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JANUARY 12, 2010

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm VentiRx Pharmaceuticals said today that the firm has raised $25M in a Series A extension round. The firm said the new funding, including its initial $26.6M, Series A funding in March of 2007, brings its total raised to $51.6M. Maggie Flanagan LeFlore, Ph.D.,

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Steven Burrill, once a noted biotech investment fund founder, sought-after conference speaker, and life sciences publisher, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 30 months in federal prison for defrauding his investors and evading taxes. Burrill was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 14, 2017. Burrill was also charged.

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JULY 28, 2009

San Diego-based aTyr Pharma , which is developing biopharmaceuticals focused on inflammation, autoimmune, hematopoietic and metabolic disorders, disclosed Tuesday that it has raised $12M in an additional funding round. The funding comes on top of $12M from the same venture backers back in April of 2007.

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MARCH 13, 2009

San Diego-based Sangart , a biopharmaceuticals firm focused on the commercialization of oxygen therapeutics, said Thursday that it has raised $50M in a Series F funding round. According to Sangart, the funding round brings the company's total raised under its Series F round to approximately $100M.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

But in the United States, it was the year of the unicorn—at least according to the Venture Monitor report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. venture funding to a total of $84.2 PitchBook, founded in 2007, can’t provide.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Histogen, a San Diego-based regenerative medicine company with technology for growing skin cells and related products, said it has raised $6 million from an affiliate of Huapont Life Sciences, a healthcare products company based in Chongqing, China.

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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 in 37 deals in 2007.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. I also have a hedge fund and am a partner in fund called Social Leverage making early stage investments.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

For San Diego-based Mob Science (www.mobscience.com), an injection of cash, some key advisors--and a deal with Zynga. Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. How did you start company?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Miragen was formed in 2007 and raised an $8 million Series A round from Atlas and Boulder a year later. That’ll leave the combined company with over $50 million in cash at the deal’s closing. The company inked a partnership with French firm Servier on a heart failure microRNA drug and a few other cardiovascular programs in 2011.

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JULY 26, 2016

Maybe innovation goes faster when wealthy investors are allowed to keep more of their income and capital gains and reinvest the money. Or maybe it’s healthier in the long run when the government imposes more progressive taxation and puts the funds into education, social programs, and R&D.

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MAY 6, 2012

Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.

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