New VC Firm Blueprint Equity Puts $6M into Florida Software Company
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.
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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.
Xconomy
JANUARY 9, 2020
Empirico, a biotech that has developed tools to analyze genomics data and use those insights to identify potential therapeutic targets, has signed a collaboration deal with antisense drug developer Ionis Pharmaceuticals that includes a $10 million equity investment.
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Xconomy
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Magnolia Medical Technologies , a Seattle-based manufacturer of devices for collecting blood and bodily fluids, announced this week it has raised $20 million in equity funding to ramp up sales of its flagship product. The funding comes as Magnolia and San Diego-based competitor Kurin battle each other in court.
Xconomy
MARCH 20, 2019
A Chicago-based private equity firm has tapped the former head of NuVasive and finance chief of GreatCall to start a new healthcare company in San Diego. Lucier is also making a “substantial” investment in Corza, according to a statement from GTCR on Wednesday. billion Fund XII.
Xconomy
AUGUST 16, 2017
Private equity investors have more capital at their disposal than at any time in more than a decade, which could boost prices for companies seeking acquisitions. 1, private equity firms in North America and Europe had secured $212.6 As of Aug.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 5, 2017
Ad-Juster, a San Diego adtech startup acquired earlier this year by the investment arm of China’s Innotech International Group, Wednesday named local software entrepreneur Dennis Clerke as CEO. He succeeds Ad-Juster founder and president Mike Lewis, who has left the company.
Xconomy
DECEMBER 18, 2018
The venture investment, which the San Diego startup announced Tuesday, is one of only a few so-called mega-rounds—$100 million or more—recorded this year in the region. (In Thompson to its board of directors. In Southern California, rounds that large are more often raised by life sciences companies.)
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
Aquam, a San Diego company with technology for cleaning out and re-lining aging utility pipelines, has raised $26 million in a growth capital round led by NewWorld Capital Group , a New York private equity firm that makes investments in sustainable energy and natural-resources related deals.
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Proficio, a Carlsbad, CA-based startup providing cybersecurity protection services for middle market companies, has raised $12 million in an investment round led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. The Los Angeles-based private equity firm provided funding from its Kayne Partners Fund Group, which invests in high-growth technology businesses.
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
The financing, a Series D round of investment, includes so-called crossover investors that back both public and private companies. CEO Paul Laikind told Xconomy that these investments set up his San Diego company to consider going public in the future.
Xconomy
MARCH 5, 2018
Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG ) will pay San Diego-based Vividion $101 million up front, which includes an equity investment. Vividion Therapeutics is partnering with Celgene to develop new drugs that modulate protein levels as a way of treating disease.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 26, 2018
In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.
Xconomy
DECEMBER 11, 2018
San Diego startup Sensemetrics is applying that technology to the industrial Internet-of-things sector (IIoT), selling access to its cloud platform to the world’s largest mining companies and government agencies monitoring major infrastructure, such as dams. CEO Matt Meehan says Sensemetrics.
Xconomy
APRIL 25, 2017
San Diego-based Forge says it has raised $15 million to support its efforts. MagnaSci Ventures, a Houston-based investment fund focused on early-stage life science companies, led the Series A round of financing. Now, the biotech firm is preparing to bring that technology into clinical trials.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 31, 2017
But women in the industry aren’t optimistic about big changes coming soon, according to a new report and survey from digital healthcare investment firm Rock Health. And there have been public pledges to do better.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn, soy, and wheat are at their lowest levels in years, but investment in agricultural technology has never been better. Just 10 percent of corporate investments were made to build new technological capabilities, the report says. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.
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.
Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7
Xconomy
OCTOBER 12, 2016
On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. Three companies from each cohort also will get $50,000 in follow-on funding.
Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
New York-based UiPath is the latest such company to score a haul, announcing Tuesday it raised $225 million in a Series C funding round co-led by earlier investor CapitalG —the growth equity investment fund of Google parent company Alphabet—and Sequoia Capital, a new investor.
Xconomy
AUGUST 30, 2016
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 deal also reflects Petco’s expanding interests in technology following the company’s $4.6-billion
Xconomy
JUNE 22, 2016
Radicle, which takes its name from the botany term for the part of a plant embryo that develops into the primary root, was founded by a mix of agricultural investment and industry heavyweights. Before making an investment, Radicle says it screens technologies and can quickly vet and validate technologies through its farm connections.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 1, 2019
On Tuesday, the San Diego biotech said it had raised $12.2 Now, as demand for engineered DNA rises, a handful of startups are vying to become the go-to provider for researchers looking for improved versions of the DNA sequences. million in Series A financing that will help it continue its journey toward commercialization.
Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media.
Xconomy
MARCH 23, 2020
I think they’re going to be very patient and pick their spots in terms of where they’re going to invest, and that’s going to put a lot of pressure on companies. If you map that backdrop of the overall investment environment against the backdrop where companies may. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.
Xconomy
JULY 26, 2016
The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.
Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Convoy , an online marketplace that connects shippers with freight truck fleets and independent drivers, announced today it raised $185 million in a Series C fundraising round led by CapitalG, the growth equity investment fund of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. regions, CEO Dan Lewis says.
Xconomy
JUNE 28, 2018
The Series D round included investments from previous BitSight backers Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, and Singtel Innov8.
Xconomy
JULY 22, 2016
It’s the first partnership for Jounce, and a big one: the startup got a $225 million up front cash payment from Celgene and a $36 million equity investment. —Bruce Bigelow profiled Dauntless Pharmaceuticals , a stealthy biotech company creator in San Diego forming single-drug startups.
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
These are among the major findings of a survey of 500 industry leaders and investors conducted by investment bank Jefferies. Nevertheless, senior figures remain optimistic about the industry’s prospects in 2020.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 25, 2016
According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window.
Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
For the life sciences industry, one of the largest landlords, and closest observers, is Alexandria Real Estate Equities. 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.
Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
At Xconomy, we have seen growing investments in the sector—both in a rash of new agtech startups and by bigger players such Monsanto, Bayer Crop Sciences, and Syngenta. The annual AgTech Investment Report from AgFunderNews found that investment in agriculture and food-related technology startups alone hit $4.6
Xconomy
MAY 30, 2016
I don’t know if it was their first investment, but they invested $75,000 in a researcher named Ken Olsen, at MIT. And we started to do it more officially, take some equity in the companies, allow the faculty to have equity—but still have exclusive licenses. Twenty years ago, everybody in Boston knew he was.
Xconomy
MAY 4, 2017
In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn.
Xconomy
MAY 17, 2019
Generic drugs are supposed to give consumers more choices and a counterweight to more costly branded medications. During his tenure as FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb often spoke about generics as a market force that could help tame climbing drug prices. But such tools only work when companies play fair.
Xconomy
JUNE 26, 2018
cities from San Francisco to Austin to Boston come first to mind. When it comes to startup tech hubs, U.S. But that is starting to change, as Asian cities—particularly in China—are snapping up more tech venture capital funding and exits, according to a new report from CB Insights.
Xconomy
JULY 20, 2016
But the newer gene therapy delivery tools, or viral “vectors”—most commonly, adeno-associated viruses, or AAVs—have so far proved to be much safer than those used in the past, a key distinction since significant safety problems are what wasted away gene therapy investments at the turn of the century. Audentes has raised $135.8
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
This was one of those weeks when the world seemed to slip into a new era with no going back. A Chinese researcher, He Jiankui, claimed he helped bring to life two genetically engineered babies, twin girls with a gene disabled to make them immune to HIV infection.
Xconomy
JULY 3, 2019
Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity giant Symantec.
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