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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

San Diego-based scientific and laboratory software maker Insightful Science announced this morning that it has acquired De Novo Software, the maker of FCS Express, flow cytometry data analysis software. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. Insightful Science is led by CEO Thomas Swalla.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

San Diego-based Neomorph , a biotech startup focused on protein degradation, said today that it has raised $109M in a Series A funding. The company said it will use the Series A funding to further develop its platform, advance lead programs, and expand the research team. The funding came from Deerfield Management.

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JULY 2, 2010

San Diego-based Qualcomm is hoping this week that the newly developing field of augmented reality--the layering of software and the real world via mobile phones and computers--will help bolster use of its products, and has released both a software development kit and announced a new research center around the field.

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JULY 20, 2021

San Diego-based Wugen, a biotechnology company which is developing treatments for solid tumors, recently annoucned a $172M, Series B funding round. The company--which says it licensed its technology from Washington University in St. Bali Muralidhar, M.D., Venture Partner at ICG, will all join the company's board with the funding.

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JUNE 25, 2020

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals developer Poseida Therapeutics has raised $110M more in funding, in its Series D round, the company announced this morning. Poseida is led by CEO Eric Ostertag, M.D.,

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APRIL 30, 2018

San Diego-based Scientist.com , which operates an onlin emarketplate for outsourced research for the life science industry, has jumped into the world of Blockchain.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Illumina Ventures , the early-stage venture capital investor which was founded by San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina , says it has raised $230M for its first fund.

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MAY 8, 2018

San Diego-based LunaDNA , which is developing a "community owned" platform for genomic and medical research information, said on Tuesday that it has raised $4M in a funding round. Aristides Patrinos, who was head of the Human Genome Project. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

San Diego-based Vividion Therapeutics , a biopharmaceuticals firm tapping into technology developed at The Scripps Research Insitute, has raised $50M in a Series A funding round. The company says it has developed a novel drug discovery platform that applies chemical proteomics to treat major unmet clinical needs.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

San Diego-based Molecular Stethoscope , a biotechnology startup developing a blood-based, liquid biopsy platform for early detection and monitoring of disease, has raised $8.2M The funding came from Data Collective, Pfizer, Index Ventures, an un-named research university, and angels. in a seed funding round.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

San Diego-based Scientist.com , the venture-backed, online marketplace for outsourced research, and biotech accelerator IndieBio announced this morning that the two are in a new partnership.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Forge Therapeutics, founded in 2015 with the goal of developing drugs that target metalloenzymes, said Wednesday it had agreed to let Basilea Pharmaceutica use its chemistry platform to develop new antibiotics. The San Diego. The former is marketed and distributed here by Astellas Pharma; the latter isn’t approved in the US.

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JUNE 7, 2011

San Diego-based Assay Depot , a developer of cloud-based, pharmaceuticals research marketplace, said this morning that it has raised $1.7M The company said the funding will go expand its pharmaceutical research platform. in a funding round. The round came from un-named, private investors. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2014

San Diego-based Assay Depot , which operates an online marketplace focused on scientific services, said this morning that it has raised $3M in a Series B funding round. Assay Depot operates a network of online, scientific focused marketplaces specifically aimed at helping scientists find experts and sources of scientific research.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

San Diego-based Epic Sciences , a firm developing cancer diagnostics technology, announced today that it has raised $13M in a Series B equity round. The firm said the new funds will go towards research and development operations, as well as commercialization of its platform. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

San Diego-based Chumby , the developer of a Linux-based, programmable device which connects to Internet information, has linked with QNX Software Sytsems Co. , the automotive electronics arm of Research in Motion. Tags: chumby software auto automotive electronics information internet device research motion. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

San Diego-based Triton Algae Innovations , a new startup whose founders include the co-founders of Sapphire Energy, Dr. Steve Mayfield and Dr. Jason Pyle, is announcing today that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Heliae Technology Holdings.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

San Diego Software Industry Council. This presentation will examine strategies and tools to select the content and features, design for cross platform solutions, and evaluate the technology for your current and future applications. Tuesday, September 11, 2012 -- Mobility: Exceeding Your Customers? Expectations.

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APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A manned mission to Mars is slated for as early as 2024, but there are serious health risks that must be mitigated in order for such a mission to be successful. The most pressing risk identified by NASA is radiation exposure.

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MAY 15, 2017

San Diego’s Scientist.com set out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations (CROs). Founding CEO Kevin Lustig said Scientist.com will use the additional cash to expand its operations. Lustig argued.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio. I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. I did that for a couple of years, which got me and my wife down to SoCal.

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APRIL 15, 2019

San Diego-based Wheels (www.takewheels.com) was co-founded by Jon and Josh Viner, who were the co-founders of Wag, where they raised nearly $400M in venture capital. Wheels currently operates in Los Angeles and San Diego. Josh Viner: Wheels is live in Los Angeles and San Diego. What is Wheels?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. Thats what uCast is all about. I have a Ph.D.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

From live storytelling to online platforms and face-to-face interactions at the earliest stages of R&D, these partnerships are showing how patients can influence the way drugs are developed and tested, help accelerate scientific research, and also get a sense of ownership in.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. As we did that, the industry and research started to grow around us.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

It’s been less than a year since Needham, MA-based PTC (NASDAQ: PTC ) shelled out $65 million to acquire Vuforia, the augmented reality technology created by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ). Vuforia’s headquarters has remained in San Diego, and Vuforia continues to operate four offices in Europe and Israel, Wright said.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

But this month their billions in estimated market value are eroding , amid widening suspicions against one trading platform, a half-billion-dollar heist from another exchange, and an awakened global regulatory community.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it’s becoming clearer that the fight against the spread of fake news won’t be won by humans alone.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Matthias Kurwig: Enervee is the world's first, personal energy efficiency scoring platform. You have to research it, and there's tons of complexity involved in identifying these kind of things. We've literally spent two years building infrastructure and a scalable platform to deal with all the math. What is Enervee?

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MARCH 19, 2014

So, it was a surprise when a number of smart, insider angels -- including Roy Rubin (founder of Magento, which he sold to eBay), and Dan Rose (VP of Partnerships at Facebook)--put their money behind TaxJar (www.taxjar.com), a San Diego startup developing sales tax compliance software. What''s the story behind the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Recycling Waste Platform. 28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

One team, a travel company that has built a discovery and planning tool that will make it easy and fun for travelers to find and book trips, was a winner of not just the New Venture Seed Competition in 2013, but also recently won the first day of the Lavin Lean Model Startup Competition in San Diego State University.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

from San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle on the west coast to Boston, New York, and Research Triangle Park out east. Alexandria has put up buildings in virtually every key life science cluster in the U.S., Lately, Alexandria is aggressively expanding its reach. Then, fourth is corporate social responsibility.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You've got to find each one, and research them online. Jonathan Simkin: One of the things I did after graudating, is I joined CONNECT, which is like the entrepreneurial center and hub in San Diego, which is run in conjunction with UCSD and other schools here. That takes a while to do, probably a couple of hours per student.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Google’s parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG ) and its wholly owned biotech R&D group, Verily Life Sciences, are helping build a secure center where health records, genomic data, and other personal information from hundreds of thousands of people can be collected, analyzed, and shared with health researchers.

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