Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County. Software startups made up nearly 63 percent (255 companies created) of all new high-tech ventures created in 2015, a trend fueled chiefly by software app development, according to the report.

San Diego 40

San Diego Report High Tech Study 40

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Thousands of others will head to San Francisco for BIO, which has a distinct international flavor. But billions of dollars in acquisitions will be left by the side of the road. Bad FDA news for Teva Pharmaceutical and AstraZeneca also threw outsized acquisitions into question. Teva nabbed deutetrabenazine in its $3.2

San Diego 62

San Diego Patents Acquisition News 62

Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. In December we’ll gather in San Francisco to discuss the U.S. Shares immediately fell more than 40 percent. —The U.S.

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Technical Review Study Layoffs San Diego 77

Xconomy

MARCH 16, 2017

Paul Larson, who co-founded Daylight Solutions with CEO Tim Day in 2005, said they followed a path that was very different from a classic defense contractor, but not too different from a typical high-tech startup. “We We called it ‘doing defense the Silicon Valley way,’” Larson said Thursday in an e-mail interview with Xconomy.

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High Tech Startup Customer Custom 55