Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 million into 61 companies during the last three months of 2017, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday. billion in 215 deals last year.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Venture firms invested $21.5 billion in 1,699 startups nationwide during the quarter, maintaining a pace that could reach a decade high by the end of 2017 in terms of overall funding. The quarterly Venture Monitor report is set for release today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

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

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Burrill was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 14, 2017. He was accused of diverting more than $18 million from the $283 million Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund III under the guise of management fees.

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

Venture capital investors poured more than $28.2 companies during the first three months of 2018—marking the strongest single quarter in at least a dozen years, according to the Venture Monitor Report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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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

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. Fieldwire , whose mobile app helps builders and construction crews coordinate their work, announced today it has lined up a total of $33.5

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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

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.

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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

JUNE 19, 2019

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. Molly He, Element’s CEO and co-founder, is a venture partner at Foresite.

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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

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 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

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Here’s an edited transcript of our exchange: Xconomy: Do you think 2017 was a turning point in public. In a bid to put things in perspective at year’s end, Xconomy reached out to Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur and investor, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, and one of the stars of TV’s “Shark Tank.”

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

We might not need to go far into the future to look back at 2017 and call it a year when medicine began to significantly change. Add to the list the first successful Phase 3 trial for an RNA interference drug, likely leading to a first ever FDA review. Perhaps we can. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 5, 2019

CEO Michael Smallwood launched the Carlsbad, CA-based company in 2017. Bitmo’s mobile app allows users to send and receive digital gift cards that can be switched between a number of stores. The company says it has about 130 national brands on the platform, including Nike, Nordstrom, and Old Navy.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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. That was the year TuSimple became the first company in San. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2018

In December, Denali Therapeutics raised about $250 million in 2017’s biggest biotech IPO. The list of his portfolio company wins (if you think of raising money, going public, or being acquired as a win, which he doesn’t necessarily, read on) is impressive. This January, Juno Therapeutics was acquired by Celgene at a valuation of some $10.97

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Xconomy recently reached out to business and technology leaders from around our network to put 2017 in perspective and look ahead. There was a new controversy seemingly every week, whether it was Uber’s myriad scandals ; more personal data breaches ; Russia’s use of social media and other online platforms to try and influence U.S.

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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 situation is exacerbated in small private companies because traditional venture firms, whose partners sit on the boards of their portfolio companies, are male-dominated. percent of partners in traditional VC firms were women, Liftstream found.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

The new company, expected to launch in 2017, will trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol “BIVV” when the split is complete. The news was a relief for Redwood City, CA-based Heron, which has been waiting for word on the status of its drug since September 2015. Its financials were posted here.

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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. So however populist the idea of cutting out people from the process may be, I strongly doubt it will replace the role of the existing venture capital ecosystem.

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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

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

JUNE 24, 2016

—IBM’s Watson Health group said that a commercial product could arrive in 2017 that uses machine learning to digest patient scans, medical records, and other information to help doctors with care decisions.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The 2017 Nobel Prizes with a biomedical bent were announced this week. Three researchers shared the physiology and medicine prize for their work shining light on the circadian rhythms that govern the wake-and-sleep cycles of all organisms.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 20, 2017

Alex Lash, our national biotech editor, traded e-mails with Bob Nelsen , co-founder and managing director at Arch Venture Partners. Here’s an excerpt of their Q&A: —What is your biggest healthcare-related fear for 2017? Nelsen is based in Seattle). Bob Nelsen Nelsen : Biggest fear is accidental.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2017

And a group of biotechs led by Jounce Therapeutics were the first to test the IPO market in 2017. A flurry of deals took place, headlined by Johnson & Johnson’s $30 billion gamble on Swiss firm Actelion. Meanwhile in Washington, President Donald Trump spent much of his first week signing executive orders on a variety of.

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