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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fundraising is tough for startups but it’s particularly difficult in agriculture, a sector that has fewer firms focused on agtech investments. billion into the agriculture sector across 580 deals in 2016, the report shows. billion into the agriculture sector across 580 deals in 2016, the report shows. Investors pumped $3.23

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

billion (across 138 deals) in 2016. billion invested in 198 deals in 2015, according to EdSurge. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S. education tech companies totaled $1.03 Those numbers are down from the $1.45

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

Histogen, a San Diego-based regenerative medicine company with technology for growing skin cells and related products, said it has raised $6 million from an affiliate of Huapont Life Sciences, a healthcare products company based in Chongqing, China.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Still, the amount invested marked a 12 percent drop from the $17.4 billion that venture firms invested during the same quarter last year, and there was a 22 percent decline in deals, according to MoneyTree data released today. billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. billion investments in 251 companies.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Xconomy

MAY 22, 2018

billion since early 2016, according to a statement Monday. Other investors identified by the company in the round are Hillhouse Capital Group, 6 Dimensions Capital, Blue Pool Capital, China Merchant Securities International, CRF Investment, HuangPu River Capital, ICBC International, Sequoia Capital China, and.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

billion , they also eased off the throttle in terms of their investment activity during the first quarter of 2017, according to data released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). According to the latest Venture Monitor report, VCs invested slightly more than $16.5

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Radicle, which takes its name from the botany term for the part of a plant embryo that develops into the primary root, was founded by a mix of agricultural investment and industry heavyweights. Before making an investment, Radicle says it screens technologies and can quickly vet and validate technologies through its farm connections.

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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. The report shows, however, that venture firms also were more selective about their investment deals in 2016. A new report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook shows that U.S.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window. The projected $43.2

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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. billion as of year-end 2016, exceeding the levels seen at the end of. As of Aug.

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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.

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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.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2017

Venture capital firms didn’t exactly take their foot off the accelerator, but the pace of VC investments continued to weaken in the three months that ended in December, extending a slowdown that began in July, according to two venture reports issued today. The report found that venture firms invested $12.7 billion in 1,736 U.S.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

VC firms invested $14.99 billion that was invested in 2,559 deals (2,545 companies) in the third quarter of 2015. Despite the slowdown in venture dollars and deal flow, 2016 is still on pace—with roughly $56 billion invested in 5,997 deals so far this year—to end the year with more than $70 billion invested nationwide.

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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.

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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.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 21, 2016

After years of research, frustration, hype, and millions (sometimes hundreds of millions) of dollars invested, a drug program boils down to the clinical data—usually from big, late-stage studies—that can sometimes make or break a company. There were high profile successes in 2016.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2018

Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX ) had been an investor in Cryterion, based in Carlsbad, CA, since it launched in 2016. The cash payment covers the 65 percent of Cryterion that the Marlborough, MA, medical device giant does not already own.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

Soaring prices of Bitcoin and other so-called digital tokens were attracting investments from speculators hoping to get rich quick—but these virtual coin values were also known to drop just as suddenly, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council noted.

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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

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. Against that backdrop, National Funding said today that through the first half of 2016, it has provided over $1.5

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

It’s currently Biogen’s top-selling product, generating close to $2 billion in sales during the first half of 2016. Shares have since eroded significantly, but Biogen has restructured and cut a number of jobs to support its risk-heavy investments, halting preclinical work in immunology and fibrosis.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

But we also wouldn’t invest in battling climate change unless we were motivated by a belief that everyone—in current and future generations—deserves an equal shot at a safe, healthy, prosperous life on this planet. But what if we don’t have to choose? Maybe the two problems have a common solution.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

For specifics, I’m drawing mostly from the final draft of the 2016 Republican Platform , the July 21 draft of the 2016 Democratic Platform , Hillary Clinton’s June 22 economics speech in Raleigh, NC, and Donald Trump’s June 28 trade policy speech in Monessen, PA. But she hasn’t talked about the issue much during the 2016 campaign.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Here we are at the midpoint of 2016 already. AgTech Accelerator Aims to Sway Agriculture Investment Trends. Time to look back on the past six months—and some of the top stories of the year so far. Layoffs Reflect New Turbulence at High-Flying 3D Robotics. Boston Cybersecurity Map Shows Deep, Diverse Local Sector.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

—Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE ), of Santa Monica, CA, said that it could file for FDA approval of an experimental treatment known as KTE-C19 by the end of 2016 —meaning there’s a chance Kite could be the first to market with a “CAR-T” product, a form of cellular immunotherapy for cancer. In the U.S.,

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

. —Cambridge-based startup Amylyx Pharmaceuticals raised a $5 million Series A round from Morningside Venture, the ALS Investment Fund, and former Genzyme CEO Henri Termeer to develop a drug meant to stop the death of nerve cells in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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