Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2019

Summer can be a slow time in San Diego, but its startups have stayed busy. —Ezoic, a startup that developed software for web publishers that uses machine learning techniques to personalize layouts and ad placements for site visitors, raised $33 million to further develop its technology. .

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2020

Each half-day Xcelerating Life Sciences forum is dedicated to helping industry leaders develop meaningful partnerships and explore bold new ideas to overcome healthcare’s biggest challenges. Can’t make the San Diego. Early bird tickets are on sale now for only $99. Grab yours today before prices go up.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Even as all eyes were on the American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference in downtown San Diego this week, other biotech companies were staying busy. Let’s get caught up with the latest life sciences news in San Diego. The San Diego biotech is developing therapies for cancers related to the Epstein-Barr virus.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Technology developed in San Diego for defense purposes has helped to seed the region’s private sector with employees who have skills in fields like cybersecurity, engineering, and biotechnology, as well as spur commercial innovation, according to a report published in October by the San Diego Military Advisory Council (SDMAC).

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2020

Agenda topics include Successful Research & Development Models, What It Takes for Commercialization, and Building a Biotech Ecosystem in San Diego. Join Xconomy as we bring together local innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors to explore bold new ideas in healthcare – and make the impactful connections.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

Let’s catch up with the latest tech news in San Diego. —San Diego’s AON Devices was among 10 startups selected to compete at a recent pitch competition hosted by the corporate venture capital arm of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ).

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2019

Locana, a gene therapy biotech in San Diego, is taking what it describes as a “parallel path” to developing therapeutics that could potentially fix diseases by changing our genetic code through altering DNA’s molecular compatriot, RNA.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The San Diego, CA, company made its public debut this week after starting up quietly earlier this year. The company also plans to develop drugs to tackle serious inflammatory diseases, although it hasn’t identified which it is aiming to treat.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2011

AddToAny , which develops social sharing widgets for the Wordpress and Drupal blog software packages, has been acquired by social sharing and marketing firm Lockerz. AddToAny was the brainchild of Pat Diven, II, who founded the firm when he was a student at the University of California San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2017

An economic impact study of San Diego’s emerging genomics industry counted 115 genomics-related companies operating in the region that directly employ over 10,000 people, and drive about $5.6 billion worth of annual economic benefits throughout the area.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Grail is set to be acquired for $8 billion by Illumina, the gene sequencing giant that formed the cancer diagnostics developer and spun it out as a separate company four years ago. The announcement comes less than two weeks after Menlo Park, CA-based Grail revealed its plans for an IPO to support commercialization of its first test next year.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2019

Let’s catch up with the latest life sciences news in San Diego. The company says it will use the new funds to hire new salespeople and engineers and further develop its technology, which medical devices vendors use to secure data traveling between or stored on devices. million Series A funding round.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2012

Fullerton-based HipGeo , the location tracking and social sharing software developer headed by Rich Rygg, has launched a new iPhone app, looking to help users track, document, and share their travels. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 8, 2018

Teradata (NYSE: TDC ), a specialist in data warehousing, business analytics, and consulting services, disclosed this week that it plans to move its corporate headquarters from Dayton, OH, to San Diego by the end of the year. The move is part of a broader corporate consolidation, according to a June 6 regulatory filing. According to.

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Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

Contract research organization Charles River Labs is shutting down its San Diego-area operations, moving the work done there to one of its two Northern California sites.

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Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2019

It was a relatively quiet week in the San Diego life sciences community, but local companies and organizations continue working away. —MEI Pharma, a late-stage cancer drug developer, presented updated data from a Phase 1b study of its lead drug candidate, ME-401, which is designed to inhibit a molecular pathway called PI3K delta.

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Xconomy

APRIL 11, 2019

Get the details on these developments and more in San Diego life sciences news: —Evofem Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVFM ) struck a deal to raise up to $80 million in a private placement. Locally based biotech companies receive fresh funding from investors. million shares.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

ViaCyte’s attempts to develop a stem cell therapy for diabetes have been stymied by the immune system, which recognizes the implanted cells as foreign. Now the two companies are combining their respective technologies to develop a stem cell-based therapy that could effectively cure type 1 diabetes.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2016

Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research that led to the development of fluorescent proteins used to illuminate tissue and track biological processes, has died, according to a statement from the university. He compared himself to John C.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Xconomy asked technology and innovation leaders around our network to reflect on the most important developments in their industries during 2017, and the answers were appropriately wide-ranging.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Exact Sciences has gone from being a customer of Biomatrica, a San Diego-based vendor of equipment for storing and preserving blood and saliva samples, to now being the company’s owner.

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Xconomy

JUNE 18, 2020

Typically a new biotech assembles a group of investors that collectively puts in the money a fledgling company requires to develop or acquire potential therapies.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

The center commissioned the report to help quantify the economic impact of the cybersecurity industry in San Diego, and to assess how employers view their prospects for growth and needs for future hiring. The center also asked the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. That represents a 9.5

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

San Antonio — A biomedical product developer, Watershed Idea Foundry, has created a method of identifying medical devices that have been implanted in the body that uses 3-D printing and its own software.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Startup Week San Diego, like a lot of other places that host similar events, has been billed as a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship. But while Startup Week San Diego has always collaborated with UP Global, San Diego entrepreneur and Startup Week organizer Austin Neudecker said, “We’ve always been an independent entity.”.

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Xconomy

MARCH 7, 2019

Chinese pharma company BeiGene has agreed to pay Ambrx $10 million upfront to experiment with technology the biotech has developed in a bid accelerate BeiGene’s search for new protein drugs for cancer treatment. Ambrx says its technology is able to incorporate “non-natural” amino acids into cells like E.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY ) has completed a $90 million expansion of its biotechnology R&D center in San Diego, added new automated synthesis equipment, and plans to build out its next-generation chemistry capabilities here over the next two years.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Fall is finally arriving, as indicated by the recent shortened work week, and few may object given the unseasonably hot, muggy weather San Diego has been experiencing recently. Track down somewhere with AC, then catch up on recent developments in the local life sciences scene.

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Xconomy

MAY 3, 2018

In the five years since it was founded, San Diego-based Arcturus Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ARCT ) says it has built a versatile platform for developing a variety of RNA-based medicines. Dueling lawsuits between the ousted CEO and the board could consume. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MARCH 5, 2018

As Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) prepares for its annual shareholders meeting Tuesday, March 6, its takeover battle with Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM ), has much of San Diego pondering a question reminiscent of a Joni Mitchell song: “Oh, don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?”

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2019

As we head into the weekend, crossing our fingers that the seemingly endless rain showers will be replaced by our usual sunshine, here’s a quick rundown of some recent news developments. —ResMed (NYSE: RMD ) acquired a South Korea-based medical equipment provider, the company said Friday. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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Xconomy

MARCH 5, 2018

Vividion Therapeutics is partnering with Celgene to develop new drugs that modulate protein levels as a way of treating disease. Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG ) will pay San Diego-based Vividion $101 million up front, which includes an equity investment. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2020

Dave Johnson has known UC San Diego physician and cancer reseacher Thomas Kipps for nearly 20 years. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The San Diego artificial intelligence company Brain Corp. topped the chart for raising the most venture capital in San Diego during the third quarter that ended September 30, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday. As Xconomy reported in July, Brain Corp. As Xconomy reported in July, Brain Corp.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But the development of non-addictive, non-opioid pain drugs lags far behind drug R&D for other diseases ( I wrote a few months ago about why that is ), and a report from BIO released today helps quantify just how little the industry is doing in this area, and how rarely they succeed when companies do try.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Molecular Assemblies , a San Diego startup developing a new enzymatic method for synthesizing DNA, said today it has raised $2.3 The funding will be used to hire more scientists and to advance the company’s development of enzymatic DNA synthesis technology, CEO Michael Kamdar said in an interview Friday.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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