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VC Roundup: It’s a little too quiet.

Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pass along to us, please drop us a line. Looks like VCs take the Fourth of July off too, […]


Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pass along to us, please drop us a line.
Looks like VCs take the Fourth of July off too, who would have known? We’ll skip ranking our two stories this time and hope that the cash starts flowing this week for next week’s roundup.
According to SEC filings Accolade has raised nearly $17 million from Comcast Interactive Capital and other firms. The Plymouth Meeting-based healthcare services company isn’t in Comcast’s typical investing wheelhouse, so this one has us stumped. Any ideas, dear reader? Drop us a line.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners has partnered with World Trade Club to give the organization space in its Lehigh offices. The World Trade Club is a group created by by Air Products, Mack Trucks and Bethlehem Steel to exchange business information and network, according to the Allentown Morning Call.
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