Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. As Xconomy reported last week , third-quarter venture funding also slipped nationwide to $14.99

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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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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

In this Xconomy Special Report , our veteran technology journalists Bernadette Tansey, David Holley, and I bring you deep insights from key industry leaders and observers about what the future holds for.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2020

Download the report here. Content includes: Regeneron, Moderna, and J&J’s ongoing battle against COVID-19 How governments and the private sector must step up funding coronavirus R&D efforts Lessons learned from China two months on The need to rapidly ramp-up pandemic vaccine production capacity.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

“More dollars, fewer deals” has been a prevailing trend in venture funding over the past couple of years, and it was evident again in the three months that ended September 30, according to the latest Venture Monitor report. While there was a 6 percent downtick from funding in the previous. Venture firms invested $21.5

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. deals (1,796 companies) during the third quarter that ended September 30, according to the inaugural “Venture Monitor” report released today.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2017

TP Therapeutics, which raised $45 million in May to advance its work on drug-resistant cancers, raised the most venture capital in San Diego County during the three months that ended June 30, according to regional data released today. Altogether, venture firms invested a total of $406.4 That was down slightly from the $411.2

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

While the headlines may be dominated by news of WeWork putting its IPO on hold after reports about its questionable corporate governance, the overall initial public offering market is doing just fine.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2018

But that is starting to change, as Asian cities—particularly in China—are snapping up more tech venture capital funding and exits, according to a new report from CB Insights.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Ciara Kennedy, who succeeded Mike Grey as Amplyx CEO late last year, said in an interview with Xconomy that the company plans to report results of its Phase 1 study at IDWeek, the annual infectious diseases conference that is set for early October in San Diego. But raising $67.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2017

A new report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook shows that U.S. venture firms have plenty of capital to invest in new companies, after 328 venture funds raised a total of $51.6 That’s a high-water mark for VC fund-raising in the post dot-com era. In the venture capital business, a rising tide lifts all boats.

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Xconomy

APRIL 1, 2020

The 33-person company managed to land the funding amid tenuous economic times by shifting into high gear directly after the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco in January, the same month the first COVID-19 cases in the US were reported, CEO Howard Federoff said.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Although there are still several days remaining in the first quarter of 2018, EY reports the number of first-quarter IPOs is 44 percent higher than the 25 offerings that occurred in the first quarter of 2017. IPO activity has been ticking up, with 36 IPOs raising more than $12.7 billion total raised was almost 17 percent higher than the $10.9

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

First came Inception Sciences , a holding company for spinning out biotech startups established by Versant Ventures and Peppi Prasit, the veteran San Diego drug developer. The MoneyTree Report, which showed Dauntless raising $8 million in the first quarter of 2016 and $4 million in the second quarter, was inaccurate, Martin said.).

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

While we’re looking at venture deal numbers from the past year , let’s consider the education technology industry, which isn’t broken out by sector in the general reports I’ve seen. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S. The EdSurge report.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

According to the latest Venture Monitor report, VCs invested slightly more than $16.5 venture firms refueled last year by raising a near-record $51.6 billion in 1,797 startups in the first three months of the year. That’s down almost 12 percent from the $18.7

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2018

billion, a figure compiled in the Venture Monitor Report. It’s early yet in 2018, but the current count could put life-sciences companies on pace to bust past last year’s $17.6 Elsewhere, the U.S. billion merger.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego chemist, passed away in Oregon this week. As the San Diego Union Tribune reported in 2013, Tsien (pictured) was also unafraid to shine the spotlight on what he considered suspect scientific approaches, even when espoused by legends like DNA co-discoverer James Watson.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

As Xconomy reported in 2014 , the program’s team intended to use a high-throughput. In a statement today, Versant says Roche has acquired the program dubbed “Inception 5,” which was focused on identifying small-molecule drugs to treat multiple sclerosis. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. The MoneyTree Report is prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Included is the $3.5

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

With most of its funding from philanthropists , ICER’s reports often undercut drug companies with detailed, complicated cases for lower—sometimes much lower—prices. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 9, 2018

companies through the first six months of 2018, according to the latest Venture Monitor report produced quarterly by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Last year, U.S. venture capital investments swelled to a level not seen since the dot-com era of the early 2000s. This year could be even bigger.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

San Diego’s Avelas Biosciences , founded in 2009 to advance a fluorescing biologic agent intended to help surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue, has completed a $20 million Series C round of venture funding. and San Diego’s Avalon Ventures.

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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

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. In the 2-1/2 years since it was founded, Nervana raised roughly $25 million.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

San Francisco-based performance management startup 15Five , whose mission is to torpedo annual performance reviews for workers and replace them with supportive weekly coaching by managers, announced today it raised $8 million in a Series A funding round.

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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.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Fueled by so-called mega-funds, investment in U.S.-based 30 to more than $84 billion, according to the latest quarterly Venture Monitor report , which is produced by the National Venture Capital Association (NCVA) and PitchBook. In the third quarter VC investments totaled nearly $28 billion, bringing the year’s total as of Sept.

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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. The technology was funded by the Department of Defense and comes from MIT’s Lincoln Lab. Buzzfeed reports that Katze is still drawing his UW salary, but his lab has been shut down.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2018

But in the United States, it was the year of the unicorn—at least according to the Venture Monitor report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. venture funding to a total of $84.2 venture funding to a total of $84.2 PitchBook, founded in 2007, can’t provide.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My a couple of people that worked for Softbank plus me got together and with sponsorships from Softbank created a separate venture fund.”. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The final numbers on 2016 fintech funding deals are in from New York-based research firm and investment database CB Insights, and venture capitalists seem to be cooling on the industry. According to a report released today, financial technology companies around the world attracted $12.7 Fintech has seen a frothy flood of.

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