United By Blue's do-good approach to apparel working well, hiring 'several' in coming months
United By Blue, headquarted at 12th and Callowhill, is a sustainable apparel company that leverages technology, social media and environmental activism.
Need funding? Challenge a billionaire to a chess match for $1M in Series A funding like this guy did
AJ Steigman wants to play a high stakes board game with Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal. Steigman is looking to win a million dollars in series A funding for his startup company Soletron.
Made in Pennsylvania: York's Alpha Factor outfits Russian Olympics gymnasts
Perform Group's Alpha Factor division made the uniforms for the Olympics' Russian men's and women's gymnastics team and the men's trampoline and tumbling teams.
Robesonia's Reading Alloys breaks the mold with medical products
Since its founding in 1953, Reading Alloys in Robesonia has been a leader in research, development and manufacture of master alloys for the aerospace industry. But a strategic decision a decade ago to diversify has opened up a vast new market.
Introducing AnySentence.com, for Those Who Love Mom, Obama, Romney and Bacon
Old City Philadelphia creative agency Mighty Engine's new product aims to make creating a website as easy as completing a sentence.
Tiversa buys building in downtown Pittsburgh and launches a music division, hiring
Tiversa buys a building downtown. Launches music division. Hiring
The robotic future is here: Thanks to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is second behind only California
An online survey of robotic start-ups companies finds that Pennsylvania has one of the largest such clusters in the world, right up there with the Silicon Valley, Boston, Tokyo and Stockholm.
Recycling well liners bodes well for PA economy and environment
A new venture to collect and recycle plastic well pad liners from Marcellus gas drilling sites has big implications for the state's environment and economy.
Fast-forward Pittsburgh: A Time-Lapsed Video Project
In this time-lapsed video project, a student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh captures lively scenes of Pittsburgh up to 20 seconds at a time.
On a Mission: Chester County's First Life Science Incubator
With its first tenant entrenched in the massive, former Johnson & Johnson building, the center is built to grow biopharma's dominant presence here.