Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2013, the Q1 increase marks three consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The funding came from JDRF T1D Fund, Aphelion Capital and LifeSci Venture Partners. Prior investors in the round include M Ventures and Hikma Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Hikma Pharmaceuticals. According to the startup, the investment brings its Series A total funding to $15M.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

venture capital investment in the clean technology sector was up in Q2. According to the study, US VC investments in cleantech hit $1.5 The study said that is a 63.8 percent increase in the amount of capital, and 4.6 The study said that is a 63.8 billion, spread across 65 financing rounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2010

But until now, I’ve never seen a study of exactly how that plays out for startup founders for current venture-backed companies, specifically: race, age, experience and the number of founders per company. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Source of the funding was not announced, however, the company said the round came from medical and radiology specialists, strategic medical technology investors and family offices. LifeVoxel said it offers up aces to imaging studies and data, allowing for what it calls "4D interactive intelligent medical image views" over the Internet.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. As noted in What Does VC Traction Really Mean? , What’s The Worst Mistake?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. 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. Technology pilots. Commercial product prototypes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2010

Last week at an angel investor forum I was privileged to meet Stephanie Spong, who is a Principal with EPIC Ventures, an increasingly rare early stage VC firm. Stephanie: I am a venture capitalist currently based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, with EPIC Ventures. Stephanie also speaks Spanish and Japanese. Marty Zwilling.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to Kintara, it intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for funding its clinical studies, working capital and other general corporate purposes, including, but not limited to, funding acquisitions or investments in businesses, products or technologies that are complementary to the Company's businesses, products and technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Irvine-based Capillary Biomedical , a startup focused on develping new insulin pump technology, said on Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $1.5M Capillary Biomedical says its technology is designed to increase the wear time of insulin infusion sets by addressing the common causes of infusion site failure. in loan funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. 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. Technology pilots. Commercial product prototypes.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Jennifer Schwab, the founder and CEO of Entity, has built the business since 2016 on virtually no outside funding, but said that this latest financing is a precursor to the company working on its first, more traditional VC-led equity round. That number is expected to double to 500 next year, Schwab said.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

We are at an incredible inflection point in the traditionally distinct fields of information technology and the life sciences.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. When I’m on a VC panel, I’m always amused by the answers from my co-panelists as they are usually the same set of “VC cliches” which makes it even more fun when I blurt out my answer.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Despite the Q1 correction in valuation, and subsequent drop in VC funding, we saw numerous LA companies not only survive, but thrive - despite the macroeconomic trends. Rob Freelen: Focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

Steve identifies the following skills as necessary for success as a venture capitalist: People skills (ability to recognize patterns of success in individuals and teams). People skills <again> People skills <and again> Market/technology acuity (patterns of success, domain expertise).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

I do believe that we are in structural change where technology will increasingly play a bigger role in all facets of life so the long run up for tech is promising through all of these cycles. It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. ROI studies were published.

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APRIL 1, 2020

The company said its technology is based on the work of stem cell scientist Dr. Jeanne Loring. Howard Federoff, says it is using innovative genomic approaches combined with stem cell biology to deliver patient-specific, restorative cell therapies that modify the course of Parkinson's disease.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

million in financing from investors, including the venture arm of Los Angeles’ startup retail giant , FabFitFun and Will Smith’s Dreamers VC. billion, according to a study by Freedonia Focus Reports. So far, the company has raised $2.35 By 2021, the cookware and dinnerware market is projected to be $12.7

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

What's the best way to reach out and recruit diverse candidates for your technology company? Chuka Ikokwu: We focus on both the media and technology industry, and we don't just focus on engineering. A diverse team will increase your profitability by between 31 and 41 percent, according to that McKinsey and MIT study.

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APRIL 12, 2013

Although it might still be on the early side for an analysis, we''ve run our numbers again to figure out who''s having the biggest success so far in the market, where entrepreneurs are most likely to find capital providers hanging out, and where (if anywhere) are exits happening? We''ve analyzed our database of angel and. Our analysis.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

While we’re looking at venture deal numbers from the past year , let’s consider the education technology industry, which isn’t broken out by sector in the general reports I’ve seen. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S. The EdSurge report.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2019

We invest in life sciences, medical devices, but we're also a generalist investing in SaaS technologies and real estate, as well. What we are looking for is platformable, scalable technologies. How did you get into venture capital, and how did you make that leap from scientist to venture capital?

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As an entrepreneur, I understand your passion when pitching your solution to investors and customers, but passion alone won’t make one more technology pitch stand out above all the rest. At least one study has shown that ninety percent of decisions are made based on emotion, but that people then go back to logic to justify their position.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2019

Beta Bionics, a startup developing a medical device that monitors and manages blood sugar levels in diabetes patients, has closed $63 million to back late-stage clinical tests of its AI-powered technology. The cash tops off a Series B round of funding announced last year.

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MARCH 26, 2013

Viterbi, the engineering school at USC, has teamed up with United Talent Agency , and Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers to support new ventures by USC students and alumni. The program is open to current students and alumni who have graduated in the past 5 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Brad on blogging. was starting.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

San Diego-based Avelas Biosciences has raised $7.65M in a Series A funding round, which it says will go towards clinical studies for its technology for real-time tumor visualization. The funding came from Avalon Ventures. Avelas is developing technology for visualizing cancerous lymph nodes in breast cancer patients.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Technology transfer and academic spinouts, despite their deep technology roots and barriers to entry, are notoriously difficult to get funded and spun out of universities. Tags: technology university venture capital transfer education. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

View the Slideshow On November 4-6, Xconomy organized a meeting of the minds—an elite gathering of leaders in technology, business, healthcare, education, and energy—to discuss and demonstrate the key trends in their fields, heading into next year. You can enjoy. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Thynk Capital founder and principal Jim Plante also is Klotho’s founder and CEO. Plante is a technology industry veteran in San Diego who has served as the CEO of Bel-Tronics, and as the founding CEO of SmartDrive Systems and Pathway Genomics. Studies in mice have.

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