A growing FinTech company based in Australia looks for a North American home, searches far and wide, and selects Philadelphia. But for new entrant ICS that isn’t the entire story. The truth is, “Philly picked us,” said Christian Eriksen, Chief Commercial Officer of ICS, which opened its U.S. office in Philadelphia in September 2022.

“When you start out as an Australian company, and you want to expand into the United States, it doesn’t come without challenges,” he said.

As the search continued – and ICS hired two senior executives […]

Greater Philadelphia’s life sciences industry is booming thanks to an abundance of resources, infrastructure, and a talented workforce that increasingly consists of women who are driving the region’s growth, according to an analysis released recently by the Chamber.

The Chamber’s analysis, using data from Bureau of Labor Statistics extracted by Lightcast, a global labor market data and analytics company, showed life sciences companies in the region employ about 4,000 more women than men in key occupations such as biochemists, biophysicists, and other scientists and technicians. Over the past decade, industry job growth among women has been 12% […]

A better path to Pennsylvania is being built for companies looking to relocate and expand.

Just days into his administration, Governor Josh Shapiro quickly signed two transformative executive orders, demonstrating that Pennsylvania will do what is needed to drive economic growth and ensure the state is a friendly place to do business.

The first order established the Pennsylvania Office of Transformation and Opportunity and the Economic Development Strategy Group under the direction of Ben Kirshner, founder and former Chairman and CEO of Tinuiti. The second aims to

Companies in Greater Philadelphia’s fast-growing life sciences industry are immersed every day in the very building blocks of human life. But to prosper, these same companies also depend on three building blocks of successful businesses: talent, real estate, and investment.

And after a blockbuster year, each of these key areas is poised to help companies deliver even more growth in 2023; this is no small thing. The efforts of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia to attract high-flying companies and those with the potential to soar are transforming the region’s economy and workforce and resulting in […]

In 2022, more company CEOs and entrepreneurs heard the message, “Select Greater Philadelphia,” as the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia increased efforts to identify, engage, and assist organizations looking to locate or expand in the region. Those activities included targeted outreach and marketing to executives, especially C-level leaders in life sciences and cell and gene therapy, and an aggressive conference and trade show calendar. “As a result, project activity in 2022 – measured by leads and prospects – is more than double what it was in 2021. Activity is actually on track to be 3.5 times the Chamber’s seven-year […]