Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2018

In China, 2017 was the year of the rooster. venture funding to a total of $84.2 billion in 8,035 companies (through 8,076 deals) in 2017, according to Venture Monitor data. venture funding to a total of $84.2 billion in 8,035 companies (through 8,076 deals) in 2017, according to Venture Monitor data.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Section 32, a venture capital firm headquartered near San Diego that launched in 2017 with a $151 million fund, has had a big month. In an interview with Xconomy last year , the former Googler said his firm planned to focus most of its attention on investments at the juncture of life sciences and information technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Upfront Ventures has a deep-seated commitment to equality in funding & building diverse teams across all ethnicities, nationalities and genders. We can unequivocally say this has started to work in the companies that we have funded since this clause was inserted. The idea came from a full-day session we held last year at Upfront.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

“More dollars, fewer deals” has been a prevailing trend in venture funding over the past couple of years, and it was evident again in the three months that ended September 30, according to the latest Venture Monitor report. While there was a 6 percent downtick from funding in the previous. Venture firms invested $21.5

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2018

million into 37 startup companies throughout San Diego County during the first three months of 2018, maintaining roughly the same level of venture funding seen in recent quarters, according to the Venture Monitor Report. million invested during the final three months of 2017, according to Venture Monitor data.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

La Jolla, CA-based Equillium, founded in 2017 (originally as Attenuate Biopharmaceuticals), licensed its antibody drug candidate itolizumab (which it calls EQ001) from Biocon Limited (NSE: BIOCON ), India’s largest biopharmaceutical company.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

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

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

billion that VCs invested in the first quarter of 2017. billion that PitchBook counted in the first quarter was a third higher than the $21.3 billion that VCs deployed in the previous quarter and two-thirds more than the $16.9 The venture deal count, however, is another matter altogether. The 1,683 venture deals that.

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Xconomy

APRIL 30, 2019

Vividion Therapeutics, a biotechnology company that launched in 2017 around discoveries made in Scripps Research Institute labs, has raised $82 million in financing. Nextech Invest, a Swiss investment firm that funds companies developing cancer therapeutics, led the Series B round of funding.

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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.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

million in a Series B funding round in 2017, and it has just added another $25 million from a Series C funding round led by veteran Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures. The San Francisco-based construction tech company says it raised $8.5

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Xconomy

APRIL 5, 2019

—Mobile app startup Bitmo announced it had raised more than $3 million in seed funding from investors including Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, and several Southern California-based family fund offices. CEO Michael Smallwood launched the Carlsbad, CA-based company in 2017.

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

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

You need all these before you start looking for funding. These days, every business needs a blog, so sign up your domain names accounts on TypePad, Wordpress, and Blogger, or all of the above, before someone starts blogging in your name. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Intel sealed its commitment to become a player in the burgeoning autonomous vehicle industry when it bought computer vision company Mobileye for more than $15 billion in 2017.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Steven Burrill, once a noted biotech investment fund founder, sought-after conference speaker, and life sciences publisher, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 30 months in federal prison for defrauding his investors and evading taxes. Burrill was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 14, 2017. Burrill was also charged.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2020

The 14-person startup, founded in 2017, has developed technology that it says uses big data sets, human genetic data, and advanced algorithms to find potential targets for drugs. Empirico, which is headquartered in San Diego, also has laboratories in Madison, WI.

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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). venture firms refueled last year by raising a near-record $51.6

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

Results for the first two CAR-T products approved , both in 2017, have varied. CAR-T therapies deploy T cells that have been engineered to kill cancer. These cells, programmed to act aggressively, have in some cases led to significant side effects , however. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2019

billion compared to 2017, continuing a trend of bigger checks going to fewer deals. That’s according to PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association’s Venture Monitor report, released this week, which tallied nearly 9,000 deals made last year, through which venture investors sunk $130.9 billion into companies.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. He praised DARPA for looking to fund “safety first, rather than jumping to fund unsafe work with only a handful of potential applications.” Some see it as a way to eradicate malaria.)

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

You need all these before you start looking for funding. These days, every business needs a blog, so sign up your domain names accounts on TypePad, Wordpress, and Blogger, or all of the above, before someone starts blogging in your name. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2019

In early 2017, a more critical mood began to take hold as Uber’s allegedly biased employment practices and management style were scrutinized.

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Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2020

Lassen was started last year within Frazier Healthcare Partners; Mark Barrett, an entrepreneur in residence at the venture capital firm since 2017, is its CEO. Lassen—a name inspired by a 10,000-foot peak in Northern California, the southernmost major volcano in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2017

New business founders need to remember that investors fund business implementations, not ideas. With interactive social media and blogging, you have every opportunity to test and tune your idea before spending any real money. Sell your solution before you build it (that’s what crowd funding is all about).

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2019

Prior to joining the firm in 2017, she was a senior director of scientific research. San Diego’s Element Biosciences said Tuesday that it had secured a Series A round led by Foresite Capital, a healthcare and life sciences venture capital firm based in San Francisco, and Silicon Valley’s Venrock.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Although there are still several days remaining in the first quarter of 2018, EY reports the number of first-quarter IPOs is 44 percent higher than the 25 offerings that occurred in the first quarter of 2017. billion total raised was almost 17 percent higher than the $10.9 billion raised in IPOs nationwide in the same quarter last year.

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2017

The five-year-old startup, which had 35 employees five months ago when it was named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego company to watch , now has 50 employees. Soci, a San Diego startup that created a Web platform for managing social media, has closed on $8.5

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017. The three-year-old company already provides its content management system on a software-as-a-service basis (SaaS) for such customers as Sony, Acorns.com, and Rocket League, said Widmer, who took over as CEO from Zesty.io Apuzzo shifted to his preferred role as CTO.) Zesty also added $1.5

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

The bank, LifeSci Advisors, is looking to pay penance by helping fund the training program. It was not immediately clear how much LifeSci Advisors and the other sponsors are paying to fund the program. The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council and Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB ) are also covering costs for the program.

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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. —Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB ) disclosed the name for its coming hemophilia-focused spinoff: Bioverativ.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Plans are to make it commercially available in 2017. “This is one of the first applications of cloud computing in a clinical application,” says Arterys CEO and co-founder Fabien Beckers. A product version of the new MRI system, dubbed ViosWorks, will be placed in ten pilot sites before the end of the year.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

The team at Trust & Will, a San Diego-based startup founded in October of 2017, is betting that a good chunk of those people would shell out some money to outline an estate plan if the process were cheaper and easier. million in seed—in 2018 to advance its growing suite of products, digitized.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2018

Unit sales rose 279 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the association. “We The Consumer Technology Association estimates that nearly 44 million voice-enabled assistants will be sold this year in the United States. We have entered the era of voice ,” Jim Harris, a management consultant writes on the CTA’s website.

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