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San Diego Innovation Economy Extended Gains in 2015: Connect Report

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The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County. Software startups made up nearly 63 percent (255 companies created) of all new high-tech ventures created in 2015, a trend fueled chiefly by software app development, according to the report.

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SD Venture Group Opens Bay Area Office as Part of “Cheeky” Campaign

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The San Diego Venture Group has established a beachhead in San Francisco, and it’s opening for business Tuesday. The idea is to provide a home away from home for San Diego startups looking to do deals in the Bay Area. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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With a $10.2M Boost, YourMechanic Aims At Mobility Fleet Market

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But whether Uber, Toyota, GM, Honda, or Google end up at the very top of this mobility industry, it’ll be good news for the companies that are developing services to support future high-tech car fleets, says Anthony Rodio. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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‘Megadeals’ Dominate Q2 as VCs Invest $15.3B, and Top 10 Deals

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It was the 10 th consecutive quarter that venture firms put at least $10 billion into startups and other high-tech companies, including a $3.5 A lot of money went into software, mostly because of some big, expansion-stage deals.”. It is the 27 th straight quarter in which software raked in the most funding. San Francisco.

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Biotech Roundup: Deals Gone Wrong, Ethical Red Flags & Bay Goodbyes

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—A team led by Jef Boeke of New York University, George Church of Harvard University, Andrew Hessel of software maker Autodesk, and Nancy Kelley proposed in the journal Science to build a synthetic human genome. billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year.

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Xconomy Announces Channel Focused on the Future of Education

Xconomy

All this is to say that trends in education and edtech—and especially how education applies to the business of high tech—has long been something our editors have focused on. It asked leading Xconomists the question: What should students be studying now to prepare for 10 years from now?

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Can Innovation Save Us?

Xconomy

Better edtech, perhaps in the form of next-generation MOOCs and other online training, might help people beset by the skills gap enter the high-tech workforce, which might help to slow rising inequality. But in the short term, videos and social media can also foment even more violence, as we saw in Dallas.