Innovation can take many forms, Sometimes the form of a craft beverage! Whether you are looking to connect with other professionals, founders, entrepreneurs, or exchange ideas, Venture Café is the space to make it happen. Come to connect, engage, and build relationships within the Philadelphia innovation ecosystem. You never know when you’ll be part of a ✨serendipitous collision ✨that will take you to the next level!

For entrepreneurs interested in growing their business to the next level: learn about what Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania does for technology-focused startups and companies in the Greater Philadelphia region, and the capital, counsel and connections you can gain through Ben Franklin’s investments.

Demo innovative digital health technologies featuring the Assuta RISE cohort. About the Assuta RISE-Science Center Partnership RISE, Assuta’s news arm, today launched RISE with US in collaboration with University City Science Center from Philadelphia – a program that equips startup companies to successfully break into the global health market. 101 companies applied to participate in the program, all with an emphasis on digital health solutions, computational technology, artificial intelligence and big data, from which the six most promising companies that qualified for the program were selected. Learn more.

Customer discovery has been around for more than a decade. You may feel like you’ve been there and done that.  But did it unlock valuable strategic insights and fuel venture growth?  If not, you likely need to get the right framework for how to do it. Effective customer discovery is one of the most overlooked but critical aspects of informing your strategy and keeping your market edge.  Join us as we examine customer discovery done right and how it can make global markets in the Life Sciences. 

Innovation can take many forms, Sometimes the form of a craft beverage! Whether you are looking to connect with other professionals, founders, entrepreneurs, or exchange ideas, Venture Café is the space to make it happen. Come to connect, engage, and build relationships within the Philadelphia innovation ecosystem. You never know when you’ll be part of a ✨serendipitous collision ✨that will take you to the next level!  

Operated at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering, ENIAC was hailed by The New York Times as “an amazing machine which applies electronic speeds for the first time to mathematical tasks hitherto too difficult and cumbersome for solution”.    In 2025 the City of Philadelphia will recognize the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps while preparing for the 80th anniversary of ENIAC. As the world’s first programmable, electric, General-purpose digital computer financed by the United States Army, ENIAC is an example of what’s possible when education, industry, and government work together to achieve excellence.   Join us as we bring together members of the teaching community, industry, and education focused entrepreneurs to share ways to provide equitable access to computer science education.   The Edupreneur Roundtable is a recurring convening that serves as an entry point for essential conversations about race, racism, the digital divide, and the many intersections that impact the progress of civic engagement through education.

Join with Clarifi, one of the largest non-profits in the Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley region dedicated to financial empowerment, for an educational panel about entrepreneurship and funding your small businesses.   Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and listen to experts from the Philadelphia-region discuss and field questions about entrepreneurship, capital raising, and what resources are available to small business owners.