly reduce sports injuries. Unlike competitors’ products, DYH’s ProCap is available in custom colors, is decal-friendly and is both heat and cold resistant. The core technology was spawned at a firm funded by private investors, physicians, and Ben Franklin. That company merged into Defend Your Head in 2013 where the product was advanced and an additional patent was acquired. Market launch is scheduled for late summer. DYH is led by John Roman who spent 9 years in the NFL, was President of Merrill Lynch Trust Company, and founded Valley Forge Capital Advisors. He is joined by Frank Lytle who has a 40 year career in product design and manufacturing and grew several product lines from inception into millions in sales; and Greg Lewis, CFO, who has a sales, marketing and finance experience across several industries including financial services.

H2O Degree

Seed Round in 2015
Utility costs continually rise and residents use more when the amount they pay does not vary with consumption.

Asset Vue LLC.

Seed Round in 2011
Asset Vue, LLC, a Malvern, PA-based provider of RFID based asset management and data center management solutions. Optimizing the selection of a vendor to assist in the critical task of improving the accuracy and reducing the inefficiency associated with tracking data center assets requires close examination of both the company and the solution. Upon close inspection, Asset VUE offers a combination that is superior to alternative offerings from both of these important perspectives. As an organization, the company’s executive leadership and product development staff bring vast, direct experience from the world of data center operation. Some of the largest, most complex and most high-profile data center operations in the world have been influenced or touched by Asset VUE personnel. The solution delivered to Asset VUE clients is a refined culmination of living and working through the daily challenges faced by data center management/leadership across the industry. The technology is built with a domain precision towards directly solving the kinds of regular challenges faced by “data center people” regarding their daily roles and their strategic responsibilities that is not found in other tools. The solution is a powerful technology blend of both software and hardware. The core system is comprised of several sophisticated but easy-to-use elements that are designed to automatically monitor data center environments and track the wide variety of devices contained within them. The primary components of this innovative tool include: A comprehensive database and visual laptop display that records multiple asset attributes and builds real-time elevation diagrams that identify rack devices in their precise locations. Details about specific asset characteristics including name, age, current location, power consumption, required rack space and serial number along with multiple user-defined fields are simply recorded and instantly presented. A versatile reporting module that contains pre-programmed strategic reports associated with critical organizational decision-making around the areas of capacity, expansion, performance, inventory levels and asset lifecycles and that is augmented by a powerful customization reporting capability. A mobile auditing system that features a battery-powered cart, a pre-installed Windows laptop and antenna components for fast and accurate RFID (radio frequency identification) scanning and provides for asset tracking so simple it merely requires wheeling the cart down a data center aisle or running a wand over a data center rack. A complementary assortment of RFID tags that facilitate the identification and location of assets with a file locator that directs the update process to a specific database record for each device. The net effect of leveraging both the vast experience levels of the Asset VUE team as your partner, coupled with implementing the simple yet sophisticated technology, creates a high-impact benefit for your department and your organization. You can expect substantial and measurable savings in the areas of time and effort along with solid strategic improvements as a core business function due to increased accuracy and efficiency of your data center operations.

Tadpoles

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Tadpoles provides a free application for daycare and childcare providers to capture information about their children and share that information securely and privately with parents. Teachers can capture photos, videos, milestones, incidents or notes about children using their iPhone or iPad. Parents receive that information in real-time via the web or their mobile device.

PolyCore Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
PolyCore Therapeutics’ experienced team of scientists and life sciences professionals is dedicated to developing breakthrough treatments for CNS Diseases.

NetMinder

Seed Round in 2014
NetMinder delivers industry leading network comparison tools that make your sales force more effective and your recruiters more efficient. Easily shared reports that run in seconds, same day addition of new competitors, and super-flexible analyses help you capture real opportunities. Because when you know more, you’ll recruit more providers, close more deals, and retain more clients.

Grand Round Table Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Grand Round Table Inc. develops clinical decision support tools for hospitals and clinics. It offers Grand Round Table, a system that is designed to help doctors to diagnose patients by matching cases against a large database of records. Its technology automatically extracts relevant information from the patient’s chart and pattern matches it against a database of deidentified health records, case reports, and evidence-based medical literature from the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions; and enables doctors to review those similar to theirs, and reference what other physicians did when they were in the same position. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Life.io

Seed Round in 2014
Life.io is the world’s first web-based platform specifically designed to help people make better decisions every moment, to take care of themselves more, to engage more, to simply live more. Delivered through insurance companies or employers, it’s always on, sharing inspired ideas on how to live better today and every day after.

Astarte Medical Partners

Seed Round in 2018
Astarte Medical Partners, Inc. develops a software that provides a universal view of clinical data in real time to assess the state of the preterm infant’s gut health to make more informed decisions. The product enables NICU clinical care teams to standardize and streamline the practice of feeding. Astarte Medical Partners, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

BINTO

Seed Round in 2016
BINTO LLC designs and manufactures fertility supplements, women's health supplements, and organic period products. It offers supplement pouch, slide out box for personalized day packs, and organic and chemical free tampons. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ultraflex Systems

Seed Round in 2016
For more than 25 years Ultraflex Systems has been dedicated to designing and engineering Range of Motion (ROM) braces that restore movement and active living. In partnering with physicians, physical therapists and specialists, Ultraflex delivers leading orthopedic and neurological solutions through its proven expertise, innovative quality products, and patient service. Ultraflex Systems' unique and highly trained direct care team, consisting of a sales professional and certified orthotist or fitter, follow the physician’s referral from initiation to brace delivery and patient follow up. All of our braces are custom molded in our fabrication facilities to provide an unparalleled patient inspired solution.

Opertech Bio

Venture Round in 2014
Opertech Bio has developed a revolutionary approach to taste testing, a multi-billion market covering the food and beverage, flavor ingredients, pet food, and pharmaceutical industries.

Fischer Block, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Fischer Block, Inc. provides a technology to the electrical power industry with a solution to embed advanced high-speed sensors throughout the electrical grid internationally. It offers ASAP Grid Sensor Analytics System, a solution to simplify the installation, operation, and maintenance of large and distributed sensor network; fault anticipation and detection, substation monitoring, synchro phasor streaming, power quality, troubleshooting, distributed energy resources monitoring, and cyber threat reduction solutions; intelligent recording devices; and ASAP Pro Software Analytics System, which analyzes three-phase RMS and high-speed data. The company serves wind integration, inverting solar, transportation, manufacturing, oil and gas, chemical processing, mining, and hydro power industries. Fischer Block, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Royersford, Pennsylvania with sales and support offices in the United States and internationally.

QR Pharma

Seed Round in 2012
Annovis Bio is specialty pharmaceutical company founded to develop novel treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. The company has two compounds in clinical development: Posiphen® targets early stage AD and PD and may stop or slow the progression of the disease; BNC targets late stage AD and may stabilize the decline.

Zuppler

Seed Round in 2014
Zuppler provides online food ordering service to restaurants. Zuppler's online ordering technology integrates directly with restaurant's website and is also available via the the Zuppler Network. User's can order food for pickup or delivery from the restaurant's own website or via various dining guides and portals (including Zuppler.com). Restaurant's can integrate online ordering directly on their website using Zuppler API's. Users will remain on the restaurant website while ordering online and will NOT be redirected to an external website. This increases the traffic and the page rank for the restaurant website and converts the website into a revenue generating avenue. Zuppler network includes various online dining guides and portals. Websites on the Zuppler Network provide their users the ability to order online directly from their site using Zuppler's online ordering technology. The restaurant menu's are customized to match the look and feel of the network website. Website and Wordpress developers can leverage Zuppler's online ordering plugin to provide their restaurant clients advanced features including online ordering, discounts, coupons, catering, group ordering etc. Zuppler also integrates online ordering directly on restaurant's Facebook pages and enables their fans to order online directly from Facebook. Zuppler's online ordering technology is available and is optimized for all smart phone devices, iPads and other tablets. By using Zuppler's online ordering technology, mobile ordering is automatically enabled for restaurant websites, network portals and for website developers. The 24/7 customer service and the "no order left behind" policy ensures that every order placed via the restaurant website and any of the Zuppler's network are processed and completed in a timely manner. Users can use the "Live Order Tracking" feature to monitor the progress and status of their order while they are processed. Zuppler partners with independent restaurants, small and large restaurant chains and food trucks. Zuppler's order throttling feature enables restaurants to scale up and down dynamically and helps manage the order volume and enables restaurants to scale at a pace they are comfortable with.

AlphaPoint

Seed Round in 2014
AlphaPoint is a white-label software company helping make illiquid assets liquid. Through its secure, scalable, and customizable distributed ledger platform, AlphaPoint enables customers to launch and operate new products, markets, and services by providing institutions enterprise-grade Blockchain solutions to digitize assets. The company's mission is to bring asset digitization solutions using Blockchain technologies, integration into the new wave of digital currencies, commodities, and equities. AlphaPoint was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Life.io

Seed Round in 2015
Life.io is the world’s first web-based platform specifically designed to help people make better decisions every moment, to take care of themselves more, to engage more, to simply live more. Delivered through insurance companies or employers, it’s always on, sharing inspired ideas on how to live better today and every day after.

Deepwave Digital

Seed Round in 2020
Deepwave Digital, Inc. manufactures artificial intelligence (AI)-based hardware/software sensor solutions for radio frequency (RF) and wireless system companies. . The company’s products include Artificial Intelligence Radio Transceiver (AIR-T) which is a software defined radio. It offers software, such as AirPack, AirStack Sandbox, and Spectrum Sensing that enables RF and wireless systems to receive, detect, and identify signals in the spectral environment. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MBF Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2018
MBF Therapeutics is a clinical-stage animal health company focusing on the development of gene-based, immunotherapeutic vaccines for use in veterinary medicine. Using proprietary vaccine platform and delivery system technology, MBF Therapeutics’ checkpoint inhibitor therapies have the potential of transforming the treatment of cancer and prevention of infectious diseases in companion animals and livestock.

Infarct Reduction Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
Infarct Reduction Technologies develops a therapeutic device for ischemic pre-conditioning protocol. The company offers LifeCuff, a non-invasive manually-inflated blood pressure cuff for remote ischemic conditioning in heart attack, stroke, sepsis, liver surgery, traumatic brain injury, and other critical condition patients. The company is headquartered in Waldwick, New Jersey.

Fitly, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Everyday over 100 million Americans use some form of calorie-counting applications to live a healthier life, but current solutions require tedious, manual data entry which is time consuming, frustrating, and worst of all inaccurate. SmartPlate is the world’s first connected plate that instantly analyzes everything people eat with up to 99% accuracy. Their patent-pending technology deploys advanced object recognition and load sensors to identify & weigh food within seconds. SmartPlate is poised to replace manual calorie-counting apps, improving the efficiency of meal-tracking by 80%. They believe that SmartPlate is a crucial accountability tool to help people manage their diets, whether their aim is to lose weight, improve their athletic performance, or manage a chronic illness. SmartPlate is backed by Penn Medicine, Independence Blue Cross, University City Science Center, Digital Health Accelerator and DreamIt Health.

Ghost Robotics Corporation

Seed Round in 2018
Robots That Feel the World ​ Ghost Robotics™ is revolutionizing legged robotics and the market for highly-agile and fast tele-operated and autonomous unmanned ground drones for military, homeland, intel, and enterprise markets. Our quadrupedal UGVs (Q-UGVs) are unstoppable.

FlockU

Seed Round in 2016
FlockU.com is a new type of digital hub created for students and written by students, with some savvy adults chiming in along the way. Founded in April 2015, FlockU was built to engage, entertain and enlighten students (and semi-grown adults) by showcasing what's happening on college campuses, online, and around the world.

WealthHub Solutions

Seed Round in 2016
"Where there is unity there is always victory.” So said sage 1st century writer Publilius Syrus. And we concur. WealthHub, the industry award-winning suite of applications, is all about integration that leads to leverage and scale. We bring together the industry’s most advanced applications into one simple, cloud-based environment that fuels productivity and enhances client centricity for today’s trust companies, banking and financial advisors, attorneys and family offices.

LeagueSide, Inc.

Debt Financing in 2020
LeagueSide is an online platform that connects brands with their target communities through local or youth sports. It connects thousands of youth sports leagues with regional and national sponsors (McDonald's, Smoothie King, Columbia Sportswear, etc.).

Aevumed

Debt Financing in 2020
Aevumed is a privately-owned company that has been financed by individual investors and angels groups. Aevumed believes that it is well-positioned to continue improving quality of life through its innovation, dedication to quality, and continuous territory expansions.

Allevi

Seed Round in 2014
Allevi develops tools to design and engineer 3D tissues. It offers desktop 3D bio printers that build functional three dimensional living tissues; bioinks used to collagen and hyaluronic acid; and Bioprint Online that runs in the cloud to design structures, define materials, and monitor prints. The company’s products are used by researchers around the world to perform work in the fields of tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, material science, and cell biology; industrial and pharma companies to test and develop drugs; and educators. Its sells its bioinks online. Allevi was formerly known as BioBots, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sun and Earth, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Sun and earth original formula green cleaning product to provide customers with non-toxic alternative formulations. Sun and Earth Cleaner Living products are formulated for people who are sensitive to the harsh chemicals found in many conventional cleaning products.

Holganix, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Holganix, Inc. produces and supplies plant-based bio-stimulant soil supplements to landscape and lawn care companies. It offers tree and shrub products, golf products, agriculture products, flower programs, and granular products. The company also offers Holganix Bio 800+ that provides an ecosystem, containing species of beneficial microorganisms, microbe food, and nutrient enhancers. It sells its products through distributors in the United States, as well as online. Holganix, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

Strados Labs

Debt Financing in 2020
Strados Labs is a medical technology company that innovates respiratory monitoring using smart biosensors and artificial intelligence. The company specializes in advancing respiratory health management using clinical-grade biosensors and intelligent software. It connects people with real-time respiratory monitoring using a wearable device and connected mobile platform so they can quantify their health and make more informed decisions. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ROAR for Good

Seed Round in 2016
ROAR for Good is a woman-led and mission-driven technology company dedicated to cultivating safer workplaces. Their employee safety platform, called AlwaysOn, is specifically designed for the hotel industry and exceeds compliance standards to protect employees and promote well being. Built upon banking-level mission-critical networks, it is the most reliable and cost-effective staff security product on the market. It is built to work without wifi, cell, or even power – guaranteeing the solution is _always_ at work.

Ajungo

Seed Round in 2014
Ajungo Holdings LLC operates a customer acquisition platform that helps businesses turn web traffic into foot traffic. The company enables brick and mortar establishments and e-commerce businesses to acquire and engage customers by using social media, building email lists, monitoring performance, and offering rewards to loyal customers. Ajungo Holdings LLC was founded in 2011 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ProNoto

Seed Round in 2016
ProNoto is an information technology company that provides peer curated content for physicians, researchers, and clinicians. Its platform for busy healthcare professionals who want to stay up to date with relevant and impactful clinical information that can improve their patient care. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Pennsylvania, United States.

Blogger Republik

Seed Round in 2018
Blogger Republik LLC engages in creating and maintaining e-commerce sites for customer’s self-branded and unbranded products. It offers services in the areas of e-commerce engine, payment and support, product sourcing, fulfillment and shipping, and reporting. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

EnviroKure

Seed Round in 2014
EnviroKure Incorporated manufactures and distributes pathogen-free liquid organic fertilizers for agriculture, hydroponic, professional turf, and home and garden applications. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Yorn

Seed Round in 2015
Yorn LLC operates a real-time feedback/engagement platform for healthcare. Its platform enables patients/consumers and participants to provide real-time feedback on various experiences using a smartphone, tablet, or laptop; and enables providers and payers to identify root causes of problems and make appropriate operational changes that improve experience, satisfaction, and compliance with care plans. The company focuses on capturing the authentic voice of the consumer. It also serves customers in hospitality, business, enterprise, meetings and events, and automotive sectors. Yorn LLC was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Acuity Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2004
Acuity Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company that is focused on the treatment and prevention of ophthalmic diseases. It develops treatments for age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. The company offers Cand5, a clinical compound that is able to shut down vascular endothelial growth factor. Acuity Pharmaceuticals was acquired by OPKO Health in June 2011. Acuity Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2007 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ZSX Medical, LLC

Series A in 2013
ZSX Medical, LLC, is a pre-clinical stage medical device company improving minimally-invasive surgery. They are developing Zip-stitch, a surgical closure system that is designed to make difficult surgical closures fast and easy for physicians, saving money for hospitals and improving outcomes for patients. They love to tell people what they're doing, but they're not web developers and they don't sell anything on their website, so don't expect us to make this site too fancy.

Relmada Therapeutics

Series A in 2012
Relmada is a clinical-stage pain management company with a diversified portfolio of products for the treatment of chronic pain. It specializes in analgesic Drug Development, Chronic Pain, Pharmaceutical Development, and Opioid Addiction. The company was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Pennsylvania, United States.

Cloudnexa

Series A in 2013
Cloudnexa, a Premier Consulting Partner of Amazon Web Services, is the next era cloud management solutions leader for small and large enterprises or government moving business applications to AWS Cloud and GovCloud. It is an experienced Cloud Service Provider (CSP) dedicated to managed services on Amazon Web Services. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Clutch Holdings, LLC

Venture Round in 2013
Clutch serves as a customer marketing platform for business-to-consumer brands. It provides traditional marketing CRM, loyalty, gift card, mobile, email, and direct mail solutions. The company was created to help businesses succeed in an evolving marketing landscape. Since 2012, they have continued to grow their platform into an innovative, data-centric marketing solution with one focus that empowering brands with the best technology so that they can identify, understand and motivate their customers.

Squareknot

Seed Round in 2015
SQUAREKNOT LLC operates a Website that allows users to build step-by-step Minecraft branches and projects. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Corridor Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2010
Corridor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes therapeutic small molecule inhibitors of arginase. Its arginase is an enzyme that competes with endothelial nitric oxide synthase for the use of the common substrate l-arginine. The company's arginase also leads to the production of ornithine which increases polyamine, stimulating cell division, and contributing to hyperplasia and fibrosis. Corridor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was formerly known as Arginetix, Inc. and changed its name to Corridor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on June 17, 2010. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Lutherville, Maryland.

TowerView Health

Seed Round in 2015
TowerView helps the 1 in 3 Americans with a chronic illness manage multiple medications. TowerView’s patients receive pre-filled medication trays that fit into a connected pillbox like a K-Cup into a Keurig coffee machine. Their pillbox can sense when patients forget a dose and automatically sends a text or phone reminder. Unlike other smart pillboxes, they send patients pre-filled medication trays sourced from a pharmacy so patients never have to fill their own pillbox and they work directly with nurses​ to target outreach for non-adherent patients. TowerView is rolling out with Independence Blue Cross in January 2015 and are in advanced discussions with numerous other health plans.

Practice

Series A in 2016
Practice is an applied microlearning solution used to build and sustain continuous learning cultures that increase competence and confidence and drive innovation. Practice does this by creating a scalable means for teams to frequently practice skills and receive meaningful, timely feedback through the power of peer-to-peer video assessment and coaching. Practice's patented mobile-first video technology and learning methodology is used by organizations such as Comcast, Domino’s, Cox Automotive, NBCUniversal, PepsiCo, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard Medical School for reinforcement and retention of new hire training, fostering feedback, increasing collaboration, accelerating productivity, and achieving higher return on investment of learning and talent development initiatives.

Aereon Solutions

Venture Round in 2004
Aereon Solutions is a provider of wireless and head office based process automation solutions for HVAC, plumbing electrical contracting, and construction companies.

SilverLine Global

Seed Round in 2014
SilverLine is the first digital video publishing platform for the endurance sports industry. Silverline technology enables endurance sports events to leverage digital video directly on their own websites and social media. Through video hosting, publishing, asset management, and analytics, SilverLine increases revenue for event managers by providing targeted digital activation opportunities for sponsors. It was formed in 2012 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Real Time Tomography, LLC

Seed Round in 2011
Real Time Tomography, LLC develops imaging software solutions for medical imaging systems. The company offers Adara, an image processing and enhancement software for digital mammography that provides optimal tissue contrast and lesion conspicuity; and Briona, a 3D image reconstruction software for digital breast tomosynthesis that reconstructs 3D tomographic images from 2D projection images. It also provides technical support and consultation on detector and system design for optimal image quality and processing speed. The company provides its products to the manufacturers of mammography and PACS workstations. Real Time Tomography, LLC was founded in 2006 and is based in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Employee Cycle

Debt Financing in 2020
Employee Cycle is an automated, centralized, and real-time standalone HR Metrics Dashboard. We transform your HR data silos and turn them into HR data stories.

Essential Medical

Seed Round in 2014
Essential Medical is a family owned & operated business that was started in 1985. We are a broad based supplier of home medical and health related products designed with the needs of the user in mind. Within this online website you will find many different product options to meet a variety of life styles and physical conditions. If you are a home medical equipment dealer and would like to be set up to order Essential products, please click on the Prospective Dealers tab. If you would like to purchase products for yourself, family member or friend, our fine products are available through your local medical equipment dealer or pharmacy. Please consult the yellow pages of your local telephone book under Hospital and Medical Equipment.

Gtronix

Series B in 2005
GTronix applies proprietary programmable analog technology and novel design techniques to realize sophisticated DSP algorithms in analog integrated circuits yielding smaller, lower-power solutions than traditional DSP implementations. The company’s initial product line breaks new ground in analog performance and programmability with the lowest power beamsteering solution on the market.

Superior Solar Design

Seed Round in 2014
Superior Solar Design LLC is located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, a suburb just west of Philadelphia. Their roots began as a "PA Sunshine Grant" approved solar electric and solar heating system sales and installation company for commercial and residential customers. Superior Solar Design LLC is immersed in all things solar powered and recognized the opportunity to build a superior solar charging table and solar powered mobile device charging stations. Their off grid solar power centers and solar charging tables make an excellent addition anywhere or anyplace under the sun. Just like all of their solar projects the SolarPower Table solar charging table is designed and built to be the best in class and perform beyond expectations.

InstaMed

Venture Round in 2014
InstaMed powers a better healthcare payment experience on one platform that connects consumers, providers, and payers for every healthcare payment transaction. InstaMed’s patented, private cloud-based technology securely transforms healthcare payments by driving electronic transactions, moving money, and healthcare data seamlessly, and improving consumer satisfaction. It was formed in 2004 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Novasentis, Inc.

Series A in 2008
Novasentis (formerly Strategic Polymer Sciences, Inc.), created the world’s first electro-mechanical polymer (EMP), the thinnest and most flexible haptic actuator and sensor technology today, used to develop mobile and wearable products that come alive with movement and sound. By bridging consumer electronics and sensory interaction, Novasentis enables 4D spatial tactile experiences and next-generation mobile product designs. Novasentis is privately funded. The company is based in San Francisco Bay Area and has offices in Pennsylvania, Korea, and Tokyo. More information on Novasentis is online at www.novasentis.com

Vy Corporation

Seed Round in 2014
Vy Corporation, a software development company, provides shape detection and object analysis software and services for the medical imaging market. It offers CytoSavvy.com, an image analysis and data collection service that is delivered over the Web as a cloud-based service, as well as allows users to upload and analyze a single image. The company also provides VectorSavvy.com, a Website that provides users with access to image analysis technology, as well as allows them to load images and view results; and develops custom projects. Vy Corporation is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Miria Systems, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Miria Systems, Inc., is a provider of Digital Business Automation Solutions in the cloud. Miria offers advanced technology solutions built on the IBM DBA Platform, for capture & OCR, AP Automation, Payment Automation & Optimization, and automation of other financial processes. Miria offers additional applications to completely configure the full ActiveOps solution to each unique business. As a subsidiary of OSG Billing, and an IBM Gold Business Partner, Miria enables the digital transformation of business processes through the highest standards of advanced digital business automation technologies.

Kynectiv

Series A in 2015
DecisionSim is a simulation-based learning platform that enhances decision-making by allowing organizations to easily create assessment, education, and training programs that deliver insights and improve outcomes through “real-world” engagement.

Burst Online Entertainment

Seed Round in 2012
Burst Online Entertainment is a free-to-play online game service developer and publisher applying a unique service-based approach to proven core game genres through multiplayer products that leverage a common theme. Burst is currently developing game content for its service and proprietary technology to facilitate the rapid development, distribution, operation, and monetization of free-to-play online games.

Repisodic, Inc

Debt Financing in 2020
Repisodic is a health IT platform that makes it easy for patients and healthcare providers to find optimal post-acute care. Repisodic works with hospitals, patients, and post-acute care providers to revolutionize care decision-making. Our unique, patient-facing solution is used by case managers in the hospital room to present a customized list of discharge options to each patient and then guide the patient through the provider selection process.

Kognition LLC

Debt Financing in 2020
Kognition LLC designs and develops enterprise software solution for real estate property managers and security operators. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to allow buildings to see, think, act, and learn on their own responding to security, property activities, surveillance, logistics, environmental, and maintenance issues. The product includes SuperGuard solution which combines live security camera footage with sensor data to detect security threats. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Choosito

Seed Round in 2017
Choosito! search and learn optimizes learning with personalized search. We analyze human language to identify quality resources that match the student's comprehension ability for any subject. Choosito! is transforming the web into a revolutionary learning tool.see less

Yellowdig

Venture Round in 2020
Yellowdig's software platform creates a social layer on top of existing enterprise learning systems used by colleges, universities, and organizations. Unlike pre-existing social technology, Yellowdig is designed for higher education institutions. The platform provides instructors and learners with a private and secure experience, controlled and protected within the institution's designated environment. Yellowdig was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Keriton LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Keriton LLC provides pumped breast milk management system for neonatal ICUs. Its system enables to track milk-bottle inventory, recipes, feeding-order, etc. from mobile-devices; handle first-in-first-out (FIFO) bottle flow, expiry dates notifications, misfeed alerts, and more; provide media-sharing platform for nurses to share photos and videos of NICU babies with their mothers; and offer real time insights into milk-production patterns of lactating mothers. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Whose Your Landlord

Grant in 2020
Whose Your Landlord is a multipurpose platform that empowers and informs the rental community. We use the information provided by our renters to extend feedback to landlords, improve the tenants' experience, and reduce turnover. On WYL renters post landlord reviews, receive community-centered insights, and are given access to quality listings.

Tridiuum, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Tridiuum, Inc. develops and operates software-as-a-service platform to support behavioral health providers, patients, and health systems across the continuum of care. It offers Tridiuum1, a cloud-based behavioral health outcomes management platform that provides results for monitoring a patient’s symptoms and progress during treatment; and helps health systems and primary care medical groups improve patient experience and outcomes. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Guiding Technologies is a Philadelphia-based start-up dedicated to helping individuals with autism reach their full potential. Our product, GAINS™, is the first haptic feedback guidance and analysis software program designed exclusively for Applied Behavioral Analysis instruction management. GAINS™ guides and track ABA instruction in real-time with unprecedented detail and ease. It records each activity or trial with tactile input and unobtrusive audio response, avoiding any client distraction. The haptic feedback and seamless program-to-program transitions allow staff to focus on client instruction. Bulky program binders are consolidated into a tablet computer, and after-session reports can include detailed real-time performance data. GAINS™ automatically retrieves and evaluates client progress and staff management reporting with clearly designed charts and graphs – allowing you to maximize the performance of your organization.

Orange Maker, LLC

Seed Round in 2016
Orange Maker, LLC develop solutions for advanced 3D printing systems and creates software programs. It offers Helios One, a high-resolution 3D printing system based on heliolithography technology. The company provides its systems and materials to professional designers and engineers worldwide. It offers its systems for aerospace, architecture, automotive, biotech, commercial products, defense, dental, education, entertainment, fashion, medical, and manufacturing applications. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Thousand Oaks, California.

Surprise HR

Seed Round in 2018
Surprise HR Inc develops a platform that offers and d manages an employee engagement and rewards software platform. The company offers smart budget distribution algorithm, prizes and fulfillment, personal employee experience at enterprise scale, and data and workforce insights. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Strados Labs

Grant in 2017
Strados Labs is a medical technology company that innovates respiratory monitoring using smart biosensors and artificial intelligence. The company specializes in advancing respiratory health management using clinical-grade biosensors and intelligent software. It connects people with real-time respiratory monitoring using a wearable device and connected mobile platform so they can quantify their health and make more informed decisions. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

RightAir

Grant in 2020
RightAir is developing noninvasive ventilators for COPD patients. They have developed AIR-AD (based on a proven respiratory assist technology called cuirass ventilators), which is a fully-mobile, non-invasive ventilator, integrated into a piece of clothing. It reduces dynamic hyperinflation. It adjusts the natural breathing pattern of the patient, during rest and exercise.
Dynamic Energy is a full service energy solutions provider that brings together the diverse expertise needed to design, finance, build and maintain projects for corporate, industrial and institutional customers. Dynamic develops energy projects that reduce customers’ expenses, improve operating efficiency, provide an attractive return on investment, and help achieve sustainability goals. The company has completed over 75 distributed generation projects totaling over 20 MWs of nameplate capacity.

Prezacor

Seed Round in 2012
Prezacor®, Inc. develops and markets innovative pain management treatments. The company’s flagship product, the Energeze™ Patch, is based upon the company’s Energezics™ technology for addressing acute and chronic pain using low wavelength energy.

Bakround, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Bakround, Inc. provides a healthcare recruiting and AI platform for recruiters and professionals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Grassroots Unwired, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Grassroots Unwired is built on the philosophy that mobile-first technology can be customized and used for the greater good. Our focus is on helping non-profits use technology to grow their constituent base, raise more money, and capture information that is turned into useful data to be used in outreach efforts across their organzation.

Polaris Health Directions

Seed Round in 2016
POLARIS HEALTH DIRECTIONS develops and markets behavioral health outcomes assessment and management systems to help deliver better health outcomes at a reduced cost. Polaris systems are designed for use by health care providers, managed care organizations, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies, and focus on addressing the impact mental health conditions have on physical health and an individual’s welfare. These solutions help Polaris's clients identify, monitor and address psychosocial and behavioral health conditions to curb long-term health effects and costs.

LeagueSide, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
LeagueSide is an online platform that connects brands with their target communities through local or youth sports. It connects thousands of youth sports leagues with regional and national sponsors (McDonald's, Smoothie King, Columbia Sportswear, etc.).

Cagent Vascular, LLC

Seed Round in 2016
Cagent Vascular, LLC develops angioplasty balloons using proprietary serration technology. The company offers Serranator, an angioplasty device with serrated metal strips embedded on a semi-compliant balloon that is used for the treatment of atherosclerosis. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

CRO Analytics, LLC

Seed Round in 2014
CRO Analytics provides an unprecedented level of insight into outsourced clinical research performance. They offer the only on-line validated performance data collection system independent and objectively capable of capturing thousands of performance assessments. The assessments are provided by biopharma and service provider personnel directly responsible for outsourced clinical research. It can be analyzed by the service provider, sponsor, region, study type, phase, functional area, and therapeutic area.

BioDetego

Seed Round in 2014
BioDetego is developing, VASPfore, a new biomarker test for selecting cancer treatment protocols. The VASP marker provides information that will direct chemotherapy to high risk patients who will likely benefit from treatment while preventing costly and harmful treatment of low risk patients. BioDetego predicts that the VASPfore will provide payors enormous savings (>$150MM/year) by reducing total treatment costs. The company is led by David Zuzga, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, a research scientist with expertise in cell and molecular biology at La Salle University & Giovanni M. Pitari, M.D., Ph.D. Founder and CSO, a physician and research scientist with expertise in Translational Oncology.

Habitat LLC

Debt Financing in 2020
Habitat Logistics powers delivery for restaurants. We provide a turnkey delivery system and can fulfill orders from customers who call-in, as well as from 3rd-party online ordering services such as Grubhub, Zuppler (Conshohocken-based), Snackpass, and others. The company only delivers to restaurants that are within 10 minutes of a customer’s home, saving them time on long deliveries. Restaurants ping Habitat when they have delivery needs and the company sends a driver to complete the delivery. Habitat says they are growing 17 percent month over month, currently collecting $110,000 monthly revenue by charging restaurants per delivery.

Verge Aero

Seed Round in 2016
Verge Aero (Verge) is a Philadelphia-based team of electrical, computer, software, systems, and aerospace engineers, whose mission is focused on building and deploying unmanned aerial systems (UASs), or drones, for use in the entertainment industry. Verge has designed, developed, and implemented a drone performance software capable of controlling swarms of drones and integrating into existing entertainment systems, providing dynamic interactions with audiences and actors. Near-term applications of the technology include recurring drone performances, venue installations, touring drone performance productions, and drone entertainment products.

Grand Round Table Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Grand Round Table Inc. develops clinical decision support tools for hospitals and clinics. It offers Grand Round Table, a system that is designed to help doctors to diagnose patients by matching cases against a large database of records. Its technology automatically extracts relevant information from the patient’s chart and pattern matches it against a database of deidentified health records, case reports, and evidence-based medical literature from the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions; and enables doctors to review those similar to theirs, and reference what other physicians did when they were in the same position. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

iOrtho+

Debt Financing in 2020
Therapeutic Articulations has developed an innovative orthopedic device called the Mobil-Aider. It is a versatile, portable, and affordable device to quantify joint mobility. The Mobil-Aider allows a clinician to assess at least 14 motions across 5 different joints.
SFA Therapeutics, Inc., a development-stage bio-pharmaceutical company, manufactures microbiome-derived metabolites as drugs for the treatment of chronic inflammatory disease. The company is based in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

TicketLeap

Venture Round in 2011
Ticketleap, Inc. provides online event ticket selling and registration services. The company provides service to various events, such as fine art and craft events, musical concerts, and other events. It sells tickets in the United States and internationally. Ticketleap, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

SkillSurvey Inc.

Seed Round in 2007
SkillSurvey Inc. develops cloud-based reference checking and credentialing solutions for employers. It offers SkillSurvey Reference, a solution that helps users to create an automated and engaging referencing process; and Hire 360, an online reference assessment that gives predictive insight into a candidate’s future job performance. The company also provides SkillSurvey Credential OnDemand, an online web enabled solution that allows applicants, providers, references, and affiliated hospitals to respond immediately online; and SkillSurvey Source, a solution that helps users to find new candidates through references and referrals. In addition, its solutions include in-house recruiters and talent leaders, staffing and recruiting firms, healthcare credentialing professionals, background screeners, and university and college career services. The company serves healthcare, higher education, staffing and recruiting, retail, consumer products and services, engineering and construction, small and medium business, and power sectors. SkillSurvey Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.

Byndr

Seed Round in 2016
Byndr, Inc. operates a mobile platform that connects students, teachers, and colleges in the United States and India. The company’s platform allows teachers to administer their subjects; students to stay engaged and connected to educational resources outside of the classroom; teachers to quickly post and manage assignments; users to mark attendance; teachers to enter grades for students; and teachers to post courses and students to comment. It allows users to keep track of upcoming assignments and exams; and offers storage for uploads and materials. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Guiding Technologies is a Philadelphia-based start-up dedicated to helping individuals with autism reach their full potential. Our product, GAINS™, is the first haptic feedback guidance and analysis software program designed exclusively for Applied Behavioral Analysis instruction management. GAINS™ guides and track ABA instruction in real-time with unprecedented detail and ease. It records each activity or trial with tactile input and unobtrusive audio response, avoiding any client distraction. The haptic feedback and seamless program-to-program transitions allow staff to focus on client instruction. Bulky program binders are consolidated into a tablet computer, and after-session reports can include detailed real-time performance data. GAINS™ automatically retrieves and evaluates client progress and staff management reporting with clearly designed charts and graphs – allowing you to maximize the performance of your organization.

American Hometec

Series A in 2008
American Hometec designs, manufactures and sells electric tankless hot water heaters based on novel heating technology (patent pending). The key feature of their products is the coilless technologyâ„¢ that enables their heaters to maintain full heating capacity throughout the life of the unit. In addition to coilless technologyâ„¢ and inherent energy savings of the tankless design, their water heaters offer many other user-friendy features making them a tremendous value.

Kognition LLC

Seed Round in 2018
Kognition LLC designs and develops enterprise software solution for real estate property managers and security operators. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to allow buildings to see, think, act, and learn on their own responding to security, property activities, surveillance, logistics, environmental, and maintenance issues. The product includes SuperGuard solution which combines live security camera footage with sensor data to detect security threats. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Cognitive Operational Systems, LLC develops inventory management solutions for the retail sector by robotics using computer vision and artificial intelligence. The company’ technology enables robots to navigate retail store floors, managing inventory, ensuring planogram, and promotional compliance, as well as provides indoor localization and turn-by-turn navigation in environments, such as indoors. Its technology also maps stores, including layout and architecture. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sweet Note Bakery Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Sweet Note Bakery is a gluten-free and allergen free bagel manufacturer based in Manayunk. It recreated an authentic New York-style bagel to be completely free of the top 8 common food allergens, along with being gluten-free. Sweet Note Bakery ensures to use only high quality natural ingredients in their products to deliver nothing but the best.

Zagster Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2010
Zagster is a transportation provider offering turnkey bike-sharing systems. The company designs, builds, and operates private bike-sharing programs for universities, corporate campuses, hotels, and residential communities across the United States. Moreover, Zagster provides customers a complete bike sharing solution - including system design, installation, sharing technology, maintenance, rider support, and marketing services. Zagster was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

LiveGenic

Seed Round in 2014
Livegenic Inc. operates an online video platform for insurance. The company offers live streaming, field documentation, and customer self-service. Its platform helps users to store, manage, and collaborate on various visual artifacts improving digital media traceability, visibility across chain of custody, auditing, and sharing capabilities. Livegenic Inc. has a strategic alliance with GuideOne Insurance. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Livegenic Inc operates as a subsidiary of Claim Central Consolidated Pty Ltd.

Tadpoles

Seed Round in 2012
Tadpoles provides a free application for daycare and childcare providers to capture information about their children and share that information securely and privately with parents. Teachers can capture photos, videos, milestones, incidents or notes about children using their iPhone or iPad. Parents receive that information in real-time via the web or their mobile device.

CloudMine

Series A in 2015
Rethink how you develop mobile applications. Significantly reduce your time to deployment, total cost, and overall ease of mind when it comes to developing mobile applications, integrating disparate datasets and maintaining IT infrastructures. CloudMine is a Managed Mobility solution that: 1) Eliminates the need for ongoing maintenance and management of mobile applications. 2) Accelerates app development by 70% through mobile-optimized infrastructure and a suite of prefabricated web services. 3) Standardizes your mobility platform to provide IT-approved common tooling across all business units.

LoanStar Technologies LLC

Seed Round in 2016
LoanStar works with lenders to diversify their consumer loan origination strategies. Providing program consulting, market-leading software, and merchant aggregation, LoanStar helps lenders of every size leverage the power of their local brand.LoanStar has developed the MerchantLinQ platform that enables lenders of all sizes to deploy instant point-of-sale finance through their local merchants.

Mitochon Pharmaceuticals

Seed Round in 2014
Mitochon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops drugs for mitochondria, an organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur. The company offers development programs on neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases including, huntingtin’s disease, multiple sclerosis/optic neuritis, wolfram syndrome, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury (TBI), duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), alzheimer’s disease, and parkinson disease. Mitochon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

LoanStar Technologies LLC

Debt Financing in 2020
LoanStar works with lenders to diversify their consumer loan origination strategies. Providing program consulting, market-leading software, and merchant aggregation, LoanStar helps lenders of every size leverage the power of their local brand.LoanStar has developed the MerchantLinQ platform that enables lenders of all sizes to deploy instant point-of-sale finance through their local merchants.

Navrogen

Convertible Note in 2019
Navrogen, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company, develops technology platforms that enable users to discover and assemble a database of tumor types that produce or induce factors that suppress humoral immunity against cancer cells. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
American Aerospace™ is an unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) company that integrates and operates long endurance UAS to provide actionable data and information to commercial public entity customers -- safely, efficiently and in full compliance with FAA regulations.

GSI Health, LLC

Seed Round in 2016
GSI Health, LLC develops a population health management platform. The company’s platform solutions include care coordination and care management, insights, and interoperability. It serves hospitals and health systems; managed care organizations and health plans; Medicaid programs; and community-based organizations. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with an additional office in New York, New York. As of October 28, 2019, GSI Health, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Medecision, Inc.

Pression

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Pression provides a safe, affordable, and effective therapy for high-risk patients including COVID-19 infected individuals. Pression uses innovative, active wearable compression technology to help athletes recover faster, train harder and increase their winning potential. Our products are based on sound physiological science and grounded in real-world testing. The results are benefits that athletes care about.

Avisi Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Avisi Technologies develops a nanotechnology-enabled defense against blindness from glaucoma. Avisi's product, VisiPlate, is a next-generation aqueous shunt that aims to treat mid to late-stage glaucoma. It is 20x thinner than a human hair. VisiPlate leverages an ultrathin nanoplate and its insertion procedure reduces operating time and makes follow-up care easier. VisiPlate is made of alumina, an implant material that has been used in hip replacements. Avisi Technologies is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

AuDIGENT

Venture Round in 2016
AuDIGENT is an audience intelligence platform that provides brands with actionable data, analytics and insights that optimize the targeting, engagement and ROI of online, mobile and social video ads while opening up new revenue streams for artists and other social influencers. AuDIGENT's platform allows brands to discover, monitor and target audiences that drive media performance. AuDIGENT's platform empowers artists and influencers to tap into the tools and technology needed to monetize their social influence and fan engagement. AuDIGENT's executives, data scientists, developers and operations team are in New York, Philadelphia and London. For more information visit AuDIGENT.com

ROAR for Good

Seed Round in 2015
ROAR for Good is a woman-led and mission-driven technology company dedicated to cultivating safer workplaces. Their employee safety platform, called AlwaysOn, is specifically designed for the hotel industry and exceeds compliance standards to protect employees and promote well being. Built upon banking-level mission-critical networks, it is the most reliable and cost-effective staff security product on the market. It is built to work without wifi, cell, or even power – guaranteeing the solution is _always_ at work.

VitalTrax

Seed Round in 2017
VitalTrax connects patients with clinical trials with its cloud-based clinical trial network. VitalTrax offers Wing, a solution that simplifies clinical trials enrollment. Wing is a clinical trial network that provides innovative ways for people to easily seek optional treatments for themselves or people that they love and play an important role in helping develop new ways to fight diseases.

SETVI

Seed Round in 2014
SETVI, Inc. operates a mobile sales enablement platform. Its SETVI Platform enables marketing and sales leaders to distribute, manage, update, and control marketing and sales materials instantly, from one central cloud-based system; and sales representatives to create presentations on-the-go and on-the-fly by combining PowerPoint decks, Keynote decks, PDF documents, videos, images, live Websites, YouTube videos, Vimeo videos, dynamic spreadsheets, 3D graphics, HTML5, and more. The company’s platform also enables sales representatives to share Web-based presentations; and provides sales and marketing leaders with analytics on the usage and performance of individual sales representatives, marketing and sales collateral, and shared presentations. SETVI, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

Sustrana LLC

Seed Round in 2016
Sustrana LLC is a software company that provides sustainability management solutions through its platform. Sustrana LLC was formerly known as Resonate LLC. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Devon, Pennsylvania.

Sidecar

Series A in 2014
Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerful online shopping campaigns.

Instadiagnostics

Seed Round in 2016
Instadiagnostics Inc. develops a point-of-care (POC) diagnostic platform with the aim of bringing centralized laboratory testing to the patient’s bedside. The platform allows early diagnosis, and/or treatment monitoring of patients at the POC (primary care centers, community clinics, emergency departments etc.) without requiring additional trips to have blood drawn, lengthy wait times for results or having to wait for diagnosis/follow up testing. Instadiagnostics Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Essential Medical

Seed Round in 2011
Essential Medical is a family owned & operated business that was started in 1985. We are a broad based supplier of home medical and health related products designed with the needs of the user in mind. Within this online website you will find many different product options to meet a variety of life styles and physical conditions. If you are a home medical equipment dealer and would like to be set up to order Essential products, please click on the Prospective Dealers tab. If you would like to purchase products for yourself, family member or friend, our fine products are available through your local medical equipment dealer or pharmacy. Please consult the yellow pages of your local telephone book under Hospital and Medical Equipment.

Dynamis Skin Science

Seed Round in 2016
Dynamis Skin Science, Inc. develops and supplies MEG 21 skin care products with Supplamine. The company provides face treatment, advanced formula, moisturizing toner and cleanser, eye treatment, redness relief, antioxidant boost, and hand treatment products. It markets and sells its products through authorized distributors and online partners, as well as through physicians and licensed skin-care professionals. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Dynamis Skin Science, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dynamis Therapeutics, Inc.

Holganix, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Holganix, Inc. produces and supplies plant-based bio-stimulant soil supplements to landscape and lawn care companies. It offers tree and shrub products, golf products, agriculture products, flower programs, and granular products. The company also offers Holganix Bio 800+ that provides an ecosystem, containing species of beneficial microorganisms, microbe food, and nutrient enhancers. It sells its products through distributors in the United States, as well as online. Holganix, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

Shock Analytics LLC

Seed Round in 2016
Shock Analytics LLC designs and manufactures noninvasive devices to estimate Systemic Vascular Resistance (SVR) an indicator for both congestive heart failure and sepsis. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Pression

Grant in 2020
Pression provides a safe, affordable, and effective therapy for high-risk patients including COVID-19 infected individuals. Pression uses innovative, active wearable compression technology to help athletes recover faster, train harder and increase their winning potential. Our products are based on sound physiological science and grounded in real-world testing. The results are benefits that athletes care about.

TicketLeap

Series A in 2008
Ticketleap, Inc. provides online event ticket selling and registration services. The company provides service to various events, such as fine art and craft events, musical concerts, and other events. It sells tickets in the United States and internationally. Ticketleap, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

WealthHub Solutions

Seed Round in 2016
"Where there is unity there is always victory.” So said sage 1st century writer Publilius Syrus. And we concur. WealthHub, the industry award-winning suite of applications, is all about integration that leads to leverage and scale. We bring together the industry’s most advanced applications into one simple, cloud-based environment that fuels productivity and enhances client centricity for today’s trust companies, banking and financial advisors, attorneys and family offices.

Advent Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2014
Advent Therapeutics is focused on providing therapies for micro-orphan applications. The company is based in Lumberville, Pennsylvania.

Digitability

Grant in 2020
Digitability is developing a Workplace Behavior Training Platform that will provide the behavioral data teachers need to monitor progress toward behavior goals both at home and in the classroom environment. Our award-winning platform prepares students for our tech-driven society and aligns Individual Education Program goals to project-based learning. This increases outcomes and enables students to successfully transition into the workforce as self-advocates.
Prescription Advisory Systems & Technology, Inc. develops and offers PASTRx, a software that helps doctors treat patients with chronic pain and reduce the abuse of controlled substances. Its software retrieves PMP reports and highlights patient risks in advance. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

Rocker Tools

Seed Round in 2015
Rocker Tools

Deepwave Digital

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Deepwave Digital, Inc. manufactures artificial intelligence (AI)-based hardware/software sensor solutions for radio frequency (RF) and wireless system companies. . The company’s products include Artificial Intelligence Radio Transceiver (AIR-T) which is a software defined radio. It offers software, such as AirPack, AirStack Sandbox, and Spectrum Sensing that enables RF and wireless systems to receive, detect, and identify signals in the spectral environment. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Termaxia

Seed Round in 2016
Termaxia is developing a Big Data storage solution that is disrupting the market in significant way. The company is founded by Dr. Changbin Liu, who has extensive industry experience at AT&T and as an Openstack core developer, and Prof. Boon Thau Loo, an award-winning professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Osciflex

Debt Financing in 2020
Osciflex system imitates nature’s process to prevent deadly blood clots. Osciflex developing a more effective compression therapy device that can better prevent Venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients and reduce the use of expensive and risky anti-coagulation pharmaceuticals.

Allevi

Seed Round in 2015
Allevi develops tools to design and engineer 3D tissues. It offers desktop 3D bio printers that build functional three dimensional living tissues; bioinks used to collagen and hyaluronic acid; and Bioprint Online that runs in the cloud to design structures, define materials, and monitor prints. The company’s products are used by researchers around the world to perform work in the fields of tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, material science, and cell biology; industrial and pharma companies to test and develop drugs; and educators. Its sells its bioinks online. Allevi was formerly known as BioBots, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MemVu, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
MemVu.com is a patent-pending social brain training program that allows users to utilize their own photos uploaded into a brain game or exercise. MemVu is a brain training program allowing users to personalize brain exercises using their photos for facial recognition. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

Defend Your Head

Seed Round in 2014
Defend Your Head of Chester Springs, PA has developed a patented soft shell protective helmet, the “ProCap”, to significantly increase the protective abilities of existing sports helmets and reduce head injury on the field. While helmet advances over the last 20 years focused on internal padding to prevent skull fracture, DYH’s unique technology and design works in tandem with existing helmets to provide superior protection, while outperforming its competition in both ease of use and application. In independent lab tests it was shown to absorb and dissipate energy, reduce the speed of impact, and deflect glancing blows to significantly reduce sports injuries. Unlike competitors’ products, DYH’s ProCap is available in custom colors, is decal-friendly and is both heat and cold resistant. The core technology was spawned at a firm funded by private investors, physicians, and Ben Franklin. That company merged into Defend Your Head in 2013 where the product was advanced and an additional patent was acquired. Market launch is scheduled for late summer. DYH is led by John Roman who spent 9 years in the NFL, was President of Merrill Lynch Trust Company, and founded Valley Forge Capital Advisors. He is joined by Frank Lytle who has a 40 year career in product design and manufacturing and grew several product lines from inception into millions in sales; and Greg Lewis, CFO, who has a sales, marketing and finance experience across several industries including financial services.

AAPlasma

Grant in 2020
AAPlasma is developing a cold plasma-based system that is based on previously-successful technology capable of achieving in-between-patient decontamination of PPE items to allow for rapid reuse.

Digitability

Seed Round in 2016
Digitability is developing a Workplace Behavior Training Platform that will provide the behavioral data teachers need to monitor progress toward behavior goals both at home and in the classroom environment. Our award-winning platform prepares students for our tech-driven society and aligns Individual Education Program goals to project-based learning. This increases outcomes and enables students to successfully transition into the workforce as self-advocates.

OrthogenRx

Seed Round in 2013
OrthogenRx is a commercial-stage product development company that provides orthopedic medical devices for the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions. The business model utilizes exclusive supply and license agreements for products presently on the market ex-US and seeks generic product approval in the U.S. potentially saving the healthcare system billions in cost. The strategy utilizes existing regulations for an abbreviated regulatory approval for generic devices, analogous to generic drugs.

LiveGenic

Seed Round in 2016
Livegenic Inc. operates an online video platform for insurance. The company offers live streaming, field documentation, and customer self-service. Its platform helps users to store, manage, and collaborate on various visual artifacts improving digital media traceability, visibility across chain of custody, auditing, and sharing capabilities. Livegenic Inc. has a strategic alliance with GuideOne Insurance. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Livegenic Inc operates as a subsidiary of Claim Central Consolidated Pty Ltd.

Dynamis Skin Science

Grant in 2020
Dynamis Skin Science, Inc. develops and supplies MEG 21 skin care products with Supplamine. The company provides face treatment, advanced formula, moisturizing toner and cleanser, eye treatment, redness relief, antioxidant boost, and hand treatment products. It markets and sells its products through authorized distributors and online partners, as well as through physicians and licensed skin-care professionals. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Dynamis Skin Science, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dynamis Therapeutics, Inc.

Brad’s Raw Foods

Seed Round in 2014
Brad’s Raw Foods offers a range of raw veggie chips, leafy kale, and other healthy food products. These snacks are available in flavors such as cheddar, hot kale, red bell pepper, Indian, sun dried tomato, vegan cheese, natural nacho, garlic, jalapeno, and more. Brad’s Raw Foods won the award for the Most Innovative New Product at the Natural Products Expo East in 2011. The company operates an online store and offers its products via many other retail outlets as well. Brad’s Raw Foods was founded in 2009 in the United States.

Ride RoundTrip, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Ride RoundTrip, Inc. provides a digital marketplace to coordinate patient transportation. It offers a Roundtrip, a patient ride ordering software that makes available a community of ride providers who complete the transport. The company’s platform connects patients with on-demand, non-emergency medical transportation, such as medical cars, wheelchair vans, and stretcher vehicles. It offers its solutions for healthcare organizations and transport companies. The company has strategic partnerships with lyA, WELLRYDE, Epic, TRAUMASOFT, REDOX, and HITCH-HEALTH. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

CampusESP

Seed Round in 2018
CampusESP is a strategic parent and family engagement platform enabling institutions to keep the most important influencers of their students informed - parents. From impacting enrollment, to student success, to annual giving - keeping parents effectively engaged has proven to be critical for institutions looking to better support their institutional goals. Deployed at schools like Penn State, CampusESP gives helicopter parents a place to land.

Deepwave Digital

Seed Round in 2018
Deepwave Digital, Inc. manufactures artificial intelligence (AI)-based hardware/software sensor solutions for radio frequency (RF) and wireless system companies. . The company’s products include Artificial Intelligence Radio Transceiver (AIR-T) which is a software defined radio. It offers software, such as AirPack, AirStack Sandbox, and Spectrum Sensing that enables RF and wireless systems to receive, detect, and identify signals in the spectral environment. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Route Dynamics Corp.

Debt Financing in 2020
Route Dynamics Corp. provides automated dynamic rerouting technology to commercial and general aviation airline fleets. The company offers SmartRoutes that provides automatic analysis of live air traffic to identify airline route correction options to help maximize flight time and fuel savings. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Maple Glen, Pennsylvania.

Ride RoundTrip, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Ride RoundTrip, Inc. provides a digital marketplace to coordinate patient transportation. It offers a Roundtrip, a patient ride ordering software that makes available a community of ride providers who complete the transport. The company’s platform connects patients with on-demand, non-emergency medical transportation, such as medical cars, wheelchair vans, and stretcher vehicles. It offers its solutions for healthcare organizations and transport companies. The company has strategic partnerships with lyA, WELLRYDE, Epic, TRAUMASOFT, REDOX, and HITCH-HEALTH. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mediscore Health

Debt Financing in 2020
Mediscore Health offers data insights into health care solutions. The company provides chronic care management and risk adjustment solution for medicare advantage payers and ACOs. It offers medilytics physician-driven chart review and analytics, physician-driven predictive diagnostics, and point of care disease management service. Mediscore Health was founded in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a location in Santa Monica, California.

SonoSolve

Seed Round in 2016
SonoSolve is a revolutionary new device that aims to eliminate catheter-associated complications, using non-invasive sound waves to clear obstructions and biofilms within catheters. SonoSolve is the BUZZ in Blockages!

PolyCore Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2016
PolyCore Therapeutics’ experienced team of scientists and life sciences professionals is dedicated to developing breakthrough treatments for CNS Diseases.

S4 Worldwide, LLC

Seed Round in 2012
S4 Worldwide LLC (S4W), headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, provides mobile real-time situational awareness technologies to business decision-makers. Using environmentally friendly, solar and wind powered trailer-mounted systems, video, audio, and sensor data is gathered from remote sites and electronically presented to users through a secure website and onto their laptops, tablets, or smartphones. S4W’s vision is to be the leader in responsive, real-time dynamic business tools for decision-makers.

VUID, Inc.

Angel Round in 2013
VUID is a mobile-centric ID number using 2 factor authenication. VUID builds apps that people can use their VUID# to log in with. The first is Spotlight, a new media / social media app launching on the Android and iPhone in December 2013 and January 2014, respectively. First portion of Seed round closed November, 2013. Partnership with the Knight Foundation and Interstate General Media.
Optical Inventory Solutions is the creators of ViewVax.ViewVax is the industry leader in automated vaccine inventory. ViewVax’s simple and seamless design fits into a preexisting medical refrigerator allowing hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ offices the opportunity to utilize and organize their current medical refrigerators while integrating the automated inventory solution hardware and software. ViewVax’s web-connected, camera counts on-hand vaccine inventory, allowing for automatic reordering, reduced inventory levels, and easy identification of vaccines.

PeopleJoy Inc.

Debt Financing in 2020
PeopleJoy is a financial wellness benefits provider for the modern workforce.PeopleJoy helps CEOs and HR grow their businesses by attracting and retaining their most valuable resource. People. Their unique benefits help you develop a stronger employer/employee relationship, by addressing the financial wellness needs of your employees outside of work. Your employees become more committed to you because of shared values and commitment to their financial wellbeing. Through the increased retention, recruiting, and productivity gains of partnering with PeopleJoy, you can maximize your ROTI (return on talent investment).

Spectrum Devices

Venture Round in 2010
Spectrum Devices Corporation designs and manufacture transistors for radio Frequency (RF) and microwave applications. It products include, bipolar verticaldrain lateral-diffused MOS (VDMOS) transistors; RF transistors for use in communications and power generation; standard cell, and replacements parts. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. It has operations in New York and Asia with additional offices in New York, New York and Asia.
Edify Investment Technologies develops and provides software solutions for real estate industry.

Life.io

Seed Round in 2016
Life.io is the world’s first web-based platform specifically designed to help people make better decisions every moment, to take care of themselves more, to engage more, to simply live more. Delivered through insurance companies or employers, it’s always on, sharing inspired ideas on how to live better today and every day after.

Narbis

Grant in 2020
Narbis was founded to continue developing ways to encourage people to practice their attention performance. Narbis has developed a convenient, at-home, easy-to-use training device designed to help individuals work on focus and concentration habits in daily activities.

Essential Medical

Seed Round in 2014
Essential Medical is a family owned & operated business that was started in 1985. We are a broad based supplier of home medical and health related products designed with the needs of the user in mind. Within this online website you will find many different product options to meet a variety of life styles and physical conditions. If you are a home medical equipment dealer and would like to be set up to order Essential products, please click on the Prospective Dealers tab. If you would like to purchase products for yourself, family member or friend, our fine products are available through your local medical equipment dealer or pharmacy. Please consult the yellow pages of your local telephone book under Hospital and Medical Equipment.

HealthQx

Series A in 2014
HealthQX specializes in Value-based Payment (VBP) analytic software solutions for health plans and providers. Its VBP analytics platform, ClarityQx, provides the capabilities to design, implement, and monitor the on-going performance of payment models such as episodic, bundled, or accountable care arrangements. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Prescribe Well

Seed Round in 2015
Healthy Reimbursement for Engaging with your Patients on their journey to Better Health, Disease Prevention, and Lifestyle Modification. Ideal Patient/Physician Engagement, Communication, and Ongoing Connectivity help Patients Realize their Goals.

BioNano Genomics

Seed Round in 2006
BioNanomatrix, Inc. develops nanoscale imaging and analytic platforms that are designed to analyze DNA and other genome-related peptides and proteins. The company's technology provides analysis of genomic, epigenomic, and proteomic information with sensitivity at the single molecule level. Its products are used in genetic diagnostics, personalized medicine, and biomedical research applications.

Arcadian Telepsychiatry

Seed Round in 2016
Arcadian Telepsychiatry brings psychiatrists and mental health providers to geographically remote and urban locations. Arcadian Telepsychiatry provides psychiatrist services. Its services include on-demand emergency consultation to EDs and crisis centers; inpatient consultation and liaison; initial psychiatric evaluations; medication management; scheduled child, adolescent, and adult clinics services; pre-admission psychiatric hospital exams; staffing conferences with hospital medical personnel; training and education for hospital personnel; on demand psychiatric evaluations; follow-up medication management; rounds at inpatient or residential treatment facilities; and consultation, training, and education in psychiatric emergency services and telepsychiatry.

Netminder

Seed Round in 2014
NETMINDER LLC provides a photoactive release coating that protects netting from UV degradation and minimizes biofouling. The company offers NETMINDER, a water-based silicone release coating designed for use on nets, bags, ropes, cages, traps, and buoys. Its product is used in fin fish farming, shellfish farming, and fishing applications. NETMINDER LLC was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.

Yorn

Seed Round in 2014
Yorn LLC operates a real-time feedback/engagement platform for healthcare. Its platform enables patients/consumers and participants to provide real-time feedback on various experiences using a smartphone, tablet, or laptop; and enables providers and payers to identify root causes of problems and make appropriate operational changes that improve experience, satisfaction, and compliance with care plans. The company focuses on capturing the authentic voice of the consumer. It also serves customers in hospitality, business, enterprise, meetings and events, and automotive sectors. Yorn LLC was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sweet Note Bakery Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Sweet Note Bakery is a gluten-free and allergen free bagel manufacturer based in Manayunk. It recreated an authentic New York-style bagel to be completely free of the top 8 common food allergens, along with being gluten-free. Sweet Note Bakery ensures to use only high quality natural ingredients in their products to deliver nothing but the best.

Kynectiv

Seed Round in 2015
DecisionSim is a simulation-based learning platform that enhances decision-making by allowing organizations to easily create assessment, education, and training programs that deliver insights and improve outcomes through “real-world” engagement.

Deepwave Digital

Seed Round in 2019
Deepwave Digital, Inc. manufactures artificial intelligence (AI)-based hardware/software sensor solutions for radio frequency (RF) and wireless system companies. . The company’s products include Artificial Intelligence Radio Transceiver (AIR-T) which is a software defined radio. It offers software, such as AirPack, AirStack Sandbox, and Spectrum Sensing that enables RF and wireless systems to receive, detect, and identify signals in the spectral environment. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Strados Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Strados Labs is a medical technology company that innovates respiratory monitoring using smart biosensors and artificial intelligence. The company specializes in advancing respiratory health management using clinical-grade biosensors and intelligent software. It connects people with real-time respiratory monitoring using a wearable device and connected mobile platform so they can quantify their health and make more informed decisions. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

GuestOf

Grant in 2016
With GuestOf, companies can launch faster and spend less by integrating our scalable platform and hardware into whatever product they’re building to automate and manage authentication, access control, event logging and other processes. They can then kick off actions, enable analytics, and more in their own software. Our highly customizable back-end does the heavy lifting, providing a customer solution with the data and control it needs.

Avisi Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Avisi Technologies develops a nanotechnology-enabled defense against blindness from glaucoma. Avisi's product, VisiPlate, is a next-generation aqueous shunt that aims to treat mid to late-stage glaucoma. It is 20x thinner than a human hair. VisiPlate leverages an ultrathin nanoplate and its insertion procedure reduces operating time and makes follow-up care easier. VisiPlate is made of alumina, an implant material that has been used in hip replacements. Avisi Technologies is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

AgileSwitch

Seed Round in 2013
AgileSwitch plug and play drivers were designed from the ground up to address these challenges and the drivers are among the most efficient and reliable in the market. Furthermore, AgileSwitch drivers can be fully customized to meet the needs and demands of virtually any customer application. With an ongoing product development commitment, AgileSwitch is continuously expanding the product line of gate drivers.

DRSLINQ

Grant in 2020
DRSLINQ is developing a mobile EKG device that is coupled to an interactive application powered by a natural language processing integrated with a machine learning platform to appropriately triage chest pain patients to the ER.

Plehn Analytics

Seed Round in 2012
Plehn Analytics Corp., a Philadelphia, PA-based provider of economic and financial reports. It was renamed Powerlytics in 2013.

Mitochon Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2016
Mitochon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops drugs for mitochondria, an organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur. The company offers development programs on neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases including, huntingtin’s disease, multiple sclerosis/optic neuritis, wolfram syndrome, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury (TBI), duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), alzheimer’s disease, and parkinson disease. Mitochon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

Viridity Energy, Inc.

Funding Round in 2015
Viridity Energy enabling software turns energy profiles into financial returns. Their mission is to transform how energy customers interact proactively and productively with the electric grid. Through their ability to obtain revenue for customers from more energy markets, drive greater savings opportunities than anyone in the business, and forecast market power prices and optimize that value by factoring in the complexity of their clients' portfolios of assets, Viridity's customers can seamlessly turn their energy profiles into optimal bottom line impact.

Bainbridge Health

Debt Financing in 2020
Bainbridge Health provides hospital systems with a clinical intelligence and data analytics platform to improve medication safety. It provides hospital safety professionals with an infusion pump management software solution to better manage pump data and enhance patient safety. Bainbridge Health also offers a clinician-focused infusion pump management system known as InfusionWare that enables clinicians to manage infusion data in one centralized location.

Tassl

Seed Round in 2015
Tassl is revolutionizing network engagement with easy-to-use cloud based engagement analytics software for universities, alumni, students, volunteers and other network contributors. Our complete solution is the simply way to manage events, activities, and mobile communications while recording engagement metrics that provide valuable insights & integrate into the network's current system of record. Built to meet the complex structures of Higher-Ed, non-profits, & other professional networks, Tassl provides a centralized management tool to support the entire ecosystem. Additionally, Tassl's support tools for local volunteers provides local insights, and our mobile app bring the network right to the constituents fingertips.

ColdLight Solutions

Seed Round in 2010
ColdLight is a leader in advanced analytics, predictive technology, and machine learning science. At the center is Neuron, a secure and flexible automated learning engine that learns from massive amounts of data, discover patterns, and then delivers mathematically validated recommendations directly to the business teams that can take action. Neuron can be deployed as a SaaS cloud service, minimizing any infrastructure impact for its customers.

Squareknot

Seed Round in 2014
SQUAREKNOT LLC operates a Website that allows users to build step-by-step Minecraft branches and projects. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Polynetworks LLC

Seed Round in 2014
Polynetworks is a privately held company headquartered in Narberth, Pennsylvania which provides a variety of services in the field of Telecommunications and Networking. They provide research, consulting, integration, and product design and development services to a myriad of government, government contractors, and commercial entities in the field of wireless communications. They have more than 5 years of experience in broadband wireless networks – both static and mobile. They have extensive hardware and software knowledge and expertise to create practical real-world systems – having a holistic approach for deployable products. They have performed training, installation, and troubleshooting of tactical and mission-critical wireless solutions in the field.

Excision BioTherapeutics Inc.

Debt Financing in 2020
Excision BioTherapeutics is a private company focused on developing advanced gene-editing therapeutics to address the medical need for the treatment of life-threatening diseases caused by viral infections. They develop gene-editing medicines that eradicate or disrupt viral genes in human patients. Their mission is to advance gene-editing therapeutics for our indications into safe and efficacious medicines that will greatly improve the lives of infected individuals around the world.

Animotion

Seed Round in 2016
Animotion is affordable mobile technology for joint care. Our data facilitates more accurate diagnoses, individualized motivation for at-home treatment, and monitored assessment of effectiveness to reduce readmissions and improve quality of care. Animotion links to web and mobile software applications for real-time instant access.

PhotoSonix Medical, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Photosonix Medical develops CLENS™ (Coincident Light Energy and Non-focused ultraSound), an energy-based therapy which synergistically combines light and ultrasound to treat chronic bacterial infections known as biofilms. The company targets dermal diseases, specifically moderate to severe acne. Its target prescribers include dermatologists and primary care physicians. Photosonix Medical is based in Ambler, Pennsylvania.

Cassian Solutions, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Cassian Solutions, Inc. develops and manufactures a phone case medication dispenser. The company also develops an application that offers outcome collection, biometric verification, medication reminder, medication sleeves, adherence verification, environment sensing, treatment analysis, real time communication, and medication distribution. It caters to pharmacies, clinical trial companies, drug manufacturers, and insurers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

Halo Labs

Seed Round in 2014
Halo Labs (formerly Optofluidics) is a venture backed scientific instrumentation company that commercializes high throughput biopharmaceutical quality control tools using the latest optics, image processing and microfluidics. Our investors and development partners include BioAdvance, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Ben Franklin Technology Partners. In 2012 Optofluidics was named Philadelphia Life Sciences startup of the year.

Cogwear Technologies

Grant in 2020
Cogwear is developing a next-generation wearable that goes beyond providing physical measures available with today’s products and adds cognitive and emotional insights, unlocking the breakthrough potential to advance human health, safety, and performance.

Chromatan

Debt Financing in 2020
ChromaTan is solving a major process bottleneck in therapeutic protein production while significantly lowering the cost of goods for biotech and contract manufacturing companies. Our CCTC platform provides an inexpensive column-free, continuous, and single-use solution that will replace large scale column chromatography processes used in biologics manufacturing. The platform has been through extensive beta testing with over a dozen of major biotech companies and has consistently shown a 5-15X increase in throughput at an equivalent or better product quality.
Open Medical Innovation is an organization founded by leaders from Archimedic, NextFab, and the University of Pennsylvania. We launched this organization with a focus on addressing the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 outbreak. We intend to use this website to share information, collect feedback, and fulfill the unmet needs of patients and providers.

Atrin Pharmaceuticals LLC

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Atrin Pharmaceuticals LLC, a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of proprietary medications. It offers ATRN-502, a p53 activator; and ATRN-507, a dual ligand showing specificity and selectivity against cancer cells. The company also provides Atrize, a platform that offers phenotypic FACS-based screening that is applicable across R&D, clinical applications, and a tool for personalized medicine. Atrin Pharmaceuticals LLC was founded in 2011 and is based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Kapsul

Convertible Note in 2018
Kapsul's goal is to reinvent the home comfort market worldwide with beautifully designed products that users love while delivering better performance to both individual users and the grid. Our first product is a 5,000 BTU window air conditioner that’s easy to install and easier to use and that gives users 30% more view in a form factor that's beautiful from both inside the room and outside the home.

Essential Medical

Seed Round in 2016
Essential Medical is a family owned & operated business that was started in 1985. We are a broad based supplier of home medical and health related products designed with the needs of the user in mind. Within this online website you will find many different product options to meet a variety of life styles and physical conditions. If you are a home medical equipment dealer and would like to be set up to order Essential products, please click on the Prospective Dealers tab. If you would like to purchase products for yourself, family member or friend, our fine products are available through your local medical equipment dealer or pharmacy. Please consult the yellow pages of your local telephone book under Hospital and Medical Equipment.

Stabiliz Orthopaedics

Seed Round in 2012
Stabiliz Orthopaedics’ mission is to develop novel enhancements to orthopedic medical devices utilizing FDA approved technologies to foster greater clinical outcomes while reducing costs for burden healthcare systems.