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Caltech Invests In Coursera

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The California Institute of Technology is backing, Coursera , a startup in the area of online education with an equity investment, plus the promise to put some of its courses online for free, in a deal worth $3.7M, the school announced this morning with Coursera. in investments to back its efforts to put university courses online.

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Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Equity Funding

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Avidity Biosciences Finds $16M

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La Jolla-based Avidity Biosciences , a biopharmaceuticals developer focused on monoclonal antibody and siRNA-based therapeutics, said today that it has raised $16M in a Series B funding round. The company's technology is based on research originally conducted at Caltech. Avidity Biosciences is led by Troy Wilson. READ MORE>>.

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Elevance Renewable Sciences Finds $104M

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An Illinois firm whose technology is based on, and licensed from Pasadena-based Materia and Caltech , has raised a whopping, $104M funding round. The funding will go towards its strategic growth plans. The funding will go towards its strategic growth plans. READ MORE>>.

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Impinj Raises $21M, But Drops IPO Effort

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Impinj , a developer of UHF, radio frequency identification (RFID) chips which has linked to Caltech, and an office in Orange County, said today that it has raised $21M in an equity funding round, as well as dropped its plans for an IPO. Impinj said the funding came from AllianceBernstein L.P.,

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Helixis Raises $5.3M

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Carlsbad-based Helixis , a developer of nucleic acid analysis tools based on technology spun out of Caltech, has raised $5.3M According to a regulatory filing, some of the funds involved in the deal include Advanced Technology Ventures VII and Domain Partners VII. The firm has not provided any other details of the equity funding.

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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

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Dave Eastman: For one thing, although we're not completely unique in this, is we don't take equity. There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc?