socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

San Diego-based Forge Therapeutics , a biotechnology startup which is developing antibiotics to treat lung infections, has received $11.M Forge said the new award will support the development of a new class of LpxC inhibitors to treat serious lung infections attributed to Gram-negative bacteria, including multi-drug resistant P.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. Another oft-mentioned concern about peer-to-peer lenders is that most members of the new class of lending companies have yet to prove their business model in the ultimate stress test —an economic downturn.

San Diego 40

San Diego Help Software Review Funding 40

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Genomics startups are increasing in number and quality, so much so that three-year-old Illumina Accelerator has expanded with its latest class to accommodate five of them. The program, modeled on tech-oriented accelerators such as Y Combinator, provides genomics-focused startups with capital, lab space at Illumina Accelerator’s offices.

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Startup San Diego Class Capital 79

Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

VelosBio joined Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS @ San Diego incubator in January. The company is developing antibody drug conjugates, a class of cancer drug that links antibodies to potent cancer-fighting toxins. The new VelosBio cash, a Series A round of financing, was led by Arix Bioscience (LSE: ARIX ) and Sofinnova Ventures.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Two, Southern California companies are on the list of the next class for Microsoft's startup accelerator, the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure , according to Microsoft Monday. Microsoft said it had ten finalists who will be included in the three month program--powered by TechStars--to help accelerate companies using Windows Azure.

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Southern California SoCal San Diego Class 140

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

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Venture Capital San Diego Santa Monica Coach 59

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

For these reasons, fatty liver disease is often called a “silent disease,” says Ariel Feldstein, a gastroenterologist at the University of California San Diego. Feldstein has been studying the liver for nearly 20 years, and his research now forms the basis of a newly launched company called Jecure Therapeutics.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2020

By month’s end, five more are anticipated to join the class of 2020 initial public offerings—and four of those are in life sciences, according to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital. So far this year four privately held companies have made the transition to trading on the public markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Why do they invest in venture capital?

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

Xconomy

JULY 24, 2017

San Diego’s Effector Therapeutics, a five-year-old cancer drug developer, has raised $38.6 million in new venture capital funding. The Series C financing, led by Pfizer Venture Investments, brings total funding for Effector to about $150 million, CEO Steve Worland said late Monday.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures , which is run by Sharon Stevenson and Marc Averitt , has seen its first portfolio exit, in Carlsbad-based Helixis. Okapi said that the first exit represented a return of more than six times the invseted capital in the firm, which it first invested in less than three years ago.

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SoCalTech CalTech Venture Capital San Diego 133

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025. My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio. We have a way to go. None of this is easy.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

Xconomy

MAY 3, 2019

The first new class of migraine drugs in decades won FDA approval last year. The new class of migraine drugs are called calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibitors, named for a protein associated with the development of migraine pain. By blocking CGRP, the drugs are meant to abort migraine. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. Ken Rutkowski is the man making happen here. As President of the L.A.

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Mentor Class Entertainment Technical Review 185

Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

The advent of big fundraising rounds for startup chip innovators—a class shunned by most venture capital firms only a few years ago—seems to mark a turnaround in recent VC attitudes about semiconductor investments.

Artificial Inteligence 69

Artificial Inteligence Venture Capital Class Capital 69

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

Yet Frenkel, a participant in the summer 2015 class at Y Combinator , an influential Silicon Valley accelerator program, raised $120,000 from investors by August that year. Early this year, she sold her company, This is L. , to Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ).

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Software Engineering Class Startup Software 110

Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 Have investors drifted, becoming less dogmatic about hitting interim milestones with as little capital as possible? history (admittedly, at 2.1

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Venture Capital Capital Activity Invest 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. Entrepreneurs at work on first day of Canopy San Diego accelerator program.

San Diego 40

San Diego Startup Southern California Invest 40

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This drug class has seen a lift in recent years. Some of those analysts think Gilead might have overpaid but the company says there were competing offers. The drug, sacitizumab govitecan (Trodelvy), is what’s called an antibody drug conjugate (ADC). Four years ago, there were just three FDA-approved ADCs. The FDA has approved.

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Class Acquisition LAVA San Diego 67

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

If MedCo’s cholesterol-lowering drug inclisiran wins FDA approval, it will become the third entry in a new class of medicines that block a cholesterol-boosting protein called PCSK9. But the first mover isn’t infallible if someone else has something better. That’s something the The Medicines Co. is counting on.

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Pricing Class Study Marketing 84

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. But, I found out in reality, it's really tough to find classes or lessons, for a variety of issues. Was it useful to you having been in venture capital to be able to get funding quickly?

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell. This last round is a significant amount of capital, why the new funding? Kevin Hell: Hardware companies do require more capital. For hardware, it''s even more challenging.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

Repare can thank the early success of a class of drug called PARP inhibitors, which block an enzyme that cancer cells with. The newest company aiming to fight cancer with synthetic lethality is Repare Therapeutics, which today announced a $68 M Series A funding after more than 18 months in stealth.

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Class Ideas Funding San Diego 77

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.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Startup San Diego Class 40

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. Another oft-mentioned concern about the peer-to-peer industry is that most members of the new class of lending companies have yet to prove their business model in the ultimate stress test —an economic downturn.

Software Review 40

Software Review San Diego Funding Customer 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We never took a dollar of outside capital, from the founding until this round a couple of months ago. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. Now, despite bootstrapping, you actually have some connections to the venture capital world, don't you?

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. We might have gone down the engineering and business path, had we not taken the entrepreneurship path.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the mega-class of 177 biotechs that went public from 2012 through 2015, women held 11 percent of the board seats, according to their 2016 regulatory filings. If power in the business world is centered in the boardroom, women in biotech have a long way to go to get their fair share—and the venture community deserves much of the blame.

Report 40

Report Class Study Venture Capital 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

A new program to prepare high-ranking women in the biotech industry for corporate board seats has unveiled its first class of 20. In other circumstances the five-day workshop, scheduled this fall at George Washington University in the nation’s capital, might go unnoticed among the sea of executive training programs offered every day.

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Training Class Organization Course 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2016

. —Xconomy reported Monday that Tom Daniel, Celgene’s (NASDAQ: CELG ) former president of research and early development, left the Summit, NJ, company over the summer to start Catalysis Advisors in San Diego. —The FDA suspended a trial of chronic pain drug fasinumab, citing safety issues.

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Research San Diego Report Slides 40

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Combine this significant pool of sophisticated Angel capital and expertise with UC Santa Barbara’s world-class entrepreneurial program and throw in a critical mass of entrepreneurs bold enough to build businesses around their passions, it’s understandable how a modest-sized community has produced so many successful tech startups.

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century put these questions in the spotlight three years ago, but they’ve been getting renewed attention thanks to Northwestern University economist Robert J. In particular, economists would like to explain the U.S.

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Class Invest Technology Mobile 40

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

Warsaw, IN, is the “Orthopedic Capital of the World.”. Several world-class research institutions are located in the state, including Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame.

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Patents Research Anthem Education 67

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.

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

We are not Sweden—nor do we need to be—but we do need to invest in closing the income gap through education and training that produces new customers and workers for entrepreneurs and the array of services and amenities a middle-class lifestyle affords. Need more convincing?

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Education Training Invest 40

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

No matter what the industry view on Symantec, the other larger established security vendors, to remain competitive and grow in the enterprise market, will absolutely need to acquire other startups to provide best-in-class products.

Symantec 40

Symantec IBM IBM Acquisition 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. We've got a nice API with ties to the enterprise class applications. Congrats on funding. Explain what your products do? The final thing is our business model.

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Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113