Rittenhouse will maintain an office presence at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and will continue to collaborate with the BFTP/SEP

Reports like the one issued by Startup Genome spotlight the positive results we can achieve in the commonwealth when we all work together.

Pittsburgh-based hardware accelerator AlphaLab Gear, a platform offered through Innovation Works, served as an early investor in VIT.

This article was originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer. by Erin Arvedlund BIPOC entrepreneurs have struggled to raise capital in Philly, historically friendly for startups. Will new investment funds change the city? Kimberly Wilson, a Black woman who struggled to get white doctors to take her symptoms seriously after a 2017 fibroids diagnosis, founded digital start-up HUED a year later to enable Black and Latino patients to find culturally sensitive medical care.

Pittsburgh has always been known as a diverse city & features 90 distinct neighborhoods with their own sub-cultures, with 302,000 residents