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StrongRoom AI’s Expansion into Greater Philadelphia Shows Strength of Region’s Business Community

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Entrepreneurship usually starts with an idea for a solution to a problem. It requires people who can combine theoretical and practical intelligence with a desire to stretch the boundaries into new frontiers.

It also requires money.

A few years back, venture capitalist Peter Bruce-Clark met then-19-year-old Australian entrepreneur Max Mito, a self-taught computer coder, and Christopher Durre, a computer scientist and engineer, who had an idea— “a classic garage concept”— to improve the safety of drug distribution by creating a suite of healthcare software that combine biometrics and AI applications to match […]

July 15th, 2024|Innovation, Life Sciences, Medical Device, Our News, Philadelphia, Technology, Workforce|0 Comments
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SDS Optic Finds Talent, Space, Kindness, and its Chance to Make History in Greater Philadelphia

It isn’t always easy to be a medical tech company located in Central Europe, especially when it comes to finding top-of-the-line scientists with niche competencies.

 A while back, SDS Optic, a fast-growing maker of cancer diagnostics in Poland, went looking for a very specific type of scientist and the search became a long-term endeavor.

“We were not successful in months of research and executive search,” said Mateusz Sagan, Chief Business Officer of SDS Optic. To pivot, the company decided to open a […]

May 30th, 2024|Life Sciences, Medical Device, Our News, Technology|0 Comments
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Italian Company Thema Selects Greater Philadelphia for U.S. Expansion

Thema, a CompLife Italia Group company, is a medical device consultancy located in the Northern Italian town of Imola, in the Metropolitan City of Bologna. A visit to Philadelphia in November 2023 by a four-person delegation led by Thema Founder and CEO Marisa Testa resulted in the company’s first U.S. expansion.

The journey to our region began with a conference and an introduction to the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia (the Chamber) from the Pennsylvania Department […]

March 20th, 2024|Life Sciences, Medical Device, Our News|0 Comments
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South Korea-based InBody Selects Greater Philadelphia After Recruiting Effort

When InBody, a fast-growing global medical device company based in South Korea, looked to expand its U.S. business to the East Coast, executives considered the usual suspects – Greater Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.

Greater Philadelphia checked all the boxes when it came to accessing a growing cluster of top hospitals and medical facilities, proximity to large metropolitan areas, a transportation network, and affordability.

But there was one thing that the InBody Co. Ltd. team didn’t anticipate, said Chief Executive Officer Rami Lee, was the lengths that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (the Commonwealth) and the Chamber of Commerce for […]

January 21st, 2024|Life Sciences, Medical Device, Our News|0 Comments
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