Xconomy

MAY 2, 2019

We at Xconomy are excited to announce that we are honoring Ivor Royston , co-founder of Hybritech and Idec Pharmaceuticals, with our 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award—the first ever awarded in San Diego. He will receive his award and give a talk reflecting on his career at our inaugural Xconomy Awards San Diego gala on May.

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Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2019

In the eyes of the San Diego Venture Group, the key element is readiness for venture capital backing. What does it take for a tech startup to be considered “cool?”

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Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

Each of the finalists in the CEO category for the first-ever Xconomy Awards San Diego program have shown this kind of mettle. Here’s an introduction to each chief executive who made the. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2019

Summer can be a slow time in San Diego, but its startups have stayed busy. Based in Carlsbad, in northern San Diego County, Ezoic launched its platform in 2011. Read on for news of recent financings, plus upcoming opportunities to connect with the local tech community.

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Xconomy

MARCH 30, 2020

San Diego has long been considered a second-tier primary biopharma hub in terms of number of companies and venture capital raised, falling behind the twin behemoths of Boston-Cambridge and the San Francisco Bay Area on those and other metrics.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

Let’s catch up with the latest tech news in San Diego. —San Diego’s AON Devices was among 10 startups selected to compete at a recent pitch competition hosted by the corporate venture capital arm of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving. Panic ensued as we couldn’t bring the dogs to San Diego and my brother’s three kids look forward to this great trip all year. ” She arrived late that night in San Diego. The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px.

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Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2019

San Diego’s startup community has rejoiced in recent months as massive companies that employ thousands of engineers—including Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ), and the tech arm of Walmart (NYSE: WMT )—have announced expansions in the region.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2020

Dave Johnson has known UC San Diego physician and cancer reseacher Thomas Kipps for nearly 20 years.

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Xconomy

MAY 20, 2020

Learn what’s fueling San Diego’s biotech investment and partnership opportunities by downloading Xconomy’s new special report and podcast that package the highlights from the recent Xcelerating Life Sciences San Diego: Biomedical Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine & Genomics event.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2020

Headed by president and CEO Niall O’Donnell (pictured), the San Diego-based company launched last year with $50 million and an investigational small molecule drug it licensed from High Point, NC-based vTv Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VTVT ). The molecule, REN001, is being developed for patients with primary mitochondrial myopathies (PMM).

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Mission Edge, a nonprofit organization backed by the San Diego Foundation and three corporations, has chosen 10 companies and organizations to participate in a 12-week program intended to improve each entity’s financial performance, and thereby long-term sustainability. Ken Davenport, CEO of San Diego-based Mission.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme. The San Diego startup. The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2020

At the start of 2020 thousands of biotechies anticipated spending the second week of June in San Diego, hobnobbing at the annual conference hosted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. Instead, attendees from 64 countries spanning 28 times zones convened online this week for the first-ever virtual BIO International Convention.

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Xconomy

MARCH 3, 2020

Building on the popularity and strength of the 2017-2019 Boston Xconomy Awards and the 2019 San Diego Xconomy Awards, the 2020 National Xconomy Awards winners will be announced at a Monday, June 8 gala at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego during. Submit yours today.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2019

The first business accelerator program in southeast San Diego is accepting applications for its second cohort of entrepreneurs, who would start the program in fall. Connect All debuted this year with the mission of supporting diverse and lower-income entrepreneurs. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

APRIL 14, 2020

The San Diego biotech on Monday announced it had received the FDA’s OK to enter into the clinic with ARCT-810, an investigational treatment for ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency , a rare inherited disease that causes dangerous levels of ammonia to accumulate in the body.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2019

San Diego has had plenty of businesses go public in recent years, but most have been life sciences companies. Now software startup Tealium, which has about 215 employees at its San Diego headquarters, announced Wednesday it has added $55 million in a Series F financing.

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Xconomy

MAY 19, 2020

Now the San Diego-based company has added $53 million to a round of funding it first closed in 2017, money that it plans to put toward continued evaluation of the investigational antifungal treatment, fosmanogepix.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

However, that wasn’t the problem San Diego startup LabFellows was looking to solve when it launched in 2014. Scientists, no matter how sexy the research they’re conducting, aren’t immune from the administrative minutiae of office life. Such tasks steal time away from researchers’ main objectives.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2020

A group of scientists and physicians at UC San Diego Health and the UCSD School of Medicine has arranged a partnership with five diagnostics markers that it says will bring the health system’s capacity to test for coronavirus to as many as 1,500 tests daily sometime in early April.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 22, 2018

A San Diego startup says it has adapted the blockchain technology that underpins digital currencies like Bitcoin for use as a distributed database for genomic information.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Advancing new forms of birth control is a central focus at Daré Bioscience (NASDAQ: DARE ), a San Diego-based biopharma company that’s built a pipeline of experimental devices and treatments tailored for women’s health. Order groceries? Turn off the bedroom lights? How about contraception?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The venture investment, which the San Diego startup announced Tuesday, is one of only a few so-called mega-rounds—$100 million or more—recorded this year in the region. (In Thompson to its board of directors. In Southern California, rounds that large are more often raised by life sciences companies.)

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Xconomy

APRIL 7, 2020

The Plymouth Meeting, PA-based company, which also conducts research in San Diego, plans to enroll as many as 40 adults across two trial locations. Inovio Pharmaceuticals, one of the biotechs developing a vaccine to prevent COVID-19, has received the FDA’s OK to start testing its candidate in healthy volunteers.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Louis, MO-based venture capital firm with additional offices in San Diego, CA, and Cleveland, OH, has raised $184.4 RiverVest Venture Partners, a St. million for its fourth fund dedicated to investing in healthcare companies. Since its launch, RiverVest has invested in 47 companies working to develop new drugs and medical devices.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2019

Eight years after San Diego biotech Prometheus Laboratories was acquired by Nestlé Health Science , the diagnostic business has been sold again, this time to a little-known biotech called Precision IBD that plans to lay off approximately a quarter of Prometheus’s workforce.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2019

In return, San Diego-based Neurocrine will gain rights to Voyager’s. Neurocrine (NASDAQ: NBIX ) has agreed to pay Voyager (NASDAQ: VYGR ) $115 million in cash and buy $50 million worth of the Cambridge, MA, company’s shares at $11.96 apiece—a roughly 50 percent premium to its $8.04 closing price on Monday.

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Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2019

The San Diego-area medical research institute inked a similar deal with the Mayo Clinic in 2012. The partnership is part of a broader movement to accelerate the “bench to bedside” process by better integrating those in academia, government, and industry in the hopes of more rapidly pushing ahead pharmaceutical innovation.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 18, 2020

The San Diego company, which has touted its product candidates as safer than early-generation versions developed by other companies, announced the FDA’s decision to pause the study on Monday.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2020

Biotech veterans Tom Farrell and Peter Flynn have teamed up to start a new San Diego company that aims to develop allogeneic, or off-the-shelf, cell-based immunotherapies using natural killer (NK) cells that can be manufactured at scale and delivered to cancer patients outside of the hospital.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

GreatCall, the maker of the Jitterbug cellphone and other products and services for older adults, has extended its partnership with the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company Lyft to offer GreatCall customers the ability to schedule rides without a smartphone app. No financial terms were disclosed.

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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. AttackIQ said Galloway is taking over the role from Carl Wright, who has been named chief commercial officer. Wright was hired as chief revenue officer in August 2017.

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Xconomy

MAY 7, 2020

In 2017 the San Diego area-based biotech made the first step in its transformation into a drug development-focused organization, licensing rights to an investigational cancer drug from Italy’s Nerviano Medical Sciences.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2019

The event is one of the most popular showcases of San Diego-area tech innovation, and it usually provides an interesting local snapshot of industry trends. EvoNexus typically hosts a “Demo Day” event twice per year to highlight the top startups currently housed in its incubator.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2020

San Diego-based La Jolla (NASDAQ: LJPC ) has pledged to pay Tetraphase shareholders $43 million in cash now plus another $16 million tied to sales goals for Tetraphase (NASDAQ: TTPH ) antibiotic eravacycline (Xerava). The competition for Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals now has a new winner : La Jolla Pharmaceutical.

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