Uncategorized

Philly’s women-owned firms earn revenues of $28.6M+ [Startup Roundup]

Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with a weekly email newsletter by clicking here and selecting the Startup Roundup button or follow Startup Roundup’s RSS feed. If […]

Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with a weekly email newsletter by clicking here and selecting the Startup Roundup button or follow Startup Roundup’s RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

MUST READS

Best cities for female founders? Forbes names Philly number 9 (cities like Dallas, Tex., New York City and Washington, D.C. topped the list). According to Forbes, Philly has more than 153,000 women-owned firms with revenues surpassing $28.6 million.

GIVE A GLANCE

Whims, the Philly startup billing itself as “Instagram for words,” gets featured in TechCrunch. We last covered Whims when it demoed at September’s Philly Tech Meetup.

Another Philly startup got a mention in TechCrunch this week: Wizehive. The cloud-based business app startup demoed at the Dublin Web Summit, along with nearly 100 other startups, according to TechCrunch. Wizehive has also been growing its team, according to a release, and is still hiring.

PitchSwap, an event where people exchange business ideas and pitch them for one another, has expanded to San Francisco with Philly-founded startup LaunchRock hosting the event. The competition is a pet project of Startup Weekend co-organizer and local entrepreneur Brad Oyler.

Don’t miss our update on political startup ElectNext, which has opened offices in New York City and San Francisco as well as launched a new local politics effort in Philly. Check out Flying Kite and IEEE Spectrum for more on ElectNext.

Kwelia, the real estate data startup that recently completed a stint at the Startup Chile accelerator, gets another mention in national press — this time, in CNN, in a story about Chile being the Silicon Valley of South America. The team’s logo also got an honorable mention in the 2011 Brand New Awards in the “logo animation” category (though all the winning logos are behind a paywall).

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

Cloudmine is the most popular API in terms of mashups, says the Programmable Web.

DocASAP, or “Open Table for doctors,” now has a partnership with Secaucus, N.J.’s Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, according to a release.

Speaking of medical appointment startups, ZocDoc, the New York City-based online doctor’s appointment aggregator that launched in Philly last year, now lets you fill in medical forms before appointments, according to a release.

SnipSnap CEO Ted Mann gets quoted in Essence magazine. On Twitter, he quipped: “Probably the first and last time I’ll be in Essence magazine.”

Alphabuyer, the group-buying service for utilities, announced a partnership with Mark Group, a local “home energy-efficiency solutions company,” to help consumers save on their utility bills, according to a release.

Yorn, a real-time customer survey platform, launched a new version of its product. Read more details in the user’s guide [pdf].

Companies: Alphabuyer / CloudMine / Versa / Kwelia / Mark Group / PitchSwap / SnipSnap / Whims / WizeHive / Yorn

Before you go...

Please consider supporting Technical.ly to keep our independent journalism strong. Unlike most business-focused media outlets, we don’t have a paywall. Instead, we count on your personal and organizational support.

3 ways to support our work:
  • Contribute to the Journalism Fund. Charitable giving ensures our information remains free and accessible for residents to discover workforce programs and entrepreneurship pathways. This includes philanthropic grants and individual tax-deductible donations from readers like you.
  • Use our Preferred Partners. Our directory of vetted providers offers high-quality recommendations for services our readers need, and each referral supports our journalism.
  • Use our services. If you need entrepreneurs and tech leaders to buy your services, are seeking technologists to hire or want more professionals to know about your ecosystem, Technical.ly has the biggest and most engaged audience in the mid-Atlantic. We help companies tell their stories and answer big questions to meet and serve our community.
The journalism fund Preferred partners Our services
Engagement

Join our growing Slack community

Join 5,000 tech professionals and entrepreneurs in our community Slack today!

Trending

Celebrate Philly’s winners of the 2024 Technical.ly Awards

16 places to responsibly dispose of old electronics in Philadelphia

An interactive timeline of Philly’s tech ecosystem in 2024

This Week in Jobs: Fill your plate with these 26 tech career opportunities

Technically Media