TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. The company filed registration documents in California in June 2018.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2018

Specifically, if you think public perception about the tech industry took a turn for the worse in 2017, what should the industry do to rebuild trust in 2018? Rounding out our series of perspectives and prognostications for the new year , we asked people in Xconomy’s network about trust in the tech industry.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

[ Note: Ben Fidler co-authored this report.] This weekend, San Diego will host the annual American Society of Hematology conference, the largest U.S. medical gathering to get the latest on blood diseases, and a venue for updates on some of the most cutting-edge biotechnologies that only a few years ago seemed like science fiction.

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

In a blog post in May, Google announced it would begin reopening its offices from early July this year. This was only to allow those staff who wanted or needed to come back, and was done on a “limited, rotating basis”, the blog said. Remote Working: What Is Twitter Doing? Remote Working: What is Facebook doing?

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

View the Slideshow With the first quarter in the books, it’s time to step back and lay out Xconomy’s editorial map for the rest of the year.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Lyft has been moving toward this “all-of-the-above” approach for much of 2018, a shift accelerated by its acquisition of Motivate , the oldest and largest electric bike-share company in North America, the launch of its scooter business and its Nearby Transit program that kicked off in Santa Monica this September.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion. See some recent examples in the The 10 Best Social Media Campaigns of 2018.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Once considered a passing phase, the concentration of capital into fewer, larger venture capital deals appears to be the new normal. Fueled by so-called mega-funds, investment in U.S.-based based venture-backed companies as of the end of the third quarter hit a decade high, and is on pace to pass the $100 billion mark by year’s end.

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Xconomy

MAY 26, 2020

Privately held biotech ViaCyte has banked $27 million, the majority an installment of cash from a tranched $80 million Series D financing round it closed in late 2018.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2020

In July 2018, the company licensed. The company joins the public markets with four product candidates in its pipeline, all topical non-steroidal treatments being developed for seven dermatological indications. Arcutis’s IPO cash will go to advance clinical development of its experimental dermatological products.

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

Elagolix (Orilissa) was approved in 2018 as a treatment for moderate-to-severe pain associated with endometriosis, a condition in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside of it. The regulatory nod in uterine fibroid bleeds makes elagolix the first FDA-approved drug for that indication.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Last week, Xconomy previewed the American Society of Hematology’s big meeting in San Diego, the largest medical gathering in the country on blood diseases. We took a deep dive into five specific disease areas under scrutiny, from lymphoma to hemophilia to sickle cell disease and more.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2018

This fall, we are convening exemplary business leaders, investors, and far-seeing technologists for an in-depth exploration of the innovation ecosystem and its impact on the future. Come join us at our newest interactive conference, XCON: The Xconomy Conference on Technology and Transformation.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018. Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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Xconomy

JULY 9, 2018

companies through the first six months of 2018, according to the latest Venture Monitor report produced quarterly by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). At this pace, 2018 venture investment is well on its way to surpassing last year’s $81.9 This year could be even bigger. billion into U.S.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

According to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital , 47 IPOs have priced so far this year across all sectors, down 27 percent compared to the same period in 2018. Five biotechs priced their IPOs and at least one more is coming. Just as last year, healthcare IPOs lead the way. Here’s a look.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 6, 2019

An FDA memo issued alongside the Tuesday statement reveals that a member of AveXis, the Zolgensma developer that Novartis acquired in 2018 , called the agency in June to say that the company “had manipulated data.” That issue “impacts the accuracy. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 27, 2020

The San Diego-based biotech, which started operations about 18 months ago, made its public debut in December 2018 with $42 million. On Monday Erasca—a portmanteau of “erase” and “cancer”— announced it had completed a Series B financing round jointly led by Arch Venture Partners and Cormorant Asset Management.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2018

software startups to reflect on the trends that defined the sector in 2018—and where things might be headed in 2019. Meanwhile, A.I. developers continued to grapple with issues around transparency, trust, and ethics. As part of Xconomy’s series of year-end posts , we asked a pair of CEOs of Boston-area A.I.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Members hire Associations, Members fire Associations is what the new mantra will be for Association Executives in 2018. In 2018 the new mantra will be: Members hire Associations, Members fire Associations. Welcome to 2018: Members hire Associations, Members fire Associations. Click here to receive future blog articles.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2017

On Monday we posted the first part of our look at what should be some of 2018’s most important clinical data , including trials for lung cancer, heart disease, melanoma, Alzheimer’s disease, rare blood disorders, and more. Ben Fidler, Corie Lok, and Frank Vinluan contributed to this report.] Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Just look at some of 2018’s biggest biotech stories. It can take decades and billions of dollars to develop a drug, and its fate—and often that of its developer—rests in the outcome of clinical trials.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2020

With a community forum, along with its aims to offer easily accessible and readable annual reports (you can view reports for 2017, 2018 and 2019 on its site), Monzo champions transparency. As of its 24 January 2020 blog post, 1000 customers have been involved in the US testing process. billion contactless payments in the UK in 2018.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2019

The Denmark-based biopharmaceutical company is a large, international organization whose commercialized products contributed to its $455 million-plus in 2018 revenue. . —Genmab is different from the other life science companies that joined the public markets this week. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The purchase price is 25 times MatrixCare’s pro forma 2018 earnings of about $30 million (without taking into account interest, taxes, depreciation or amortization) on anticipated net revenue of about $122 million. San Diego’s ResMed (NYSE: ticker[[RMD]]) announced its intention to buy the privately held tech company on Monday.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In 2018, however, it is possible for someone to use a spoofed version of King’s home number. The phone number that called her, she later discovered, was startling. “It It was my home phone calling me, which was not possible,” says King, who recently finished a doctorate in information science and now works at Stanford University.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Xconomy: If you think public perception about the tech industry turned for the worse in 2017, what should the industry do to rebuild trust in 2018? (Palmer previously co-founded Vertica Systems, now part of HP.) Andy Palmer: I think that increased awareness of gender equity issues. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In mid-2018, Tom Bogan was the leader of business planning software company Adaptive Insights as it planned its own next steps. The Palo Alto, CA-based company was on the point of raising about $115 million in a June IPO that would have set its market value at around $705 million, according to PitchBook. billion acquisition offer.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

million in seed—in 2018 to advance its growing suite of products, digitized. The team at Trust & Will, a San Diego-based startup founded in October of 2017, is betting that a good chunk of those people would shell out some money to outline an estate plan if the process were cheaper and easier.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Scott Beechuk, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners , is one of the tech industry observers invited by Xconomy to look back at the technology developments of 2018, and also forecast some trends he expects to see in 2019. Palo Alto, CA-based Norwest weathers the uncertainties of technology and the economy with an investing strategy.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2019

She’s also a partner in Ad Astra Ventures, an accelerator and venture fund for women-led startups she started in 2018 with Allison Long Pettine and Vidya Dinamani. Mah is executive director of Hera Labs, an accelerator program for women-owned businesses. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

companies during the first three months of 2018—marking the strongest single quarter in at least a dozen years, according to the Venture Monitor Report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Venture capital investors poured more than $28.2 billion into U.S.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Then, enjoy what remains of 2018. So while it might be nearly time to board your plane (or hop in the car, or simply spend a little time away from your screens), first catch up on recent local biotech happenings.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2019

When we have a chance to view it from a distance, the year 2018 may be seen as a period when innovations in a number of technological fields came together to transform not only the future of computing, but also the very structure of the Internet.

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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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