Xconomy

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Louis, MO-based venture capital firm with additional offices in San Diego, CA, and Cleveland, OH, has raised $184.4 Among the notable exits was San Diego’s Lumena Pharmaceuticals, which Irish pharmaceutical giant Shire (NASDAQ: SHPG ) bought for more than $260 million in 2014. RiverVest Venture Partners, a St.

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APRIL 8, 2016

San Diego-based medical products manufacturer DJO Global announced this morning that its CFO, Susan Crawford, has decided to retire from the company. Crawford has been CFO of DJO Global only since March of 2014, and prior to that had been at Life Technologies and Covad Communications, among other companies.

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JULY 6, 2015

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies has increased its stake in San Diego-based Ocean Aero , a developer of unmanned, robotic underwater and surface vehicles used for the scientific, defense, and oil and gas market, the company said late Friday. Teledyne made its initial investment in Ocean Aero in July of 2014.

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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

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 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.

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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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APRIL 5, 2016

San Diego-based Human Longevity , a genomics technology developer, has raised $220M in a Series B funding, according to the company. The funding came from Illumina, Celgene, GE Ventures, as well as others. Human Longevity--led by genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.--said

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Think there is a technology investment slowdown? billion invested in the region in Q4 of 2014, and was only slightly less than the $1.46 billion invested in the region in Q4 of 2014, and was only slightly less than the $1.46 in San Diego. in San Diego. billion invested in Q4 matched the $1.3

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm said late Monday that it will pay $975 million to China, to settle China''s claims that the company had violated its anti-monopoly laws. China determined in July of 2014 that Qualcomm had abused its market position in the wireless communications standard market.

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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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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. But before you think of moving out of SoCal, our 19th deal also closed in 2016, and this was a growth equity investment in Brentwood based Docupace Technologies.

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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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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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APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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AUGUST 18, 2017

How did the company and its technology come about? They had earlier on, developed a version of this as a medical product to use for law enforcement, but it was not the right time and place, the technology was not quite there, and the drug recognition program wasn't yet accepted at a national basis.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Our technology allowsu s to know when they are working, and what services they can deliver, where on the map, and ensures that we can book the right technician for the time that is chosen. with my partners in November of 2014. The first new cities will be San Francisco, San Diego, and parts of Texas.

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JUNE 12, 2014

Attendees include startup CEOs, accelerators, VCs, investors, Hollywood movie and music studio execs, agencies, fashion, content creators, social media gurus, developers, designers, and more from LA, Silicon Valley, OC, San Diego, New York, and international. Plus VIP-only parties and other networking events.

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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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JANUARY 22, 2014

To help them with that, Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Tillster (www.tillster.com), which until recently was known as EMN8, has been developing a wide range of technology in the area. By bringing our platforms together, we could take in some additional technology and bring it into the fast casual segment of the business.

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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

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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