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.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2017

A look at the companies who are private, backed by venture capital, and are valued at more than $1 billion across Southern California -- from San Diego to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara -- is an interesting contrast in the wide range of types of technology companies across the region. SpaceX (www.spacex.com).

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

Venture capital investors poured more than $28.2 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).

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

Is one of the bigger biopharma acquisitions of the year in trouble? As Reuters reports, Roche and Spark remain committed to the. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ). Yet the deal has now been pushed back four times.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn.

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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

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

JUNE 23, 2016

San Francisco-based Webpass has spent the past 13 years working to bring ultra-fast wireless Internet access to homes (primarily large apartment complexes) and businesses around the country. Google Fiber began testing its own wireless Internet technology in Kansas City earlier this year, Recode reported.

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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

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

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

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

With President Trump holed up in New Jersey, rattling his saber at Kim Jong-un and Mitch McConnell and ignoring his own commission’s advice on the opioid crisis, there was still life sciences news from the nation’s capital.

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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

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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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. Venture capital. 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. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Developers.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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. Jacobson jokes. "We Live Chat Recap. Footnotes*.

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