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Hometown Glory: Get Startup Grants and Seed Investments From Your City

Think globally, but get your financial start locally.
Well-connected: Steve Boerner (left) and David Gritz of Hatch House.

After earning an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Ashrit Kamireddi was prepared to go wherever he had to in order to raise seed money to grow VeryApt, his apartment-review platform. But thanks to a $100,000 angel investment from Philadelphia’s StartUp PHL program, which invests in local entrepreneurs, he didn’t have to

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