SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 -- UCSB Distinguished Speaker Series: Brad Feld. Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes the widely read blogs Feld Thoughts (link is external), Startup Revolution (link is external), and Ask the VC (link is external).

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Writing Blogging Activity 100

Xconomy

MAY 18, 2017

Preliminary findings from an economic impact study show that genomics is emerging as a distinct innovation cluster in San Diego. The San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. began collecting data for the report earlier this year in a bid to assess how genomics fits into San Diego’s innovation economy.

Study 97

Study San Diego Venture Capital Press 97

Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

San Diego 75

San Diego Class Mobile Platform 75

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

Put it in the slides: At the 2016 event, Liu & Huang overlooked the need to include some of their key findings in their slide deck. Delivery is key: The guys picked up the pace of their presentation after going too slowly in 2016. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

Competition 88

Competition Slides Artificial Inteligence Tips 88

Xconomy

APRIL 22, 2020

At Seattle-based Silverback, Shawver steps into a role previously held by co-founder Peter Thompson, an OrbiMed partner who, with others, launched the company in 2016. The Wednesday announcement comes three months after French firm Sanofi (NYSE: SNY ) closed its $2.5 Shawver has known Thompson for about a decade.

Acquisition 99

Acquisition Develop Development San Diego 99

Xconomy

JULY 2, 2020

In August 2016 MEI signed an alliance with Helsinn to advance the experimental drug for patients newly diagnosed with AML who are unable to receive intensive chemotherapy due to advanced age—75 years or older—or other health reasons.

San Diego 86

San Diego Study Help Company 86

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The San Diego-based healthtech company said Tuesday it is rolling out GreatCall Rides nationally, after testing it with customers in California, Florida, Arizona, and the Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth areas for more than two years, since August of 2016. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

San Diego 105

San Diego Equity Customer Custom 105

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

However, the San Diego-based company, which emerged from stealth mode in 2016, was guided through its early years by president and CEO Stephan Chenette. Wright was hired as chief revenue officer in August 2017. The company said he was named interim CEO in September of this year.

Chief Technology Officer 105

Chief Technology Officer San Diego Startup Guide 105

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

. “ Shipwell’s full-service, digitized brokerage platform can streamline the way many of our Anchor LPs and portfolio companies approach large-scale freight shipping,” the firm’s principal — and newest Shipwell board member — Vik Chawla wrote in a blog post announcing its most recent deal.

Startup 191

Startup Los Angeles Capital Pricing 191

Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Social Media News Software Review 71

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2017

billion in new commitments this year, on pace to eclipse the “already stellar” fundraising year they had in 2016, according to a new report and analysis out Thursday from Seattle-based PitchBook. billion as of year-end 2016, exceeding the levels seen at the end of. As of Aug.

Equity 69

Equity Pricing Acquisition Report 69

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2020

Acadia Pharmaceuticals received the FDA’s OK for pimavanserin (Nuplazid), the first drug approved to treat hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease , in 2016. Since then, the San Diego company has looked to expand its use into other indications, with mixed results.

San Diego 67

San Diego Study Report Company 67

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.

Activity 81

Activity Report News Marketing 81

Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016. Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

Services 85

Services Web Tool Platform 85

Xconomy

MAY 7, 2019

Until the 2016 approval of nusinersen (Spinraza) from. Today we’re circling back to sort through the news and put it in context. SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY The treatment landscape for spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a rare and potentially lethal genetic disease, is about to change.

News 77

News Conference San Diego Journal 77

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Pimavanserin was approved in 2016 as a treatment for psychosis associated with. Based on the results, the San Diego company said it would end the study early and seek a meeting with the regulator to discuss filing next year for approval in dementia-related psychosis. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

San Diego 74

San Diego Study Report Company 74

Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

Social Media 58

Social Media News Web Report 58

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Like Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM ), which is shifting its attention from traditional auto manufacturing to projects like its self-driving car unit Cruise—a San Francisco startup GM bought in 2016—Volvo Cars is one of the flock of established carmakers drawn to the Bay Area to take part in its thriving mobility innovation cluster.

Mobile 79

Mobile Startup Venture Capital San Diego 79

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Composite Capital , a Hong Kong-based investment fund started in 2016, led that round. 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.

San Diego 74

San Diego Company Companies Funding 74

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

IDbyDNA raised $9 million in 2016 in a Series A round led by Artis Ventures , a San Francisco-based. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Tool 77

Tool San Diego Platform Orange County 77

Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup was founded in 2016 with the goal of reducing food waste, especially the $20 billion in “ugly and surplus” produce that Full Harvest, citing U.S. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year. Environmental Protection Agency data, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Seed Funding 71

Seed Funding Help Funding Capital 71

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Dauntless Pharmaceuticals formed in 2016, and its founders said the Sofinnova Ventures-backed firm planned to take a new approach to building biotechs. Instead of advancing a broad stable of early-stage drug candidates under the same roof, Dauntless aimed to set up each asset within its own company.

Ideas 62

Ideas San Diego Company Companies 62

Xconomy

APRIL 30, 2018

After demonstrating in 2016 how its synthetic biology technology could produce new biologic drugs , San Diego’s Synthorx today revealed that its lead drug candidate is an improved version of interleukin-2, an anti-cancer drug of intense commercial interest in the 1980s.

Technology 78

Technology Venture Capital San Diego Avalon 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? A digital marketing content path most often comes in the form of a blog, podcast, video, or newsletter. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 06/08/2016. Firing randomly to see what sticks doesn’t work.

Marketing 58

Marketing Startup Social Media Newsletter 58

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. 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. Read more » Reprints | Share:

Content 71

Content Training Design Startup 71

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Christensen made his observations during a presentation at the 2016 Contextual Robotics Forum, a recent conference at UC San Diego focused this year on “new directions in human-machine interaction.”. His talk amounted to a state-of-the-industry report on robotics, and highlighted key findings of the 107-page update of the U.S.

Technology 100

Technology San Diego Report Conference 100

Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2018

The Dutch biotech and its Encinitas subsidiary were both founded in 2016, but the. While Escalier Biosciences BV is based in the Netherlands, the company is managed by its subsidiary, Escalier Biosciences, based near San Diego in coastal Encinitas, CA, according to Chris Krueger, Escalier’s chief business officer.

San Diego 69

San Diego Develop Development Venture Capital 69

Xconomy

MAY 16, 2019

The San Diego-based company is part of Adigica Health, an e-commerce company founded in 2016 to develop and market direct-to-consumer healthcare products. BioClarity, which sells plant-based skincare products to online shoppers, announced Wednesday that it has raised a $13 million investment round.

Product 58

Product San Diego Commerce Invest 58

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2018

When Cathy Polinsky became chief technology officer of Stitch Fix in late 2016, she knew one of the San Francisco-based company’s key challenges was continually refining its core software algorithm to make sure customers received the right tailored suggestions in their monthly wardrobe boxes. So, she made it into a game.

CTO 62

CTO Chief Technology Officer Customer Custom 62

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

So in February of 2016, he decided to refocus his San Francisco startup on the small, but unexpectedly profitable aspect of his service that could operate in the black. Like many tech entrepreneurs, Sean Behr had a young business that was popular with consumers, but was also losing money.

Services 69

Services Entrepreneur Startup San Diego 69

Xconomy

MARCH 23, 2017

It’s been more than a year since an infamous party with hired models in cocktail dresses captured the biotech community’s attention at the 2016 J.P. Morgan conference. There has been plenty of talk since about closing biotech’s notable gender gap. At this year’s J.P ” There has also been some action.

Mentor 76

Mentor Conference Networking Examples 76

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

After being what I assume is the subject of one or more of Seth David’s emotionally charged blog posts, I’ve decided it’s time to respond. This blog post is for information purposes only and my only intention is to move forward. We would relaunch the company in 2016 as the new entity and get all our ducks in a row.

Content 100

Content Blogging Burbank Course 100

Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2018

qster, founded in 2016 to develop technology that enables individuals to aggregate and manage all of their own personal health information, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday.

Web 63

Web San Diego Platform Startup 63

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Scott went on to found Pharmatek Laboratories, which was acquired in 2016 by. After, the company received $5 million through the organization and was a winner in its annual Most Innovative Product (MIP) award contest. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

San Diego 57

San Diego Organization Startup Product 57

Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

The annual total was slightly ahead of venture activity in 2016, when VCs put slightly less than $1.9 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92 billion in 215 deals last year.

San Diego 64

San Diego Venture Capital Activity Funding 64

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

billion into the agriculture sector across 580 deals in 2016, the report shows. While the total dollars invested in 2016 decreased by nearly 30 percent year over year, the total number of deals increased by 10 percent. Investors pumped $3.23 Furthermore, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Invest 40

Invest Report Startup Capital 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ), the San Diego wireless technology giant, announced in a blog item this week that its Halo wireless electric vehicle charging technology will be available commercially for the first time in 2017, with the mid-year introduction of the 2018 model of the Mercedes-Benz S550e.

San Diego 40

San Diego Blogging Pricing Technology 40