socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. The largest deal in the quarter was for Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2009

However, venture funding totals were still well off the first quarter of 2008's nearly $1.2 billion in funding. However, venture funding totals were still well off the first quarter of 2008's nearly $1.2 billion in funding. The totals give an early look into other venture capital surveys due later this month.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. The funding could be as much as $100 million, and the first grants will be announced in 2017. —The U.S. PRICE FIGHTS.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

A recent analysis by socalTECH, of our detailed tracking of venture capital investment activity in Southern California, finds that there was around $932M in funding raised in the area in Q2, a rise from roughly $700M in Q1. PwC/NVCA officialy reported $950M invested in Q2 of 2008.

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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). We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Or, as always, summary notes available below. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 Clean Technology saw a 52 percent increase in terms of dollars, and 16 percent growth in deal volume over 2007, reaching an investment level of $4.1 billion in the third quarter.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence. But as Xconomy reported, details about the reorganization were scant, leaving open questions whether drug regulation actually needs to move faster.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

government’s Precision Medicine Initiative is an ambitious effort to collect the genomic data of 1 million Americans, and tech giant Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG ) is deeply involved. . —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

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. All eyes are on Holmes, who is scheduled to present data from the company’s technology at a medical conference on August 1. million in funding, according to a regulatory filing.

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Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2016

The filing held some surprises , however, as Xconomy reported: plans to convert about $200 million in debt—a massive amount for a privately held biotech—into shares at the IPO, with some of those shares holding special privileges for their owners. . —Ben Fidler contributed to this report. Reprints | Share:

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Well I am happy to report that it was mostly smooth sailing from there.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

—Boston startup creator Third Rock Ventures closed a $616 million fund , its largest to date, and also made former Eleven Biotherapeutics CEO Abbie Celniker the second female partner in its 10-year history. Pfizer also reported worse-than-expected earnings. The false positives came from a misreading of the test results.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. The tech industry is going south. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 2, 2016

The New York Times reported last week that the NFL and USA Football had publicized inaccurate statistics about the efficacy of a training program called Heads Up Football in preventing concussions in youth football players. As more people are correctly diagnosed, the scale of this problem will become clearer.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Elsewhere in Washington, the NIH chief warned about Congress’s inability to agree on Zika funding, and Vice President Joe Biden talked with Stat about cancer research. —Bill Gates, who has turned his own tech wealth into the world’s richest charitable foundation, was in San Francisco to cheer on Zuckerberg and Chan.

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