Xconomy

JUNE 13, 2019

The new Series B round will give San Francisco-based BlackThorn—a startup spun out of the Scripps Research Institute in 2013—the backing to run human tests of two experimental treatments. One, headed for Phase 2 testing by next year, is being developed for mood or anxiety disorders.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Fountain Valley-based networking equipment manufacturer D-Link says that it shipped the most consumer Wi-Fi products in Q3 2013--including wireless access points and routers--making it the leader in overall Wi-Fi shipments. Citing a ABI Research study on Wi-Fi equipment, D-Link said it had 12.7

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MAY 5, 2014

Crawford is a member of the board of Lionsgate Entertainment, and previously was a portfolio manager at Capital Research and Management. According to UberMedia, it had 300 percent growth in 2013, and is now sees around 4 billion impressions per month, with a reach to 400 million devices.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2013

All of that is good for Broadcom , the Irvine-based semiconductor maker, according to a report published Wednesday from ABI Research. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2014

According to research firm NPD, Nabi sold over 1.5 million of its tablets in 2013 and leads the children''s tablet market. Fuhu has quietly risen to become of the fastest growing technology companies in Los Angeles, and recently topped the Deloitte Fast 500 list for Los Angeles. The company is led by Robb Fujioka. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2020

Eventually Celgene kicked in $35 million more for a research collaboration, an equity stake, and an exclusive option to acquire the startup, PharmAkea Therapeutics. Rob Williamson, a longtime biotech entrepreneur, joined PharmAkea as CEO in 2013 after the company formed its “build-to-buy”-style. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 9, 2013

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- Intro to Data Science and Analysis. In this course, we'll cover the basics of how to answer such questions using data, using examples from Ranker's aggregation and recommendation algorithms, Nate Silver's election predictions, and market research. General Assembly LA. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

A new study, released today by the Pew Research Center , says that more American adults are using online dating sites or mobile apps than ever before. The study said 15% of adults have used online dating sites or apps; with 9% having used dating apps.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Both of those new drug discovery startups will be located in San Diego, at COI Pharmaceuticals, the biotech research facility recently established by Avalon Ventures. The deal had been inked in April of 2013, part of an effort by GSK to help get more startups from academia into the industry.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Craig Venter Institute held a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday for a new, 45,000 square foot laboratory facility, for its genomics research. Craig Venter Institute said the new building is expected to be complete in 2013, and will support 125 scientists and staff.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2010

Space Exploration Technologies said that the Formosat-5 satellite will be used for an image data service for civilian users, and also for space research and scientific experiment instruments. Formosat-5 is being developed by the civilian space agency of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and is expected to launch as early as December 2013.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We partnered with a group called New Zealand Ag Research, one of the largest research institutes in New Zealand focused on plant sciences. Ag Research and Kapyon Ventures came together as co-founders, and started Zeakal. We raised our first round in 2013. Han Chen: It originally came out in New Zealand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2013

A new study based on the latest research, “ The Myths of Creativity ,” by David Burkas tries to demystify the processes and forces that drive innovation. The historical record, and empirical research, shows more evidence that new ideas are combinations of older ideas, and sharing those helps generate more innovation. Expert myth.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Shouldn’t all your storage be inventoried with photos in 2013? They researched storage solutions and logistics. Or was it in that fracking storage facility off of the 52 freeway? She drove out and looked for it. What a hassle. Turns out it wasn’t even at the storage facility. Shouldn’t the show “ storage wars ” be irrelevant?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

” The idea Koch say began when he was working on his dissertation and needed a tool to organize his research to share with his colleagues has grown to be of help to thousands of researchers acrss the world. This gives me the confidence that our users will continue to enjoy the best service possible.”

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since 2013, when Elon Musk released his white paper for an emerging mode of transportation using low air pressure within a tube, companies around the world have answered the call to build the next generation of futuristic transportation. In July 2013, Oster met with Elon Musk to discuss the technology before Musk released his white paper.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As Xconomy reported last year, South San Francisco, CA-based BlackThorn was spun out of Scripps Research Institute , which on its website lists the company as one of its 2013 spinouts. It’s emerging from clinical research.”.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We actually started the organization in 2013. You've got to do your research, and take the time so you're not meeting with investors who never invest in your sector. Justine Lassoff: Melinda and I founded TuesdayNights to help women connect and to impact change through networking events and infinite gatherings.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

They did some research, and found that around 88 percent of seats were empty and about 95 percent of seats were empty after opening weekend. Stock Trader/Researcher at E-Trade, Zecco Trading, and William O’neil. After doing some research, we found that ~88% of seats are empty. What are you 2013 plans?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

True to their expectations, latest research indicates a surge in Internet ad revenues. The second quarter 2013 internet ad revenues also saw an 18 percent year-over-year increase, reaching $10.3 The Internet ad revenues surged to a landmark $20.1 billion, up from $8.7 billion in Q2 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

New research and case studies show that the more mature workers are just as productive as their younger counterparts, are just as successful in training, take less short-term time off, and offer better judgment based on years of experience. In the US, nearly 18 million workers identified themselves as independent in 2013, up 10% from 2011.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Research In Motion''s (RIM) rebranding effort earlier this year is a classic example of a company attempting to overlay a new brand onto a misguided strategy. As Wired magazine pointed out in a January 2013 article , "It’s a Hail Mary pass for a company that held 44.5 A Band-Aid On A Gushing Artery.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In three years, Vertex went from having a billion-dollar hepatitis C business to zero—abandoning the research completely. Called sofosbuvir (Sovaldi), the drug won FDA approval in December 2013. Telaprevir’s sales cratered, and Vertex axed 15 percent of its workforce in October 2013. Then it exited HCV research entirely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Consider this list of commonly recognized software patent flaws, as summarized from my research, Paul Graham’s “ Are Software Patents Evil?” Until mid-2013, the USPTO still operated on the doctrine of “first to invent,” rather than first to patent. This hit RIM (Research In Motion) a few years ago, and cost them $650M to recover.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Back in 2013, Google reported that 90 percent of multiple device owners switch between screens to complete tasks, using an average of three different combinations every day. Meanwhile, biometrics has stepped out of the realm of sci-fi and into the mainstream, playing an important role in the fight against cybercrime.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There''s lots of research out there which shows that when kids can really find a passion they can love, and can get behind it and which they can pursue with all their energy, it transforms the experience of childhood and relieves a lot of the challenges that come with childhood. What''s the funding status of your company--how are you funded?

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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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Co-founded in the Netherlands in 2013 by brothers Marijn and Willem Maas, Withlocals is open for travel and dining experiences in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia where online travel sales are expected to grow nearly 200% by 2016 according to emarketer. For travelers around the world.

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Xconomy

JULY 22, 2016

In particular, security researchers reported significant drop-offs in infections from both Locky (ransomware) and Dridex (a banking trojan) — two notorious strains of malware that, up to that point, had been on the rise. It’s hard to keep a profitable idea down. It was only a month later, in November, when Angler arrived to fill the vacuum.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

With the MLB playoffs and football season around the corner, fantasy drafts, trash-talking and tailgate recipe research is in full swing online. Spectrum is projected to be maxed out by 2013. There’s no doubt fall is a great season for sports fans. This isn’t an issue that can be allowed to languish in the off-season.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

In 2011, state incentives lured the company to Research Triangle Park, where it built a $19 million lab to bolster its molecular diagnostics business. In 2013, when Sequenom reported a $107.4 The company’s 2015 revenue was $128.2 Sequenom is no stranger to North Carolina, where it had a presence until earlier this year. million.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

In 2012, then-Research Triangle Park, NC-based Tranzyme Pharma, which was acquired by Ocera Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OCRX ) in a reverse merger in 2013, stopped work on its experimental treatment for the condition after the company’s pill was outperformed by a placebo in a mid-stage clinical trial.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Don’t be totally driven by your own passions, the emotional enthusiasm of friends, or even third-party research. Market research techniques for trying to predict the market’s response to a new venture can be costly and are often unreliable. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/06/2013.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research founding director Tyler Jacks has spent decades making important contributions in cancer research, but until forming Cambridge, MA-based Dragonfly Therapeutics, he’d never spun a startup out of his own lab at MIT. —David H.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

New research and case studies show that the more mature workers are just as productive as their younger counterparts, are just as successful in training, take less short-term time off, and offer better judgment based on years of experience. In the US, nearly 18 million workers identified themselves as independent in 2013, up 10% from 2011.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

While Pinterest and Tumbler saw activity increases approaching 100%, Facebook was the only big network to experience a drop in active usage last year, even if only by 9%, according to GlobalWebIndex (GWI), a research firm that interviews 170,000 internet users in 32 markets. Maybe they just don’t care.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

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