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APRIL 11, 2019

Locally based biotech companies receive fresh funding from investors. Get the details on these developments and more in San Diego life sciences news: —Evofem Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVFM ) struck a deal to raise up to $80 million in a private placement. million shares.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

San Diego-based Design Therapeutics, a biotech company which is developing small molecules for the treatment of serious degenerative disorders caused by inherited nucleotide repeat expansions, said it has raised $125M in its Series B funding round. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Arsani William, M.D., Arsani William, M.D.,

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AUGUST 8, 2012

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor priced its IPO last night, saying that it will offer up 5,500,000 shares of its common stock at $14.00 Peregrine priced at the low end of its initial estimated pricing range, which was $14.00 The firm will start trading today on the NASDAQ Global Market as PSMI.

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JULY 8, 2020

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals developer VelosBio says it has raised $137M in a Series B funding roudn, to go towards its oncology efforts. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners, Viking Global Investors, Wellington Management Company, as well as the company's existing investors.

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APRIL 8, 2019

San Diego-based Guardion Health Sciencs , which is developing "condition-specific medical foods and testing technologies" for the ocular health market, has raised $5.0M The company priced its IPO on Friday, selling 1,250,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $4.00 in a small IPO. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Facebook parent-company saw its stock price get bludgeoned after a bad earnings report showcased that Apple’s ad-blocking changes are shaving billions off its books and the company’s crown jewel — the Facebook platform — has stopped growing and actually shrank this quarter.

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MAY 25, 2011

San Diego-based The Active Network , the operator of sports and community event registration services and websites, priced its IPO Wednesday evening, saying it will sell 11,000,000 shares of its common stock at $15.00 Active priced below its expected initial offering range, which was $16.00 READ MORE>>.

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JULY 13, 2020

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm Poseida Therapeutics successfully made it to the public markets with an IPO on Friday, raising $224M in an offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The company, which now trades as PSTX, priced its IPO of 14,000,000 shares of its common stock at $16.00

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals announced this morning that it has launched a new company, Longboard Pharmaceuticals , with $56M in funding. According to Areana, the newly launched company will focus on investigational therapies for rare neurological diseases.

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MAY 28, 2019

San Diego-based Cibus , a developer of gene editing tools being aimed at use in plant breeding, has pulled its IPO paperwork, saying in a filing that it has decided "not to proceed with the initial public offering of its securities at this time." Cibus had set an estimated initial pricing range of $14.00 READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2019

FTD also agreed to sell both its North American and Latin American businesses to private equity investor Nexus Capital Management , in a move that includes San Diego-based Proflowers. FTD acquired San Diego's ProFlowers in 2014, paying $430M for the online flower and gift delivery service. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

San Diego-based Odonate Therapeutics , a startup that says it is hoping to develop chemotherapy drugs, is looking to raised $182.5M The company has set its estimated IPO price range at between $24.00 The company's IPO is being underwritten by Goldman Sachs & Co., in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A portfolio company of San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals venture investor Versant Ventures is getting set for its IPO this week. Aprea Therapeutics said that estimates its IPO will price between $14.00 Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and RBC Capital Markets. and $16.00 per share, which could raise as much as $92.0M

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JANUARY 21, 2021

San Diego- and New Jersey-based OncoSec Medical, a publicly traded biotechnology company focused on treatment of cancer, said today that it is raising $42.0M The company said it is offering of 7,711,284 shares of its common stock at a price of $5.45, with an expected close on January 25th.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

San Diego-based sales and marketing software developer Seismic has raised $170M in a Series G funding round, the company said this morning, and is now valued at $3 billion. Rowe Price, according to the company. Rowe Price, according to the company. Seismic has now raised $440M in total funding.

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JUNE 3, 2020

San Diego-based Evofem Biosciences , a publicly held, biopharmaceuticals company which is developing products in the area of women's sexual and reproductive health, says it has priced approximately $100M in common stock to the public.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

San Diego-based biopharmaceutiacls developer Viking Therapeutics says it has raised $12.5M in a common stock purchase agreement, from Aspire Capital Fund. The company, which is publicly traded on the NASDAQ as VKTX, said the initial purchase came at $1.50 READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals developer Viking Therapeutics has set the estimated pricing for its IPO, saying in a filing Tuesday that it expects to price its IPO at between $10.00 The company has applied to list as VKTX on the NASDAQ Global market. The company is hoping to raise up to $69.0M

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The new service will be priced per move per hour, allowing users to move a room or an entire home across the cities Clutter offers its service. Clutter currently offers up its moving services in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, , and New Jersey. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

San Diego-based Seismic , which develops sales enablement and marketing software, has joined the unicorn club, saying this morning that it has raised $92M in a Series F funding, which values the company at approximately $1.6 Rowe Price, its existing investors. Seismic has now raised a total of $270M in funding.

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MAY 19, 2014

San Diego-based Sophiris Bio said this morning that it has raised $2M in funding from Aspire Capital Fund, and received commitments of up to $13M more, to help fund its efforts to develop a treatment for localized prostate cancer. The company said the news fund will provide additional "financial flexibility" for the company.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2020

If you’ve never heard of Arya (NASDAQ: ARYBU ), it’s a shell company that Perceptive Advisors formed specifically to serve as a vehicle to take a private company public. Bain Capital and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) launched it in 2018 with neuroscience compounds from the pharma giant’s labs. Cerevel is young, but it’s pretty far along.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

San Diego-based GovX , which operates an online, e-commerce site specifically serving active, reserve and veteran U.S. annd Arbor Group, along with Star Avenue Capital, Seth Hamot (SPY Optic and Roark, Rearden & Hamot Capital Management), and Philip McConkey. The company says it has now raised $21M in funding.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

San Diego-based Obalon Therapeutics , a publicly held developer of medical devices to treat obesity, has raised $10M in a private placement, the company said this week. The company said it 5,494,506 shares of common stock at a price of $1.82 per share in the offering. Obalon trades on the NASDAQ as OBLN.

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APRIL 1, 2015

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals developer aTyr Pharma has raised a big, $76M Series E funding round, the company said late Tuesday. The company said the new funds go towards its clinical development program and pipeline expansion. The funding also included T. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2020

Thrive Earlier Detection, one of the companies vying to be the first to commercialize a blood test that can uncover cases of cancer before symptoms arise, has raised $257 million and announced plans to evaluate its CancerSEEK test in a registrational study. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2018

Drug price changes typically happen either at the start of the calendar year or the beginning of the third quarter. Such changes are routine for many companies, but Pfizer took an unusual step this week by rolling back scheduled price increases on 40 of its drugs. In May, Trump and. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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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MARCH 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer Rubicon Project set the pricing range for its initial public offering Thursday, saying that it hopes to offer 6,770,995 shares of its common stock at between $15.00 The company said it has been approved to list on the New York Stock Exchange as RUBI. and $17.00 READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Publicly held biopharmaceuticals firm MediciNova , which is based in San Diego, said last night that it has raised $20M in funding in a deal with Aspire Capital Fund, LLC. Medicinova said that Aspire will purchase the $20M in common stock at market prices.

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Xconomy

MAY 22, 2020

But the biotech sector is defying the pandemic with crossover financings and freshly minted public companies. On Friday, three firms added their names to the list of life science companies preparing to join the public markets. COVID-19 has ravaged the economy, and it was expected to quash the IPO market, too.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

Previous backer Initialized Capital also participated in the financing, along with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, former Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs, GGV investor Hans Tung and Paradox Capital’s Kyle Tibbitts. Next, Abodu is eyeing the San Diego market. All have kitchens and living space.

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MARCH 22, 2018

We’ve also seen a substantial inflow of venture capital from all over the world.”. Our research revealed a saturation level causing unprecedented challenges, starting with exorbitant housing prices and runaway operating costs that accelerate a startup’s “burn rate”—its monthly spending.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The funding is being led by QED Investors; Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, Navitas Capital, and Prudence Holdings also participated. All are previous investors from the startup’s last round, a $16.55 million Series A also led by QED.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Reports this morning say that San Diego-based ServiceNow is planning to start its IPO roadshow this week, as the firm looks to brave a post-Facebook-IPO market. According to reports , the firm expects to price its IPO as late June. The firm is venture backed by JMI Equity and Sequoia Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Wildfire Interactive.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

San Diego-based ServiceNow is looking to sell $300M in a secondary IPO offering, according to a filing made by the company Wednesday. ServiceNow went public in June, pricing at $18.00 ServiceNow went public in June, pricing at $18.00 per share; the firm is now trading around $30.65 per share on the NYSE as NOW.

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