
POWERING INNOVATION.
FUELING GROWTH. CREATING JOBS.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners remains one of the most highly recognized and prized high-tech investment models in the country, supporting innovation and high-growth enterprises from concept to startup to scale. It’s a formula that works.
Year after year, Ben Franklin delivers real results, helping to power Pennsylvania’s economy and attract the best and brightest to our commonwealth. According to independent analyses, every dollar invested by the commonwealth into Ben Franklin generates $4 in additional state taxes.
Since its inception more than 40 years ago, Ben Franklin has boosted the state economy by more than $30 billion, generating more than 58,000 jobs in client firms, plus an additional 101,000 spinoff positions, for a total of 159,000 new jobs that otherwise would never have existed.
RESOURCES

In 2024, Ben Franklin clients generated $3.5 billion in revenue and secured nearly $1.1 billion in post-Ben Franklin financing, supporting 1,630 companies and helping clients create nearly 1,244 jobs while retaining 9,959 more positions. Portfolio clients developed 197 patents and software copyrights, commercialized 250 new products and launched 87 new processes.
Ninety-nine new companies formed.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners generated $400 million in tax receipts for the state and boosted Pennsylvania’s overall economy by $6.1 billion between 2017 and 2021, helping to create 16,006 high-paying jobs during that same period, according to an in-depth independent economic analysis by KLIOS Consulting and Econsult Solutions Inc.
LOCATIONS

CENTRAL &
NORTHERN PA
Stephen Brawley
President & CEO
200 Innovation Blvd
Suite 150
State College, PA 16803
(814) 863-4558

NORTHEASTERN PA
Angelo J. Valletta
President & CEO
Ben Franklin TechVentures
116 Research Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015
(610) 758-5200

SOUTHEASTERN PA
Scott Nissenbaum
President & CEO
Building 100 Innovation Ctr.
4801 S. Broad St, Suite 200
The Navy Yard
Philadelphia, PA 19112
(215) 972-6700

SOUTHWESTERN PA
Innovation Works
Ven Raju
President & CEO
2 Allegheny Center, Suite 100
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
(412) 681-1520
