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JUNE 4, 2010

SANYO Electric Group , which has its North American headquarters in San Diego, and the University of California, San Diego , said yesterday that they are in a research collaboration agreement focused on renewable energy. SANYO said the investment is the first it has made in the United states in the area of energy.

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JUNE 8, 2021

San Diego-based Onramp, which is developing a platform to help financial advisors provide access to cryptocurrency, says it has joined Visa's Fintech Fast Track program. Onramp says its service helps financial advisors to research, model, invest, and securely manage their clients' cryptoassets.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

San Diego-based life sciences maker Illumina has participated in another investment round for San Francisco-based DNA synthesis startup Twist Bioscience , in a new Series D funding for that company. Nick and Joby Pritzker (via Tao Invest), Paladin Capital Group, Yuri Milner, Boris Nikolic, plus others.

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APRIL 28, 2021

San Diego-based Boundless Bio, a company developing therapeutics for treating cancer, has raised $105M in its Series B funding, the company said this morning. Partner at Nextech Invest, will join the Boundless Bio Board of Directors. The company said it will use the funding to support development of its multiple programs.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

San Diego-based Blacksmith Medicines, a new biotechnology company focused on creating medicines for immuno-oncology and inflammatory diseases by targeting human metalloenzymes, has raised a round of seed funding, and announced a research deal with Lilly. Financial details of that seed funding were not announced.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

San Diego-based Encodia, a biotech company which is focused on proteomics research, has raised $75M in a Series C funding round, the company said this week.

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MARCH 29, 2021

San Diego-based Fortis Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup developing treatments for late-stage prostate cancer and multiple myeloma, has raised $40M in a Series A financing, the company said on Monday.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals developer Ambrx has raised $200M in a funding round, according to the company, which included Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Cormorant Asset Management, HBM Healthcare Investments, Invus, Adage Capital Partners and Suvretta Capital Management.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Venture capital firm Sofinnova Ventures has hired on an Executive-in-Residence based in San Diego, the firm said Thursday. Sofinnova, which invests in early stage life sciences and IT firms, said it has appointed Lars Ekman, M.D., Ekman is te former EVP and President of Global Research and Development at Elan Corporation.

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MARCH 25, 2019

A program launched last year by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to invest in promising biotech discoveries made on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will also work with the La Jolla, CA-based Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, the organizations said recently.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

San Diego-based Biomatrica , a developer of technology for storing biological samples at room temperature, announced this morning that it has scored an investment from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. In-Q-Tel is the investment arm of the CIA and other intelligence agencies. intelligence community.

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APRIL 29, 2010

Schrodinger , a firm focused on computational drug design for the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology research industry, announced today that Bill Gates--through his investment firm, Cascade Investment--has invested in the company. Schrodinger is spread between Portland, New York, San Diego, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Illumina Ventures , the early-stage venture capital investor which was founded by San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina , says it has raised $230M for its first fund. The venture investment fund was founded by Nicholas Naclerio, Ph.D., The fund launched in summer of 2016 with $100M from Illumina. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 13, 2018

In the Boston office of GE Ventures, managing director Alex de Winter is overseeing investments in companies like Veracyte, which is applying machine learning to genomic sequencing technology to help doctors distinguish benign growths from cancer. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JULY 20, 2021

San Diego-based Wugen, a biotechnology company which is developing treatments for solid tumors, recently annoucned a $172M, Series B funding round. The company--which says it licensed its technology from Washington University in St. Bali Muralidhar, M.D., Venture Partner at ICG, will all join the company's board with the funding.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To that end, Kukutai’s venture capital firm, Finistere Ventures, is joining with the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to launch a new 20 million euro ($24 million) fund that will invest in emerging agtech startups in Ireland. In addition to deals.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

San Diego-based Boundless Bio , the biopharmaceuticals startup which recently raised $46M for treating aggressive cancers , has named Christian ("Chris") Hassig, Ph.D., as its Chief Scientific Officer. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

San Diego-based Avelas Biosciences , which is developing cell penetrating peptides to light up cancerous tissue in patients during surgery, has raised $7.4M The second tranche of the company''s Series B came from investors Avalon Ventures, Torrey Pines Investment and WuXi PharmaTech Investments. in a Series B funding.

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JULY 16, 2019

San Diego-based Trefoil Therapeutics , which is developing treatments for corneal diseases, has raised $28M in its Series A funding, the company said on Tuesday. joins the company's board; Robertson was formerly vice president in Research & Development at Alcon Laboratories. Robertson, Ph.D.,

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The fund would seek to invest in companies started on campus, from University research, and from students. The University of California has ten campuses, of which half of them are in Southern California, including UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

San Diego-based MatriSys Bioscience , which is developing treatments for treating skin and dermatologic conditions, says it has raised $1.5M The lead investor in the investment was Jeff Friedman, MD, Ph.D., in a funding round from the Tech Coast Angels. who is head of the TCA's Life Sciences Committee. Wilson is CEO of MatriSys.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This is the last week to register at the lowest rate for March 18’s Xcelerating Life Sciences: Biomedical Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine & Genomics conference at the Takeda Research facility in San Diego. Hurry, our $99 early bird sale ends this Friday, Feb. 7 at midnight. Speakers include Jay Lichter, CEO of.

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JULY 30, 2014

San Diego-based Epic Sciences , a biotech startup focusing on diagnostics for treatment and management of cancer, has raised $30M in a Series C funding. The funding came from RusnanoMedInvest (RMI) and Arcus Ventures, plus Domain Associates, Roche Venture Fund, and Pfizer Venture Investments, as well as angels. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

San Diego-based Gossamer Bio , the biopharmaceuticals firm which is focused on therapeutics in the autoimmune, allergy/inflammation and immuno-oncology disease areas, said today that it has named Luisa Salter-Cid, Ph.D. , Gossamer Bio said Salter-Cid will head up research and preclinical development efforts at the company.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Sales of Cibus’ first product, a gene-edited canola, have gone so well that the San Diego company has raised $70 million in new financing to boost its commercialization efforts.

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APRIL 4, 2011

San Diego-based AnaBios , a contract research organization focused on drug safety, said today that it has raised $800,000 as part of a Series A funding round. The firm said the new funding will go towards funding a new laboratory in San Diego. AnaBios is headed by Dr. Jack A. Flaim joins AnaBios' board.

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JUNE 9, 2015

San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina is the lead investor in San Francisco-based Twist Bioscience , a developer of a synthetic DNA manufacturing technology. Twist Bioscience said it raised $37M in a Series C, led by Illumina, and also included Fidelity Management and Research Company. in venture funding.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

San Diego-based Epic Sciences , a firm developing cancer diagnostics technology, announced today that it has raised $13M in a Series B equity round. The round came from Domain Associates, Roche Venture Fund, and Pfizer Venture Investments, along with individuals. Kim Kamdar of Domain joins the company's board with the funding.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

VelosBio, a biotech startup researching new cancer drugs, has raised $58 million in financing. VelosBio joined Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS @ San Diego incubator in January. The new VelosBio cash, a Series A round of financing, was led by Arix Bioscience (LSE: ARIX ) and Sofinnova Ventures.

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JUNE 18, 2012

San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems , which develops driving safety systems for managing driving fleets, said Monday afternoon that it has raised $47m in a new funding round. The firm said the round was led by Oak Investment Partners and New Enterprise Associates, and also included Stanford University. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2020

Some of the targets in cancer research are visible and well known, but they’re hard to hit with new drugs all the same. PIC Therapeutics is developing medicines aiming for one particularly elusive group of proteins, and the startup’s early research has attracted financial support from some prominent names in the life sciences industry.

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MARCH 8, 2011

San Diego-based Sapphire Energy , a developer of algae-based biofuels technology, has scored an investment and deal with agricultural chemicals firm Monsanto , the two said this morning. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Sapphire has also scored $104.5M Sapphire has also scored $104.5M

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AUGUST 18, 2010

San Diego-based Anametrix , a developer of cloud-based business analytics software, said today that it has received new funding and added a slate of well known advisors. Details on the new private investment was not disclosed. Senturia is CEO of Blackbird Ventures, and a notable San Diego angel investor.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Jeb Spencer: We closed our nineteenth and twentieth software focused growth equity investments this year, a significant milestone for our firm. Every now and then we feel like we are finally starting to get a hang of this investing thing -- though the feeling doesn't always last very long. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

San Diego-based MeLLmo , the developer of the Roambi mobile business apps, said today that it has launched a new iPad App, Roambi Flow. Roambi's software is used to access business data, reports, research, and other information. MeLLmo just announced the big investment round from Sequoia last week. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2020

If it seems like biotech investments have defied the financial headwinds of the pandemic, maybe it’s because they have. In the second quarter, 16 of the top 25 largest early-stage venture capital deals were investments in life science companies. It’s the biotech sector’s largest proportion of the top 25.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Listen to Angels, Investors, Venture Capitalists and Catalysts and what they have to say about investing and being investor ready. Gary Phillips retired in 2003 after a 34-year career in Research and Development. Gary is currently the president of the San Diego network of the Tech Coast Angels. Ask questions and learn.

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