TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Apple’s pivot to services has been a mixed bag, and the company is looking to expand the appeal of its Apple News service to a wider swath of free and paid subscribers. This week, the company rolled out a local newsletter in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing bundled local news curated by the Apple team.

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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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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. Crunchbase News recently profiled a selection of U.S. We’ve called these nine and 10-figure deals, which shine brightly in the media and are hefty enough to bend the curve of VC fund sizes upwards, “ supergiants ” after their stellar counterparts.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter and sponsor of socaltech over the years. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year?

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socalTECH

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. sophiris venture capital pipe biotech lifescience' READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Magnolia Medical Technologies , a Seattle-based manufacturer of devices for collecting blood and bodily fluids, announced this week it has raised $20 million in equity funding to ramp up sales of its flagship product. The funding comes as Magnolia and San Diego-based competitor Kurin battle each other in court.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health).

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

San Diego-based ScoreStream said today that it has raised $2M in a seed financing round, to bring scores, pictures, and other information about high school and local sports online. The startup--led by technology startup vet Derrick Oien--said the funding was led by Sinclair Digital Ventures, a division of Sinclair Broadcast Group.

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2012

San Diego-based Chumby , which had developed Internet-connected, alarm-clock like devices and similar technology, has shut down, according to a report Friday. The firm had raised on the order of $25M in funding for its efforts. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. Trust me – my wife would love a new pair of shoes every month.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? Given SVBs market position, that is great news. But its even better news for the regional SoCal innovation ecosystem. In December, the San Diego company added one of softwares biggest names, Microsoft Chairman John Thompson, to its board of directors.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2010

San Diego-based Chumby , the maker of the Internet-connected, Linux-based clock radio, has upped its Series B funding to $8.78M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. Tags: chumby venture capital linux internet electronic device consumer. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. And then the news flowed, from a fast reprieve for Juno Therapeutics to no mercy for Elizabeth Holmes. —Enough good trial news. —In other Merck news, U.K.-based

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2010

San Diego-based Phenomix , adeveloper of diabetes drugs, has shut down, according to reports. The news of the shutdown was first reported by Xconomy. The firm--which was developing drugs to help treat diabetes--apparently has laid off most of its staff, and is looking for a buyer for the assets.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

That means in three months, Bristol has lost a third of its value, equivalent to about $40 billion in market capitalization. One failed clinical trial has left rival Merck in the lead position to have what could be part of the new standard of care for lung cancer. FUNDING ROUNDS. AND IN OTHER NEWS…. The reason?

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The growing epidemic of the fatty liver disease known as NASH, which has no FDA-approved treatment, has led to a frenzied race among drug companies. This week, one company, Intercept Pharmaceuticals, solidified its lead. But how much will being first to the finish line mean when all is said and done?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

San Diego-based Slacker , which operates an Internet radio service, along with selling a music player linked to it service, has reportedly scored a $5M bridge financing round, according to industry publication VentureWire. VentureWire cited a regulatory filing in reporting the news. in funding. in funding.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

billion in new capital late Thursday as it priced an initial public offering that set its market capitalization at $82.4 billion , according to calculations by The New York Times and other news outlets. Ride-hailing giant Uber secured $8.1

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. to San Diego. Venture capital for innovators. Funding great entrepreneurs. PRTechConnect (www.prtechconnect.com)  You've Got News, Now Get Heard. experts, developers, and many, many others.

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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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Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2019

The flow of biotech news is particularly heavy today, and for good reason. Morgan Healthcare Conference, one of the biggest gatherings for the biopharmaceutical industry, kicked off today in San Francisco, and many companies, whether they’re speaking at the event or not, use this time to get their news out. The annual J.P.

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Xconomy

JULY 22, 2016

The top news in biotech this week centers around one big job opening: the head seat at Biogen, now that George Scangos has announced plans to leave the company. But there’s plenty more to dig through as well, from a shakeup at Zafgen to a few new high profile startups and a newly public gene therapy company.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2019

One group of people in dire need of medical relief got good news this week. We reported on both those stories and a lot more, including clinical ups and downs and new fundings. The first drug for postpartum depression was approved. women giving birth. But at least it’s an option. Also this week: Reports from.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2017

If you’re looking for a counterpoint to the recent flurry of news stories about sexual harassment and gender bias in the tech sector, the Kauffman Fellows program isn’t a bad place to start.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It’s beginning to look a lot like, well, the last roundup of the year, with plenty of news to pack in before our holiday breather.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2017

All eyes are on the nation’s capital this week, where the Senate released its version of the American Health Care Act (now called the Better Care Reconciliation Act) and the White House worked on an executive order to address drug prices. Let’s get right to it. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Every month, there’s news of another partnership among carmakers like GM and tech companies such as Uber, as they vie for dominant roles in a transportation future where individual car ownership may largely give way to rides-on-demand from fleets of autonomous and tech-enabled vehicles. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Bad FDA news for Teva Pharmaceutical and AstraZeneca also threw outsized acquisitions into question. —A team led by Jef Boeke of New York University, George Church of Harvard University, Andrew Hessel of software maker Autodesk, and Nancy Kelley proposed in the journal Science to build a synthetic human genome.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As national politics dominates the news in the final days of the decade, we at Xconomy are wrapping up the year with some big moves by the FDA, including an approval of the first drug OK’d reduce heart risk in patients with high triglycerides who are already taking statins.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. I also have a hedge fund and am a partner in fund called Social Leverage making early stage investments.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2019

We had terrible news this week of the deaths of two people whose lives and work touched many people. It seems at times we’re never far removed from any one person, through their published papers, social media connections, friends, colleagues, or people they’ve mentored.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 9, 2016

We’ll start with the national news, check in with news from a big Alzheimer’s meeting, then dig into plenty more about the annual American Society of Hematology conference, surprising M&A, fundings, and. —arguments from both sides of the epic CRISPR patent fight.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

As we’ve come to expect, however, there was no dearth of health and life-sciences news from Washington, D.C.

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