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What does Ben Franklin Technology Partners invest in?
Ben Franklin Technology Partners invests most often at Seed and Venture (76% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Sustainable Development Goals, Impact and Social Good.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners highlights
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4 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 76% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 91 rounds, median $108K
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5 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Ben Franklin Northeast helps early-stage technology companies and established manufacturers translate innovation into commercial success and economic prosperity.From their own website
- Type
- Government (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- Sustainable Development GoalsImpactSocial Good
- Based in
- Philadelphia, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first143 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- 2025
3 rounds
- Sept
- Sept
- Mar
- 2024
3 rounds
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- 2023
2 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- 2022
8 rounds
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- 2021
6 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- 2019
1 round
- May
- 2018
2 rounds
- Dec
- Jul
- 2015
23 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Sept
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 18 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 25 we have independently watched raise
3PunchConvo, Inc. Lewisburg4MP Inc AllentownA Sound StrategyAAYUNA, INC. AllentownABEC, Inc. BethlehemAPS Lasers Friendsville, PAAWG Contracting Duryea, PAAarogya Tech Inc. ReadingAdageOne Williamsport, PAAdelphia Seafood West LawnAkilum Bethlehem, PAAllentown Economic DevelopmentAmerican Crane &American Millwork andAmerican Paper BagAmerican Polarizers Reading, PAAmerichanvre Cast HempApplied Cadence Scranton, PAAttainable Edge, LLC ShavertownAutomate HQ ClarksCnpDcedInnovationworksNortheastern PASoutheastern
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed5 in all
LiftDNABought by OpenXUndisclosedFeb 2012
Acuity PharmaceuticalsBought by OPKO HealthUndisclosedJun 2011
Live On The GoBought by SnapfingerUndisclosedOct 2010
Ciclon Semiconductor Device CorporationBought by Texas InstrumentsUndisclosedFeb 2009
BitLeapBought by Barracuda NetworksUndisclosedNov 2008
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.