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BFTP/SEP Awards Alternative and Clean Energy Funding to Four Businesses
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/SEP) awarded a total of $200,000 to four companies through its Alternative and Clean Energy Technology Development and Commercialization Initiative (ACED), funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The funds will be used to develop and bring to Read More...
BFTP/NEP to Invest $875,000 in Regional Economic Development
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s (BFTP/NEP) Board of Directors approved the investment of $875,000 in support of regional economic development. The investments are with seven early-stage technology companies. Ben Franklin will make four investments from its operating funds: BioSample Solutions Ben Read More...
BFTP/SEP Approves Nearly $2 Million for Seven Early-Stage Companies
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/SEP) recently Ben Franklin Investments totaling $1,975,000 for seven early-stage Pennsylvania companies with promising technology innovations. Bioconnect Systems Ambler, Montgomery County Ben Franklin Investment: $500,000 Bioconnect Systems is pioneering novel surgical implants and techniques that form precisely controlled vascular Read More...
AlphaLab: First Companies Receive Investment, Office Space and Business Assistance
The first companies have been selected to participate in AlphaLab, a new program of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southwestern PA (Innovation Works). The program is intended to spur the growth of companies developing software, interactive games and web and mobile applications. Innovation Works selected Read More...
DreamIt Ventures: Working with Entrepreneurs to Turn Ideas into Marketplace Reality
A dozen fast-track technology startup companies that may not have otherwise gotten off the ground are hard at work, developing their innovative prototype products in Philadelphia. Chosen from a pool of more than 200 applicants, the companies are part of the portfolio of DreamIt Ventures, Read More...
AlphaLab: Helping Early-Stage Software Companies Move beyond “Beta”
It’s not for lack of brilliant ideas that software entrepreneurs struggle-it’s for lack of the money and the business knowledge to put those ideas into practice. But with the opening of AlphaLab, a Pittsburgh-area business accelerator, entrepreneurs with dreams of owning their own software, gaming Read More...