| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.01.2026 | UPenn, BioNTech, And Osage University Partners Launch $50 Million Seed Fund To Back Penn Life Science Startups | The University of Pennsylvania, BioNTech SE, and Osage University Partners (OUP) announced the launch of the $50 million Penn-BioNTech Innovative Therapeutics Seed Fund (PxB Fund), a dedicated venture fund focused on early-stage life scienc... |
| 22.03.2025 | The Flu Crisis: A Wake-Up Call for Vaccination Awareness | Flu season is a silent predator. It creeps in, often unnoticed, until it strikes with deadly force. This year, the flu has claimed nearly 10,000 lives in just two months. The numbers are stark. The stakes are high. Yet, a growing tide of va... |
| 20.03.2025 | Do Science Startups Need ‘Entrepreneurs in Residence’ to Succeed? | Company:
Academics are often less likely to succeed in their entrepreneurial endeavors. While this may sound harsh, according to Maria Roche, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, it holds true. Roche’s research examined 510 bi... |
| 07.02.2022 | Fundraising and FDA clinical studies: Medical device startup Neuralert has big 2022 plans | Eric Corkhill, CEO of stroke-monitoring device company Neuralert, is no stranger to the medtech field.
Neuralert is the 2019-founded brainchild of two University of Pennsylvania academics, Steven Messé and James Weimer, in the neurology and... |
| 07.10.2021 | A CHOP nurse is behind Murphy Cares, a pet therapy app to reduce stress with on-demand dogs | Pediatric nurse Michele Davey had been working at CHOP for about 25 years and had seen her patients in all states of illness and injury.
Families with sick kids were not only fighting their children’s illnesses, but also a host of mental he... |
| 05.10.2021 | 20+ resources to boost Philly health startups | Eds and meds has evolved as Philly grows into a hub for health-minded startups. How to keep up the momentum to boost the next generation?
As part of our Tech + Health Month, Technical.ly compiled a list of of resources to help founders of s... |
| 07.05.2021 | Introduced by Technical.ly 2021: Meet these 30 leaders bringing biz-bettering insight on May 13 | Building great companies is more complicated than ever. Technical.ly’s annual Introduced conference is a summit of people working to do it better.
The day is for company culture builders from entrepreneurs to people operations pros, and tho... |
| 06.05.2021 | Introduced by Technical.ly 2021: Meet these 30 leaders bringing biz-bettering insight on May 13 | Building great companies is more complicated than ever. Technical.ly’s annual Introduced conference is a summit of people working to do it better.
The day is for company culture builders from entrepreneurs to people operations pros, and tho... |
| 24.09.2020 | This Week in Jobs, PTW20 Reboot Edition: Get Introduced to your new career | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publishe... |
| 14.09.2020 | Network like a boss: Your who-to-meet guide for Introduced by Technical.ly 2020 | Once a year, some of the most impactful local and national company builders come together at the Introduced by Technical.ly conference. They speak to the future of work. Advise on culture building. And dive deep into the drivers of economic... |
| 20.02.2020 | Here’s what Amplify Philly, now a nonprofit, has planned for SXSW 2020 | Amplify Philly, the official local presence at Austin’s massive annual music festival/tech convention/cultural hub South by Southwest, has gone nonprofit and is planning another splashy showing for its next visit this March.
The push to for... |
| 18.10.2019 | Accelerators targeting medtech companies | They include MedTech Innovator, The TMCx Accelerator, Insight Accelerator Labs and KOA Accel
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions,... |
| 12.06.2019 | Pennovation picked these 9 early-stage companies for its summer accelerator | The Pennovation Center ushered in its 2019 cohort of inventors and entrepreneurs this week for its six-week summer accelerator program, and this year, the startups range from producing feminine care products to virtual pet therapy services.... |
| 21.03.2019 | Accelerators from top universities | They include accelerators from Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, MIT and UPenn
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popula... |
| 01.05.2018 | How to sustain momentum in the fight against cancer | Dr. Carl June gets emotional when he remembers that moment — a historic one in science, by most accounts — when the first patient to receive experimental CAR T-cell treatment against advanced blood cancer, developed by his team, came back f... |
| 27.03.2018 | Nvidia’s Inception AI contest awards $1 million to 3 top startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Nvidia picked its Inception program winners for t... |
| 27.03.2018 | Nvidia’s Inception AI contest awards $1 million to 3 top startups | Nvidia picked its Inception program winners for the best artificial intelligence startups during the company’s GTC 2018 event in San Jose California. The winners are Subtle Medical, AiFi, and Kinema Systems.
These startups are the ones that... |
| 10.03.2018 | Nvidia Inception identifies the top 4 AI startups for autonomous systems | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Nvidia created its Inception program to identify ... |
| 10.03.2018 | Nvidia Inception identifies the top 4 AI startups for autonomous systems | Nvidia created its Inception program to identify the best artificial intelligence startups — those that will change the world and tap the computing power of Nvidia’s graphics processing unit (GPU) and AI processors. To that end, the company... |
| 28.04.2017 | Power Moves: A Penn spinout that wants to save lives through VR just hired a CEO | Power Moves is a column where we chart the comings and goings of talent across the region. Got a new hire, new gig or promotion? Email us.Are you prepared to save someone’s life if they suddenly collapse next to you on the street?
ImmERge L... |
| 28.03.2017 | What 50 promising Penn startups can teach us about how companies are born | Penn students are always building things, from hockey-playing robots to trading algorithms. And increasingly, students are turning these projects into startups.
Over the past five years, the Weiss Tech House Innovation Fund has been fortuna... |
| 17.03.2017 | 8 startups repping Philly’s health IT scene at SXSW | Check out our full slate of SXSW 2017 coverage here.
On the first day of SXSW Interactive, former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a powerful message to a captivated crowd. He was in Austin to announce his foundation’s new cancer initiati... |
| 23.12.2015 | Penn’s new startup accelerator class is all about health IT | Is the next big health IT startup percolating at Penn?
Penn just announced the second class of startups in its National Science Foundation-backed I-Corps accelerator and it heavily skews toward health IT, much like its first class. (We bet ... |
| 10.08.2015 | Five new life sciences startups at Philadelphia accelerator | Freenome
This London-based liquid biopsy startup is establishing a new office in Philly – using next-generation sequencing to diagnose cancers with just 1 milliliter of blood. With the potentially low-cost but accurate liquid biopsy method,... |
| 01.06.2015 | Here are the 14 startups in Penn’s first accelerator class | Penn just chose the first class of startups for its National Science Foundation-backed accelerator, I-Corps.
Participating ventures range from a group workout mobile app to a diagnostic tool for concussions to a company that’s trying to mak... |
| 18.04.2015 | ER doctor’s solution to make clinical pathways part of physician workflow grabs spotlight | The idea behind clinical pathways is to standardize patient care to avoid having a lot of variation in treatment. Oncology is the biggest source of it. There’s been a lot of activity by startups and more mature companies to provide big data... |
| 03.03.2015 | Chuck Sacco is giving Drexel profs a crash course in Lean Startup methodology | Chuck Sacco spent the better part of a decade building and running a tech company. Now he’s teaching Drexel professors how to do the same.
Sacco, the entrepreneur-in-residence for Drexel’s Close School of Entrepreneurship, is part of a team... |
| 30.09.2014 | MobileOptx uses medical device innovation to bring endoscope and iPhone together | Mirza is a professor in the Otolaryngology department at Penn’s medical school, and Brant is doing a fellowship with the department.
Although Mirza had developed the concept for the attachment, it took a few iterations with the help of engi... |
| 13.09.2014 | Penn App hackathon adds mobile health division | Dan Velazquez, who works in Epic’s research and development division at its Verona, Wisconsin headquarters, said it would give an award for best patient engagement app. DreamIt Ventures is also offering a prize — a final round interview for... |
| 02.06.2014 | Penn renames tech transfer office; EEB Hub’s Laurie Actman joins team | The University of Pennsylvania has relaunched its technology transfer office under a new name, the Penn Center for Innovation.
The move is a nod to how tech transfer — how universities commercialize research — is evolving at Penn (and at ma... |
| - | ‘Never stop talking’ to your target customer: 5 Pennovation founders give startup advice | It’s hard to start and run a business. Period. But with the pandemic and the challenges it brought over the last few years, it’s been even harder to get a startup off the ground.
PCI Ventures within the Penn Center for Innovation hosted a s... |
| - | Five new life sciences startups at Philadelphia accelerator | Philadelphia’s University City Science Center’s Port business accelerator just announced it’s fostering some pretty interesting life sciences startups – ranging from cancer diagnostics to 3D bioprinting.
Biobots
In the vein of Organovo, reg... |
| - | MobileOptx uses medical device innovation to bring endoscope and iPhone together | A medical device entrepreneur with several years experience working with medical device startups has collaborated with a couple of physicians to develop a way to attach the smartphones to endoscopes to give physicians more mobility when the... |
| - | Penn App hackathon adds mobile health division | A nationwide hackathon hosted by University of Pennsylvania this weekend added a new wrinkle with a mobile health division, PennApps Health. The move underscores the growth of mhealth submissions in the contest and the interest in shaping a... |
| - | ER doctor’s solution to make clinical pathways part of physician workflow grabs spotlight | A clinical decision support tool designed to make it easier to integrate clinical pathways into workflows walked away with $50,000 from Ben Franklin Technology Partners as part of a University of Pennsylvania mobile app development competit... |
