Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

“Our focus is on priming the pump,” Steve Poizner said Friday, after providing an update on the Alliance for Southern California Innovation for board members of EvoNexus, an industry nonprofit group that operates pro bono tech incubators in San Diego and Irvine, CA.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

As a first-time entrepreneur working from UW’s incubator more than five years ago, Liachko says he didn’t think much about the rarity of genomics startups spun out of university research. His firm, Phase Genomics was one of the first startups to come out of UW’s genome sciences department.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

The firms include stalwarts like Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC ) , which has an incubator and accelerator program called Springboard , and relative newcomers like the Greek-style yogurt maker Chobani , which operates an incubator that makes $25,000 investments in startups with no equity stake.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 20, 2019

Other companies, including a new San Diego startup called Blooma, are—instead of working to disrupt traditional lenders—offering services that promise to digitize aspects of the. One such lender, Better.com, raised a $160 million Series C financing round Monday.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Agtech investment firm Finistere Ventures; private equity firm Cloud Break Advisors; and Israeli venture capital firm OurCrowd contributed to the new accelerator. Radicle representatives plan to discuss their plans for the accelerator during AgTech Week 2016 , an ag investment conference being held in San Francisco this week.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Fortis Therapeutics, a new San Diego biotech, has raised $18 million in initial funding to develop drugs for hard-to-treat prostate and bone marrow cancers. San Diego’s Avalon Ventures led the Series A round, and has established Fortis at COI Pharma, the firm’s biotech incubator (which now houses 16 life sciences startups).

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2018

San Diego and San Francisco. There were a few notable absences from the list, released early today. Detroit, MI, which had high expectations as a competitor, was left out, as was Madison, WI, and most of California. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2017

San Diego’s Brain Corp., founded in 2009 as a Qualcomm-incubated startup to develop software and computer systems that emulate the human brain, seems to have found a new path forward. SoftBank’s new Vision Fund has led a $114 million investment to advance the company’s artificial intelligence technology.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

General Assembly (GA) launched in early 2011 with an incubator in New York City that was a cross between a co-working space and a startup university. The deal underscores the growing demand for software coding and other digital skills—and employers’ increased willingness to turn to non-traditional sources to find talent.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Earlier this month, the City of San Diego awarded a $40,000 grant to Nest , the 16,000-square-foot co-working space that Andersen founded, to help foster the creation of more startups and jobs in the region. Our goal is to get them on their feet from a sustainability standpoint,” Andersen said.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year. —Edison, NJ-based Contravir Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CTVR ) acquired privately held Ciclofilin Pharmaceuticals of San Diego to add another experimental drug for hepatitis B to its portfolio. Teva nabbed deutetrabenazine in its $3.2

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

That means in three months, Bristol has lost a third of its value, equivalent to about $40 billion in market capitalization. —Shares of San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) fell more than 32 percent after the next-gen sequencing giant slashed its revenue projections once again. Today, shares are worth just over $50.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2017

With the closing of its sixth fund announced Tuesday, San Francisco-based Versant now aims to invest in as many as 25 companies in both North America and Europe—half of those investments in “companies we create from scratch,” says Brad Bolzon, Versant’s managing director. Versant takes.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Tiny Rhode Island and its capital city Providence have always punched above their weight, for better or for worse. Worse: After World War II, one Providence neighborhood became the nerve center of New England organized crime and one of its mayors the ne plus ultra of civic corruption—twice elected, and twice a felon.

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Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

Houston —Men have long leveraged their networks to succeed in business, and the tech industry has been no exception. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now creating their own networks to do the same.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Why do unicorns get all the attention? Brian de Haaff wonders this sometimes, especially as compared to his own tech business, Aha. It’s not a “unicorn”—a business with a valuation of more than $1 billion—and it’s not even close. Instead, Aha is a bootstrapped startup.

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

A year ago about 40,000 people gathered in Chicago for the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Today a virtual version of the ASCO conference, the cancer field’s largest, kicks off, with oncologists and others tuning in from throughout the country and around the world to check out the latest in cancer research.

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Xconomy

MAY 3, 2019

America continues to suffer from healthcare headaches. Our convoluted private-public insurance system was under scrutiny this week from Democrats, holding a “Medicare for All” hearing in the House , and from Republicans, as several GOP-led states and the Trump administration asked a federal court to sweep away Obamacare.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2017

From Portland to Pittsburgh, it’s likely that every city in the U.S. with more than 1 million people has made its case to Amazon to locate the company’s second headquarters there. At least, hopefully they have already, because today—if you haven’t heard—was the deadline to apply.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

tech startups and investment firms have long been thought of as the domain of white men—because historically, they have been.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

During a summer that’s been marred by political upheaval and horrific violence inside and outside the U.S., it’s natural for startup entrepreneurs and others immersed in the technology world—including us journalists—to wonder about the role of innovation in solving social problems.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups.

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