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Xconomy Guide to Best Sessions at Startup Week San Diego

Xconomy

Startup Week San Diego, like a lot of other places that host similar events, has been billed as a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship. But while Startup Week San Diego has always collaborated with UP Global, San Diego entrepreneur and Startup Week organizer Austin Neudecker said, “We’ve always been an independent entity.”.

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Cisco to Pay $660M for Luxtera, Maker of Advanced Data Center Chips

Xconomy

The semiconductor company, founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, CA, a San Diego suburb. Cisco, the San Jose, CA-based tech giant (NASDAQ: CSCO ), said Tuesday that Luxtera’s advanced chips will help it offer its customers faster and better network service performance.

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Ginkgo Builds Out Robot Labs as Microbe Design Business Grows: Photos

Xconomy

Today the synthetic biology company announced an expansion of its headquarters in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood, including a second, larger lab space for designing and making custom yeast and other microbes. Today Ginkgo announced another partnership, with San Diego-based Genomatica. Ginkgo is contributing to that shift.

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Bio Roundup: COVID-19 Trials, Esperion’s Approvals, NASH News & More

Xconomy

A trial is designed, conducted according to that design, and then results are analyzed. In recent years, regulators have showed openness to clinical trial designs intended to make drug testing more efficient. Clinical trials have historically hewn to a rigid format. Making changes in the midst of the study was a no-no.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Premium invitation cards and event stationary that is designed online for online distribution or paper print. They sponsor TWiVC.

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AI Chip Startup Mythic Reaps $40M from SoftBank, Lockheed Venture Arms

Xconomy

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Under New Owners, Petco’s Digital Strategy Emerges in Petnet Deal

Xconomy

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. The startup does its R&D and design in Los Angeles.