PCI Ventures 7th Annual Showcase [event recap]

Penn Center for Innovation Ventures (PCI Ventures) recently hosted their 7th Annual Showcase at the Pennovation Center. Companies from the PCI Ventures’ portfolio and Pennovation Center members were there in full force sharing their progress, demonstrating their technologies, and networking with guests. Among these guests were PCI Venture partners, Penn faculty members, local investors and industry leaders. During the annual Showcase, PCI Ventures presents the CEO of the Year Award to an entrepreneur who has made significant progress with their company, reached important milestones, and best exemplifies the PCIV mission.

The 2019 CEO of the Year Award was presented to Sasha Schrode, CEO of Verix Health, formerly Greppo Technologies, who had an outstanding year which most recently included the closing of an $8 million Series A financing round. Following the award presentation, Pat Mooney, CEO of Linnaeus Therapeutics shared Linnaeus’ spin-out journey as a PCIV portfolio company. Pat made a point to highlight the benefits of working with PCI Ventures, with a special shout-out to Mike Dishowitz, Director of Upstart, for his SBIR grant guidance.

“The past year has been exciting and rewarding for our companies and the PCIV team. We have seen tremendous accomplishments across the portfolio,” said Michael Poisel, Executive Director of PCI Ventures. “The showcase once again was a great opportunity for us to present our progress to the community and involve them in its continued success.”
 

Verix Health (formerly Greppo Technologies): High-performance steerable needle technology. (Penn founder, Mark Yim)

Linnaeus Therapeutics: Developing a G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) agonist with applicability across a range of cancers. (Penn founders, Todd Ridky and Chris Natale)

 

List of companies featured at 2019 Showcase

All companies that participated in the poster/demo sessions are either PCI Venture portfolio companies and/or Pennovation member companies. 
* Penn Related
 

    • Axonova*

    • Avisi*

    • Bedtime Bulb

    • Biorealize*

    • Carisma Therapeutics* 

    • Chip DX*

    • Cocoa Press*

    • Dorothy*

    • DriQ Health

    • ELS*

    • Enteropass*

    • EpiVario*

    • Exio*

    • Exyn Technologies*

    • FloBio*

    • LignaMed*

    • Liquid Biotech*

    • Linnaeus Therapeutics*

    • Mechano Therapeutics*

    • Mobile Optx*

    • Nia Therapeutictics*

    • Neurokappa*

    • Onocor*

    • Opertech Bio*

    • The OrVac

    • Osciflex*

    • Ostiio*

    • Peroxitech*

    • PinPoint Therapeutics*

    • PolyAurum*

    • Prohibix*

    • ProNoto*

    • Strella*

    • TAIRIS*

    • Tern

    • Verix Health*

    • Vellum*

 

 

PCI Ventures 7th Annual Showcase