Xconomy

JULY 10, 2019

That, plus robust merger and acquisition activity, set a record for venture-backed exit value—$165.2 More than a third of the companies that went public in the first half of this year were backed by venture capital.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity giant Symantec.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Without the aid of venture capital , the small upstart says, it has grown to “tens of thousands” of customers in five metro areas: the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Miami, and San Diego. Barr wrote in a blog post announcing the tie-up. The terms of the deal, which Barr wrote is expected to close this summer, weren’t disclosed.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The purchase was first reported by Geekwire, which cited a separate report from Reuters that the deal is valued at about $1 billion. The two biggest acquisitions were Whole Foods last year and Zappos in 2009, according to Statista.)

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Called Dell Technologies Capital, the investment arm plans to provide funding to about 20 startups this year, Scott Darling, president of group, told Bloomberg , which first reported the news this morning. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2017

Private equity investors have more capital at their disposal than at any time in more than a decade, which could boost prices for companies seeking acquisitions. As of Aug. 1, private equity firms in North America and Europe had secured $212.6 Dry powder levels in North American and European PE funds reached new heights of $738.7

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

But as Xconomy reported, details about the reorganization were scant, leaving open questions whether drug regulation actually needs to move faster. —Buzzfeed ran a lengthy report Wednesday on the sexual harassment charges against University of Washington vaccine researcher Michael Katze.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

—The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), whose drug-value analyses set the pharma industry’s teeth on edge , issued a new report on PD-1 inhibitors , part of the first wave of cancer immunotherapy drugs to be approved. In December we’ll gather in San Francisco to discuss the U.S. PRICE FIGHTS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

An obvious place to look for help is the venture community—Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures pointed out in a recent blog that venture capital is doing well, and is positioned to do even better in the future. Yet despite relative plenty in the bio-venture community, pharma suffers from a shortage of drug candidates.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

[ Editor’s note: Ben Fidler and Sarah de Crescenzo coauthored this report.] It is here, and then it is gone. But by the time everyone staggers to the airport or back home to sleep in their own beds, the annual few days of the J.P.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Watson Health is teaming up with 16 partners, which include imaging and diagnostics company Hologic; Sentara Healthcare; Sheridan Healthcare; UC San Diego Health; University of Miami Health System; and Merge Healthcare, which was acquired by IBM last year and is now part of Watson Health.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2019

We reported on both those stories and a lot more, including clinical ups and downs and new fundings. Also this week: Reports from. That’s more than Alzheimer’s patients and their doctors can say about aducanumab, the latest high-profile, high-cost failure in that frustrating field.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology. They also queried 15 VC firms.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Amongst several companies to report this week, the biggest news came from Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD ), whose hepatitis C drugs have become some of the top revenue producers in the industry. Some observers’ minds instantly jumped to business —Gilead needs to pick up the acquisition pace to find its next big thing.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2018

subsidiary, Firmenich—which reported about $3.3 But since then its stock price has fallen significantly, dropping below $1 per share multiple times in the past two years, which nearly got the listing booted from the Nasdaq exchange. Through a U.S. billion in sales in 2017—said Thursday it had had agreed to buy Senomyx for $1.50

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

DeskHub, one of San Diego’s oldest co-working companies, has about 500 members across two locations: a 23,000-square-foot space in Little Italy and about 15,000 square feet of space in Scottsdale, AZ. BisNow first reported the deal. Terms aren’t being disclosed. Jay Chernikoff, founder and CEO of DeskHub, is joining Cross.

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

companies during the first three months of 2018—marking the strongest single quarter in at least a dozen years, according to the Venture Monitor Report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Venture capital investors poured more than $28.2 billion into U.S.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

Improving economic fundamentals are stoking the IPO pipeline in the United States and elsewhere, according to a report issued Tuesday by the global consultant and accounting firm EY. exchanges during the first half of 2017, according to the report EY Global IPO Trends. Eighty companies raised a total of $22 billion on U.S. markets.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2017

The FDA reported that generic drug approvals are set to hit a record ; the agency under Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has moved this summer to increase generic competition and lower the nation’s high drug prices. Meanwhile, drug-price hawks can sharpen their talons on a report this week from The New York Times and ProPublica.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2018

Who will be able to afford all these options? We explored that question in our coverage. The price of drugs is certainly on a lot of minds these days, including the mind of President Trump, as he reportedly will make a. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Frank Vinluan reports from North Carolina on a new effort to boost agtech startups and university research. Jeff Engel maps out New England’s cluster of cybersecurity companies—one of the region’s strengths (and a rich source of acquisition targets). San Antonio Entrepreneur Center Opens Using Dallas Nonprofit as Model.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies.

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Xconomy

MARCH 12, 2018

The two companies had yet to even agree on a price in what was widely reported to represent the biggest tech deal in history. Singapore-based Broadcom had submitted bids ranging from. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2018

However you want to look at it, enjoy some good reading and reporting. OK, maybe it’s better to spin it like this: Here are some of the most interesting reads from this last week on cybersecurity, and the ways businesses are trying to secure our most sensitive data.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

In about one-third of the sites (13 out of 41), patients in the trial who took placebo reported an improvement in symptomatic diabetic gastroparesis. Actavis is now known as Allergan (NYSE: AGN ), adopting the name following its acquisition of that company last year. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. . —The U.S. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —David H. In the U.S.,

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Xconomy

JULY 30, 2019

About this time last year, DNA sequencing giant Illumina upped its financial projections, estimating its sales would grow 20 percent year-over-year. It exceeded that goal, with revenue rising 21 percent to $3.33 billion by the end of 2018. It’s a different financial story this summer.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

That Q4 2016 edition of a quarterly survey by University of San Francisco business professor Mark Cannice rated the overall confidence of the VCs at 3.81 on a scale of 5—-a number that remains almost unchanged in the latest survey taken in March and published Thursday.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. If youre buying a luxury home or just like looking at them, check out this live chat from reporter Lauren Schuker Blum and WSJ.com real estate editor Matthew Strozier. Downtown San Diego Condos. stock quotes reflect trades reported through Nasdaq only; comprehensive U.S. » More. Commercial.

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