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. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. He founded MaxIT Healthcare in 2001.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2019

A global pharmaceutical company based in France has licensed software developed by San Diego digital health startup CureMatch that aims to help cancer doctors customize the combination of drugs they prescribe to patients based on mutations in cancer DNA. The company, which CEO Bob Manning says has raised about $2.5

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Xconomy

JANUARY 22, 2018

A San Diego startup says it has adapted the blockchain technology that underpins digital currencies like Bitcoin for use as a distributed database for genomic information.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. In my home we have a network of Alexas that provide news, information and music but have also become our de facto home intercom system.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

San Diego startup Cuida Health, a recent graduate of the Connect Springboard accelerator program, this week launched its first product: a voice-activated “social wellness” app for seniors. Lisa doesn’t interrupt. She doesn’t mind long pauses between responses. And she has a sense of humor. Oh – and, she’s virtual.

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2017

We are a little over a week away from the Xconomy Forum on the Human Impact of Innovation and we’re excited to announce that thanks to a generous sponsor we have a block of 25 complimentary tickets to give to bootstrapped entrepreneurs in San Diego. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2018

qster, founded in 2016 to develop technology that enables individuals to aggregate and manage all of their own personal health information, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Dawn Barry, a former executive at San Diego genome sequencing powerhouse Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) who cofounded LunaDNA last year, says her company is committed to compensating those who help it build a database of anonymized health and DNA information.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2012

Fullerton-based HipGeo , the startup developer of a mobile app for tracking a user's travels, said today that the firm is now seeing posts from 125 countries and over 4,864 cities on its app. executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, Galen Buckwalter, the former Chief Scientist of eHarmony, and San Diego angel investor Robert Bingham.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving. Panic ensued as we couldn’t bring the dogs to San Diego and my brother’s three kids look forward to this great trip all year. She started watching dogs in her spare time through DogVacay and was able make ends meet during a tough period.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2017

This is the direction we’re headed, according to Larry Smarr, founding director of the California Institute of Telecommunications & Information Technology at UC San Diego.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made big headlines almost six years ago when he wrote a blog post called “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?” Along the way, Khosla has invested in a range of startup companies—including several tackling radiology, cardiology, and mental health (see slide and list at bottom)—that are.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2019

LunaDNA, a startup that is offering individuals company stock in exchange for personal genomic and health information in a bid to build a database that could help advance scientific research, is merging its research platform with the Genetic Alliance’s Platform for Engaging Everyone Responsibly (PEER). LunaPBC, a public-benefit.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits.

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Xconomy

MAY 25, 2017

volunteers and amass a treasure trove of their health information will start next week with a “beta test” that health officials hope to eventually expand nationwide. An ambitious plan to recruit 1 million U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Given the stellar startup careers of non-college graduates like Zuckerberg, Ellison, Disney, Gates, Jobs, Branson and Dell, the answer to this question might surprise you. In each case, the students were glad they remained in school and snagged their diploma before launching their startups. . In sports, outliers generate headlines.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2017

These are heady times for using artificial intelligence to extract insights from healthcare data—in particular, from the tidal wave of information coming out of fields like genomics and medical imaging. How can startups make money in this emerging field?

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2019

This “interoperability” problem has created a market for companies such as Redox, a Madison, WI-based startup that develops software tools to make the flow of patient information more seamless.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

The Obama administration’s push to sign up one million Americans for a long-term health study will start in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Tucson, AZ, top health officials said today. A center led by the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego will work on ways for those individuals to participate.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2018

If so, a Silicon Valley startup is hoping to entice you with a new option for private data storage of your personal digital life, along with private channels for sharing videos and other information with your inner circle of friends—and close control over who else gets access to them.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

After taking over roughly six months ago, StockTwits CEO Ian Rosen made one of his first strategic moves with last week’s acquisition of SparkFin , a San Diego-based fintech app that provides novices with information on investing. Rosen (pictured above). Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope. million in nine months. Echo Labs image).

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

After signaling that it plans to operate drones via cellular technologies, San Diego-based Qualcomm says today it is working with AT&T to use commercial wireless networks for test flights beyond an operator’s visual line of sight.

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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 startup does its R&D and design in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. Why did you start Chi.mp, and what does it provide? It's a flood, with robust amount of information. Rob Farrow: The reason behind Chi.mp

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego chemist, passed away in Oregon this week. As the San Diego Union Tribune reported in 2013, Tsien (pictured) was also unafraid to shine the spotlight on what he considered suspect scientific approaches, even when espoused by legends like DNA co-discoverer James Watson.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

On Tuesday, Breg announced it will be getting an assist on the software side from Redox , a healthtech startup based in Madison, WI. Breg’s software allows them to see whether a device is available, and then scan its barcode once it has arrived at a practice and is ready for a patient to start wearing.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The codes printed on those markers can include information about the medical device, such as who made it, when it expires, the type of device it is, and other information that can uniquely identify. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

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. As a result, Reflexion has expanded its workforce to about 40 staffers to keep up with the heightened interest.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“Traditional sizing only fits 15 percent of guys,” says Matt Hornbuckle, the startup’s founder and co-CEO. To connect guys with a shirt that fits well, the men’s wear startup created a database of “tens of thousands” of body scans. Twins come in and get different sizes.”

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ).

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

The year was 1972: three years after the first messages were firing across the US military-funded research network ARPANET, the precursor to the internet, but still more than a decade before the internet’s architects settled on rules for how information would be transmitted across the network. Computer scientists gathered at the.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2018

Some academic researchers and business leaders think that the solution could be to house information in lab-made DNA molecules instead of silicon. DNA’s advantages include a much longer shelf life and superior ability to pack information into less space. But there are a number of hurdles that must be overcome before.

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Xconomy

JUNE 5, 2019

We can also deliver some of the most knowledgeable and informed speakers and guests to provide at least some of the answers. At the World Frontiers Forum and Xconomy, we can’t promise to cover everything, but we can deliver an important and historic event that poses such questions and many more. The event is called Net@50. It takes place the.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2019

The latest by Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI ) was a $445 million purchase last week of Vaas , a Fort Worth, TX-based maker of imaging software that can capture and analyze license plate information. Whereas the public might still think of phones when it comes to. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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