Overview
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is the region's catalyst for Stimulating Entrepreneurial Potential. For over 25 years, we have invested in innovative enterprises and created commercialization pathways and partnerships that generate wealth through science and technology.
Ben Franklin is part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Ben Franklin Technology Partnership. We provide entrepreneurs and established businesses with the Capital, Knowledge and Networks to compete in the global marketplace. We have provided a total of more than $130 million to grow more than 1,600 regional enterprises across all areas of technology.
Our partnerships with the universities and others strengthen the innovative fabric of our region. We are founding partners of The Nanotechnology Institute (NTI),
Mid-Atlantic Nanotechnology Alliance (MANA), Pennsylvania Green Growth Partnership (PAGGP), Pennsylvania Advanced Textiles Research and Innovation Center (PATRIC),
Pennsylvania Environmental Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Industry (PETPI), and the PA Biotechnology Center of Bucks County. We are founding partners of the Energy
Commercialization Institute (ECI) and other partnerships emerging through our regional energy strategy, funded through the Commonwealth's Alternative Energy Development
Program. Ben Franklin is also a founding partner of the Emerald Stage2 Ventures Fund, The Minority Angel Investor Network and is a partner of the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group
(MAG) Fund I & II and DreamIt Ventures.
We are Uniquely Ben™
Six Key Goals to our Five Year Plan, 2007 - 2011
- Grow Technology Companies in Pennsylvania
- Money & Smarts at the Right Moment
- Get Ideas to Market
- Mobilize the Region to Get Behind the Next Big Idea
- Light a Fire for New Technology
- Listen
5 Year Strategic Plan Brochure
CAPITAL
"Money & Smarts at the Right Moment"
BFTP/SEP's Investment Group provides critical seed and risk capital, validating the entrepreneur's vision and attracting other investment sources. Investments are coupled with business development and management consulting to help companies succeed in the global marketplace.
KNOWLEDGE
"Getting Ideas to Market... Faster"
BFTP/SEP's Technology Commercialization Group (TCG) works with companies to identify new products for development and commercialization, and finds the best solutions team within our extensive partner network of regional universities and research incubators. The TCG also identifies market needs and partners to create new pathways to commercialization for entrepreneurs and researchers.
NETWORKS
"Mobilizing the Region Around the Next Big Idea"
More than twenty years ago, we began developing research and commercialization networks for the region's then-emerging biotechnology industry. It became the region's fastest growing technology sector. Today we are at it again with nanotechnology and green/energy efficient technologies.
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