Technology Startup

Sponsors: Troutman Pepper

Criteria:

• Company must have been in operation at some point in the period between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2020.

Key Considerations:

• Product or service innovation including market need or assessment.
• Potential for significant growth.
• The management team and its ability and record of achieving success.
• A demonstration of success such as significant milestones, raising capital, and revenue.

Technology Emerging

Sponsors: Fox Rothschild and EisnerAmper

Criteria:

• Company must have been in operation before January 1, 2017. Revenues must be less than $50 million, except in the most recent fiscal year.

Key Considerations:

• Product or service innovation, including proprietary technology or other advantage.
• Company milestones including strategic decisions made by management that led to growth in revenues and/or earnings.
• Strength of management team including ability to raise capital.
• Profitability or demonstrated ability to achieve profitability (e.g. strategy to achieve break even, the ability to realize high gross margins, etc.), and decisions that led to corporate collaborations or license deals.

Technology CEO

Sponsor: Cozen O’Connor

Criteria:

• Individual’s background (CV/Bio required) and the company’s success to date.

Key Considerations:

• CEO’s management accomplishments and philosophy, including the communication of a vision and goals as achieved by the company.
• Leadership and impact in industry and/or market.
• Ability to attract and retain talent.
• Company milestones including financial accomplishments and a strategy for continued company success.
• Community and/or industry involvement.
• Extra consideration is given to leaders who have contributed more broadly to the strengthening and promotion of the tech industry in the region.

Technology Company

Sponsor: Comcast Business

Criteria:

• Company with more than $50 million in revenues in the most recently completed fiscal year.

Key Considerations:

• Leadership and product and/or service innovation in an industry or market.
• Significant company milestones including financial accomplishments.
• Community and industry involvement.

Digital Innovation

Sponsor: Capgemini

The Digital Innovation Award is presented to a company that is driving digital transformation and innovation.

Criteria:

• Nominee is a company that has applied new or existing technology in a unique or innovative way to solve a business problem or advance business goals.
• Nominee must have $1 billion or more in annual gross revenues and employ more than 1,000 employees.
• This can include an invention or early adoption of next-generation technology either for internal utilization or commercial application.

Investment Deal

Sponsor: Baker Tilly and EPAM

Criteria:

• Deal must have been fully executed between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020.
• Events that qualify for this category include Exit Transaction (e.g. IPO), Capital Raising Transaction (e.g. financing: debt, mezzanine, equity; recap), Buy-side or Sell-side of a Merger & Acquisition Transaction.

Key Considerations:

• Entries must include a Business and Transaction Narrative/Summary.
• Provide a brief business description including offerings, first-mover advantages, competitive barriers, and any unique asset(s), IP, technology, etc.
• Provide a brief history of business from its inception – especially as it relates to results from invested capital (if transaction was a sale).
• What is your market potential?
• What is your unique competitive advantage?
• What is the reason for the Sale or Purchase?
• How did the sale or purchase impact the broader industry(s) of the buyer and/or seller?
• What amount was invested from the inception and its uses. How much was invested in unique technology or other assets?

Healthcare & Life Sciences Startup

Sponsor: Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Criteria:

• Company must have been in operation at some point in the period between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2020.

Key Considerations:

• Discuss product innovation including market need/assessment and potential for significant growth.
• Discuss the management team and its ability and record of achieving success.
• Provide demonstration of success (e.g., significant milestones, raising capital, revenue, etc.).
• Describe the R&D investment strategy.
• What did the company do to overcome challenges in financing, development or commercialization?

Healthcare & Life Sciences Emerging

Sponsor: RSM US LLP and SAP

Criteria:

• Company must have been in operation before January 1, 2017. Must have sales, grants, or licensing fees.

Key Considerations:

• Describe product, including proprietary applications or other advantage.
• What animal or OUS (outside of the United States) clinical work has been done to prove the technology?
• Describe the impact on the clinical problem this technology is trying to solve (e.g. saving a hospital money on a procedure, making a clinician more productive, etc.).
• Address the strength of the management team including ability to raise capital.
• Profitability or demonstrated ability to achieve profitability (e.g., strategy to achieve break even, ability to realize high gross margins, etc.) or decisions that led to corporate collaborations or license deals.

Healthcare & Life Sciences CEO

Sponsors: EY and Morgan Lewis

Criteria:

• Individual’s background (CV/Bio required) and the company’s success to date.

Key Considerations:

• Describe CEO’s management accomplishments and philosophy, including the communication of a vision and goals as achieved by the company.
• Leadership and impact in industry and/or market.
• Ability to attract and retain talented resources.
• Company milestones including financial accomplishments and a strategy for continued company success.
• Community/industry involvement.
• Extra consideration is given to leaders who have contributed more broadly to the strengthening and promotion of the life sciences/healthcare industry in the region.

Healthcare Innovator

Sponsor: Independence Blue Cross

Criteria:

• The nominee can be a company, researcher, investor, or individual providing an innovative solution that has the potential to make a large and positive impact on cost, quality, and/or access in health care.

Key Considerations:

• The nominee should have a demonstrated business model for its solution and demonstrate the ability to generate rapid growth.
• The nominee should be able to demonstrate return on investment or clinical impact of its solution.
• The nominee can be in any sector (technology, life sciences, investment, health care delivery, etc.), but must be serving the healthcare industry in Greater Philadelphia.
• The nominee must demonstrate creativity and passion to re-thinking healthcare in the region and to driving exceptional health outcomes or dramatically lowering costs.

Legend Award (Lifetime Achievement)

Sponsor: Cigniti Technologies and Grant Thornton

The Legend Award for Lifetime Achievement is presented to an individual who has forwarded technology and sciences in the region through leadership and exemplary work. The Legend recipient must have a strong connection to the community, a history of personal accomplishments and a track record of success.

Gala Reception – “Dress to Impress”
NEW Dress Code: Business Appropriate Cocktail Style.
Please no denim and leave your formal wear at home!

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
300 South Broad Street, Philadelphia

Please use the main entrance on South Broad Street

5 p.m. — Doors Open and Light Refreshments
6 p.m. — Awards Ceremony
7 – 10 p.m. — Reception featuring Open Bar and Cocktail Stations

Most Convenient Parking Locations:

The Kimmel Center garage – limited availability. The entrance to The Kimmel Center parking garage is located just south of the Broad Street entrance to the building and can be accessed only by cars traveling south on Broad Street.

Avenue of the Arts garage is located on 15th Street between Locust and Spruce Streets.

Directions to the Center and Additional Parking options can be found in the link below:
https://www.kimmelcenter.org/plan-your-visit/how-to-find-us/ »

Reserve Tickets Soon

Registration opens soon for the 28th Annual Enterprise Awards on May 18, 2021 at the Kimmel Center.

Watch The 27th Annual Enterprise Awards

Link to watch the 27th Annual Enterprise Awards.

The Tribute Journal will provide you with more information on each award, finalists, sponsors and tributes. It is an ideal opportunity to recognize our honorees and finalists at the Enterprise Awards by honoring them in the context of a memorable message.

Technology Judges

• John Castleman
  CEO
  Mobiquity
• Vanessa Chan
  Professor of Practice, Innovation and Entrepreneur
  Center for Technology Transfer
  University of Pennsylvania
• Greg Doran  
  Chief Financial Officer
  Frontline Education
• Sean Dowling
  Partner
  Osage Partners
• Shintaro Kaido
  Vice Provost & Chief Innovation Officer, Drexel Applied Innovation
  Drexel University
• Brian Kim
  Partner
  NewSpring Capital
• Kalyana Rao Konda
  President, NA East
  Cigniti Technologies
• Amy Loftus
  General Manager
  Slalom
• Debbie O’Brien
  SVP, Market Manager, Enterprise Business
  Bank of America
• Daphne Thomas
  Chief Operating Officer
  iPipeline
• Nassar Nizami
  Chief Information Officer
  Jefferson University/Einstein
• April Walker
  Director
  Microsoft Technology Center

Life Sciences & Healthcare Judges

• Kevin Brophy
  Life Sciences Industry Principal
  SAP
• Greg Cathcart 
  Chief Executive Officer 
  Excellis Health Solutions
• Gerianne DiPiano
  Chief Executive Officer 
  FemmePharma
• Lawana Dumas
  Director, Oncology Strategic Alliances
  Merck
• Calvin Knowlton
  Chief Executive Officer
  Tabula Rasa
• Kamna Giare-Patel
  Sr. Director, Global Continuation Engineering
  DSM BioMedical
• Audrey Greenberg
  Chief Financial Officer
  The Discovery Labs
• Matthew Reber
  Partner
  1315 Capital
• Rick Riegel
  Vice Chairman
  Phlexglobal
• Zev Sunleaf
  Vice President, Office of Technology Transfer, Commercialization & Innovation
  Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

• Healthcare Innovator
  • Quantitative Radiology Solutions
  • Spirovant Sciences
  • Tridiuum

Sponsor:  Independence Blue Cross

• Healthcare CEO
  • JeanMarie Markham, Clinlogix
  • Michael Whitman, Micro Interventional Devices
  • Tony Coletta,Tandigm Health

Sponsors:  EY and Morgan Lewis

• Healthcare Emerging
  • Camber Spine Technologies
  • Imalogix
  • Zynerba Pharmaceuticals

Sponsors:  RSM US LLP and SAP

• Healthcare Startup
  • Century Therapeutics
  • MOBILion Systems
  • Quil

Sponsor:  Ben Franklin Technology Partners

• Technology Company
  • Accolade
  • Elemica
  • InstaMed, a J.P. Morgan Company

Sponsor:  Comcast Business

• Technology CEO
  • Ned Moore, Clutch
  • John Castleman, Mobiquity
  • Andy Schwartz, xtraCHEF

Sponsor:  Cozen O’Connor

• Technology Emerging
  • Benefits Data Trust
  • Greenphire
  • Perpay

Sponsors:  Fox Rothschild LLP and EisnerAmper

• Technology Startup
  • Cesium
  • ForMotiv
  • ZeroEyes

Sponsor:  Troutman Pepper

• Investment Deal
  • iPipeline
  • Spark Therapeutics
  • Tmunity Therapeutics

Sponsor:  Baker Tilly

2021 Legend Award Honoree

Sponsored by: Cigniti Technologies and Grant Thornton

Josh Kopelman

First Round Capital

Josh is Founding Partner of First Round Capital, one of the leading seed-stage venture funds in the country, including 25 investments in local companies. Josh has consistently ranked in the top 20 of Forbes annual “Midas List” of the top 100 tech investors. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Josh founded three companies: In 1992 Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – taking it public in 1996. Josh co-founded Half.com in 1999 and led the company through its acquisition by eBay. And in 2003 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that was acquired by Symantec. Josh is an inventor on over a dozen U.S. Patents for his work in Internet technology. On a local level, Josh also serves as Chairman of the Board for The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC and is a member of the board of directors of the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation.

2020 Digital Innovation Honoree

Sponsored by: Capgemini

World-renowned for clinical, educational, and research excellence, Penn Medicine is one of the nation’s top academic medical centers. Its Information Services Department develops and manages technology that supports the day-to-day clinical, research, educational, financial, and management operations. Penn Medicine will be recognized for the creation of its Immune Health Report, a software platform integrating information across its health system to enable real-time clinical decision support and research discoveries in cancer immunotherapy.

The Enterprise Awards, presented by Fairmount Partners and KPMG LLP, recognizes and honors leadership and outstanding achievement in investment and in the technology, health and sciences industries throughout the region. Nominations are now open.

Nomination Form