WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
Benjamin’s Desk is offering healthcare to its members through Center City startup R-Health, according to a release. Members of the Center City coworking space can get R-Health’s service at a discounted rate. This is a promotional partnership between the two organizations, said Benjamin’s Desk spokeswoman Katie Cohen, meaning that Benjamin’s Desk is not paying to offer the service. It’s part of an overall effort to provide services to members: Benjamin’s Desk also offers legal help with an in-house legal team from Pepper Hamilton.
Canadian cancer drug company Viventia Bio moved into the University City Science Center‘s business incubator last month, according to a release. Nonprofit research organization Pennsylvania Drug Discovery Institute also moved into the Science Center.
RJMetrics held another company-wide hackathon last week. Here’s one cool project that came out of it: the RJMetrics Sales Challenge. Try to sell a bot a toothbrush. Do it well and you might get hired.
WHO’S GETTING BUZZ?
Speaking of RJMetrics, the ecommerce analytics company’s office ribbon cutting was featured on the Inquirer’s City Hall blog. Our story is here and RJMetrics’ own blog post is here (it’s worth checking out for the captions alone).
DuckDuckGo‘s metaphorical stock continues to rise: check it out on Entrepreneur and even Philebrity. The FastCompany feature on the search engine also killed it in traffic, according to reporter John Paul Titlow.
WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Biomeme, the NextFab-based startup that sells a pocket-sized genetic test, raised $1.6 million total, cofounder Jesse vanWestrienen told us. The DreamIt Health startup’s round is now finished.
Through DreamIt Health, DreamIt Ventures, Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross all invested in Biomeme, and the three orgs invested again in the most recent $1.6 million round, vanWestrienen said. The startup is now working with String Theory Schools to pilot how teachers can use the Biomeme’s product in the classroom.
Oh, and vanWestrienen will be speaking at Ignite Philly later this month.
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