Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

Startup

Xconomy

JANUARY 12, 2018

The investment in the Ann Arbor, MI-based company was co-led by Germany’s Statkraft Ventures , the Capital Midwest Fund , and UL Ventures , and also included contributions from returning investors such as Huron River Ventures and Venture Investors.

Services

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

Yet Frenkel, a participant in the summer 2015 class at Y Combinator , an influential Silicon Valley accelerator program, raised $120,000 from investors by August that year. Early this year, she sold her company, This is L. , to Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ).

Software Engineering

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. billion that was invested in 2,559 deals (2,545 companies) in the third quarter of 2015. VC firms invested $14.99 billion in 1,810 U.S.

Venture Capital

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

million Series C round from a large group of investors, among them founding backers Flagship Pioneering and Arch Venture Partners, and new participants EcoR1 Capital and Casdin Capital. million since its inception in 2015. The Cambridge, MA, company has closed a $76.5 The raise brings Codiak’s total to $168.5

Research

Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said. Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme.

San Diego

Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Gomez said he was inspired to start Canopy San Diego after spending time at CanopyBoulder , the cannabis industry fund and accelerator founded in 2015, less than three years after Colorado voters approved a similar marijuana legalization initiative. billion in 2015—a number estimated to grow by 25 percent this year to $6.7

San Diego

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

After being what I assume is the subject of one or more of Seth David’s emotionally charged blog posts, I’ve decided it’s time to respond. This blog post is for information purposes only and my only intention is to move forward. We even considered raising capital. I will not respond or comment further.

Content

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

TuSimple, founded in 2015 in San Diego and Beijing, raised its Series C round of $55 million in late 2017. Composite Capital , a Hong Kong-based investment fund started in 2016, led that round. That was the year TuSimple became the first company in San.

San Diego

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7 million Series D round in early 2015, re-upped in the latest round, which included all existing investors and some debt, Tealium CEO Jeff Lunsford said last week.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, expected to reach $3.62

Startup

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

billion in venture capital across 836 investments last year. That is down 13 percent from a peak in 2015, when global fintech investment soared to $14.6 According to a report released today, financial technology companies around the world attracted $12.7

Venture Capital

Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2017

Sadhal and Taylor (pictured above) founded Approved in August 2015, and moved into the San Diego tech incubator. “Our goal is to create a platform [for both lenders and borrowers] that is just as frictionless as possible,” Taylor said at the downtown EvoNexus incubator, where he has been working with co-founder Navtej Sadhal.

Platform

Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the mega-class of 177 biotechs that went public from 2012 through 2015, women held 11 percent of the board seats, according to their 2016 regulatory filings. That’s according to British recruitment firm Liftstream and its new study of biotech companies that went public in the recent boom years.

Report

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital. million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again.

San Diego

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.

Venture Capital

Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That expanded into a 10-city tour in 2015, and a world tour in Europe and Asia in 2016, Pinnell says. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. Its first mission was to launch a Bay Area VR festival to showcase works in the new immersive art forms. It was a pivotal year when.

Content

Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Alto launched in 2015 under the name ScriptDash Pharmacy, initially offering a mobile app-enabled prescription delivery service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Like others in its industry, Alto offers online ordering and delivery (including same-day delivery) of prescription drugs. In conjunction with a $23 million venture investment it.

Commerce

Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2018

I pre-ordered a Glowforge from the eponymous Seattle startup on the first day of its 30-day crowdfunding campaign in the fall of 2015, which brought in a record $27.9 This simple project—enabled by a very complex machine—was a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. While some people found this.

Startup

Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

billion invested in 198 deals in 2015, according to EdSurge. Those stats track with the overall trend in VC funding nationally: the industry saw a “correction” or “normalization” downward after hitting a peak in 2015. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S.

Funding

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing.

Technology

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. venture capital market leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Marina Del Rey

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. 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. It’s contagious!”.

Cloud Computing

Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

Dauntless says its simplified business structure is more capital-efficient, and there are important tax advantages for investors and other stakeholders. We are taking capital as needed, not sooner.”. It should result in shorter timelines, lower costs, and higher returns. “We We really have a development focus,” Martin told me.

San Diego

Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2018

The company was co-founded in 2015 by Michael Marks, the former CEO of contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics. Katerra , a building construction startup inspired by the efficient practices of electronics manufacturing, announced today it has raised $865 million in a Series D fundraising round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund.

Funding

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015. million in loans to small and medium businesses, up about 45 percent from the first half of 2015. The lender said it has provided capital to about 25,000 businesses nationwide. The alternative lender is on track to generate about $75 million in revenue this year, Gilbert said.

San Diego

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

Startup

Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

That means in three months, Bristol has lost a third of its value, equivalent to about $40 billion in market capitalization. in July 2015. 4, shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb closed at $75.32. Today, shares are worth just over $50. The reason? That story and plenty more in this week’s roundup. . Here’s more from CNBC.

News

Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Yet expectations were low; as RBC Capital Markets analyst Michael Yee wrote in a note to investors this afternoon, BioMarin’s decision to pull its approval application in Europe “is no surprise.” It rejected drisapersen in January, saying the “standard of substantial evidence of effectiveness has not been met.”

Acquisition

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015. million in loans to small and medium businesses, up about 45 percent from the first half of 2015. The lender said it has provided capital to about 25,000 businesses nationwide. The alternative lender is on track to generate about $75 million in revenue this year, Gilbert said.

Software Review

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Boy wearing Oculus Rift via Wikipedia As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have.

Startup

Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. The latest quarter also was down by 33 percent from the same quarter in 2015, when VCs pumped $420.3

San Diego

Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In 2015, Chaturvedi conceived his mission to “spoil” health product development managers a bit by creating an online marketplace where they could quickly hunt for outside experts needed to shepherd a new treatment to its next stage.

Company

Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

San Francisco-based Puls, founded in 2015, offers to dispatch technicians quickly to a customer’s home or office to replace malfunctioning parts, mount a widescreen TV on the wall, or install smart home devices such as security systems, voice-activated assistants, and Internet-connected thermostats.

Services

Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2017

Ball was also part of Austin Ventures for a decade before the firm shuttered in 2015. Smerklo says the firm will largely focus on Austin startups, making Series A and B investments in tech companies innovating in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Invest

Xconomy

JULY 17, 2016

After the national MoneyTree Report was released last week, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Ryan Spencer said he spent time on a call with Thomson Reuters, which provides the raw data, trying to figure out a change in the numbers for venture capital activity in San Diego. But the San Diego data was off. million in 19 companies in San Diego.

San Diego

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

AstraZeneca got the drug when it bought ZS Pharma in late 2015 for $2.7 million in seed funding from RA Capital Management and others to help sell a liquid formula for infants to help prevent the onset of peanut allergies. Shares of competitor Relypsa (NASDAQ: RLYP ) are up more than 25 percent since the ZS-9 decision.

San Diego