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. Basilea is also developing oncology drugs. The San Diego.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

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. 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.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In late 2015, the National Science Foundation awarded a $6 million grant to the non-profit organization U.S. Ignite to help drive the development of next-generation “gigabit applications,” as part of a broader effort to create “smart gigabit communities” throughout the U.S.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

TuSimple has pulled in $95 million more in venture funding to advance its development of a commercial autonomous fleet of trucks. TuSimple, founded in 2015 in San Diego and Beijing, raised its Series C round of $55 million in late 2017.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

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. His experience also includes various business development roles at. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

For the first 50 years of its existence, Bose Corporation invested primarily in in-house research and development to produce its lineup of high-end headphones, speakers, and other audio technologies. 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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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 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.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Things are moving quickly in the mobility sector as the race to develop autonomous vehicle technologies revs up. This week brought a spate of mobility news from GM and Cruise, Ford, BAE, and even the federal government. Read on for details.

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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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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

The FTC decision comes in the wake of recent reports about the ease with which political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to as many as 50 million Facebook user profiles by or before 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2020

Started in 2015, and now with a 800+ team spread across the UK (London and Cardiff), and in the US (Las Vegas), Monzo offers app-based banking to its community of 3.6 This transparency has been at the forefront of Monzo since its inception, having reached out to its users to help test, develop and improve. What is Monzo? million users.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to reassure users Wednesday that its new and old modifications will prevent the wholesale capture of millions of personal profiles, like the 50 million that fell into the hands of political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica by 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

This new customer paradigm is no longer a homogeneous group driven by traditional media, but a network of unique individuals who interact with each other to develop buying criteria and expect businesses to interact with them in a visible way. Blogs must provide value to customers. Get beyond push messages to real customer engagement.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Despite the benefits of developing an app, there are valid reasons why retailers choose not to invest in one. Developing a mobile app can be extremely expensive and some retailers believe it is futile to spend that money if a mobile-optimized site is already in place. MYTH: Development costs are too high.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2015

. — Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. 1/ Twitter started off positioned as a micro-blogging platform but in the end became more of an RSS reader. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

Key early figures include CTO Doug Palmer, a pioneer in the development of video-over-IP technology who also worked at San Diego’s Linkabit and HNC Software, and chief engineer David Eames, one of HNC’s original staff scientists and an expert in neural networks and parallel computing applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Site marketing is easily extended through blogs, Twitter, Facebook and social media. Of course, not all new startup ideas can be developed this way, so pick an idea that fits. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/4/2015. Now you can do what you love to do at a cost you can afford.

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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.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As the founding head of Campus London , Google’s first physical hub for startups and now home to over 80,000 registered members, I thought it would be interesting to share the latest developments in this space from my perspective. What’s a Startup Mega Campus? Highlights of the space: 34,000 square meters/ 366,000 sqft. 8 event spaces.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

The center also asked the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. The military procurement command is responsible for developing and maintaining the fleet’s global communications and IT capabilities. were unfilled as of March 2015.” That represents a 9.5 percent increase from the 3,095 workers counted in 2014.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. And in fact, California surpassed France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, based on 2015 economic data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

In fact, for startups, it usually makes sense to announce your solution on social media and blogs even before you have built the first one. A soft launch is less stressful to the team and lets them more gradually re-acclimate from a development environment to a delivery environment. Proceed with caution.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

First came Inception Sciences , a holding company for spinning out biotech startups established by Versant Ventures and Peppi Prasit, the veteran San Diego drug developer. We really have a development focus,” Martin told me. “We But it’s structured differently. We tried to learn from what everyone else has done.”.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

It will stop developing drisapersen well as three other follow-on drugs—BMN 044, BMN 045, and BMN 053—currently in mid-stage testing for different forms of Duchenne. In a statement, BioMarin chairman and CEO Jean-Jacques Bienaimé called the developments a “difficult but necessary decision.”. Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

As of the end of 2015, Pernix reported a headcount of 274. 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. In 2014, Pernix, then based in The Woodlands, TX, acquired San Diego-based Somaxon Pharmaceuticals.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Left untreated, Heather and Jessica, who have a slower-developing form of the disease, might expect to continue to get weaker as time goes on. Twenty-one orphan drugs were approved in 2015, a record for the second straight year. “It’s just little things like that where it’s a gradual loss of strength,” Heather says.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

—Embodied, based in Pasadena, CA, and founded by USC computer science professors Paolo Pirjanian (the former iRobot CTO) and Maja Matarić, are developing robots to care for people. That’s roughly the same investment pace as 2015, when Intel Capital invested a total of $514 million in 63 new companies and 79 follow-on deals.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

—Two Vertex rivals touted early-stage data at the NACFC conference: Belgium-based Galapagos , which is developing its own triple combination regimen, and Netherlands-based ProQr Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PRQR ), which is advancing an RNA-based CF drug sprayed into the lungs. THIS WEEK IN DRUG PRICING…. billion last year.

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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. Venture capitalists are similarly cautious.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

But this is just a reflection midway in June 2015 of the some of the products I love, enjoy or use frequently, and am not an investor in. I even developed a nomenclature where I would put “restaurant” or “movie” or “must read” in the title so I could search later. Still want to port my blog their.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

million in funding in fiscal 2015 from corporate supporters, some but not all of whom are drug makers. Check out this story for more on nusinersen, the history of SMA drug therapies, and the patient community’s involvement with the drug’s development. That’s critical to getting the “broadest label possible” for nusinersen, Hobby said.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

in July 2015. —Cancer drug developer Accelerated Pharma, based in Westport, CT, outlined terms for a $17 million IPO. —Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN ) will team with Ocular Therapeutix (NASDAQ: OCUL ) to develop a long-lasting version of its flagship eye drug, aflibercept (Eylea). Here’s more from CNBC.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins (pictured) and FDA commissioner Rob Califf spoke on a call this afternoon to update the Precision Medicine Initiative, or PMI, which President Obama unveiled in early 2015. 23andMe also plans to develop drugs on its own using insights gleaned from those data.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Vehicle manufacturers and mobile network operators have been signing deals for several years, and these partnerships are expecting to introduce vehicles with embedded connectivity to market in 2015. This is a must for any new car coming in 2015—no car owner expects any less than that, right? Control Your Car from Your Smartphone.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

—Cambridge, MA-based messenger RNA drug developer Moderna Therapeutics is raising another huge financing round, according to an SEC filing. The firm raised $450 million in January 2015. The firm has nabbed $451 million toward its goal of $600 million.

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