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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

Xconomy

—Boston’s PureTech Health, which conceives and launches life science companies, unveiled Sonde Health , which is developing software that listens for warning signs of depression in people’s speech patterns. Buzzfeed reports that Katze is still drawing his UW salary, but his lab has been shut down.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC?