socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Rami Rostami: One of the things about the new crowdfunding phenomenon, is that everyone is raising money, validating their ideas, and maybe raising $500,00, or $50,000, or $5 million. It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there? Why not Los Angeles?

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin). billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year.

San Diego 62

San Diego Patents Acquisition News 62

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. It is usual for the partners to stroll in 20 minutes after your appointment so at best you have 40.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274