Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The final numbers on 2016 fintech funding deals are in from New York-based research firm and investment database CB Insights, and venture capitalists seem to be cooling on the industry. billion in venture capital across 836 investments last year. Fintech has seen a frothy flood of.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To that end, Kukutai’s venture capital firm, Finistere Ventures, is joining with the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to launch a new 20 million euro ($24 million) fund that will invest in emerging agtech startups in Ireland.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. just don’t lead with them!

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Los Angeles has long been in San Francisco’s shadow when it comes to life sciences investment. But a new venture capital firm led by industry veterans is trying to cast the City of Angels in a new light. Westlake Village BioPartners is launching today with $350 million in committed capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

If you’re an investor considering putting dollars in the ground in LA, you can see that there is a tremendous opportunity both because of the growth of our markets and there are fewer VC funds here relative to the opportunity than anywhere else in the country.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. Investing Strategy. and Half.com.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

For the first 50 years of its existence, Bose Corporation invested primarily in in-house research and development to produce its lineup of high-end headphones, speakers, and other audio technologies. The privately held company made its first investment in a startup in late 2015, and last year it officially launched a corporate venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. The first investment I ever made as a VC was in a company now called Invoca.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

This was in direct response to the implosion of the tech bubble and the fall out of Enron, Worldcom and the questionable research produced by the investment banks in general and Blodget in particular. In 2003 Blodget struck a civil settlement deal with the SEC that cost him $4 million.

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Xconomy

APRIL 30, 2019

Vividion Therapeutics, a biotechnology company that launched in 2017 around discoveries made in Scripps Research Institute labs, has raised $82 million in financing. Nextech Invest, a Swiss investment firm that funds companies developing cancer therapeutics, led the Series B round of funding.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

We’re recapping them very quickly here, and adding two reaction quotes we received from Carrie Morton, deputy director of the University of Michigan’s Mcity research facility and test bed, and Shahin Farshchi, a partner at Lux Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has a number of investments in mobility companies.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

This was in direct response to the implosion of the tech bubble and the fall out of Enron, Worldcom and the questionable research produced by the investment banks in general and Blodget in particular. In 2003 Blodget struck a civil settlement deal with the SEC that cost him $4 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. Go research it. Quick caveats: having fewer investors (3-5) is better than many investors (10-15) and PLEASE make sure you hire a great lawyer who has experience in doing start-ups to avoid pitfalls that will make VC harder down the line. They know all the VCs for intros.

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Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2018

The Series D round included investments from previous BitSight backers Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, and Singtel Innov8. The new funding brings BitSight’s total venture capital haul to $155. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2018

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. But Beijing and Shanghai startups appear to be working to keep pace, reeling in $72.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. I invest heavily in relationships with journalists both because I like them and respect their profession and I know that there is a benefit to me in the long run if I’m not transactional in my relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I had a pre breakfast with a CEO of a company in which I invested talking about his next fund raising round. Separately, in the morning I called a seed-stage investor in NY and talked to him about investing in one of my companies. Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Research has yielded a crop of gastrointestinal disorder drug. Seattle-based Lumen turns spirulina into tiny factories that churn out therapeutic antibodies. Finrow says the Lumen technology overcomes many of the challenges of working with cyanobacteria. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Ivan Liachko turned postdoctoral research at the University of Washington into a company whose genomics tools are now found in laboratories researching human, animal, and plant health. His firm, Phase Genomics was one of the first startups to come out of UW’s genome sciences department. Some technologies developed in UW labs.

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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2018

In the Boston office of GE Ventures, managing director Alex de Winter is overseeing investments in companies like Veracyte, which is applying machine learning to genomic sequencing technology to help doctors distinguish benign growths from cancer. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.”

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Managing Director of Miramar Venture Partners. Maneesh works with Miramar portfolio companies to identify growth drivers, potential business partners and evaluate prospective investment opportunities. Maneesh’s prior investing experience includes an associate position at El Dorado Ventures. He joined Miramar in 2006.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2019

trillion annually, according to IHL, a Tennessee firm that specializes in retail and hospitality research. “Something like one out of eight or 10 items is typically not in stock.” Inaccurate inventory costs retailers $1.1 Pensa, an Austin startup. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. Kind of like a law firm (or VC firm) with four partners but shortened to just two, people dropped off his second two words. BUT … try doing proper restaurant research on a mobile device.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. We already have a target list of over 900 topics.

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Xconomy

JUNE 13, 2019

The new Series B round will give San Francisco-based BlackThorn—a startup spun out of the Scripps Research Institute in 2013—the backing to run human tests of two experimental treatments. One, headed for Phase 2 testing by next year, is being developed for mood or anxiety disorders.

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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2018

With the latest funding, CEO Scott Struthers, who founded Crinetics in 2008, said the company has raised over $100 million, including private investments and non-dilutive funding such as Small Business Innovation Research Grants. In a statement Tuesday, Crinetics said it plans.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

What I’d like to do is tell you the story of how the investment came to be, what my thesis is / was and share some thoughts on macro trends. I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I’m also on record as saying I invest in lines & not dots.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customer, marketing, research. . Stop Listening to Your Customers.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

What, I think, is the first technology-based, early-stage venture capital fund anywhere, American Research and Development , was founded between Georges Doriot at Harvard Business School and Karl Compton, who was president of MIT at the time. Twenty years ago, everybody in Boston knew he was.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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. from San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle on the west coast to Boston, New York, and Research Triangle Park out east.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

When I first got into VC I decided I better have some investment themes. We now know that the medium has changed the news industry leading to blogs, real-time reporting, integration of text and video, two-way discussions, stories surfaced based on what your friends are reading, etc. “People still want calls …&#.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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. This was one of those weeks when the world seemed to slip into a new era with no going back.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

I had to laugh when an analyst with Forrester said in the article - As impressive as these results may be, myShape’s approach will probably fail to gain a mass audience unless the company can somehow simplify the measuring process, said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst with Forrester Research. in Computer Science.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Biologists have been using artificially created DNA, produced through what’s known as chemical DNA synthesis, as a research tool for decades. 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.

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