Xconomy

MAY 22, 2018

The Hong Kong-based Ally Bridge Group led the Series C financing round, which brings total funding for Grail to more than $1.5 billion since early 2016, according to a statement Monday.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Radicle, a new accelerator fund focused on agricultural ventures, is launching today with plans to seed and nurture the next generation of agtech companies addressing global farming problems. So far, Radicle has closed on $6 million in funding, and the accelerator expects its pot will reach up to $15 million.

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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. Dry powder levels in North American and European PE funds reached new heights of $738.7 As of Aug.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

The annual total was slightly ahead of venture activity in 2016, when VCs put slightly less than $1.9 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92 billion in 215 deals last year.

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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. Composite Capital , a Hong Kong-based investment fund started in 2016, led that round. 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

AUGUST 15, 2018

million in a Series A round of funding. The funding was led by Spark Capital and includes investors such as Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, Rent the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss, and John Scherr, head of strategic partnerships at CircleUp. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. That’s the entirety of my motivation. Mostly, no.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

billion that VCs invested during the same quarter of 2016, and a 24 percent drop from. According to the latest Venture Monitor report, VCs invested slightly more than $16.5 billion in 1,797 startups in the first three months of the year. That’s down almost 12 percent from the $18.7

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2017

venture firms have plenty of capital to invest in new companies, after 328 venture funds raised a total of $51.6 million in 2016. That’s a high-water mark for VC fund-raising in the post dot-com era. The report shows, however, that venture firms also were more selective about their investment deals in 2016.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It was the fifth straight quarterly decline in the number of companies getting VC funding, according to the report. Third-quarter funding fell by nearly a third from the prior quarter, when venture investors deployed $22.14 PitchBook data also shows a nearly 29 percent decline in year-over-year funding, from the $21.1

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. The reason that marketing resonated so much for us as a 2016 priority is: Portfolio.

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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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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.

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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.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Does this include investments or an investment fund? Peter Csathy: I made a prediction story at the beginning of 2016, and the top two areas I indicated were interesting, were the significant consolidation in the media and technology space, and also the emergence of mainstream, virtual reality.

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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:

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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.

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Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2018

qster, founded in 2016 to develop technology that enables individuals to aggregate and manage all of their own personal health information, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Year-to-date annualized investment activity suggests that 2016 will see approximately $74 billion invested in just under 8,000 companies, which would still make it the second-most active year in the past decade, although with a marked deceleration. Liquidity feeds right into the fundraising conditions for venture fund managers.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

That’s a sharp contrast to 2016, when uncertainty and doubt about the economy and presidential election clouded U.S. Improving economic fundamentals are stoking the IPO pipeline in the United States and elsewhere, according to a report issued Tuesday by the global consultant and accounting firm EY. billion in the United States.

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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.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016. The institutional research firm is predicting a surge of IPOs in the weeks and months to come.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

If you really want to start a business your way without a boss or professional investor hovering over you, then just fund it yourself or through friends and family, and grow it organically. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Make sure you website is mobile-friendly, totally user-friendly, includes a blog and provides for customers review and feedback. While I agree this strategy is key to getting your startup funded and off the ground, when you see sales starting to plateau, it’s time to pivot from that strategy per the initiatives outlined here.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2016

Award winners from San Diego and other regions are now eligible for consideration for the national Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 program. billion worth of funding for home improvements through its HERO program. The winners are: — Life Sciences: BioLegend CEO Gene Lay. The company has provided about $1.4

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

She described the initial funding from Huapont as a strategic investment, as Histogen plans to work with the Chinese pharma conglomerate to make and distribute its lead product in China. Histogen also plans to use the funding to begin preparations for an initial public stock offering, according to a statement.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2017

The deceleration followed a strong start to venture activity during the first half of 2016, but was chalked up as a “return to normalization” in the Venture Monitor report released by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The report found that venture firms invested $12.7 billion in 1,736 U.S.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With a cloud lingering over the peer-to-peer lending industry, privately held National Funding is disclosing new details today about its operations, in a bid to step into the light and differentiate itself as a fintech company and alternative lender. Alternative lending encompasses a broad range of loan options outside traditional bank loans.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With a cloud lingering over the peer-to-peer lending industry, privately held National Funding is disclosing new details today about its operations, in a bid to step into the light and differentiate itself as a fintech company and alternative lender. Alternative lending encompasses a broad range of loan options outside traditional bank loans.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

Dauntless came to light after the MoneyTree Report on second-quarter venture capital activity turned up a couple of funding deals for “Dauntless 1,” the first biotech created by the umbrella company. We’re trying to minimize the total cost [of drug development] because our needs change with each stage of development.”.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

In 2016, the State Education Directors Association (SETDA) set school network standards at 10Gbps per 1000 users for internal WAN connections. The problem stems from a lack of funding or access to quality internet for schools. Funding difficulties are decreasing, however. High-Speed Fiber Networks.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

billion that a non-traditional investor (the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund) invested in San Francisco-based Uber, and the nearly $1.3 However, the first half of 2016 has been been substantially lower, with a six-month total of just over $28.9 It is the 27 th straight quarter in which software raked in the most funding.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium said its business grew by 60 percent in the first half of 2016, but the company did not disclose specifics about its revenue. “We We help our customers weave together all the data across all of their data streams,” Lunsford said.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Xconomy spoke with Jacks and CEO and longtime tech entrepreneur Bill Haney about the venture, a cancer immunotherapy startup that is relying on funding from family offices—among them the Disney family—rather than venture firms.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) shares gained nearly 3 percent Tuesday, and ticked up further in after-hours trading following the release of a third quarter earnings report that showed some strengths as well as shortfalls. election campaigns.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

CrowdStrike , a Silicon Valley cybersecurity company that fends off hackers by patrolling the edge devices connected to a network, announced today it raised $200 million in a financing round that sets the company’s valuation at more than $3 billion.

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