Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The San Diego, CA-based Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM), a subsidiary of Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center, said today it has teamed up with a metagenomics startup headquartered in San Francisco, IDbyDNA, to evaluate the company’s platform as a diagnostic tool for children with such symptoms.

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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. It’s not a tool to replace everything.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2020

Empirico, a biotech that has developed tools to analyze genomics data and use those insights to identify potential therapeutic targets, has signed a collaboration deal with antisense drug developer Ionis Pharmaceuticals that includes a $10 million equity investment. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2015

San Diego-based stock messaging service Stocktwits has just raised a new funding, which the company said came from its existing investors, plus strategic Asian financial technology investors, and strategic investors in the fund and ETF business in North America. funding round. funding round.

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Xconomy

MAY 23, 2017

The FDA has a role to play in addressing the opioid crisis, and its regulatory tools could help ensure that prescription medications are used only under the right circumstances, he wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

San Diego is one of the top U.S. In doing so, they are revealing new insights from our genomes, coming up with new data analytics tools, and applying digital advances to improve health. Billions of dollars in economic impact. cities for innovation in life sciences and healthtech.

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Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

A 25-person startup developing advanced computing tools to speed up pathology work has raised its first institutional financing from a group of investors led by Intel Capital, the corporate investment arm of the chipmaker.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

Carlsmed, a San Diego-based medical technology company that’s developing personalized spinal implants, has merged with Precisive Surgical, a spine imaging system startup in Seattle. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2019

Now a former director from the company is leading a startup that has raised $15 million to develop new genome sequencing tools. San Diego’s Element Biosciences said Tuesday that it had secured a Series A round led by Foresite Capital, a healthcare and life sciences venture capital firm based in San Francisco, and Silicon Valley’s Venrock.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2019

Editing human DNA has entered the public consciousness in a big way in recent years with its increasing use in laboratories— and, in recent news that shocked the scientific community, in embryos —of tools such as CRISPR-Cas9.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Now, some founders are seeking to use tech tools such as chatbots, artificial intelligence, analytics, and mobile to help clients remedy those deficiencies. As the last year has shown, the tech industry has a significant problem with sexual harassment and ensuring that women are treated equitably in the workplace.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Scientists gathered this week in San Diego at the annual Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease Congress are focused on ways to treat the neurodegenerative disease, a task that continues to vex those working to develop potential medicines. The idea is to find a method that can more simply identify those with the disease—today.

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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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Xconomy

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many facets of the finance industry, a highly regulated sector of the economy, are still reworking the tools used to move around money so that they fit a digital world. One such lender, Better.com, raised a $160 million Series C financing round Monday. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2009

San Diego-based Websense said Tuesday that it has acquired Defensio, a provider of technology for dealing with spam on social networking and Web 2.0 WebSense said the buy would extend the firm's capabilities by providing visibility into spam posted on blogs, user forums, and social networking web sites. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

But as I explain in a longer blog post , what is copied is a common motif in song composition, effectively a design tool. No one can claim copyright to these things because they have been around for a long time and are now “generic” parts or common design tools, respectively. This is yet another design tool.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

San Diego-based AttackIQ, a cybersecurity startup providing a Web-based platform for assessing network defenses, has finally closed its Series A round of founding, after raising a total of $8.8 Institutional investors included San Francisco-based Index Ventures , Qualcomm Ventures , and Telstra Ventures.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Software AG, a German software giant with 4,300 employees, has acquired San Diego-based Zementis, a specialist in machine learning and data science. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to a statement Friday, after the acquisition closed last week.

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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. 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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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

[ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2017

Cybersecurity company Proofpoint, which helped slow the sweeping global ransomware attack WannaCry after it emerged Friday, has now discovered a much more insidious, profitable, and potentially widespread cyberattack called Adylkuzz. Adylkuzz doesn’t demand, as WannaCry does, that victims pay a ransom to retrieve their data.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2018

Apple said Wednesday it plans to introduce new features that will allow iPhone users to access parts of their medical records through the company’s Health app. The move could impact the interoperability of health records software and spark more competition in the health IT industry.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Those tools—artificial intelligence and machine learning, respectively—have been around for decades, but in recent years have become faster and cheaper, accelerating their use by those in the business of discovering and developing new drugs.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

When I told Larry Bock in an email about four months ago that I had been diagnosed with cancer, the renowned San Diego life sciences investor asked if he might see me at UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center. Maybe we can share an infusion room,” he replied. “I will be sending good thoughts your way.”.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Two venture-backed startups that have developed technologies intended to speed up the drug discovery and development process are combining those tools in a bid to achieve their goals together. San Francisco-based Atomwise has developed deep learning techniques for use in structure-based small molecule drug discovery.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

LabCorp will also assume net debt of San Diego-based Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM ), bringing the value of the cash deal to approximately $371 million. In 2014, Sequenom sold a genetic analysis tool and a bioscience facility to San Diego-based Agena Bioscience for $31.8 LabCorp reported $8.5

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego chemist, passed away in Oregon this week. He helped turn a jellyfish protein into an invaluable lab tool that every researcher knows as “GFP”—green fluorescent protein, which is used to illuminate the inner workings of cells. He was a professor at UC San Diego.

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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

APRIL 3, 2020

Flagship CEO Noubar Afeyan told Xconomy that the pandemic unexpectedly highlights the need for investment in one of its new thematic areas of interest: “health security” tools and technologies to prevent, detect, and delay disease. And Corey Goodman, managing partner at venBio, said the firm doesn’t expect.

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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

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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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Businesses use the company’s software tools to help monitor customer satisfaction. The Medallia (NYSE: MDLA ) IPO earlier this year was one of a number of successful public market debuts by companies offering cloud-based software, often dubbed software-as-a-service. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

That’s the case when it comes to both treating patients and working with others to develop new healthcare tools. The military may want a product that is serviceable and can be used immediately to help an injured soldier in the field, while the private market needs. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

Yet, new startups—aided with tech tools like artificial intelligence, chatbots, and the like—are trying to reinvent how to connect shoppers with the goods they want to buy.

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