Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2017

For Michèle Morris, the big question hanging over organizers as they laid the groundwork last year for the first Design Forward Summit was whether the innovation community in San Diego understood the value of design. “We

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2019

The first business accelerator program in southeast San Diego is accepting applications for its second cohort of entrepreneurs, who would start the program in fall. It’s the first accelerator of its kind in the region, according to the organization. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2019

Three wildly different startups among those incubating at EvoNexus, a La Jolla, CA-based nonprofit organization that supports early-stage tech companies, earned top marks from the audience at a pitch contest this week. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2019

One of them was the work of surgeon Suzanne Ildstad, who has spent decades trying to develop a new way to improve the health outcomes of patients who need organ transplants. Talaris Therapeutics, a Louisville, KY, startup founded by. That work has just been salvaged. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2016

Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research that led to the development of fluorescent proteins used to illuminate tissue and track biological processes, has died, according to a statement from the university. Various Fluorescing Proteins. He compared himself to John C.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

San Diego-based Sirenas , which has developed technology to rapidly isolate and synthesize potential drug compounds from marine organisms, said it has received a $775,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sirenas mounts underwater expeditions three or four times a year to collect organisms, Esquenazi said.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It took six years for Classy, a software-as-a-service company that targets nonprofit organizations looking to fundraise online, to facilitate $500 million in donations. But the next $500 million took just 14 months.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

No one would argue that San Diego is overflowing with venture capitalists in the way, say, the San Francisco Bay Area is. The idea was to get more local startups an. In fact, the region’s relative dearth of investors is often bemoaned by local entrepreneurs. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2018

CureMatch , a San Diego startup with technology to help doctors choose the best combination of anti-cancer treatments based on an analysis of each patient’s tumor, took home a $35,000 grant intended to help companies expand overseas. CureMatch was the top vote-getter among four finalists that.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Call him an optimist if you must, but San Diego Venture Group president Mike Krenn says venture financings for San Diego’s early stage tech startups are on a tear. “I A breakout of regional deal flow so far this year indicates that venture activity in San Diego. That is an insane data point.”

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Xconomy

AUGUST 7, 2019

SDSI, a nonprofit organization based north of San Diego in coastal Solana Beach, focuses on advancing companies that involve sports, active lifestyles, health, and wellness.

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Xconomy

MAY 14, 2018

He began to write about the possibility that a drug could act like a magische kugel —magic bullet—that killed only the organism causing disease, and nothing else.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

When Xconomy convened a dinner discussion earlier this year that included prominent San Diego cybersecurity innovators, startup founders, and system administrators, I was stunned to learn that Gary Hayslip oversees an IT network that blocks an average of 800,000 cyber attacks a day.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Mission Edge, a nonprofit organization backed by the San Diego Foundation and three corporations, has chosen 10 companies and organizations to participate in a 12-week program intended to improve each entity’s financial performance, and thereby long-term sustainability. Ken Davenport, CEO of San Diego-based Mission.

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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. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. Happy Holidays!

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Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2020

At the start of 2020 thousands of biotechies anticipated spending the second week of June in San Diego, hobnobbing at the annual conference hosted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. There, topics once as unanticipated as the remote nature of the meeting shared top billing: COVID-19 and racism.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2019

Connect, a 34-year-old nonprofit which runs the well-known Springboard Accelerator Program for startups, announced Monday that it had tapped Silvia Mah, a San Diego investor and entrepreneur, as its new president. Mah is executive director of Hera Labs, an accelerator program for women-owned businesses.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Enterprise software startup Classy, which developed a platform through which it says nonprofit organizations have raised nearly $1 billion for their causes, has hired its first-ever chief revenue and chief product officers. The company, based in downtown San Diego, is headed by CEO Scot Chisholm.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Logistics startup Airspace Technologies says its “next-generation” technology, developed specifically for time-sensitive shipments—donated organs slated for transplant and replacement parts for tarmac-bound airplanes, for example—can process shipments faster and cheaper than other third-party logistics providers.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Connect, the longstanding nonprofit organization that runs one of San Diego’s best-known startup accelerator programs, said Thursday that Tega Therapeutics CEO Tim Scott will become chairman of its board of directors on Dec. Scott has a long history with the organization.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2018

In June, Jennifer Petter, the founder and chief scientific officer of biotech startup Arrakis Therapeutics, got an e-mail from a stranger. His name was Ramsey Johnson, a biotech veteran who works in clinical operations at Boston startup Phoenix Tissue Repair. Johnson wanted to get Petter involved in his organization.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Roche is acquiring San Diego startup Jecure Therapeutics, with hopes of turning Jecure’s early research into a drug or drugs that treat the liver disease NASH. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, is a serious form of fatty liver disease that causes inflammation and scarring in the organ.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

Many top food companies are increasingly pumping money into supporting young, innovative startups, according to a recent analysis by CB Insights. The big guys are starting to figure out that they can’t really innovate well enough within their own organization,” says Robyn Metcalfe, director of Food+City , a multi-departmental.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The San Diego-based biotech set a preliminary $100 million target for its IPO in documents filed with securities regulators Friday. Cibus, which has developed a proprietary gene-editing technology that tweaks crops’ DNA to improve yield, is planning to make its public market debut.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Executives at biotech startup Celularity believe cells from this organ can also be developed into treatments for a wide range of diseases, and the company announced Thursday that it has $250 million in funding to move its plans forward. Hariri had also co-founded Human Longevity, a San Diego company that is analyzing.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A San Diego civil engineer who has developed an alternative technology for automating the measurement of water flow gave the best presentation at EvoNexus Fall Demo Day, an event that drew nearly 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters late Thursday to Qualcomm’s corporate headquarters. million and take five years, Sekeroglu said.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

“You look at a dog, and see his eyes, and think he’s cute,” says Tama Lundquist, co-president of Houston PetSet, an organization that works with about 70 animal shelters in the Houston area. Nearly half of those animals end up euthanized. But if you’re a couch potato and he likes to run, that’s not going to work out.”

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2019

An unknown phone number was once all scammers needed to trick the average person into picking up the call.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

An organization representing venture capital firms filed a federal suit in Washington, DC, on Tuesday accusing Trump Administration officials of unlawfully delaying a program that would have allowed international entrepreneurs to work at companies they founded within the United States.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2018

Fridays can be the most productive work day, as you look to shore up everything before the weekend starts. From Facebook to Microsoft to the NIH, organizations keep working to push forward the uses of A.I. Fear not: Xconomy has done the work for you, bringing a smattering of some of the most interesting reads out there.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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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

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. How did you start NativeTung?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Darin Andersen, the busy-bee creator of San Diego’s Cyberhive, iHive, and xHive startup programs, says eight early stage tech companies have joined the co-working space he has been building out in Bankers Hill under a new “Entrepreneur in Residence” program. — Secured Universe: Secure Android OS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2018

Were you aghast at revelations that third-party organizations were able to capture millions of Facebook profiles from users who were unaware of the company’s privacy policy terms? It’s a pretty tall order for a startup to build a consumer data storage service to rival services like Dropbox, combined with a social network.

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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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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2020

The World Health Organization this week declared that the COVID-19 outbreak was serious enough to classify as pandemic. The financial markets are tumbling , event cancellations are mounting , and sports leagues are suspending their seasons. March Madness is in full swing but not in any way that people wanted or expected.

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