socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. What does your startup do? Dan LeBlanc: Daasity is about two years old.,

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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 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.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Vance, who joined Case’s VC firm, Revolution, earlier this year. 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. Called the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund , it will be overseen by Case and Hillbilly Elegy author J.D.

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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. After completing his MBA in 1985, Bock joined a now-defunct venture firm in Costa Mesa, CA.

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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 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

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.

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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. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Arivale (www.arivale.com), a startup founded by Dr. Leroy Hood, the well known DNA and genomics pioneer�which combines gene sequencing with a host of other diagnostic tests, with personalized counselors and health and wellness recommendations, recently launched an expansion into California, starting in Los Angeles.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Steve Case, venture capitalist, author, and co-founder of AOL, is preparing to hit the road this week on his sixth Rise of the Rest tour, where he travels to emerging innovation hubs in search of investment-worthy tech startups and to highlight the growth happening outside of places like Silicon Valley and Boston.

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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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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

PMV Pharmaceuticals is the latest startup to load up with cash in an attempt to home in on one of the toughest targets in cancer biology: the tumor suppressor protein known as p53. PMV raised a $30 million Series A in 2014. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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

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

JUNE 30, 2016

A key scientist involved in integrin research, Harvard University immunologist Tim Springer, is spinning out a biotech startup to develop a new generation of integrin-blocking drugs—pills instead of antibody-based injections—that he says will benefit from “a complete understanding” of these complex molecules.

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Xconomy

JULY 11, 2016

About two years ago, I was asked to join a Babson College panel discussing the gender gap in venture capital. Having recently begun working with the National Venture Capital Association’s Diversity Task Force, I was eager to be part of the conversations that were taking place around this important issue.

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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.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2018

billion—Juno had gone public in 2014 and Celgene paid $9 billion beyond the large stake it had already purchased. In December, Denali Therapeutics raised about $250 million in 2017’s biggest biotech IPO. This January, Juno Therapeutics was acquired by Celgene at a valuation of some $10.97

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Autoimmune diseases occur when our immune systems mistakenly start fighting parts of our own bodies, rather than foreign invaders. That’s the idea behind a new startup that launched this morning called Delinia. Atlas, meanwhile, is fresh off a win with another autoimmune disease startup.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. The company’s startup accelerator program —henceforth to be known as Microsoft Accelerator—will continue hosting startups. Peggy Johnson.

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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 21, 2016

At Xconomy, we have seen growing investments in the sector—both in a rash of new agtech startups and by bigger players such Monsanto, Bayer Crop Sciences, and Syngenta. The annual AgTech Investment Report from AgFunderNews found that investment in agriculture and food-related technology startups alone hit $4.6 and Cybersecurity.

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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

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

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