In partnership with the PA WILDS Center for Entrepreneurship, and with funding support provided by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ recent innovation competition targeted the counties of Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, and Jefferson. Dozens of emerging entrepreneurs who are developing an innovation related to the maker economy, forest products, outdoors and recreation…
EXPLORE! Entrepreneurship Summit: Growing a Business in the Alleghenies
Featuring Keynote Speaker Joe Veneto, Chief Experience Officer, Veneto Collaboratory If you are looking to start an outdoor recreation business, or one that supports outdoor recreation tourism in the Alleghenies, Explore! Entrepreneurship Summit is for you. Presented by Startup Alleghenies, the event will be held at River Mountain, on May 15-16, 2022. This information-packed, two-day…
Ben Franklin Technology Partners is partnering with the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) to offer local businesses and organizations Information Technology (IT) internships during Spring, Summer and Fall 2022 semesters.
The Ben Franklin Job Link program is working with IST’s Career Solutions team to connect IST students with local organizations in need of IT support/projects. Talented IST students can: Review company website for content update. Update and review employee access to systems to ensure security. Collect, enter, and clean data on Excel. Provide data analytics….
You Could Win a $50,000 Startup Grant from Ben Franklin Technology Partners!
In partnership with the PA WILDS Center for Entrepreneurship, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, an award-winning, tech-based economic development program, is looking for innovators with BIG IDEAS located in Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, or Jefferson County, PA. If you are developing or crafting a product, process or innovation related to the maker economy, outdoors and recreation, forest…
Five PA Companies To Receive Funding from Ben Franklin Technology Partners!
At the September 2021 Board of Director’s meeting, five additional companies were approved to receive an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA. Emerging entrepreneurs and small business owners who are developing a new, product, process, or software application – and need startup funding, need to know about the Ben Franklin…
FINALISTS IN BEN FRANKLIN’S $50,000 BIG IDEA CONTEST ANNOUNCED!
Over the course of the summer, hundreds of people located in Ben Franklin’s 32-county footprint in Pennsylvania, visited BIGIDEA.BenFranklin.org to check out the rules and the easy application process for our $50,000 innovation contest. Recently, our team had the difficult job of choosing finalists from all the applications received from the region’s emerging tech-entrepreneurs and…
Ben Franklin Technology Partners Invests in 14 Tech Startups!
Creating Jobs and Helping Grow the PA Economy STATE COLLEGE, PA – Fourteen companies located in central and northern PA recently received an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners that will allow them to further develop and commercialize new products, processes, or software applications. The Ben Franklin program has been investing in tech…
THE TECHCELERATOR@STATE COLLEGE ANNOUNCES THREE WINNERS!
STATE COLLEGE, PA – Six local entrepreneurial teams have been attending a ten-week, virtual, business startup boot camp as part of a program offered by Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator @State College in partnership with the Invent…
Take A Seat In Our No-Cost Startup Boot Camp And You Might Take Home Up To $10,000!
STATE COLLEGE, PA –Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator@StateCollege; a partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, is again offering local entrepreneurs, grad-students, professors, and university researchers its VIRTUAL 10-Week Business Startup Boot Camp. You’ll expand your network, engage with other successful entrepreneurs, discuss your business model with experts and develop a pitch that could win you up…
SIX PA STARTUPS RECEIVED AN INVESTMENT FROM BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
STATE COLLEGE, PA – Every year, dozens of PA startups get their start with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital and business support services to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. www.cnp.benfranklin.org . At the March 2020 Board of Director’s…
