Vidur Bhatnagar, the founder and CEO of Philadelphia-based Keriton, was a master’s-level robotics student at Penn when nurses presented their problem at PennApps Hackathon, looking for a more sophisticated way...
Kiera Smalls knows about startups. The 28-year-old West Philadelphia native is the new Executive Director of Philly Startup Leaders. In her spare time, she runs City Fit Girls, a women’s...
Karina Sotnik emigrated to the United States from Latvia in 1988. She spent over a decade in Silicon Valley, forming international partnerships for American companies and going through IPOs twice,...
When Suzie Nieman, the new Chapter Leader for Girl Develop It, first caught the tech bug, she relocated to Philly to be closer to some gigs in New York, but...
Two Philly-based startups are developing innovative ways to print live cells and booking rides to the hospital. Allevi (formerly known as BioBots) focuses on biomedical technology. The company was started by 28-year-old Ricky...
The direction of the Maker movement in Philadelphia is shifting ever so slightly. While the last few years have seen an influx of co-working hubs, high-tech innovation centers, and makerspaces...