Xconomy

APRIL 27, 2020

The San Diego-based biotech, which started operations about 18 months ago, made its public debut in December 2018 with $42 million. In March 2019 it extended the Series A, tacking on $22 million more. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Before you fly off, or drive, or simply unplug, check out our preview of what could be next year’s top clinical studies; the tumult in big pharma’s on again-off again relationship with consumer healthcare; big names on the move in the nation’s capital; and a flurry of year-end deals. Happy holidays, everyone.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2020

In the second quarter, 16 of the top 25 largest early-stage venture capital deals were investments in life science companies. The figures come from the National Venture Capital Association and financial research firm Pitchbook.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

According to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital , 47 IPOs have priced so far this year across all sectors, down 27 percent compared to the same period in 2018. To date in 2019, 23 healthcare-related companies have gone public, the most of any sector. Five biotechs priced their IPOs and at least one more is coming. Here’s a look.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Ed Kaye stepped aside from Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT ) last year after leading the company through one of the most noteworthy and controversial drug approvals in recent memory, for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug eteplirsen (Exondys 51). But his hiatus from a publicly traded biotech could be short-lived.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

So, you might imagine that his outlook on data protection for 2019 would be more optimistic than in past years, because businesses now take advantage of a broad choice of security services to protect themselves. Bob Ackerman is one of the venture capitalists whose funding has long fed the growth of the burgeoning cybersecurity industry.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion. Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

What will make our Best of 2019 list? Topics ranged from the worries over CRISPR genome editing and Wild West biohacking, to Nobel Prize-fueled drug approvals and the headaches around drug prices (even for drugs meant to cure headaches). Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 15, 2019

As Xconomy’s editors looked back at the year just passed, we asked technology leaders to comment on the trends they’d observed in 2018, and the developments they expected in 2019.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

But looking back from the viewpoint of 2019, it’s worth considering whether the really pivotal, world-changing advances in transportation have not already been launched. It came in relatively quick steps: —The first time a person with a smartphone stepped into a car, that vehicle became, by proxy, a connected device with GPS.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Amid it all, we tried to parse what the Trump administration’s 2019 budget proposal meant for the biomedical and life-science worlds. Another week of White House chaos and American gun violence.

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