Three companies had gotten Ben Franklin funding previously. Holganix L.L.C., a Glen Mills maker of organic fertilizer, received $200,000 in the latest round. It had gotten $250,000 in February.
EyeIC Inc., a West Conshohocken firm founded in 2004 and based on technology from the University of Pennsylvania, got $150,000. The company uses imaging technology to monitor the progression of glaucoma and other eye diseases. It had previously received $575,000.
QR Pharma Inc., a Berwyn drug-development firm working on treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, landed $110,000. Started in May 2008, the company had gotten $500,000 earlier.
Five of the 11 companies are in the medical-technology field, including Prezacor Inc., a Newtown, Bucks County, firm developing a pain-management patch that received $250,000, and Stabiliz Orthopaedics L.L.C., a Philadelphia developer of medical devices to treat bone fractures, which got $120,000.
RCD Technology Inc., of Quakertown, is the graybeard of the group, founded in 2001 and having spent its early years in a business incubator at Lehigh University in Bethlehem. The maker of specialized RFID tags received $160,000.
In contrast, Plehn Analytics Corp., an award-winner in Temple University's 2011 business-plan competition, is a newbie. It uses algorithms to crunch data from various government agencies into reports for the financial-services industry. One of those data sets just might show that Plehn received $150,000.
