Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Silvergate Bank has transformed itself in recent years from a typical business bank to one of the financial institutions of choice for digital currency companies. Now the cryptocurrency-friendly bank, which is headquartered in La Jolla, CA, is preparing to go public.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We’ll soon find out if Wall Street has the appetite for investing in alternative meat technology. Beyond Meat, a maker of plant-based meat products, has filed for an IPO.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Hundreds of red, “dockless” electronic bikes appeared on the streets of San Diego and Seattle on Monday, the latest cities in which Uber introduced its e-bike program, Jump. The expansion comes days after Uber began rolling out the bike-sharing service across Los Angeles.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Seismic, one of San Diego’s most prominent enterprise software companies, has tapped a member of the team behind one of the region’s most successful tech startup stories to prep for its own prospective market debut.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

San Diego’s Connect, which runs a tech and life science company accelerator, recognized seven local companies Thursday night at its 31st annual Most Innovative New Product Awards (MIP) gala. Winners were selected from among 23 finalists that were picked from all the companies that submitted products for consideration in the spring.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Like Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM ), which is shifting its attention from traditional auto manufacturing to projects like its self-driving car unit Cruise—a San Francisco startup GM bought in 2016—Volvo Cars is one of the flock of established carmakers drawn to the Bay Area to take part in its thriving mobility innovation cluster.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Logistics startup Airspace Technologies says its “next-generation” technology, developed specifically for time-sensitive shipments—donated organs slated for transplant and replacement parts for tarmac-bound airplanes, for example—can process shipments faster and cheaper than other third-party logistics providers.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The latest startup on this quest is Ribometrix out of Durham, NC, which today announced a $30 million Series A round of financing to fund the development of small molecule drugs targeting RNA involved in cancer and neurodegeneration.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

View the Slideshow On November 4-6, Xconomy organized a meeting of the minds—an elite gathering of leaders in technology, business, healthcare, education, and energy—to discuss and demonstrate the key trends in their fields, heading into next year.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A little more than a month after Rethink Robotics shut down , a competitor has hired more than 20 of the Boston-based firm’s former employees. Universal Robots, a Denmark-based maker of collaborative industrial robots, announced Tuesday it has brought on key Rethink personnel, primarily in engineering and product development.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Hundreds of companies. Dozens of research institutes. Billions of dollars in economic impact. San Diego is one of the top U.S. cities for innovation in life sciences and healthtech. Researchers and entrepreneurs here are leaders in developing the next generation of medicines and medical devices.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Cibus, which has developed a proprietary gene-editing technology that tweaks crops’ DNA to improve yield, is planning to make its public market debut. The San Diego-based biotech set a preliminary $100 million target for its IPO in documents filed with securities regulators Friday.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Synthetic biology company Synthorx is laying plans for an initial public offering to raise money to advance its suite of enhanced cytokine drugs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content. A website or blog without appealing or entertaining content for your market segment is not enchanting. Enable people to search your website or blog to find what they are looking for.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Called Mirum Pharmaceuticals, the startup is developing a compound, maralixibat, to treat Alagille syndrome (ALGS) and progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), genetic liver disorders that affect primarily children.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Software startup Cloudbeds recently relocated its 20-odd local employees from a small space in downtown San Diego to an office nearly three times the size in the same neighborhood. The company unveiled the new digs Thursday, about a month after moving in, with a ceremonial ribbon cutting.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nuance Communications is selling its document imaging division to Kofax for $400 million in cash, as Nuance’s new CEO narrows the company’s focus on its conversational artificial intelligence products and cloud-related technologies.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Connect, the longstanding nonprofit organization that runs one of San Diego’s best-known startup accelerator programs, said Thursday that Tega Therapeutics CEO Tim Scott will become chairman of its board of directors on Dec. Scott has a long history with the organization.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Esperanto Technologies , a startup AI chip developer that has operated mostly below the radar since its founding in 2014, announced this week that it raised $58 million in a Series B fundraising round. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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