Startup Roundup: Philly’s tech scene nonexistent since the “rocking chair”?

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 the Startup Roundup’s dedicated newsletter or RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.
MUST READS
TheNextWeb features prominently seven members of our startup community in a piece published Monday. We’ll take the knock, that Philly’s tech scene has been nonexistent “since the invention of the rocking chair,” with humility, but we won’t forget it, either. Venmo, Kembrel, Warby Parker, RJMetrics, Duck Duck Go, TicketLeap and ReadySetWork! are featured.
Though Philly’s hackersspaces aren’t necessarily startups, they’re connectors, and we’ve seen startups spring from their depths. So it’s not surprising that NextFab Studio and Hive76 were featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition on Sunday. Audio from the broadcast looks like it’s been removed.

GIVE A GLANCE
School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Arlene Ackerman was honored by the Safeguard Scientifics– and Internet Capital Group-funded Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship for her work with bringing inner city students and the city’s business communities together, according to a press release. Also honored were Osagie Imasogie, Senior Managing Partner of Phoenix IP Ventures, and Robert E. Keith, Jr., Managing Director of TL Ventures.
RevZilla took home the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Emerging Business of the Year award, the regional business organization notes.
On the heels of the Dell acquisition of Boomi, PhillyTechNews reports on Freedom OSS, a Newton-based cloud service with a focus on security and compliance. More at PhillyTechNews.
P’unk Ave explains why its waiting on an update to Apostrophe to interface with Symfony 2.x—it’s just not ready to replace the foundation on its house, just yet.
MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME
XIPWIRE is working with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to allow the organizatio to collection donations during its annual Cardina’s Christmas Party, according to a email press release.
Electronic Ink has announced the appointment of Chuck Ambrogi to Vice President of Client Strategy, who supported mid-market and enterprise customers at SAP.
Fundraising platform DonorPerfect was named a 2010 Campbell Award winner for customer satisfaction, according to a press release.
King of Prussia’s InterDigital Senior Director Narayan Menon is currently in London shopping around the company’s bandwidth traffic management solutions at an international broadband traffic conference, according to a press release.
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