Xconomy

MAY 19, 2020

Now the San Diego-based company has added $53 million to a round of funding it first closed in 2017, money that it plans to put toward continued evaluation of the investigational antifungal treatment, fosmanogepix.

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Xconomy

MARCH 3, 2020

Building on the popularity and strength of the 2017-2019 Boston Xconomy Awards and the 2019 San Diego Xconomy Awards, the 2020 National Xconomy Awards winners will be announced at a Monday, June 8 gala at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego during. The deadline for nominations is Friday, April 3 at 5 p.m.

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Xconomy

MAY 7, 2020

In 2017 the San Diego area-based biotech made the first step in its transformation into a drug development-focused organization, licensing rights to an investigational cancer drug from Italy’s Nerviano Medical Sciences.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Or perhaps in the case of 2017, with its litany of data security breaches, social media manipulations, and allegations of sexual harassment, to just wring out the old.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Xconomy: Do you think 2017 was a. While she says she is concerned about tech’s impact on children, in particular—see more on that below—Desai says she still believes the positive impacts that emerge from innovative technologies outweigh the bad. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Wright was hired as chief revenue officer in August 2017. 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. AttackIQ said Galloway is taking over the role from Carl Wright, who has been named chief commercial officer.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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. 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

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Diego-based company says it will use the money to accelerate its antibody programs, including asking the FDA for the green light to move its lead drug candidate into the clinic sometime next year. Lassen—a name inspired by a 10,000-foot peak in Northern California, the southernmost major volcano in.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

In documents filed with securities regulators Friday, the San Diego company set a preliminary IPO target of $115 million. Results for the first two CAR-T products approved , both in 2017, have varied. The company has applied for a listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol “PSTX.”

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 29, 2017

To help put things in perspective at year’s end, Xconomy reached out to Neal Murthy, a Houston investor, entrepreneur, and gaming enthusiast , who, in 2017 launched his latest project designed to foster innovation in the western hemisphere.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2018

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

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

One of the largest and most consequential data breaches in 2017 afflicted credit reporting agency Equifax, and it was hardly the only victim.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The buyout comes almost two years after Carlsbad, CA-based Genoptix was bought from Novartis (NYSE: NVS ) by a pair of private investment firms, Ampersand Capital Partners and 1315 Capital, and a management group for an undisclosed sum in January 2017. Joseph Limber became the CEO of the company. Genoptix specializes in hematology.

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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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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Guengerich moved to North Texas in 2017 after years in the Austin tech community, where he co-founded Appconomy, a China-focused e-commerce startup, among other initiatives. Here’s an edited transcript. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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.

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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. [ Updated 9:30 a.m., million in seed—in 2018 to advance its growing suite of products, digitized.

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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

MAY 16, 2018

CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017. Apuzzo shifted to his preferred role as CTO.) Zesty also added $1.5

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

We are excited to announce the recipients of the first-ever Xconomy Awards.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you’re thinking about breaking away from the cable monopolies and getting your data, music, and video in other ways, congratulations, I’m with you. I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The annual American Society of Hematology meeting is nearly over. For now, we’ve chosen updates from three disease areas to highlight, plus the more notable market movements. No surprise, there’s a lot about the genetically engineered cell therapy known as CAR-T. Gene therapy and more standard forms of care are up for discussion, too.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ), the San Diego wireless technology giant, announced in a blog item this week that its Halo wireless electric vehicle charging technology will be available commercially for the first time in 2017, with the mid-year introduction of the 2018 model of the Mercedes-Benz S550e.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S. elections, democracy, free speech, fairness in hiring, sexual harassment, privacy, data security, and the future job market for humans in the age of robots and artificial intelligence.

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2019

In early 2017, Scott Gottlieb was considered the most moderate of the potential candidates to head the Food and Drug Administration, which is the most powerful regulator of medical products in the world. It wasn’t a high bar to clear. Still, Gottlieb had spent time in the George W. His potential financial conflicts, combined.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2017

As 2017 comes to a close, we’re surveying business and technology leaders from around our network to get their perspectives on the year in tech—and what’s next. Xconomy: If you think public perception about the tech industry turned for the worse in 2017, what should the industry do to rebuild trust in 2018?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2019

The first two products, approved in 2017 and known in shorthand as CAR-T, have brought some people with otherwise untreatable blood cancers back from the brink of death. A generation ago, cancer treatments made from a patient’s own living immune cells would have been science fiction. Now they’re here.

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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

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Section 32, the venture capital fund based in San Diego’s Cardiff-by-the-Sea community, has raised nearly $200 million for its second fund. A document filed with securities regulators Friday shed light on comments made the previous week to Xconomy by Section 32 founder Bill Maris, who started the firm in 2017. Maris on Feb.

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Xconomy

MARCH 5, 2019

He leaves a record of health and medical regulation that was more active than critics who spoke out against his nomination in early 2017 might have expected. Two months after insisting on Twitter that he wasn’t going anywhere , Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced his resignation today.

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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

MAY 21, 2019

In 2017, these companies directly employed more than 311,000 Californians, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. According to the California Life Sciences Association (CLSA)’s latest California Life Sciences Industry Report , California is home to more than 3,400 life sciences companies.

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