Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2019

The company, which started operations in 2014, has raised nearly $148 million since inception. The San Diego biotech is developing what it describes as a “next-generation” drug as a treatment for cancers associated with genetic variations that alter the enzymes ALK, ROS1, and TRK.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The software of Portfolium, a San Diego startup that hosts online portfolios for students trying to showcase their achievements to potential employers, is set to join the portfolio of Utah educational software company Instructure. Instructure (NYSE: INST ) has agreed to acquire privately held Portfolium.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ), a San Diego-based company that was a pioneer in gene sequencing technology, founded the accelerator in 2014, along with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

San Diego-based Qpex has raised $33 million to advance The Medicines Company’s (NASDAQ: MDCO ) old preclinical compounds toward human testing. He had joined the Parsippany, NJ, drug maker when it bought Rempex Pharmaceuticals in 2014. New Enterprise Associates led the Series A round. That company was developing.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. The company became a Wall Street darling when it raised $1 billion-plus through its 2014 IPO, and now claims to have deployed roughly $19 billion in loans since inception.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego startup Sensemetrics is applying that technology to the industrial Internet-of-things sector (IIoT), selling access to its cloud platform to the world’s largest mining companies and government agencies monitoring major infrastructure, such as dams. CEO Matt Meehan says Sensemetrics.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We need to be on a path-finding mission to find tangential investments,” he told reporters.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Dermata Therapeutics , a San Diego development-stage biotech advancing new treatments for rosacea, eczema, and related dermatological diseases, said it has secured $5 million in Series A financing and entered into a $5 million credit facility with Silicon Valley Bank.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

billion in new capital Thursday as the company completed an IPO that set its market capitalization at $24.3 million shares at $72 apiece, according to Renaissance Capital —the top of a new range that Lyft originally set at $62 to $68. billion, The New York Times reported. Lyft sold 30.8 The company was valued at $15.1

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window. The projected $43.2

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter. In August, 2014, the Defense Department said it had awarded a $58.3 It’s unclear, though, if the $41.8

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Peter Lee is the Microsoft Research executive in charge of the NExT initiative—an effort quietly begun in 2014 by CEO Satya Nadella and Harry Shum, head of the company’s A.I. Lee says he and his team work like venture capital investors inside Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) , evaluating what.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a boon for the South San Francisco startup founded in 2014, but not an unusual haul for competitors in the same field, where the tantalizing promise of a simple test to find cancer sooner, when it is much easier to treat, has emerged from advances in DNA sequencing, sophisticated data crunching, and the understanding of cancer biology.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The company, headquartered in Cranbury, NJ, disclosed this morning that it has raised a $74 million Series B round from Topspin Biotech Fund, Euclidian Capital, InterWest Partners, OrbiMed Advisors, and Osage University Partners. PMV raised a $30 million Series A in 2014.

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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. Esperanto plans to use its new influx of capital to produce its first generation of 7-nanometer chips.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

Synthorx, the San Diego synthetic biology startup that expanded the number of DNA base pairs with two synthetic nucleotides, said today it has raised $10 million in a Series B financing round led by RA Capital Management, the Boston life sciences hedge fund.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media. A San Francisco investment firm, Muddy Waters Capital, announced on Sept.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

When Versant Ventures, Roche, and Inception Sciences came together in 2014 to identify drugs that could repair damaged neurons, they were placing a bet on technology that amounted to a promising tool in a broader quest to find new ways to treat patients with multiple sclerosis. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Author, investor, and AOL co-founder Steve Case today announced a new $150 million venture fund aimed at pumping investment capital into tech companies in so-called flyover states. The new fund shares a name with Case’s Rise of the Rest tours, the pilgrimages he has conducted since 2014 to highlight lesser-appreciated innovation hubs and.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

The new Microsoft Ventures will seek investments that fall outside the commercial deals that the company has done more frequently in the past, writes Nagraj Kashyap, corporate vice president of Microsoft Ventures, in a blog post announcing the new effort. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

San Diego-based Retrophin said that its drug, sparsentan, outperformed another drug sometimes used to manage a rare kidney disease, called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), in a Phase 2 clinical trial. He licensed the drug from San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LGND ) in March 2012. to $30 apiece.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

When I told Larry Bock in an email about four months ago that I had been diagnosed with cancer, the renowned San Diego life sciences investor asked if he might see me at UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center. In 2014, Bock encouraged two … Next Page » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

The algorithm to manipulate music tempo based on steps didn’t come in until mid-2014, because it was really challenging to develop that software,” he said. The following year, the startup created an algorithm that automatically adjusts the rhythm and tempo of songs to match the user’s pace and heart rate. We’re manipulating.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin). billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In the years since the tour’s inception in 2014, Case says he’s become “quite encouraged” by the momentum he sees building in the middle of the country. However, he also says there is more work to be done. The story is still not well-understood by media and others on.

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Xconomy

JULY 30, 2018

The FDA approved Contrave in 2014 , which at the time made it the third. Nalpropion paid $73.5M for the drug. Contrave combines an extended release form of the anti-depressant bupropion with naltrexone, a drug prescribed to deter substance abuse. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

BioMarin Pharmaceutical took a $680 million gamble when it bought Prosensa in 2014 for its experimental Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment. San Rafael, CA-based BioMarin bought Prosensa of Leiden, Netherlands, for $17.75 a share, or a total of $680 million up front, in November 2014.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. The company became a Wall Street darling when it raised $1 billion-plus through its 2014 IPO, and now claims to have deployed roughly $19 billion in loans since inception.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

“They are on more solid footing than they were, but there’s no such thing as solid footing in this industry,” says Rajeev Shah, a managing director at biotech investment firm RA Capital, which had been a Vertex investor but no longer is. Other similarly effective HCV drugs have followed. Then it exited HCV research entirely. “It

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

In other circumstances the five-day workshop, scheduled this fall at George Washington University in the nation’s capital, might go unnoticed among the sea of executive training programs offered every day. In a 2014 survey of biotech gender diversity, U.K. and Europe. 60 percent in Europe).

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

billion last year , roughly double the 2014 total. The annual AgTech Investment Report from AgFunderNews found that investment in agriculture and food-related technology startups alone hit $4.6

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful.

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