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Why ‘Start It Up Delaware’ is leading Wilmington as the First State’s tech hub
In the low light of a single lamp on the dark, unfinished floor of a historical commercial building in Wilmington, Delaware, sit a handful of entrepreneurs trying to sell ugly sweaters. None seem to...
View ArticleHere’s what the first $100k in StartupPHL grants got done
The first group of StartupPHL grants funded a local STEM challenge, 10 internships at local tech companies and a youth entrepreneurship program that was able to up its enrollment by more than 20...
View ArticleKnight Arts: Sculpture Gym awarded $25k to expand workshops
The Sculpture Gym will receive $25,000 from the Knight Arts Foundation to expand its classes and workshops, according to a release. The Fishtown arts and makerspace launched in March 2012, led by...
View ArticleQED, Science Center’s tech transfer program, gets $350K from state
QED, the University City Science Center‘s tech transfer program, received $350,000 from the Pa. Department of Health, according to the Science Center. Founded in 2009, QED funds local university...
View ArticleThanks to $10K gift, Chester A. Arthur students will get Chromebooks
Eighty middle schoolers at Chester A. Arthur, a K-8 public school in Graduate Hospital, will get Chromebook laptops next year, with help from a $10,000 gift from law firm White & Williams and...
View ArticleHow Drexel will use a $1.2M grant to increase number of STEM majors
Drexel University was awarded a $1.2 million, five-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to develop ways to retain STEM majors, according to a release. The news comes in the same week...
View ArticleOrganizing a Philly Tech Week 2015 event? Apply for these microgrants
The calendar for Philly Tech Week 2015 presented by Comcast is growing. We’re excited to see many new organizations, large and small, getting involved in the week. Check out some of the events and new...
View ArticleThe city is funding a dev bootcamp for low-income adults
Sylvester Mobley thinks all Philadelphians should be able to learn how to code — not just the ones who can afford developer bootcamps that cost thousands of dollars. That’s why he’s launching a 12-week...
View ArticleHere’s who won the 2015 #PHLGeekAwards
After five years honoring the city’s best and brightest, the Philadelphia Geek Awards announced Saturday night at its 2015 ceremony the launch of a $2,000 “Geek Grant” fund to go towards a local...
View ArticleThe City of Philadelphia wants to back your poverty-fighting tech project
The City of Philadelphia has awarded nearly $300,000 to projects like developer camps, internship programs and youth STEM initiatives through its StartUp PHL “Call for Ideas” grants. Now it’s looking...
View ArticleAnnouncing our 5 Philly Tech Week 2016 microgrant recipients
One of the main goals of Philly Tech Week 2016 presented by Comcast is to give everyone the opportunity to participate in the evolution of Philadelphia’s local technology community. So of course, for...
View ArticleOIC gets $100K to boost tech education program
On Tuesday, the Philadelphia Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) got a $100,000 check, and it’s going towards tech education. At the Innovate, Ignite, Imagine OIC Luncheon and Awards Program...
View ArticleThis nonprofit got $10K to teach digital literacy to people with disabilities
From fitness classes to lessons in its greenhouse, SPIN has provided all kinds of services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities since the Northeast Philly nonprofit was...
View ArticleRoxborough High School gets $1.1 million boost to its STEM career program
The Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP) granted Roxborough High School a $1.1 million grant, according to a release from the School District of Philadelphia on Monday. The grant will go toward...
View ArticleStartUp PHL just issued its latest Call for Ideas. Here’s how you can apply
StartUp PHL’s Call for Ideas grant program has reached its fifth iteration, and this time the goal looks pretty challenging: applicants must leverage some of the open data sets the City of Philadelphia...
View ArticleWhy a federal agency gave SmartyPal a booth at CES 2017
A handful of Philly companies were holding down the fort at the Consumer Electronics Show 2017 in Las Vegas last week. Among them was SmartyPal, which landed itself a free corner booth by way of the...
View ArticleHere are some Philly tech finalists from the Knight Cities Challenge
The Knight Foundation just dropped its list of finalists for the Knight Cities Challenge, a project that aims to deliver $5 million to fund ideas with the potential to make communities more successful....
View ArticleLocal artists: Want $$$ to show off your immersive art project at Philly Tech...
Philly Tech Week, like our daily news coverage, is organized into seven different tracks: Sciences, Business, Dev, Creative, Access, Civic and Media. In an effort to ensure that the Creative track is...
View ArticleWhy DuckDuckGo donated $300,000 to these 16 internet privacy projects
Back in 2011, when DuckDuckGo was a promising three-year-old company, it donated $1,500 to nonprofits focusing on internet privacy. Boosted by a jump in searches, in 2017 the privacy-geared search...
View ArticleMeet the 6 orgs that snagged grants from StartUp PHL’s Call for Ideas fund
The winners from the fifth round of StartUp PHL’s Call for Ideas grant program are in (kinda). See, the winners will be officially announced in a press conference today at 1:30 p.m. — starring Mayor...
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