Jarvus' VP of Delivery, Kat Jost, was recently named as a member of the most connected members of the Philly tech community.

Although the company is only a few years old, Fazio has been working on the idea for Nerd Street for nearly 16 years, he said — first as an idea with Jarvus cofounder Chris Alfano, and then a business project a few years later. In the early 2010s, Fazio a

Technologists are well represented in this year’s cohort, with several Comcast employees participating and a Keeper representing Jarvus Innovations, whose CTO and past Keeper Chris Alfano designed the app that last year’s cohort used to stay in touch.

When both measures are combined in a mobile mapping application, designed in partnership between Urban Spatial, Jarvus, and Kent Russell, residents can see for each property the utility of both preservation and development.

Fazio dropped out of Drexel after a year, but he continued to work at Jarvus, where he incubated the idea for Nerd Street. In the early 2010s, Fazio and Alfano invited friends and members of the local tech community to the Jarvus office for gaming parties

Chris Alfano thinks the demand for online learning right now is more like a scramble: Schools are figuring out how to carry out instruction and get online more aggressively since the switch to virtual learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.