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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.

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Take Advantage of a New Trend: Big Business Looks to Small to Innovate

Up and Running

Decision-makers at larger companies often have a “don’t rock the boat mentality” because of fear of making a mistake that could cost the company a lot of money and as a consequence cause them to lose status within the company or even their position. The aerospace company wanted to index, store, and display top-secret documents for the U.K.

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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.” Old technology is very inefficient by today’s standards, and the card network is no exception. ” – Lee Hower. Where I met Carolina!

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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. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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Building the Helium Mesh Network in the Mid-Atlantic

Feld Thoughts

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. . We’re looking to work with 15 – 25 locations in or around the cities of Baltimore, DC, and Philadelphia to host hotspots.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

By excising just the tumor and leaving the rest of the organ, surgeons can help patients reduce the risk of early mortality, reduce patient complications, reduce costs of healthcare, and reduce the backlogged demand for kidney donations. Torsh, Inc.’s

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

By excising just the tumor and leaving the rest of the organ, surgeons can help patients reduce the risk of early mortality, reduce patient complications, reduce costs of healthcare, and reduce the backlogged demand for kidney donations. Torsh, Inc.’s