Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 4, 2016

If there’s one thing that’s become clear in the five years since Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) acquired its Halo wireless automotive charging technology, it’s that building a new business—and a new industry—takes time. Such reasons include tighter automotive emission standards, self-driving cars, and driver behavior. and other nations.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

San Diego’s Brain Corp. has a vision for developing the kind of technology that could some day be used to operate self-driving cars. Headed by the computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich, the company maintained a low profile at Qualcomm’s San Diego headquarters until 2013, when Brain Corp. Brain Corp.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

After operating in the shadows for the past 11 years, a San Diego neural technology company founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin is stepping into the light to introduce two commercial products intended to advance the frontier of human-machine interaction.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It partnered with Nike in Portland, OR , on apparel-related technology in 2012 and with Barclays on fintech in 2014. In 2011, Techstars began launching accelerators that focused on startups innovating in a specific sector in partnership with big companies.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Microsoft is applying the same model it used to launch its quantum computing and chatbot efforts to innovation in healthcare, signaling the company’s ambition and optimism about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence technologies in this enormous endeavor.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

LabCorp will also assume net debt of San Diego-based Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM ), bringing the value of the cash deal to approximately $371 million. In 2014, Sequenom sold a genetic analysis tool and a bioscience facility to San Diego-based Agena Bioscience for $31.8 LabCorp reported $8.5

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope. million in nine months. Echo Labs image).

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. Microsoft aims to get in front of technology trends earlier with the new investment vehicle.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2018

DeSalvo, who is trained as a physician, served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2014 to 2016 under President Barack Obama. Karen DeSalvo has experience working in the public sector, but she’s hardly what you’d call a government bureaucrat.

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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. MedCrypt is focused on preventing the sort of thing that happened to St.

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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.

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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. They can’t be made efficiently and at low cost.”.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A core tenet of Xconomy—and the reason behind our broad coverage across information technology, life sciences, energy, and more—is that the most interesting and important innovations often arise from the intersection of different disciplines. billion last year , roughly double the 2014 total.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

The technology was funded by the Department of Defense and comes from MIT’s Lincoln Lab. Despite disappointing duvelisib data a few weeks ago, Infinity still aims to press on with more trials… San Diego’s Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARNA ) said late Thursday it would cut 100 employees , nearly three quarters of its staff.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The data, from abstracts for presentations that will be given at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in San Diego next month, show that Bluebird’s (NASDAQ: BLUE ) LentiGlogin gene therapy might be a long-lasting, effective treatment for some patients with these diseases.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

His Chatham Therapeutics was acquired by Baxter International in 2014. Published in January, the technology comes from the lab of Keith Joung, who is an Editas cofounder. —Meanwhile, scientists from San Diego-based Synthetic Genomics and the J.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Breg’s Vision Cloud Connect software is designed to help users get patient data into and out of electronic health records systems, which as of 2014 were being used at more than 75 percent of hospitals in the U.S. Specific financial terms were not disclosed in a press release announcing the agreement.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

The work of Macchiarini, who reportedly denied the allegations, led to the formation of Holliston, MA-based Biostage (NASDAQ: BSTG ), which was known as Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology up until March. Biostage cut ties with the surgeon in 2014.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. Downtown San Diego Condos. Loading… Real Estate. » More.

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