UC San Diego Health Develops COVID-19 Test, Begins Testing Patients
Xconomy
MARCH 13, 2020
The UC San Diego Health System has developed a diagnostic test that can determine whether a patient has contracted the novel coronavirus in about eight hours.
The 2019 Xconomy Awards San Diego Finalists Are…
Xconomy
MARCH 27, 2019
After an extensive review of the many nominees for the first-ever Xconomy Awards San Diego, Xconomy editors across the country and a panel of local experts together narrowed the list to 42 finalists (listed below) across eight categories. The winner of our Lifetime Achievement award will be revealed later this spring.
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How San Diego Biotech Leaders Are Adapting to Coronavirus Concerns
Xconomy
MARCH 19, 2020
Local biotech executives and investors shared snapshots of life sciences in the time of coronavirus Wednesday afternoon at Xconomy’s Xcelerating Life Sciences San Diego event. The program, originally slated to take. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.
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The Winners of the 2019 Xconomy Awards San Diego Are…
Xconomy
MAY 29, 2019
The nominees and finalists for the first-ever Xconomy Awards San Diego were an impressive bunch, making it tough for our judges and the editors to pick the winners. After much discussion and debate, we decided that these winners represent the best of the San Diego life sciences and healthtech community.
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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center
socalTECH
AUGUST 27, 2018
However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. What exactly does Walmart Labs work on in San Diego?
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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center
socalTECH
AUGUST 27, 2018
However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. What exactly does Walmart Labs work on in San Diego?
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Celebrating San Diego Life Sciences: Xconomy Awards Gala Slideshow
Xconomy
JUNE 10, 2019
View the Slideshow We at Xconomy were thrilled to see such a great turnout at our first-ever awards gala in San Diego. About 250 people from the local life sciences community filled a ballroom at Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa (see photos above).
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Ivor Royston Named Xconomy’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner in San Diego
Xconomy
MAY 2, 2019
We at Xconomy are excited to announce that we are honoring Ivor Royston , co-founder of Hybritech and Idec Pharmaceuticals, with our 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award—the first ever awarded in San Diego. He will receive his award and give a talk reflecting on his career at our inaugural Xconomy Awards San Diego gala on May.
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33 Tech Startups Make San Diego Venture Group “Cool Companies” List
Xconomy
MARCH 29, 2019
In the eyes of the San Diego Venture Group, the key element is readiness for venture capital backing. What does it take for a tech startup to be considered “cool?”
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Xconomy Awards San Diego CEO Finalists Show How To Build Value
Xconomy
APRIL 3, 2019
Each of the finalists in the CEO category for the first-ever Xconomy Awards San Diego program have shown this kind of mettle. Here’s an introduction to each chief executive who made the. Read more » Reprints | Share:
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San Diego Tech Roundup: Ezoic, Trust & Will, Oska Wellness & More
Xconomy
AUGUST 9, 2019
Summer can be a slow time in San Diego, but its startups have stayed busy. Based in Carlsbad, in northern San Diego County, Ezoic launched its platform in 2011. Read on for news of recent financings, plus upcoming opportunities to connect with the local tech community.
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San Diego Biotech Entrepreneurs, Innovation Lead to “Maturing” Ecosystem
Xconomy
MARCH 30, 2020
San Diego has long been considered a second-tier primary biopharma hub in terms of number of companies and venture capital raised, falling behind the twin behemoths of Boston-Cambridge and the San Francisco Bay Area on those and other metrics.
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San Diego Roundup: Qualcomm, Philter, Stella Labs, VC Funding & More
Xconomy
JULY 19, 2019
Let’s catch up with the latest tech news in San Diego. —San Diego’s AON Devices was among 10 startups selected to compete at a recent pitch competition hosted by the corporate venture capital arm of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ).
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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving
Both Sides of the Table
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 arrived late that night in San Diego. The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px.
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Why Comma.ai, Maker of Self-Driving Tech, is Moving to San Diego
Xconomy
MARCH 19, 2019
San Diego’s startup community has rejoiced in recent months as massive companies that employ thousands of engineers—including Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ), and the tech arm of Walmart (NYSE: WMT )—have announced expansions in the region.
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VelosBio Tacks on $137M to Advance Its ROR1-Targeting Cancer Antibody Drugs
Xconomy
JULY 8, 2020
Dave Johnson has known UC San Diego physician and cancer reseacher Thomas Kipps for nearly 20 years.
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Explore San Diego’s Precision Medicine and Genomics Sector in Xconomy’s New Podcast and Special Report
Xconomy
MAY 20, 2020
Learn what’s fueling San Diego’s biotech investment and partnership opportunities by downloading Xconomy’s new special report and podcast that package the highlights from the recent Xcelerating Life Sciences San Diego: Biomedical Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine & Genomics event.
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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …
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 Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview.
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Reneo Readies for Global Test of Drug for Rare Mitochondrial Disease
Xconomy
JUNE 23, 2020
Headed by president and CEO Niall O’Donnell (pictured), the San Diego-based company launched last year with $50 million and an investigational small molecule drug it licensed from High Point, NC-based vTv Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VTVT ). The molecule, REN001, is being developed for patients with primary mitochondrial myopathies (PMM).
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Mission Edge Taps 10 Businesses for “Social Enterprise” Accelerator
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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Biolinq Adds $4.75M to Advance Glucose Monitoring Biosensor Patch
Xconomy
MARCH 28, 2019
Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme. The San Diego startup. The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.
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Biotech Roundup: BIO on Racism, AbbVie Antibodies, IPO Surge & More
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. Instead, attendees from 64 countries spanning 28 times zones convened online this week for the first-ever virtual BIO International Convention.
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National Xconomy Awards Now Accepting Nominations for the Best in Biotech
Xconomy
MARCH 3, 2020
Building on the popularity and strength of the 2017-2019 Boston Xconomy Awards and the 2019 San Diego Xconomy Awards, the 2020 National Xconomy Awards winners will be announced at a Monday, June 8 gala at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego during. Submit yours today.
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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. Connect All debuted this year with the mission of supporting diverse and lower-income entrepreneurs. Read more » Reprints | Share:
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Arcturus Poised to Move Liver Drug, COVID-19 Vaccine Into Clinic
Xconomy
APRIL 14, 2020
The San Diego biotech on Monday announced it had received the FDA’s OK to enter into the clinic with ARCT-810, an investigational treatment for ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency , a rare inherited disease that causes dangerous levels of ammonia to accumulate in the body.
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117 Eyeing Future IPO, A Rarity for SD Software Firms, Tealium Adds $55M
Xconomy
MAY 15, 2019
San Diego has had plenty of businesses go public in recent years, but most have been life sciences companies. Now software startup Tealium, which has about 215 employees at its San Diego headquarters, announced Wednesday it has added $55 million in a Series F financing.
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Amplyx Adds Cash from Pfizer, Adage as Funding Round Tops $90M
Xconomy
MAY 19, 2020
Now the San Diego-based company has added $53 million to a round of funding it first closed in 2017, money that it plans to put toward continued evaluation of the investigational antifungal treatment, fosmanogepix.
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LabFellows Looks to Become “Operating System” For Life Sciences Cos.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 8, 2019
However, that wasn’t the problem San Diego startup LabFellows was looking to solve when it launched in 2014. Scientists, no matter how sexy the research they’re conducting, aren’t immune from the administrative minutiae of office life. Such tasks steal time away from researchers’ main objectives.
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UCSD, 5 Diagnostic Makers Partner to Ramp COVID-19 Testing Capacity
Xconomy
MARCH 20, 2020
A group of scientists and physicians at UC San Diego Health and the UCSD School of Medicine has arranged a partnership with five diagnostics markers that it says will bring the health system’s capacity to test for coronavirus to as many as 1,500 tests daily sometime in early April.
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Luna DNA Uses Blockchain to Share Genomic Data as a “Public Benefit”
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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Daré to Add Microchip-Based Birth Control to Women’s Health Portfolio
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Advancing new forms of birth control is a central focus at Daré Bioscience (NASDAQ: DARE ), a San Diego-based biopharma company that’s built a pipeline of experimental devices and treatments tailored for women’s health. Order groceries? Turn off the bedroom lights? How about contraception?
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$100M Round Turns San Diego’s Seismic into Region’s Newest Unicorn
Xconomy
DECEMBER 18, 2018
The venture investment, which the San Diego startup announced Tuesday, is one of only a few so-called mega-rounds—$100 million or more—recorded this year in the region. (In Thompson to its board of directors. In Southern California, rounds that large are more often raised by life sciences companies.)
Inovio Begins Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Tests in Healthy Volunteers
Xconomy
APRIL 7, 2020
The Plymouth Meeting, PA-based company, which also conducts research in San Diego, plans to enroll as many as 40 adults across two trial locations. Inovio Pharmaceuticals, one of the biotechs developing a vaccine to prevent COVID-19, has received the FDA’s OK to start testing its candidate in healthy volunteers.
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RiverVest Venture Closes $184M Fund for Backing Healthcare Ventures
Xconomy
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Louis, MO-based venture capital firm with additional offices in San Diego, CA, and Cleveland, OH, has raised $184.4 RiverVest Venture Partners, a St. million for its fourth fund dedicated to investing in healthcare companies. Since its launch, RiverVest has invested in 47 companies working to develop new drugs and medical devices.
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107 Nestlé Sells Gut-Health Test Maker Prometheus Labs, Layoffs Expected
Xconomy
JULY 10, 2019
Eight years after San Diego biotech Prometheus Laboratories was acquired by Nestlé Health Science , the diagnostic business has been sold again, this time to a little-known biotech called Precision IBD that plans to lay off approximately a quarter of Prometheus’s workforce.
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91 Neurocrine Pays $165M to Bankroll Voyager’s Gene Therapy for Parkinson’s
Xconomy
JANUARY 29, 2019
In return, San Diego-based Neurocrine will gain rights to Voyager’s. Neurocrine (NASDAQ: NBIX ) has agreed to pay Voyager (NASDAQ: VYGR ) $115 million in cash and buy $50 million worth of the Cambridge, MA, company’s shares at $11.96 apiece—a roughly 50 percent premium to its $8.04 closing price on Monday.
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108 Sanford Burnham Prebys, WARF Partner on Drug Discovery
Xconomy
MARCH 25, 2019
The San Diego-area medical research institute inked a similar deal with the Mayo Clinic in 2012. The partnership is part of a broader movement to accelerate the “bench to bedside” process by better integrating those in academia, government, and industry in the hopes of more rapidly pushing ahead pharmaceutical innovation.
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Patient Death in Poseida Prostate Cancer Study Prompts Clinical Hold
Xconomy
AUGUST 18, 2020
The San Diego company, which has touted its product candidates as safer than early-generation versions developed by other companies, announced the FDA’s decision to pause the study on Monday.
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Artiva Bio Raises $78M to Broaden Access to Cancer Cell Therapies
Xconomy
JUNE 26, 2020
Biotech veterans Tom Farrell and Peter Flynn have teamed up to start a new San Diego company that aims to develop allogeneic, or off-the-shelf, cell-based immunotherapies using natural killer (NK) cells that can be manufactured at scale and delivered to cancer patients outside of the hospital.
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GreatCall Expands Lyft Partnership to Pick Up Seniors Nationwide
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
GreatCall, the maker of the Jitterbug cellphone and other products and services for older adults, has extended its partnership with the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company Lyft to offer GreatCall customers the ability to schedule rides without a smartphone app. No financial terms were disclosed.
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105 Cybersecurity Startup AttackIQ Hires New, Bay Area-Based CEO
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
However, the San Diego-based company, which emerged from stealth mode in 2016, was guided through its early years by president and CEO Stephan Chenette. AttackIQ said Galloway is taking over the role from Carl Wright, who has been named chief commercial officer. Wright was hired as chief revenue officer in August 2017.
Trovagene Rebrands as Cardiff Oncology, Promotes Longtime Exec to CEO
Xconomy
MAY 7, 2020
In 2017 the San Diego area-based biotech made the first step in its transformation into a drug development-focused organization, licensing rights to an investigational cancer drug from Italy’s Nerviano Medical Sciences.
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106 Agtech Startup GroGuru Gets Audience Kudos at EvoNexus Demo Day
Xconomy
JUNE 6, 2019
The event is one of the most popular showcases of San Diego-area tech innovation, and it usually provides an interesting local snapshot of industry trends. EvoNexus typically hosts a “Demo Day” event twice per year to highlight the top startups currently housed in its incubator.
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La Jolla Pharma Steps In With Better Offer, Wins Tetraphase Bidding War
Xconomy
JUNE 24, 2020
San Diego-based La Jolla (NASDAQ: LJPC ) has pledged to pay Tetraphase shareholders $43 million in cash now plus another $16 million tied to sales goals for Tetraphase (NASDAQ: TTPH ) antibiotic eravacycline (Xerava). The competition for Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals now has a new winner : La Jolla Pharmaceutical.
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