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Plug and Play San Diego Finds Home in New Downtown Works Space

Xconomy

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. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”. billion under management.

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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

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Xconomy Q&A: Vuforia, Pokémon Go, and Augmented Reality

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It’s been less than a year since Needham, MA-based PTC (NASDAQ: PTC ) shelled out $65 million to acquire Vuforia, the augmented reality technology created by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ). But now there is an exceptional example. Wright said. His e-mail responses to my questions have been edited for readability.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S.

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With $18M, Reflexion Health Expands Physical Therapy Technology

Xconomy

Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology. Even though O’Brien is board chairman, Smith said West Partners did not invest in Reflexion.).

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Synthorx Raises $10M to Expand Use of Synthetic DNA in Biologics

Xconomy

Synthorx, the San Diego synthetic biology startup that expanded the number of DNA base pairs with two synthetic nucleotides, said today it has raised $10 million in a Series B financing round led by RA Capital Management, the Boston life sciences hedge fund. But many protein therapeutics have limitations that stall their advance.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess. We have invested $17.3 It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. CincyTech today has $28.5

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