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. On Tuesday, the San Diego biotech said it had raised $12.2 Molecular Assemblies is among the companies working to commercialize what’s known as enzymatic DNA synthesis.

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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. It’s notoriously tough for experimental psychiatric drugs to succeed in clinical tests.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

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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Xconomy

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Companies sometimes raise big venture capital rounds to invest in equipment, people, and other tools for growth. Other times they do it to provide the business a cash cushion. And sometimes it’s about giving potential customers and partners more confidence in the fledgling company.

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Xconomy

MAY 6, 2020

Scientists don’t know the structure of many of the innate immune system proteins they’re trying to target and they also lack the tools to work with them in the lab, Bigal says. The problem, says Ventus Therapeutics CEO Marcelo Bigal, is that drug developers have been working in the dark.

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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.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2019

Despite the progress of gene therapy—a cutting edge medicine promising long-lasting effects from a single treatment—it remains a crude and limited tool. Startup Encoded Therapeutics has raised $104 million to join the race to expand gene therapy’s reach.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— 5D Robotics , founded in 2009 in Carlsbad, CA, (about 30 miles north of San Diego), has developed a device that integrates GPS, inertial guidance, optical positioning, and other technologies. SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales. “We

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Xconomy

APRIL 8, 2020

Some diseases have proven difficult to address using conventional tools of drug discovery that target disease-causing proteins. Roche is placing a $190 million bet on Arrakis Therapeutics, a startup whose technology aims for RNA—carriers of the genetic instructions that make these proteins in the first place.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

With so many social networks, and dominant sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace, how do you fit in, and why is there need for another social networking tool? You recently moved the headquarters here from Hawaii, can you talk about the decision to move to San Diego? In late 2007, Chi.mp Rob Farrow: You're spot on.

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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. Also in Cambridge, Oncorus debuted with a $57 million round and a plan to develop next-gen oncolytic viruses, a type of cancer immunotherapy tool.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2019

But such tools only work when companies play fair. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Recycling Waste Platform. Problem She is Solving.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

Soaring prices of Bitcoin and other so-called digital tokens were attracting investments from speculators hoping to get rich quick—but these virtual coin values were also known to drop just as suddenly, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council noted.

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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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Xconomy

AUGUST 4, 2016

The San Diego company sees many reasons why wireless charging will eventually become a robust global market, according to Steve Pazol, a Qualcomm vice president who took over the company’s wireless charging business in 2014.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Today, there’s no need to invest that much effort when cheap connected devices are ubiquitous. Even if they could be field upgraded, why would the manufacturer invest in a security patch? They already got paid for those devices; investing in them would only further squeeze their minuscule margins. One Target, Many Victims.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Thanks in part to better structural biology tools, says Springer, “we think we understand the problem.” Morphic was formed by Polaris Partners and Leukon Investments in 2015. Some others investing in Morphic’s Series A include Schrödinger and ShangPharma Investment Group. ” That’s yet to be proven.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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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.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

They are on more solid footing than they were, but there’s no such thing as solid footing in this industry,” says Rajeev Shah, a managing director at biotech investment firm RA Capital, which had been a Vertex investor but no longer is. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2016

In a survey published this summer by digital health investment firm Rock Health, respondents were generally positive about sharing their health records and genetic data. Those concerns are shared by the public. But they did not view tech companies as trustworthy stewards. Joining Vanderbilt and Verily is the Broad Institute of Cambridge, MA.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2018

Artificial intelligence is poised to infiltrate nearly all aspects of human life. Given this development, technologists are focusing on how to ensure the technology usage is governed by ethics. The general rule is that power begets responsibility,” says Michael Stewart, founder and CEO of Lucid AI , an AI startup in Austin. “If

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

The platform adds that “because technology has become an essential tool of learning, it must be a key element in our efforts to provide every child equal access and opportunity.”. To that end, Democrats say they will invest in “high-quality STEAM classes” (STEM plus Arts) and computer science training, among other priorities.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. MSN Money Investing. Downtown San Diego Condos. Investment Land For Sale. Investing Tools.

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