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How Philadelphia is Winning a Startup Renaissance

The Startup Magazine

Philadelphia gets called a lot of things. One thing this historic city doesn’t often get noticed for is its emerging Philadelphia startup scene. Philadelphia has two huge positives for startups tapping the local talent pool: a diverse metro population of more than six million and a host of area universities.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Instead, an idea for smart outlets, conceived while he was still a student at University of Pennsylvania, evolved into Sapient Industries, based in Philadelphia, Penn., Long Range Wide Access Network (LoRaWAN) technology, more frequently known as “LoRa.” and launched in April 2017. Which living person do you most admire and why?

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Building the Helium Mesh Network in the Mid-Atlantic

Feld Thoughts

As you might have seen in an earlier post, Foundry Group is helping to bring the Helium Network to Boulder. I’m hopeful that some of the readers of this blog live in Baltimore, DC, or Philadelphia and are interested in participating in the Helium rollout. You can see more about the technology here. .

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Why Radical Humility is Key to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. He is a global business celebrity speaker, bestselling author and chairman, and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world's most trusted network of c-suite leaders.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Waivr

View from Seed

There’s a new set of real-time payments protocols which Waiver is making more broadly available to bring fast, secure, and cost-effective payments to a range of applications.” BC: People don’t necessarily realize that in 2022 we’re transacting our everyday payments through a network that was created in the 1950s, the card network.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

VCAP© is a collaborative venture that provides women and diverse entrepreneurs nationwide with access to venture capital through accredited investors within the HBSAANY network. VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs. Torsh, Inc.’s