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.

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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.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

On Monday, Acadia (NASDAQ: ACAD ) reported that its drug, pimavanserin, met the goal of delaying relapse of psychosis in dementia patients compared to a placebo. Pimavanserin was approved in 2016 as a treatment for psychosis associated with. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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

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.

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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.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

According to the latest Venture Monitor report, VCs invested slightly more than $16.5 billion that VCs invested during the same quarter of 2016, and a 24 percent drop from. venture firms refueled last year by raising a near-record $51.6 billion in 1,797 startups in the first three months of the year.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

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. exchanges during the first half of 2017, according to the report EY Global IPO Trends. Eighty companies raised a total of $22 billion on U.S. markets.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the mega-class of 177 biotechs that went public from 2012 through 2015, women held 11 percent of the board seats, according to their 2016 regulatory filings. That’s according to British recruitment firm Liftstream and its new study of biotech companies that went public in the recent boom years. While there is.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A growing number of early-stage agtech startups are raising money and they’re pulling capital from a broader pool of sources, according to a new report from AgFunder, an online agtech investment marketplace. billion into the agriculture sector across 580 deals in 2016, the report shows. Investors pumped $3.23

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2017

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

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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.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

Thirty-seven venture-backed companies in the San Diego area collected almost $350 million in new funding during the first three months of 2017, according to data released this week as part of the latest Venture Monitor report from the National Venture Capital Association and Seattle-based PitchBook. That was down 39 percent from the $574.5

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. Bloomberg reported this week that PolitiFact, the Associated Press, and the other outside organizations Facebook has enlisted to fact check articles are.

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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.”

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2016

[Editor’s note: Alex Lash and Frank Vinluan contributed to this report.] There were high profile successes in 2016. Tesaro (NASDAQ: TSRO ) reported data for a drug that, if regulators approve, could help fend off the recurrence of ovarian cancer. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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. We would relaunch the company in 2016 as the new entity and get all our ducks in a row.

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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

MARCH 23, 2017

It’s been more than a year since an infamous party with hired models in cocktail dresses captured the biotech community’s attention at the 2016 J.P. Morgan conference. There has been plenty of talk since about closing biotech’s notable gender gap. At this year’s J.P ” There has also been some action.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.).

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to a 2016 CompTIA poll of 400 IT and business professionals, 46 percent of companies who used manage service providers for any portion of their IT needs experienced a reduction in their annual IT budgets by 25 percent or more. By partnering with an MNSP, organizations can receive four main benefits: Cost Savings.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

That Q4 2016 edition of a quarterly survey by University of San Francisco business professor Mark Cannice rated the overall confidence of the VCs at 3.81 on a scale of 5—-a number that remains almost unchanged in the latest survey taken in March and published Thursday.

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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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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

But when the financial oversight council published its 2018 annual report, it concluded that volatility in the cryptocurrency. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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. On the strength side of the third quarter report: The company’s profit of $5.14 election campaigns. election campaigns.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. The MoneyTree Report is prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. based companies raised almost $15.8

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

And in thinking about where we wanted to place our 2016 internal resource investment dollars into we began to think about which services would have the highest impact on the three edges of this triangle and we recognized it was marketing. The reason that marketing resonated so much for us as a 2016 priority is: Portfolio.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Here we are at the midpoint of 2016 already. Frank Vinluan reports from North Carolina on a new effort to boost agtech startups and university research. David Holley reports on an effort to boost San Antonio’s startup scene, with ideas from another part of the Lone Star State. and cognitive computing efforts in Austin, TX.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

—The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. —Longtime partners Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN ) and Sanofi (NYSE: SNY ) reported positive news for dupilumab in a Phase 3 study to treat atopic dermatitis, a severe form of eczema. . —The U.S.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2018

President Trump and the European Union’s top executive officer, Jean-Claude Juncker, are slated to discuss economic issues, security, and other topics on July 25, as The Guardian reported. One particular subject may be hard to avoid: the E.U.’s s antitrust division has just fined Google a record $5 billion after concluding that the U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

The CRISPR news this week doesn’t need a metaphor; the drama that MIT Technology Review reported can stand alone. — MIT Technology Review reported this week that a graduate student in the lab of Feng Zhang, Broad Institute gene-editing star, had accused the Broad of misleading the U.S. Be our guest and try it.).

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—The Associated Press reported that surgeon Paolo Macchiarini faces involuntary manslaughter charges in Sweden related to two patients who died after surgeries he conducted to implant artificial tracheas to replace their damaged windpipes. Savara now aims to pull together a funding round to support a future IPO, David Holley reports.

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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 outsource everything. There will probably be a third closing at some point” to be determined, Martin said. “We

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The 2016 election is (thankfully) almost here, and as one biotech analyst noted this week, a possible Democratic victory is to blame for a big October sell-off in biotech stocks. —Tucked into Biogen’s (NASDAQ: BIIB ) earnings report this week was news that the company discontinued development of a drug called MT-1303.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. . —The U.S. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —David H.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

— David Shaywitz (@DShaywitz) September 9, 2016. The full report is here ; a summary is here.). X : The report starts by recommending a national cancer patient network. Moonshot recommendations remind me of Bart Giamatti's famous edict on day he assumed Presidency of Yale… pic.twitter.com/ZU3ZxJsVCQ.

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