Xconomy

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Capsule, founded in 1997 and acquired by Qualcomm in 2015, sells hospitals software to connect medical devices with clinical information systems. The company will be renamed Capsule Technologies, or CapsuleTech for short. The “Capsule” name is not new: It’s one of Qualcomm Life’s two business segments. Capsule’s products are.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

billion that was invested in 2,559 deals (2,545 companies) in the third quarter of 2015. billion that venture firms invested in 2015, according to PitchBook records that began in 2000. Strategic acquisitions and buyouts accounted for 91 percent of all venture-backed exits last quarter, according to Venture Monitor.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2018

As Belmonte explained in 2015, “In a venture studio, you’re building your own companies. Spoutable began more than three years ago as part of Cursive Labs , a kind of holding company for startups that was founded with $2.2 million on a “venture studio” model that allows experienced entrepreneurs to run with their own ideas.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

Pernix Therapeutics is slashing its headcount by more than 20 percent as the specialty pharmaceutical company tries to move toward profitability after a streak of acquisitions. As of the end of 2015, Pernix reported a headcount of 274. Those acquisitions helped Pernix reach $175.8

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

billion in revenue in 2015, most of which came from testing done at physician’s offices and other healthcare facilities. The company’s 2015 revenue was $128.2 The board of directors of Sequenom has approved the acquisition, but the deal still needs approval of Sequenom shareholders. LabCorp reported $8.5

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

BioMarin continued Prosensa’s plan after its acquisition. Incidentally, meanwhile, two other large biotech acquisitions have also blown up in the past week. Teva Pharmaceutical said today that the FDA rejected the Huntington’s disease drug it acquired when it bought Auspex Pharmaceuticals for more than $3 billion in March 2015.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But billions of dollars in acquisitions will be left by the side of the road. 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).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, with an estimated contribution of $30 billion in 2015, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. The odds of crowdfunding success are as low as the alternatives, despite what you hear about the response to Pebble Watch , and the Oculus Rift acquisition by Facebook for $2B.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And just announced an acquisition of Meetup. Station F is led by Roxanne Varza , who’s been very actively supporting startups and the French startup ecosystem as former head of Microsoft Accelerator in France, cofounder of European blog Tech.eu. WeWork Gets Smart With Education for Adults and Kids. 3000+ desks in the startup zone.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

In January 2015, Biogen shares were at over $400 apiece as the company was gaining steam on early positive signals for aducanumab. Biogen has been very deliberate in its dealmaking, reluctant to make a big splash with a large acquisition. It’ll be interesting to see which direction Biogen heads from here strategically.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. Now Vertex has another flagship franchise, consisting of two drugs approved for the rare and deadly disease cystic fibrosis and perhaps more on the way. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. The news was a relief for Redwood City, CA-based Heron, which has been waiting for word on the status of its drug since September 2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter. The idea of a “retweet” as an endorsement and as a way to “share” someone else’s content within your feed and with your followers, was relatively new (outside of blogging). montanatriplett nice, which Pinot Grigio.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

For another perspective which I certainly agree with, check out Kevin Drum’s blog post on The Power of Single-Mindedness at [link] but keep in mind that anything taken to the extreme probably isn’t a good idea…”. 5) It is 2015. 7) I loved the AOL disk “sculpture” you kept in your office at Citrix Online. It’s contagious!”.

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