Xconomy

DECEMBER 15, 2018

It’s next week or never (until 2019, that is) for two San Diego companies that have filed documents with securities regulators indicating plans to go public. Will “CBUS” and “SI” join “THOR” and “RMED”?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

While the softening stock market may have ruined a few holiday breaks, these San Diego software companies were undoubtedly raising a glass in celebration of their successful fundraising efforts. Four reported raising $10 million or more within days of the New Year, according to recent filings with securities regulators.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

San Diego’s cybersecurity workforce has grown by nearly 15 percent over the past two years, according to a study released today by the Cyber Center of Excellence, a nonprofit industry group created to boost cybersecurity jobs and technologies in the region. The center also asked the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Andrian Pawluk was living in San Diego when Teradata hired him this year and tasked him with transforming 65,000 square feet of offices into an alluring workspace for techies, but he had never previously heard of the data warehouse and business analytics company.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. What's the whole story behind StockTwits and how it came about?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Exact Sciences has gone from being a customer of Biomatrica, a San Diego-based vendor of equipment for storing and preserving blood and saliva samples, to now being the company’s owner. Exact’s sole product on the market is Cologuard , a non-invasive, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2016

Six San Diego business risk-takers have been inducted into the pantheon of EY Entrepreneurs of the Year, joining over 10,000 people around the world who have been honored over the last 30 years by the multinational professional services firm. The winners are: — Life Sciences: BioLegend CEO Gene Lay.

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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. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 26, 2017

The San Diego-based company sold 5 million shares at $15 apiece—in line with the $14 to $16 per share range it set earlier this month—and is now trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “ANAB.” As has been the case for biotechs over the past year , insiders helped Anaptys get to the public market.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish, an online advertising network focused on social media, announced this monring that it has hired Becky Carroll as the firm's Director of Social Media. Carroll will head up the firm's social media marketing. The firm is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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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 We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2017

Soci, a San Diego startup that created a Web platform for managing social media, has closed on $8.5 The five-year-old startup, which had 35 employees five months ago when it was named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego company to watch , now has 50 employees. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

TrueCar, an LA-based company, sells more cars now than any physical dealer in the country and recently went public and has a $1 billion market cap. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Mavens & Marketing. Indeed we have already seen the beginnings.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Gossamer Bio, the San Diego-based biotech founded by former Receptos executives, has raised $276 million in its initial public offering, a total that puts it in a rare class among biotechs that have gone public in recent years. The amount raised surpassed expectations. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

to San Diego. Marketing , Costello and Sons Insurance , Deloitte , The City of. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). your business on the map with national news coverage and blog buzz for only $999 a. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. learn more.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The FDA has approved the first blood test to help diagnose concussions, clearing a path to the market for a diagnostic that could reduce the use of expensive brain imaging technologies that expose patients to radiation. The approval goes to San Diego diagnostics developer Banyan Biomarkers.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2020

San Diego regenerative medicine company Histogen announced an agreement to gain a Nasdaq listing through a merger with Conatus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CNAT ).

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 16, 2019

But the San Diego company fell short of bringing its lead regenerative medicine program into clinical trials , and now it is charting a course as a vehicle for privately held cancer drug developer Tarveda Therapeutics to join the public markets.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Seismic, one of San Diego’s most prominent enterprise software companies, has tapped a member of the team behind one of the region’s most successful tech startup stories to prep for its own prospective market debut. San Diego native John McCauley was part. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. They sponsor TWiVC.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 14, 2019

Back in the days of H&Q, bankers and entrepreneurs flocked to San Francisco to get information about biotech companies that was otherwise hard to come by. The massive life sciences meeting now known as the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference started out as a clubby get-together hosted by investment bank Hambrecht & Quist.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of March 2019, continues San Diego-based ResMed’s (NYSE: RMD ) “connected healthcare” push that began about five years ago, as Xconomy chronicled last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. a few days before the wheels came off of the market). We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. My family went without me.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Hundreds of red, “dockless” electronic bikes appeared on the streets of San Diego and Seattle on Monday, the latest cities in which Uber introduced its e-bike program, Jump. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing giant acquired Jump Bikes, a Brooklyn e-bike sharing service, in April.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

billion in new capital late Thursday as it priced an initial public offering that set its market capitalization at $82.4 Ride-hailing giant Uber secured $8.1 billion , according to calculations by The New York Times and other news outlets.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 6, 2019

The FDA stopped short of saying Zolgensma should be pulled from the market, but is nonetheless investigating the matter and threatened potential legal action.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. It also supports blogs. Idris Manley: It's definitely both.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Genalyte, a biomedical diagnostics company that has maintained a low profile in San Diego while raising almost $92 million, is getting ready to debut technology that targets a market long dominated by centralized lab services providers.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Now, the San Diego-based startup is looking to Wall Street for additional funds. million through the offering, but that target is likely to change before the company enters the public market. Gossamer Bio, headed by former Receptos executives, made its public debut in January with $100 million in financing.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2019

A company that makes a mapping system to help doctors see high-resolution, 3D images of irregular heart rhythms in real time has raised $100 million in venture investment and a $70 million credit facility to fund its full-scale market launch. Acutus Medical, based in the northern San Diego community of Carlsbad, was founded in 2011.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2019

Oncternal Therapeutics has joined the growing ranks of San Diego biotechs to go public, but it didn’t go through an IPO to get there. The San Diego-based company said Monday that it completed a reverse merger with GTx, a Memphis, TN biotech whose market value plummeted last fall after its lead drug candidate failed a Phase 2 trial.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2018

Sales of Cibus’ first product, a gene-edited canola, have gone so well that the San Diego company has raised $70 million in new financing to boost its commercialization efforts.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The San Diego-based genomics giant (NASDAQ: ILMN ) dominates the market when it comes to technology for sequencing, or “reading,” the genetic code. Now the Federal Trade Commission is looking to block the deal, and says it was meant to steamroll a competitor and maintain Illumina’s “monopolist” position atop the industry.

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Xconomy

APRIL 24, 2019

The former is marketed and distributed here by Astellas Pharma; the latter isn’t approved in the US. The San Diego. Forge Therapeutics, founded in 2015 with the goal of developing drugs that target metalloenzymes, said Wednesday it had agreed to let Basilea Pharmaceutica use its chemistry platform to develop new antibiotics.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

In documents filed with securities regulators Friday, the San Diego company set a preliminary IPO target of $115 million. Poseida Therapeutics, which is testing CAR-T cell therapies for blood-borne and solid tumor cancers, has laid the groundwork for an initial public offering.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2019

Just as surprising is the tale of how Cavanah and co-founders Ken Tsui and Aaron Bannister built the San Diego, CA-based company, called PetDesk. Taylor Cavanah, whose background is in physics, once caused a fellow scientist to do a spit take after learning Cavanah runs a software startup focused on pet care.

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