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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. Tags: google search engine research development.

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MAY 7, 2010

Five, Southern California firms are among companies who are splitting up $62M in government funding for the research, development, and demonstration of concentrating solar power systems, according to an announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy. for its development of thermal storage systems for energy storage.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Tustin, California-based THREAD , a developer of software used for managing decentralized clinical research, has raised $50 more in funding from private equity investors Water Street Healthare Partners and JLL Partners. The company was acquired by Water Street and JLL Partners last year, in 2019. THREAD's executive chairman is Mark A.

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MAY 4, 2015

Size of the funding was not disclosed. The startup is led by Dr. Philip Low, who founded NeuroVigil based on research he did as a graduate student at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The company raised its seed funding round in 2008 as part of the DFJ Venture Challenge. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. This is the transition stage from basic research to applied research.

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JULY 28, 2021

San Diego-based immunology startup Aristea Therapeutics says it has raised $63M in a Series B financing round, which was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, LLC, along with Novo Holdings A/S, plus Arena Pharmaceuticals and funds managed by Tekla Capital Management, LLC.

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MAY 4, 2011

La Jolla-based NeuroVigil , a firm developing non-invasive wireless brain recording technology and advanced computational analysis techniques, has raised a first round of funding, the firm said this week. Amount of the funding, and source, was not disclosed. The firm was founded by Dr. Philip Low. Philip Low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. This is the transition stage from basic research to applied research.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new company, Apex Innovation Sciences --with headquarters in Long Beach, California and Marlton, New Jersey--has formed out of a corporate merger of CNS Network and Hassman Research Insitute , along with the Clinical Trial Centers Alliance , three companies in the clinical trial studies industry, the companies said this morning.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Newport Beach-based CureDuchenne Ventures , a company which specifically funds startups working on Duchenne muscular dystrophy, said on Monday that it has made an investment in TRiNDS , a new contract research organization. Size of the funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

VelosBio, a biotech startup researching new cancer drugs, has raised $58 million in financing. The new VelosBio cash is earmarked for completing the work needed to proceed into human studies. The new VelosBio cash, a Series A round of financing, was led by Arix Bioscience (LSE: ARIX ) and Sofinnova Ventures.

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MARCH 2, 2020

With one investigational cancer drug in Phase 1 testing and a second one approaching the clinic, ORIC Pharmaceuticals is looking to tap the public markets for funds to finance that research. The company’s lead drug, ORIC-101, is under evaluation in Phase 1b studies in combination with enzalutamide (Xtandi) in prostate cancer and.

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MARCH 28, 2018

La Jolla-based Singlera Genomics , which is developing genetic diagnostics for early stage cancer detection, has raised $60M in a Series A+ funding round, according to the company. The company said it is focusing on early stage detection of cancer using cell-free DNA. The company's initial target is early detection of lung cancer.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2016

government has ambitious plans for a long-term health study with one million Americans, and one of the world’s most powerful tech companies has a big part to play, including the storage of all the data on its “cloud” servers. The first year of the grant for the Data and Research Support Center is worth $13.6

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. The A’s are the firms you’re going to work hardest to research, hardest to find high-quality introductions to and make the most effort to engage with.

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MAY 8, 2017

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. Belinda Tan: Science37 is a technology-enabled, clinical research company.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Busy week for SpaceX – across funding, space tourism, and next-gen spacecraft. SpaceX seeking $250 million in new funding. The ISS gets a new platform next month that can support attached payloads – up to a dozen – from research partners, including academic institutions and private companies.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Very few people fund individuals. Go research it. If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. Team: You need a team.

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MAY 4, 2017

That included the Precision Medicine Initiative, an ambitious long-term study with the goal of recruiting 1 million Americans to volunteer health data. Until this week, many U.S. government science agencies and programs seemed destined for a big haircut, plus the loss of a limb or two.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don''t attract investors failing within the first three years. Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Use crowd funding.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Mojave-based XCOR , which is developing reusable, rocket powered vehicles aimed at the commercial space market, said Monday that it has raised $5M in an equity round of funding. The funding came from Silicon Valley angels Esther Dyson, Pete Ricketts (co-owner of the Chicago Cubs), Stephen Fleming (foermly of ATV Partners), along with others.

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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. The other, for autism, could start a Phase 1 study in 2020. Those plans.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Carslbad-based Life Technologies , a developer of genomic analysis technology, and the University of California at San Diego 's Moores Cancer Center, said this morning that the two are collaborating on a research effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2022

So, unless you are satisfied doing research on a shoestring, I encourage you to focus highly on achieving business success, as well as on creating an innovative solution. Investors expect this step to be proven successful before funding. Don’t be hesitant to use focus groups, crowd funding, and personal interviews to quantify interest.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

[ Note: The headline has been corrected to better describe the company’s type of funding. Fortis Therapeutics, a new San Diego biotech, has raised $18 million in initial funding to develop drugs for hard-to-treat prostate and bone marrow cancers. 9/27/16, 2:09 p.m.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

The institute said that SOon-Shiong has published the results of a study which combines two drugs, gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel, for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. The Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Advanced Health is a non-profit medical research effort funded by Soon-Shiong.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Up until this point, studies of an experimental drug from Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals had focused on patients with the most severe form of a rare, potentially deadly genetic disorder called spinal muscular atrophy. Evercore ISI analyst John Scotti wrote in a research note this morning that an estimated 2,500 patients in the U.S.,

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

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. Backed by $20 million in Series A funding from Versant Ventures, San Diego-based Jecure aims to develop a new class of drugs to treat an advanced form of fatty liver disease called.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Justin Lassoff: There was a study recently that showed that investors, in general, have a bias against women. The example in the study, was it showed that men often asked negatively focused questions when asked by women entrepreneurs. She, as well as several other, wonderful female investors, will be at our upcoming conference.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

” Also last year it published a study in collaboration with the University of Texas showing that pollution is hyperlocal — thereby supporting its thesis that effective air quality mapping requires dense networks of sensors if you’re going to truly reflect the variable reality on the ground.

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MARCH 15, 2010

The first covers a study of Contour Energy's batteries for use in manned space missions, and another covers development of electrode materials, to advance Li-ion battery technology. The firm--fresh off $14.2M The firm--fresh off $14.2M As part of the announcement, the firm said it has also scored two technology transfer contracts with NASA.

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APRIL 25, 2017

Playa Vista-based Science 37 , which is developing technology and a model that allows pharmaceuticals companies and others to conduct clinical trials in patients' homes--rather than dedicated, off-site facilities--has raised $29M in a Series C funding round. Science 37 is led by CEO Noah Craft. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—a famed military R&D group—wants to finance safety measures for the new gene-editing age. The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. Some see it as a way to eradicate malaria.)

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MARCH 16, 2009

The firm said the new funding will be used for sales and marketing activities, ongoing clinical studies, research and development, as well as for general working capital. Source of the funding was not disclosed. The firm said the financing may fund its operations through at least 2009.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

According to Illumina, researchers at the school will use its Genome Analyzer to study resistance to HIV infection about individuals, who have been exposed but remain uninfected. The Duke Unviversity study is being funded by a $3M grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2014

Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups. Research related tax credits and incentives. Stringent spending controls.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

How do you take a new, genetic test to market, and how do you bridge the gap between research and the market? We chatted with Alan about the company, the process of taking a new, genetic test to market, and his experience taking research from the University of Southern California and University of Utah and commercializing that research.

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