Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) Twitter was my public chat board, my place to share blog content, my place to ask public questions and to debate.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

Yet Frenkel, a participant in the summer 2015 class at Y Combinator , an influential Silicon Valley accelerator program, raised $120,000 from investors by August that year. Early this year, she sold her company, This is L. , to Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ).

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. ” However, the platform shuttered in 2015, just five years after its launch. To be clear, Amazon actually acquired Selz back in January but didn't see fit to announce the deal at the time, leaving it to Selz. Why Has Amazon Purchased Selz Now?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2020

Daré Bioscience launched in 2015 with the aim of assembling a portfolio of novel women’s health products intended to pique interest from major pharmaceutical companies.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said. Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Collectively these businesses raised about $44 billion in their debuts, topping the $34 billion, $21 billion, and $40 billion raised in 2015, 2016, and 2017, respectively. So far, 127 US companies went public in the first nine months of the year and the amount they raised already topped three of the past four years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2015

Add new blog content to your site on a regular basis. Blogging is an ideal way to express your positive values, show your expertise and establish yourself as an influencer. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/7/2015. It pays to be street smart, stay out of the back alleys and be prepared for the road ahead.

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Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2019

Celgene said Monday it has again sent the FDA an application for approval of ozanimod, an experimental multiple sclerosis drug it added to its pipeline in 2015 as part of its $7.2 billion acquisition of San Diego’s Receptos.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Capsule, founded in 1997 and acquired by Qualcomm in 2015, sells hospitals software to connect medical devices with clinical information systems. The company will be renamed Capsule Technologies, or CapsuleTech for short. The “Capsule” name is not new: It’s one of Qualcomm Life’s two business segments. Capsule’s products are.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 12, 2018

A lot has happened since we last caught up with Danny Ellis , SkySpec’s co-founder and CEO, in 2015. Back then, the company had just raised a $3 million Series A round and was preparing to launch its drone inspection service. Today, the 19-person. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 24, 2019

Forge Therapeutics, founded in 2015 with the goal of developing drugs that target metalloenzymes, said Wednesday it had agreed to let Basilea Pharmaceutica use its chemistry platform to develop new antibiotics.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2019

CureMatch was founded in 2015 to commercialize technology developed at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. The company, which CEO Bob Manning says has raised about $2.5 million in outside investment, says its software can help guide customized care by using a patient’s genetic information to score and rank treatment options.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The company opened in late 2015, offering a 12-week course for $13,500 and promising graduates a software job within 90 days of graduation. Origin Code Academy, one of San Diego’s few coding schools—for-profit companies that offer short-term vocational training in computer programming—said this month it will shutter on Nov.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In late 2015, the National Science Foundation awarded a $6 million grant to the non-profit organization U.S. Ignite to help drive the development of next-generation “gigabit applications,” as part of a broader effort to create “smart gigabit communities” throughout the U.S.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

TuSimple, founded in 2015 in San Diego and Beijing, raised its Series C round of $55 million in late 2017. The new Series D round of financing announced Wednesday boosts the San Diego-based company’s valuation to land it on the growing list of “unicorns”—the tech-world term coined for companies valued at $1 billion or above.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Alto launched in 2015 under the name ScriptDash Pharmacy, initially offering a mobile app-enabled prescription delivery service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Like others in its industry, Alto offers online ordering and delivery (including same-day delivery) of prescription drugs. In conjunction with a $23 million venture investment it.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

McDevitt is already an Akcea director and is the chief business officer of Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IONS ), which spun out Akcea in 2015 and still owns most of the company’s shares. Akcea’s board of directors has appointed Damien McDevitt interim CEO. His experience also includes various business development roles at.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

The privately held company made its first investment in a startup in late 2015, and last year it officially launched a corporate venture. But in the past few years, Bose has also started to look outside its walls for other sources of innovation. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That expanded into a 10-city tour in 2015, and a world tour in Europe and Asia in 2016, Pinnell says. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. Its first mission was to launch a Bay Area VR festival to showcase works in the new immersive art forms. It was a pivotal year when.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

million since its inception in 2015. The Cambridge, MA, company has closed a $76.5 million Series C round from a large group of investors, among them founding backers Flagship Pioneering and Arch Venture Partners, and new participants EcoR1 Capital and Casdin Capital. The raise brings Codiak’s total to $168.5

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2018

I pre-ordered a Glowforge from the eponymous Seattle startup on the first day of its 30-day crowdfunding campaign in the fall of 2015, which brought in a record $27.9 This simple project—enabled by a very complex machine—was a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. While some people found this.

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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.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. Tim Urban’s Wait But Why blog does a great job of describing today’s AI capabilities. You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company. Vertical Artificial Intelligence.

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2017

Sadhal and Taylor (pictured above) founded Approved in August 2015, and moved into the San Diego tech incubator. “Our goal is to create a platform [for both lenders and borrowers] that is just as frictionless as possible,” Taylor said at the downtown EvoNexus incubator, where he has been working with co-founder Navtej Sadhal.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. I have been blogging for years – even before BothSidesofTheTable. This is classic Fred.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video. Here’s a short video we did of our 2015 Upfront Summit : We also shot this one last year to highlight some of our portfolio companies. I’ve made 5 investments in the sector and I hope to make 5 more.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2018

Reachify, founded in 2015 and based in San Diego, targets medical groups with software-as-a-service (SaaS) that consolidates phone, e-mail, social media, and other electronic communications into a centralized hub and collaborative workplace. See below. ]

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Xconomy

APRIL 13, 2018

Elsewhere this week, Novartis bet heavily on gene therapy while GlaxoSmithKline asked out, the Theranos saga rolled on, and a few biotechs to go public since 2015 crashed and burned. The presentations could shift the dynamics of the fast-moving landscape, where up until recently, chemotherapy was the only option for most patients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

I still see too many websites that look like they have had no updates or blogs in months or even years. Blogs must provide value to customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/19/2015. Get beyond push messages to real customer engagement. Provide personalized solutions through customer interaction.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

CEO Randy Apuzzo said Zesty changed from a Web development firm to to SaaS in 2015, with the guidance of successful entrepreneurs like GoFundMe co-founder Andy Ballester, Rocket League video game creator Dave Hagewood, and Facebook early operations engineer Taner Halicioglu. Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

—The Detroit News published a detailed report this week regarding Ford’s Silicon Valley lab, which the automaker established in 2015 to oversee the development of autonomous technologies and build relationships with tech industry “thought leaders.” Read on for details.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

billion invested in 198 deals in 2015, according to EdSurge. Those stats track with the overall trend in VC funding nationally: the industry saw a “correction” or “normalization” downward after hitting a peak in 2015. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S.

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Xconomy

MAY 25, 2018

million in 2015 for IDchecker , a Dutch provider of identity and document authentication technology, and $15 million last October for iCar , a Barcelona-based specialist in digital identity verification software, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. After paying $10.6

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

billion, 2,034 deals) and the third quarter of 2015 ($21.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window. As a percentage of overall activity, seed investing dropped from 55 percent in the third quarter of 2015 to 50 percent in this year’s third quarter.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2018

As Belmonte explained in 2015, “In a venture studio, you’re building your own companies. Spoutable began more than three years ago as part of Cursive Labs , a kind of holding company for startups that was founded with $2.2 million on a “venture studio” model that allows experienced entrepreneurs to run with their own ideas.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

That is down 13 percent from a peak in 2015, when global fintech investment soared to $14.6 According to a report released today, financial technology companies around the world attracted $12.7 billion in venture capital across 836 investments last year.

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