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First Round Capital closes $135 million fund, Audience Partners and Agilence...
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DogVacay has Philly roots, Comcast Ventures director joins Adobe’s Board [VC...
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View Article22 Philadelphia tech companies grab $142M venture dollars in Q1, region ranks...
“Twenty-two companies in the Philadelphia region received venture funding of $142 million in the first quarter of the year, according to a MoneyTree Report. The region ranked 10th nationally, and got a...
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First Round Capital invests in #waywire, Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s new...
Newark’s seemingly superhuman mayor Cory Booker can now add tech startup advisor to his resume, Fast Company reports. He’s working on a video site called #waywire that he hopes will give young people...
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GreenLight Fund: new Philly social entrepreneurship funding firm is awarded...
There’s a new socially-minded funding firm in town. The GreenLight Fund, founded in Boston in 2004 to support nonprofits, quietly expanded to Philadelphia this January. It was just awarded $2 million...
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DreamIt Ventures’ William Crowder: ‘I am terrified of crowd-funding’
William Crowder, of DreamIt Ventures and Comcast Ventures, says most ventures are not cut out for crowd-funding. Not all ventures are created equal, says William Crowder, a managing partner at DreamIt...
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Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners invests $1.375 million in Philly-area...
Along with its recent funding of startups in other regions of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners (BFTP) invested $1.375 million in seven companies based out of the Philadelphia...
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In MoneyTree VC report, some listed Philly-area companies are not actually...
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VC firms invested $481 million in Philly-area companies in 2011, ranked 14th...
Map by Newsworks. On a list ranking more than one hundred U.S. cities by the amount of venture capital invested in the region’s startups, Philadelphia ranks number 14 with $481 million invested in...
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VCs invest $2.1 billion in Q2, up 16 percent since Q2 last year [VC Roundup]
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Sidecar: online marketing platform raises $1.5M
Center City online marketing platform Sidecar raised $1.5 million, according to an SEC filing. Investors include DreamIt Ventures, Robin Hood Ventures, NextStage Capital and Wilmington, Del.-based...
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First Round Capital: 4 deals the VC firm made this month
First Round Capital was one of the top five most active venture capital firms in the country, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Here are four deals the University City firm made that were...
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In 2012, Philly region raised $400M in VC, the lowest since ’96: PACT...
Dean Miller (far left) This summer, a MoneyTree report said that 2012 was on pace to be the weakest year since 1996 in Philly-area venture capital funding. The report was right: the Philly region...
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Fred Wilson, cofounder of NYC’s Union Square Ventures at Wharton: ‘It’s good...
Fred Wilson spoke at Wharton last week. Photo courtesy of Chadwick Prichard. By Chadwick Prichard It’s good to be a contrarian — not just in the business world, but in life, according to Fred Wilson,...
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Why Rittenhouse Ventures isn’t chasing unicorns
Allow Saul Richter a baseball analogy. “Batters who swing for every pitch aiming to hit a home run strike out more often,” he wrote in a statement to Technical.ly Philly. Richter, 44, of Center City,...
View ArticleWhen DreamIt Ventures ends, it’s taking its startups on a VC roadshow
The culminating event of every DreamIt Ventures class is Demo Day. In Philadelphia, that takes the form of a packed house at World Cafe Live with a marathon of pitches from each startup graduating from...
View ArticleThis Friday, here’s how to take a free Uber ride with a Philly investor
Remember the Wharton professor you can pitch only if you walk him home? This Friday afternoon, you have chance of pitching a high-profile Philly venture capitalist on a free 15-minute Uber ride. It’s...
View ArticleHow these 4 companies are accelerating internal innovation
The innovation economy is not exclusive to startups. Large companies need to play a role in stimulating it, too. That’s why, as part of the recently concluded Philly Tech Week 2015 presented by...
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Inside the biggest investment MentorTech Ventures has ever made
Earlier this year, MentorTech Ventures participated in two massive rounds of funding for Amazon competitor Jet. The University City venture capital firm, which invests in Penn alumni startups, invested...
View ArticlePhilly angel group invests $750K in Philly venture capital firm
Rittenhouse Ventures, the newly rebranded Navy Yard-based venture capital firm, found a backer in an unlikely place: an angel group in its own backyard. Robin Hood Ventures invested $750,000 in...
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