Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. The group of people I might communicate with in a network like this might be different than the people with whom I interact on Twitter and in general I like to see new products and new companies emerge. Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2020

Daré Bioscience launched in 2015 with the aim of assembling a portfolio of novel women’s health products intended to pique interest from major pharmaceutical companies.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme. The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said. Biosensor startup Biolinq said Thursday it has raised $4.75

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. Amazon previously operated a service called Amazon Webstore which was “a complete commerce platform” that enabled “companies to leverage Amazon technology and expertise in building and managing their direct-to-consumer business.”

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

So far, 127 US companies went public in the first nine months of the year and the amount they raised already topped three of the past four years. Collectively these businesses raised about $44 billion in their debuts, topping the $34 billion, $21 billion, and $40 billion raised in 2015, 2016, and 2017, respectively.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The company will be renamed Capsule Technologies, or CapsuleTech for short. Capsule, founded in 1997 and acquired by Qualcomm in 2015, sells hospitals software to connect medical devices with clinical information systems. Terms of the deal between Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) and Francisco Partners weren’t disclosed.

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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.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2019

A global pharmaceutical company based in France has licensed software developed by San Diego digital health startup CureMatch that aims to help cancer doctors customize the combination of drugs they prescribe to patients based on mutations in cancer DNA. The company, which CEO Bob Manning says has raised about $2.5

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Origin Code Academy, one of San Diego’s few coding schools—for-profit companies that offer short-term vocational training in computer programming—said this month it will shutter on Nov. The company opened in late 2015, offering a 12-week course for $13,500 and promising graduates a software job within 90 days of graduation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2015

At the very least, with no positives for balance, it’s very risky, since the first negative mention of you or your company will kill your reputation. Add new blog content to your site on a regular basis. Blogging is an ideal way to express your positive values, show your expertise and establish yourself as an influencer.

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Xconomy

APRIL 24, 2019

Forge Therapeutics, founded in 2015 with the goal of developing drugs that target metalloenzymes, said Wednesday it had agreed to let Basilea Pharmaceutica use its chemistry platform to develop new antibiotics.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company. However, moving companies to the cloud was an exhausting process. Vertical Artificial Intelligence.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Akcea (NASDAQ: AKCA ) said Monday that CEO Paula Soteropoulos, president Sarah Boyce and chief operating officer Jeff Goldberg have left the company. McDevitt is already an Akcea director and is the chief business officer of Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IONS ), which spun out Akcea in 2015 and still owns most of the company’s shares.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video. Think of the best tech company at marketing that you know. I have no criticisms with this great company that boosted the online video movement but they need to reinvent their format a bit. Western countries watch > 5 hours of TV per day.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The Cambridge, MA, company has closed a $76.5 million since its inception in 2015. It also includes “crossover” investors who back both public and privately held companies. It also includes “crossover” investors who back both public and privately held companies. The raise brings Codiak’s total to $168.5

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

Bose’s Steve Romine says that’s still an important focus for the Framingham, MA-based company, which has been awarded hundreds of patents for advances in technologies such as noise-canceling headphones. The privately held company made its first investment in a startup in late 2015, and last year it officially launched a corporate venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

I used to love blogging. Blogging proved to be a great way to hone my ideas, have public conversations with people and as it turns out – build meaningful relationships through public dialog that spilled over into the real world. Somewhere along the way blogging changed. Fred Wilson said as much in his blog post today, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

Tuvia Elbaum (@Tuviae) July 14, 2015. I don’t know Ezra yet but since he’s taking the time to blog (which I hugesly respect) and share thoughts I thought I’d take him up on his challenge and also spill the beans on my secrets. On blogging I blog because I love it. My other secret on blogging?

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2018

Reachify, founded in 2015 and based in San Diego, targets medical groups with software-as-a-service (SaaS) that consolidates phone, e-mail, social media, and other electronic communications into a centralized hub and collaborative workplace. See below. ]

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.” You are defined by how you serve the companies that are struggling.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

CEO Randy Apuzzo said Zesty changed from a Web development firm to to SaaS in 2015, with the guidance of successful entrepreneurs like GoFundMe co-founder Andy Ballester, Rocket League video game creator Dave Hagewood, and Facebook early operations engineer Taner Halicioglu. The company, which now has nine full-time.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2018

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 As Belmonte explained in 2015, “In a venture studio, you’re building your own companies. million on a “venture studio” model that allows experienced entrepreneurs to run with their own ideas.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

. —The Detroit News published a detailed report this week regarding Ford’s Silicon Valley lab, which the automaker established in 2015 to oversee the development of autonomous technologies and build relationships with tech industry “thought leaders.”

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Xconomy

MARCH 9, 2018

Two came to market in 2015, chalking up relatively meager sales for their owners. Meanwhile, a rival drug company thinks it. In the debate over high drug prices, arguably no class of drug has been punished more by insurers than the new cholesterol fighters called PCSK9 inhibitors.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

education tech companies totaled $1.03 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. billion (across 138 deals) in 2016.

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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.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

billion, 2,034 deals) and the third quarter of 2015 ($21.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window. As a percentage of overall activity, seed investing dropped from 55 percent in the third quarter of 2015 to 50 percent in this year’s third quarter.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

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

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2020

The UK finance company has garnered a lot of attention, both online and in real life, thanks to its distinctive coral-colored cards, and its intention to make the banking process easier. As of its 24 January 2020 blog post, 1000 customers have been involved in the US testing process. But what is Monzo, exactly? What is Monzo?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

deals (1,796 companies) during the third quarter that ended September 30, according to the inaugural “Venture Monitor” report released today. It was the fifth straight quarterly decline in the number of companies getting VC funding, according to the report. billion in 2,034 deals (2,026 companies). VC firms invested $14.99

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. I was simply blown away by their long-term vision for building a video company that stood out both technically and from a product vision. L1I6RUWYJu.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you raise millions of dollars from professional investors it is no longer “your” company but a shared company that you control. In the Early Days. In the Growth Years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

This may work for big companies who have specialized staffs, but it doesn’t work for startups and small businesses who are already understaffed and overloaded. Businesses stopped hiring for lifetime commitments some time ago, as markets change so rapidly and companies need to tune their workforce for changing economic conditions.

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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. In 2012, my company plundered and it was horrific…bygones.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2017

“We just believe that relevant experience is more important than anecdotal evidence,” he says of himself and co-founder Tom Ball , who have led companies such as ServiceSource, Nucleus Groth, Openfield, and eCoupons, which was later acquired by Lifeminders (NASDAQ: LFMN ).

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Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2017

Heller founded Wrapify in early 2015 with the idea of creating a business that would pay motorists to wrap their cars in digitally printed advertising.

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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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