Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2019

San Diego is chock-full of companies and people doing innovative work in life science and digital health. As you’re reading this, odds are that someone or some company in San Diego just popped into your mind as an obvious contender, and perhaps even a shoe-in for the. First, we need your nominations.

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Xconomy

APRIL 30, 2020

Our new podcast packages the highlights from the recent Xcelerating Life Sciences San Diego: Biomedical Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine & Genomics forum. How has the investment paradigm shift in funding strategies impacted San Diego? Listen today. What does the future hold for.

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Xconomy

APRIL 26, 2019

Connect, which runs the San Diego region’s longest-standing accelerator program for early-stage startups, is combining its operations with that of the San Diego Venture Group to form an organization that will be better equipped to support young ventures, the two companies said this week.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Startup Week San Diego, like a lot of other places that host similar events, has been billed as a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship. Seattle’s UP Global, now part of Techstars, oversees the operation of Startup Week and other programs for tech entrepreneurs across the U.S. and abroad.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. And covered we did.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 14, 2019

Morgan Healthcare Conference started out as a clubby get-together hosted by investment bank Hambrecht & Quist. Back in the days of H&Q, bankers and entrepreneurs flocked to San Francisco to get information about biotech companies that was otherwise hard to come by.

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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 10, 2017

Soci, a San Diego startup that created a Web platform for managing social media, has closed on $8.5 million in Series A financing that will be used to build on the company’s recent growth, including a second office in Austin, TX, according to co-founder and CEO Afif Khoury.

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Xconomy

JUNE 16, 2017

Nuvve , a San Diego cleantech startup, has begun a pilot project with UC San Diego that is intended to demonstrate the feasibility of using electric vehicles as a kind of collective energy storage reservoir for the power grid. After securing a $4.2 After securing a $4.2 Nuvve and its partners, which.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Software startup Cloudbeds recently relocated its 20-odd local employees from a small space in downtown San Diego to an office nearly three times the size in the same neighborhood. The company unveiled the new digs Thursday, about a month after moving in, with a ceremonial ribbon cutting.

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Xconomy

APRIL 11, 2019

Locally based biotech companies receive fresh funding from investors. A software startup launches games that it says may help children with disorders that cause attention difficulties. The company closed the first $30 million, from Nevada-based investment firm PDL BioPharma (NASDAQ: PDLI ), on Wednesday, with the firm paying a 26.4

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

San Diego is one of two metropolitan areas in which ride-hailing giant Uber has reformatted its mobile app to make it simpler for users to rent an electric bicycle or scooter. Uber also facilitated e-scooter rentals from Lime, a mobility company in which Uber has invested and, at times, been rumored to be considering for acquisition.)

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2017

A San Diego survey on professional women working in tech and life sciences offers some insights on the recurring debate over gender diversity in venture-backed startups and big companies, as well as a related incident that boiled over this week at Google. When asked, “What do you aspire to be, professionally?”

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

It’s not too late to submit your nominations for the first-ever Xconomy Awards San Diego. This is your chance to tell our judges about the people, companies, and organizations that make the life science, healthtech, and medical device communities in San Diego so innovative. PST on Thursday, Feb.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 15, 2018

It’s next week or never (until 2019, that is) for two San Diego companies that have filed documents with securities regulators indicating plans to go public. Agtech company Cibus, which uses “precision” gene editing to alter crops , has applied for a listing on the Nasdaq exchange under the stock symbol “CBUS.”

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2017

An economic impact study of San Diego’s emerging genomics industry counted 115 genomics-related companies operating in the region that directly employ over 10,000 people, and drive about $5.6 billion worth of annual economic benefits throughout the area.

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2018

million into 37 startup companies throughout San Diego County during the first three months of 2018, maintaining roughly the same level of venture funding seen in recent quarters, according to the Venture Monitor Report. The amount of capital invested in the San Diego area was up slightly from the $541.2

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. million into 61 local companies. billion in 1,810 funding deals in 1,796 companies.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

Thirty-seven venture-backed companies in the San Diego area collected almost $350 million in new funding during the first three months of 2017, according to data released this week as part of the latest Venture Monitor report from the National Venture Capital Association and Seattle-based PitchBook. billion invested.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2016

Six San Diego business risk-takers have been inducted into the pantheon of EY Entrepreneurs of the Year, joining over 10,000 people around the world who have been honored over the last 30 years by the multinational professional services firm. The company has provided about $1.4 — Tech Services: GreatCall CEO David Inns.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Exact Sciences has gone from being a customer of Biomatrica, a San Diego-based vendor of equipment for storing and preserving blood and saliva samples, to now being the company’s owner. Exact’s sole product on the market is Cologuard , a non-invasive, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2019

San Diego’s startup community has rejoiced in recent months as massive companies that employ thousands of engineers—including Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ), and the tech arm of Walmart (NYSE: WMT )—have announced expansions in the region. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2018

Another Dutch investor, BioGeneration Ventures, and New York-based New Science Ventures joined the round, according to a statement from the company. The Dutch biotech and its Encinitas subsidiary were both founded in 2016, but the.

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Xconomy

APRIL 5, 2019

—Mobile app startup Bitmo announced it had raised more than $3 million in seed funding from investors including Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, and several Southern California-based family fund offices. The company says it has about 130 national brands on the platform, including Nike, Nordstrom, and Old Navy.

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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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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2019

Spring has sprung, and it’s shaping up to be another busy season for San Diego’s life sciences community. —ResMed (NYSE: RMD ) acquired a South Korea-based medical equipment provider, the company said Friday. . Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2019

A new venture capital firm, which in November marked its launch by raising a $53 million-plus fund to invest in startups, has made its first investment. The duo built a proprietary software system to help them find companies that fit its parameters, which is what led Blueprint to Sunwave, Lewis said. Lewis was mostly recently with San.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego has formed a partnership with Downtown Works, a new co-working space in downtown San Diego, which will give the local Plug and Play program a place to call home. Companies that participated in the program include Airbitz, Rock My Run, TipNetwork, Vioozer, Raynforest, Stretchr, and Ahorro Libre.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

San Diego’s innovation clusters continued to grow in 2015, as local startups, funding deals, and job growth extended an economic growth spurt that began in 2013. The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

UPS, the global package delivery giant, took a minority stake this summer in TuSimple, a self-driving trucking company, but didn’t reveal financial details. On Tuesday, the San Diego startup revealed that investment was part of an extended Series D financing round that now totals $215 million.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It took six years for Classy, a software-as-a-service company that targets nonprofit organizations looking to fundraise online, to facilitate $500 million in donations. But the next $500 million took just 14 months.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Cybersecurity startup AttackIQ has appointed veteran tech executive Brett Galloway as its new CEO. The company said he was named interim CEO in September of this year. However, the San Diego-based company, which emerged from stealth mode in 2016, was guided through its early years by president and CEO Stephan Chenette.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2018

The company developed automated kiosks that would scan a device and use analytic software to calculate what it was worth and how much of a rebate to offer for it. Founded by several veterans of the wireless semiconductor industry , EcoATM created a business where there wasn’t one for recycling smartphones and other electronic devices.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2020

Biotech veterans Tom Farrell and Peter Flynn have teamed up to start a new San Diego company that aims to develop allogeneic, or off-the-shelf, cell-based immunotherapies using natural killer (NK) cells that can be manufactured at scale and delivered to cancer patients outside of the hospital.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Not long after ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT ) acquired San Diego-based LonoCloud in 2013 , former LonoCloud executives Tom Caldwell and Hossein Eslambolchi met for coffee at the Specialty’s Café and Bakery in University City. Caldwell said they soon raised $600,000 from angel investors to start what would become CyberFlow Analytics.

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