{"id":30869,"date":"2025-11-11T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30869\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:58:31","slug":"philly-updates-autofill-and-tax-accountant-tools-for-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30869\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly updates autofill and tax accountant tools for small businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Power Moves<\/a>\u00a0is a recurring series where we chart the comings and goings of talent across the region. Got a new hire, gig or promotion? Email us at\u00a0philly@technical.ly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both state and local governments are rolling out new technology-focused initiatives to support residents this fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The City of Philadelphia announced a new program to teach nonprofits how to use common tech tools. Plus, local startup FSH Tech is working with the city on two platforms to help small business owners complete forms and file taxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The commonwealth also announced a partnership with the University of Pennsylvania related to artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read all the details and check out more power moves below.<\/p>\n

FSH Tech wins city contracts to build tools for small business owners<\/p>\n

FSH Tech, a 2025 RealLIST Startup honoree<\/a> that creates software platforms for city operations, won multiple contracts with the City of Philadelphia to build tools for small business owners<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first project autofills repeated information, like name and address, on city forms. It works on mobile devices and tracks the status of small business forms. The second platform matches business owners to accountants to help them file taxes, Lilly Chen, founder and CEO of FSH Tech, told Technical.ly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much of what happens in this ecosystem comes down to access. It comes down to awareness,\u201d Chen said. \u201cAs the technology provider that\u2019s helping the city try to streamline a lot of those processes, I\u2019m very deeply empathetic to all the small business owners.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The tools will be available in time for next year\u2019s tax season, and open for sign-up early next year, Chen said. Earlier this year, FSH Tech landed a contract<\/a> with Pittsburgh Public Schools to redesign its food services system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AI and data academy established for nonprofits<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s Office of Innovation and Technology (OIT)<\/a> launched a program to help nonprofits use tools like AI and data visualization. Called the SPARK Innovation Academy, participants will take a nine-week course on how to use technology to further their missions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SPARK Innovation Academy costs $2,500, and OIT is offering 20 professionals a complete scholarship for the program. Applications<\/a> for the first cohort will close on Nov. 14, and courses will begin on Jan. 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNonprofits are the backbone of Philadelphia,\u201d Melissa Scott<\/a>, chief information officer for the City of Philadelphia, said. \u201cWhen they have access to the right digital tools and knowledge, they can focus more time and energy on what matters most, serving their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commonwealth taps Penn as AI advisors\u00a0<\/p>\n

The University of Pennsylvania<\/a> will serve as an advisor to the commonwealth about AI policy<\/a> and execution through a new collaboration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Penn\u2019s faculty and administration will offer advice to the state government about how to deploy AI, place guardrails around the technology and manage risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAI is evolving faster than any technology in decades,\u201d Gov. Josh Shapiro said. \u201cTo stay ahead, we\u2019re connecting our world-class research institutions like Penn, our innovative private sector and our<\/p>\n

forward-looking state and local governments to harness its power responsibly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Penn has been embracing the rise of AI over the last few years, establishing AI degree programs<\/a> at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, plus opening a new building<\/a> to house data science and AI programming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More power moves:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Philly startup founders Matt Wallach, Dan Goldsmith and Jonathan Brassington launched venture firm Proofpoint Capital<\/a> at the end of October.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Waskar Paulino joined<\/a> design startup Ideate<\/a>, based in Philly, as its new chief technology officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Drexel University\u2019s Entrepreneurial Game Studio is working with<\/a> the New Jersey Institute of Technology to teach K-12 students how to design their own video games. This initiative builds on Professor Frank Lee\u2019s other projects<\/a>, like putting Tetris and Pong on the Cira Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Atlantic City-based founder Logan Jones and her fintech company Ticker were selected<\/a> for TechCrunch\u2019s Startup Battlefield 200 and secured a spot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.<\/p>\n

Global biopharmaceutical company GSK<\/a>, which has its US headquarters in Philly, announced that Luke Miels will be the company\u2019s new CEO<\/a> effective Jan. 1. Miels is currently the chief commercial officer and will be taking over from Emma Walmsley.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trash cleanup company Glitter<\/a>, a 2024 RealLIST Startup<\/a>, launched<\/a> its Glitter Members Hub last month. The platform will help users track their block\u2019s cleaning status, view cleaner profiles, manage payments and invite others to join the block.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adjunctions, a platform that connects adjunct professors with open teaching positions at universities, partnered<\/a> with OneHE, a professional development platform for higher education. The collaboration will integrate OneHE\u2019s learning resources into the Philly startup\u2019s platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dave Langdale is the new chief revenue officer<\/a> for the US Private Banking business at global financial services company SEI<\/a>, located in Oaks, Pennsylvania, effective Jan. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia<\/a> welcomed a new board of directors<\/a> and the new roster for its executive committee. The org also announced Madeline Bell, CEO of the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia<\/a>, would be chair of the CEO Council for Growth<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

David Krupnick and Elliot Menschik joined<\/a> the Wistar Institute\u2019s<\/a> Board of Trustees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

London-based Axiom GRC acquired<\/a> local cybersecurity company IS Partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power Moves\u00a0is a recurring series where we chart the comings and goings of talent across the region. Got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[278,227,4774,69,71,70,5399,503],"class_list":{"0":"post-30869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-municipal-government","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-startups","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}