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Grovara, LLC
GROVARA, LLC is an international trading company that helps U.S.-based producers of healthy and organic foods/beverages develop markets outside the U.S. Significant market traction has led the company to develop a web-based marketplace to facilitate transactions among the buyers and sellers of its clients’ products.
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Gigbond
GIGBOND is developing resins and adhesives that cure under light, making them ideal for a variety of challenging applications such as highly automated and inaccessible areas. Gigbond’s initial clients are based in Asia.
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Alpha Health Tracker
ALPHA HEALTH TRACKER provides a unique, internet-connected sensor device that can detect vitamin deficiencies and other early health warning indicators. The toilet-based device and service allow consumers to collect information from their urine in far more discreet and easier ways than are currently used.
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Ben Franklin Announces Distraction Expert Curt Steinhorst as iXchange Keynoter
The average person loses up to three hours each workday due to digital distractions. Curt Steinhorst, iXchange keynote speaker, is on a mission to help today’s workforce with the battle against distraction. Having spent years studying the impact of technology on human behavior, he now equips professionals around the world to work smarter and stronger Continue Reading…
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Columbia County Bread Secures Commercial Account
Juice Press Inc., a fast-growing chain of grab-and-go stores that offer freshly pressed juices, soups, and other prepared foods, has tabbed BFTP client Columbia County Bread & Granola to provide its stores with sprouted organic wheat chips. https://bit.ly/2G8eID0
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Simplex Apartments Coming to 40th & Pine, Philadelphia
Tractor-trailers will soon begin rolling in from Scranton to 40th and Pine streets in Philadelphia, delivering sets of apartment units that will have everything — walls, doors, floors, cabinets and even the kitchen sink — already installed. The $20 million project is a first in a couple of regards. It will be the tallest modular apartment Continue Reading…
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Saladax Launches New Website to Promote the MyCare Line in Psychiatry and Oncology
Saladax is Advancing Personalized Medicine by Providing Doctors with the Diagnostic Tools to Treat Patients Better Saladax Biomedical Inc., a diagnostics company providing kits to test drug blood levels for adherence and personized dose management, unveiled its new MyCare Product website at MyCareTests.com. The website comes just days before the company expects CE Mark on Continue Reading…
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Economic Diversity in NE PA
A technical diversity among businesses that helped protect the region from many of the crippling effects of the Great Recession still exists within NEPA, according to Ken Okrepkie, regional manager with the Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Via NE PA Business Journal: http://bit.ly/2pgIcU3
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CEO Profile: webCemeteries.com
At 31 years old, webCemeteries President and CEO Nick Timpe is already an 11-year veteran of the cemetery and funeral home industry. Timpe’s goal is simple: help cemeteries and funeral homes better serve their families though technology. “We are excited that Ben Franklin Technology Partners sees our vision for technology better serving the industry and Continue Reading…
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Viddler Selected by Nation’s Largest NP Healthcare Provider
Viddler Inc. announced the addition of Ascension, the world’s largest Catholic Healthcare provider and the largest non profit healthcare provider in the US, to its client roster. Ascension recently completed implementation of Viddler Training Suite to provide a secure video-based platform for enabling employee engagement, connection, sharing, and community for associates in Ascension’s 2,500 locations. More: Continue Reading…
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EthosGen in Waste-to-Energy Project with US Department of Defense
The US DoD’s Environmental Research Program has announced a Deployable Waste-to-Energy project with Ben Franklin client EthosGen and its partners. “Successful small-scale waste-to-energy simply hasn’t been done like this before, and it could transform the way all expeditionary forces deal with waste,” says James Abrams, founder and President of EthosGen. Via New York Times: http://nyti.ms/2I7A0hp
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Ben Franklin Announces iXchange Innovation Award Winners
Winners to be Honored at May 22nd iXchange Event The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania has announced the winners of its annual Northeastern Pennsylvania Innovation Awards. Winners will be honored at the Ben Franklin iXchange event, which will be held at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, May 22 at the Zoellner Arts Center at Continue Reading…
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Altitude COO Cites Work with BFTP, Clients
In an executive profile, Altitude Marketing COO Gwen Shields cites her engineering background and how it fits well with her firm’s work with BFTP and its clients. Via Lehigh Valley Business: http://bit.ly/2sMqMnd
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Ben Franklin Announces Job Impacts
Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ work in 2017 resulted in the creation or retention of 5,097 northeastern Pennsylvania jobs, for a cumulative total of 49,896 job creations or retentions since the program’s inception in 1983. Client companies raised an additional $34.5 million in follow-on funding from angel investors, venture capitalists, and other investors in 2017, for Continue Reading…
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iXchange Registration Now Open!
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Vizinex RFID Moves Into New Facility
Driven by business growth, BFTP client and TechVentures graduate @VizinexRFID, a manufacturer of high performance radio frequency identification tags tailored to specific applications, recently moved into a 5,500-square-foot facility. Via @lvb_com: http://bit.ly/2EvAyvq
