SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 -- UCSB Distinguished Speaker Series: Brad Feld. Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes the widely read blogs Feld Thoughts (link is external), Startup Revolution (link is external), and Ask the VC (link is external).

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Venture Capital Writing Blogging Activity 100

Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

presidential election in 2016. For example, advertisers will have to unmask their identities and reveal who’s funding their ads, Facebook civic engagement team member Samidh Chakrabarti wrote in a blog post. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. Read more » Reprints | Share:

Social Media 67

Social Media Blogging News Advertising 67

Xconomy

MAY 18, 2017

Preliminary findings from an economic impact study show that genomics is emerging as a distinct innovation cluster in San Diego. The San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. began collecting data for the report earlier this year in a bid to assess how genomics fits into San Diego’s innovation economy.

Study 97

Study San Diego Venture Capital Press 97

Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

San Diego 75

San Diego Class Mobile Platform 75

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

Put it in the slides: At the 2016 event, Liu & Huang overlooked the need to include some of their key findings in their slide deck. Delivery is key: The guys picked up the pace of their presentation after going too slowly in 2016. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

Competition 89

Competition Slides Artificial Inteligence Tips 89

Xconomy

APRIL 22, 2020

At Seattle-based Silverback, Shawver steps into a role previously held by co-founder Peter Thompson, an OrbiMed partner who, with others, launched the company in 2016. The Wednesday announcement comes three months after French firm Sanofi (NYSE: SNY ) closed its $2.5 Shawver has known Thompson for about a decade.

Acquisition 99

Acquisition Develop Development San Diego 99

Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2019

That awareness began with probes of arguably manipulative campaign messages that, during the 2016 presidential election, targeted millions of users whose profiles Facebook (NASDAQ: Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Social Media 75

Social Media Commerce Google Advertising 75

Xconomy

JULY 2, 2020

In August 2016 MEI signed an alliance with Helsinn to advance the experimental drug for patients newly diagnosed with AML who are unable to receive intensive chemotherapy due to advanced age—75 years or older—or other health reasons.

San Diego 86

San Diego Study Help Company 86

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race. Further research may refine the method, they say.

Technology 91

Technology News USC Social Media 91

Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) has been under pressure to cleanse its pages of fake news since the discovery that Russian-backed agents using false identities tried to sway voters by spreading false and divisive messages during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The company has since purged hundreds of accounts linked to foreign entities.

News 69

News Content Networking Press 69

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The San Diego-based healthtech company said Tuesday it is rolling out GreatCall Rides nationally, after testing it with customers in California, Florida, Arizona, and the Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth areas for more than two years, since August of 2016. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

San Diego 105

San Diego Equity Customer Custom 105

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

However, the San Diego-based company, which emerged from stealth mode in 2016, was guided through its early years by president and CEO Stephan Chenette. Wright was hired as chief revenue officer in August 2017. The company said he was named interim CEO in September of this year.

Chief Technology Officer 105

Chief Technology Officer San Diego Startup Guide 105

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

. “ Shipwell’s full-service, digitized brokerage platform can streamline the way many of our Anchor LPs and portfolio companies approach large-scale freight shipping,” the firm’s principal — and newest Shipwell board member — Vik Chawla wrote in a blog post announcing its most recent deal.

Startup 191

Startup Los Angeles Capital Pricing 191

Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Social Media News Software Review 71

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2017

billion in new commitments this year, on pace to eclipse the “already stellar” fundraising year they had in 2016, according to a new report and analysis out Thursday from Seattle-based PitchBook. billion as of year-end 2016, exceeding the levels seen at the end of. As of Aug.

Equity 69

Equity Pricing Acquisition Report 69

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2020

Acadia Pharmaceuticals received the FDA’s OK for pimavanserin (Nuplazid), the first drug approved to treat hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease , in 2016. Since then, the San Diego company has looked to expand its use into other indications, with mixed results.

San Diego 67

San Diego Study Report Company 67

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

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. 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.

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Report Activity News Marketing 81

Xconomy

JULY 11, 2019

Donald Trump’s criticism of high drug prices began during the 2016 presidential campaign and continued into his presidency, most famously when he said just before his inauguration that drug companies were “ getting away with murder.”

Pricing 81

Pricing Ideas San Diego Report 81

Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016. Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

Services 85

Services Web Tool Platform 85

Xconomy

MAY 7, 2019

Until the 2016 approval of nusinersen (Spinraza) from. Today we’re circling back to sort through the news and put it in context. SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY The treatment landscape for spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a rare and potentially lethal genetic disease, is about to change.

News 77

News Conference San Diego Journal 77

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Pimavanserin was approved in 2016 as a treatment for psychosis associated with. Based on the results, the San Diego company said it would end the study early and seek a meeting with the regulator to discuss filing next year for approval in dementia-related psychosis. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

San Diego 74

San Diego Study Report Company 74

Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

Social Media 58

Social Media News Web Report 58

Xconomy

MAY 14, 2019

CrowdStrike , the cybersecurity company that identified the two Russian government-linked hacker groups that invaded the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s network during the 2016 presidential campaign, filed publicly for an initial public offering on Tuesday.

Company 46

Company Companies Networking Software 46

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Like Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM ), which is shifting its attention from traditional auto manufacturing to projects like its self-driving car unit Cruise—a San Francisco startup GM bought in 2016—Volvo Cars is one of the flock of established carmakers drawn to the Bay Area to take part in its thriving mobility innovation cluster.

Mobile 79

Mobile Startup Venture Capital San Diego 79

Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Market observers may be awaiting their disclosures as eagerly as political junkies longing to learn the findings of Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump’s 2016 campaign. Now, it seems, those three cliffhanger endings may arrive in the same time frame early next year, and the.

Marketing 74

Marketing Venture Capital San Diego Company 74

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Composite Capital , a Hong Kong-based investment fund started in 2016, led that round. The new Series D round of financing announced Wednesday boosts the San Diego-based company’s valuation to land it on the growing list of “unicorns”—the tech-world term coined for companies valued at $1 billion or above.

San Diego 74

San Diego Company Companies Funding 74

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

IDbyDNA raised $9 million in 2016 in a Series A round led by Artis Ventures , a San Francisco-based. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Tool 77

Tool San Diego Platform Orange County 77

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Dauntless Pharmaceuticals formed in 2016, and its founders said the Sofinnova Ventures-backed firm planned to take a new approach to building biotechs. Instead of advancing a broad stable of early-stage drug candidates under the same roof, Dauntless aimed to set up each asset within its own company.

Ideas 62

Ideas San Diego Company Companies 62

Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup was founded in 2016 with the goal of reducing food waste, especially the $20 billion in “ugly and surplus” produce that Full Harvest, citing U.S. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year. Environmental Protection Agency data, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Seed Funding 71

Seed Funding Help Funding Capital 71

Xconomy

APRIL 30, 2018

After demonstrating in 2016 how its synthetic biology technology could produce new biologic drugs , San Diego’s Synthorx today revealed that its lead drug candidate is an improved version of interleukin-2, an anti-cancer drug of intense commercial interest in the 1980s.

Technology 78

Technology Venture Capital San Diego Avalon 78

Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. One of the leading contenders in the A.I.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Product Venture Capital Software Review 65

Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2018

The national origins of tech devices and services wasn’t a front-burner question—at least for the general public—until the issue came up at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in May on Russia’s suspected hacking of the 2016 presidential election. Leaders of six U.S.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review Software Technology 49

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. 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. Read more » Reprints | Share:

Content 71

Content Training Design Startup 71

Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2018

Unit sales rose 279 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the association. “We Users can instruct these devices to order takeout, give the weather forecast, or turn on or off various Internet-connected devices. We have entered the era of voice ,” Jim Harris, a management consultant writes on the CTA’s website.

Writing 66

Writing Sales Technology Social Media 66

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Christensen made his observations during a presentation at the 2016 Contextual Robotics Forum, a recent conference at UC San Diego focused this year on “new directions in human-machine interaction.”. His talk amounted to a state-of-the-industry report on robotics, and highlighted key findings of the 107-page update of the U.S.

Technology 100

Technology San Diego Report Conference 100

Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2018

The Dutch biotech and its Encinitas subsidiary were both founded in 2016, but the. While Escalier Biosciences BV is based in the Netherlands, the company is managed by its subsidiary, Escalier Biosciences, based near San Diego in coastal Encinitas, CA, according to Chris Krueger, Escalier’s chief business officer.

San Diego 69

San Diego Develop Development Venture Capital 69

Xconomy

MAY 16, 2019

The San Diego-based company is part of Adigica Health, an e-commerce company founded in 2016 to develop and market direct-to-consumer healthcare products. BioClarity, which sells plant-based skincare products to online shoppers, announced Wednesday that it has raised a $13 million investment round.

Product 58

Product San Diego Commerce Invest 58