Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2019

Three wildly different startups among those incubating at EvoNexus, a La Jolla, CA-based nonprofit organization that supports early-stage tech companies, earned top marks from the audience at a pitch contest this week. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2013

We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. Learn the role of key players such as Los Angeles UX and UI Meetups, Startup Weekend, Creative Mornings, Maker Studios, Machinima, Nation Builder, Factual, Riot Games as well as Launchpad LA and the Accelerator / Incubator ecosystem.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Plans for new incubators were announced in two different cities. The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy. The nation’s biggest annual cancer meeting took place in Chicago, while biotech’s trade group held its annual confab in San Francisco.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Ivan Liachko turned postdoctoral research at the University of Washington into a company whose genomics tools are now found in laboratories researching human, animal, and plant health. But as a CEO of a growing company, Liachko now sees missed opportunities for UW and the Puget Sound region. Some technologies developed in UW labs.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. Learn the role of key players such as Los Angeles UX and UI Meetups, Startup Weekend, Creative Mornings, Maker Studios, Machinima, Nation Builder, Factual, Riot Games as well as Launchpad LA and the Accelerator / Incubator ecosystem.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

Many top food companies are increasingly pumping money into supporting young, innovative startups, according to a recent analysis by CB Insights. Big Food is getting serious about innovation. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 10, 2012

We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. Learn the role of key players such as Los Angeles UX and UI Meetups, Startup Weekend, Creative Mornings, Maker Studios, Machinima, Nation Builder, Factual, Riot Games as well as Launchpad LA and the Accelerator / Incubator ecosystem.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

500 Startups is scrapping its cohort model for accelerating companies and moving to a rolling admissions process, the accelerator said during its latest demo day. One of the progenitors of the accelerator model in the US along with Techstars and Y Combinator , 500 has been a cornerstone of the early-stage company building platform.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

Carlsmed, a San Diego-based medical technology company that’s developing personalized spinal implants, has merged with Precisive Surgical, a spine imaging system startup in Seattle.

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2019

When Novartis dissolved its gene and cell therapy unit a few years ago, a bunch of projects the Swiss pharma giant had incubated were tossed aside. One of them was the work of surgeon Suzanne Ildstad, who has spent decades trying to develop a new way to improve the health outcomes of patients who need organ transplants.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Instead, the company, Calporta Therapeutics, is being absorbed by Merck (NYSE: MRK ), which is interested in its preclinical work on potential treatments for lysosomal storage and neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Debuting in COI (which stands for “community of innovation”).

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In the nine years since San Diego’s EvoNexus incubator began amid the great recession of 2009, CEO Rory Moore has emphasized it is a pro bono program—startup teams admitted to the technology accelerator get free office space and other perks, with no strings attached. Now, for a variety of.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. Just a few months earlier, Hinshaw had sold his private healthcare IT consulting company, MaxIT Healthcare, to government contractor SAIC for $473 million.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

VelosBio joined Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS @ San Diego incubator in January. The company is developing antibody drug conjugates, a class of cancer drug that links antibodies to potent cancer-fighting toxins. The new VelosBio cash, a Series A round of financing, was led by Arix Bioscience (LSE: ARIX ) and Sofinnova Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. I believe that first-time entrepreneurs also benefit hugely from working in close proximity to other companies. A tech lab is a perfect hub for this kind of cross-company fertilization. We don’t believe in it anymore.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

has been acquired by the New York Times, the company said late Friday. HelloSociety develops tools to help marketers reach influencers on social media, including on Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, YouTube and blogs. Los Angeles-based HelloSociety , the influencer marketing agency which is part of Science, Inc. ,

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

Jamie tells us the interesting story behind how the company started plus how the company managed to quickly land investor interest. I had just sold my last company, Phonetag, and was starting to look at doing new things. I had been doing some angel investing, and incubating several projects. We raised $2.1M

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

New companies are being created at stunning speed by today’s founders. As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. My key takeaway–companies are being created faster and more cheaply than I would have believed possible.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. The company- now has around $50M in recurring annual revenues. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Investor in Twitter, Foursquare, DISQUS, and (by Naval’s own admission) “a lot of other companies you have never heard of”. When great companies really hit, all the investors want in and there isn’t enough room. Long-term, we may start investing in some of these companies as they go through. Former Founder Epinions.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

million agreement to acquire General Assembly, a tech training and career development company that offers courses online and at 20 campuses worldwide. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. How to help his companies. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. And reflective.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Understand how to value you company (more to come in a future blog!) Come to the table with a reasonable equity offer based on your company’s true value. “OC’s Premier Incubator – Supporting Start-Up Businesses in Our Business Collective&#. Looking forward to launching our new LA incubator soon!

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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.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? We're also updating the format.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. Can the Irvine Company accomplish something similar as the landlord at 101 West Broadway?

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Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2017

Heller started at San Diego’s EvoNexus incubator, working with Glendale, CA-based Avery Dennison, a Fortune 500 company that makes adhesive vinyl films that can be applied to motor vehicles, conform neatly to automotive curves and corrugations, and can. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Radicle, a new accelerator fund focused on agricultural ventures, is launching today with plans to seed and nurture the next generation of agtech companies addressing global farming problems. We expect a deeper and better prepared pipeline of new agtech companies to emerge,” he said. Last month, AgTech Accelerator unveiled $11.5

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I The company was co-founded by Eric Wei, a former product manager at Instagram who focused on the creator and influencer side of the business.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

He says on his blog , “I was a dorm room entrepreneur. I co-founded my first company, Infonautics , back in 1991 while I was a junior at Penn. The accelerators and incubators want full time entrepreneurs’ so one either drops out of school or drop the project. By the time I (barely) graduated, we had 20 employees.”.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Water Pigeon co-founder Sarp Sekeroglu got the most votes in a survey conducted immediately after six startups incubating at EvoNexus gave short presentations. EvoNexus operates as a free incubator (with “no strings attached”) for tech startups at three facilities in San Diego and Orange County. was founded as Catalyst eClinical.).

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

” Last year, I was introduced to Karma’s company and services from a friend. Amidst the search she found her way working with NYC based incubator Techstars as an associate. Amanda talks a bit about life working for an incubator. One simple idea: “Getting online should not be that difficult.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Or if you did something really interesting / innovative in a startup company. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. Are we elitist?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. In the late 90′s I saw a dangerous trend creeping into the startup world, which was that companies were suddenly raising huge amounts of money too early in their existence. Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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