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Profitability Helps San Diego Lender Step Out from Industry Cloud

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In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded.

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Why 2020 Is Pivotal for Microbiome Drug R&D (Or Maybe 2021, Given COVID-19)

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Positive results could help win over large pharmaceutical companies and investors who have doubted microbiome therapies. “In In every new (drug) class there’s always been people. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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TakeLessons CEO Discusses Chromatik Buyout, Why it’s a Good Fit

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San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. TakeLessons also acquired Chicago-based Betterfly, which offered online vocational classes, DIY projects, and self-improvement courses like public speaking and personal life coaching.

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XRC Labs Showcases Retail Tech Innovations in VR, AI, Big Data

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XRC Labs, an accelerator program focused on e-commerce and retail startups, held a demo day for its latest class Thursday, featuring innovations in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other technologies.

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Workforce Trends, Economy, & More: Q&A With Alexandria’s Joel Marcus

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The Pasadena, CA-based urban office real estate investment trust (REIT), founded in 1994, has grown into one of the country’s largest developers of world-class collaborative science and technology campuses. from San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle on the west coast to Boston, New York, and Research Triangle Park out east.

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

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. —In other news from the moonshot day, Biden warned researchers in academia and industry that they would risk losing federal funding if they didn’t follow the law and report their clinical trial results to the public ClinicalTrials.gov database… IBM said it would deploy its Watson systems to help the U.S.

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In Wake Of Infamous Biotech Party, 20 Women Join New Exec Training

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A new program to prepare high-ranking women in the biotech industry for corporate board seats has unveiled its first class of 20. The bank, LifeSci Advisors, is looking to pay penance by helping fund the training program. Morgan conference in January. percent of partners in traditional VC firms were women, Liftstream found.