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Philly daily roundup: A serial founder’s new venture; Behind the UArts closure; Windtree Therapeutics raises $12.9M

Plus, Software company Infinite Blue was acquired by critical event management company Everbridge.

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Serial founder launches health app Workup

Serial entrepreneur Ryan Frankel launched his third company Workup on Wednesday. The platform is an aggregator for health and wellness resources, products and information.

After shutting down his last company This App Saves Lives, Frankel said he is focused on product-market fit with Workup.

➡️ Read more about what lessons Ryan Frankel is taking into this next venture

DCAD, UArts and arts school closure trends

Both the Delaware College of Art and Design in Delaware and University of the Arts in Philadelphia suddenly announced closures within days of each other.

Educators say that art schools need diverse student populations and a variety of disciplines to stay afloat.

➡️ Read more about the business behind art schools in Holly’s story

News Incubator: What else to know today

• Bucks County-based biotech company Windtree Therapeutics raised $12.9 million. The company is working on treatments for cancer and heart failure. [Philly Biz Journal]

• Software company Infinite Blue was acquired by critical event management company Everbridge. [LinkedIn]

• HR tech company Phenom was nominated for four awards in the 2024 SaaS Awards. [Business Wire]

• Dr. Katalin Karikó is the 2024 Helen Dean King Award recipient from the Wistar Institute. Karikó is a 2023 Nobel Prize Laureate recognized for work that contributed to the Covid-19 vaccine. [Wistar Institute]

🗓️ On the Calendar

• Iffy Books is doing a workshop on audio recording basics on July 26. [Register here]

• Coffee and Code’s weekly meetup is happening again on July 27. [More details]

Sarah Huffman is a 2022-2024 corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The Groundtruth Project that pairs young journalists with local newsrooms. This position is supported by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.

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