Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4aeefac4-cad8-47ea-b0f4-7058e949aa33&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name Matterport Mailing Address 140D Whisman Road Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description The Matterport 3D scanner lets you automatically create a digital model of your space and experience it the way you live in it. Website http://www.matterport.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,908,189 Transaction Round Seed … Continue reading “Matterport Secures $3,908,189 Seed Financing Round”
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WSO2 Garners $10,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=902c7f01-f8c7-406c-9e0d-d1218a311544&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name WSO2 Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94130 Company Description WSO2 was founded in August 2005 by leaders in Web services standards and Open Source software. We are an innovative Open Source technology company devoted to building Web services middleware, offering leading products, support and other services. … Continue reading “WSO2 Garners $10,000,000 New Financing”
Ravello Systems Lands $26,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1ea3f7da-e454-4096-bba9-d1d5e573f91b&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name Ravello Systems Mailing Address 1121 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Company Description Ravello is the industry’s first “cloud application platform.” This unique infrastructure allows enterprises to take any application and run it in any cloud without any modifications whatsoever. Website http://www.ravellosystems.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Ravello Systems Lands $26,000,000 New Financing”
Osseon Therapeutics Obtains $14,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c54aed3b-6956-4654-8ec7-e116e43dd495&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name Osseon Therapeutics Mailing Address 2330 Circadian Way Santa Rosa, CA 95407 Company Description At Osseon Therapeutics, we design, manufacture and distribute innovative products to improve the quality of life for patients with vertebral compression fractures (VCF) which may result from osteoporosis, osteotraumatic injuries, myelomas or other degenerative … Continue reading “Osseon Therapeutics Obtains $14,000,000 New Financing Round”
Raydiance Obtains $6,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=80a83b7d-e9b2-44c4-b437-fa7ef921ccaa&Preview=1 Date 2/5/2013 Company Name Raydiance Mailing Address 2199 S. McDowell Blvd Petaluma, CA 94954 Company Description UltraShort Pulse lasers have compelling capabilities that can deliver major benefits to hundreds of lucrative markets. The problem is that that technology is impractical. It’s too expensive. It requires highly trained Ph.D.’s to operate. And … Continue reading “Raydiance Obtains $6,000,000 New Funding”
Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program—Lessons Learned
I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth. From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is part 2 of … Continue reading “Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program—Lessons Learned”
Xconomy Forum: Robots Remake the Workplace
How are robots changing the way we work and communicate? Who will be the Microsoft of robotics, bringing the technology to every business? What will the robot revolution mean for job growth (or loss)? Join us for an afternoon of demos, discovery, and discussion. The question today isn’t when robots will arrive in our offices, … Continue reading “Xconomy Forum: Robots Remake the Workplace”
Acme Packet Sold to Oracle for $2B; Cue Silicon Valley Envy
Oracle owns the Boston tech scene. That’s all I can think of now. The Larry Ellison machine from Silicon Valley has spent increasing amounts of money to acquire Boston-area icons, including Phase Forward ($685 million), Endeca (about $1 billion), and now Acme Packet—the latter to the tune of $2.1 billion, a 22 percent premium on … Continue reading “Acme Packet Sold to Oracle for $2B; Cue Silicon Valley Envy”
What’s in a Name? A Lot, When It Comes to ‘Precision Medicine’
Personalized medicine was supposed to be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It was going to be the payoff our society would see after investing in the Human Genome Project and so much other biomedical research. While most people on the street can’t say what it means, anybody can understand the … Continue reading “What’s in a Name? A Lot, When It Comes to ‘Precision Medicine’”
Piston Cloud Computing Garners $8,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=652da731-753d-4cb8-ba93-679ebdd42cc5&Preview=1 Date 2/4/2013 Company Name Piston Cloud Computing Mailing Address 141 Central Avenue San Francisco, CA 94117 Company Description Piston is focused on delivering on- and off-premise products and solutions that make Cloud Computing usable for the Enterprise. The team is composed of the major architects from the OpenStack project, recently spun … Continue reading “Piston Cloud Computing Garners $8,000,000 Series B Financing”
AllTrails Obtains $250,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=89034e86-efca-4f45-a0b3-a72889e35490&Preview=1 Date 2/4/2013 Company Name AllTrails Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description AllTrails is building the largest digital network focused exclusively on outdoor enthusiasts. Each month the AllTrails Network attracts more than 1,000,000 outdoor enthusiasts. Website http://www.alltrails.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $250,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “AllTrails Obtains $250,000 New Funding”
Dexetra Secures Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7a49e88a-29dc-468d-878d-cffe4ad80055&Preview=1 Date 2/2/2013 Company Name Dexetra Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94102 Company Description Dexetra specializes in delivering products that would contribute to a better life experience. The company is currently working on a Smartphone Application to augment human memory and to create a new dimension for self discovery. Website http://www.dexetra.com … Continue reading “Dexetra Secures Series A Financing”
SchooLa Garners New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2dc981d3-6fc8-40ed-8679-ed8d97a18937&Preview=1 Date 2/2/2013 Company Name SchooLa Mailing Address 601 Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description Schoola. Let’s make fundraising easy. Let’s keep the money in the community and help local businesses and schools benefit each other. Let’s stop finding space to store cans of popcorn and figuring out ways to … Continue reading “SchooLa Garners New Funding Round”
Dijit Acquires Miso for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6c58b956-9c42-4c2b-bbe8-a993c2c6c2d5&Preview=1 Date 2/2/2013 Company Name Miso Mailing Address 580 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Miso is a social TV platform that makes watching TV more fun. The Miso team is located in San Francisco at 580 Howard Street in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. Website http://www.gomiso.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Dijit Acquires Miso for Undisclosed Sum”
Silicon Valley Meets at Facebook Campus to Recruit LGBT Students
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said many times that the company’s mission is to make the world more open and connected. Usually, the connections Facebook fosters are purely virtual, but this weekend the company is getting real, hosting a gathering for almost 200 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) college students at its … Continue reading “Silicon Valley Meets at Facebook Campus to Recruit LGBT Students”
Cyber Attacks: A Growing Threat to the U.S. Economy
The cost of ubiquitous cyber attacks and cyber probes in the United States and the rest of the world is a staggering, ever-growing challenge. Antivirus firm Symantec estimated the 2011 global price tag of direct financial loss and the cost of remediating attacks at $338 billion, excluding the theft of intellectual property and damage from … Continue reading “Cyber Attacks: A Growing Threat to the U.S. Economy”
How Lytro is Shifting Our Perspective on Photography
The first time I got to play with a Lytro light-field camera was in March, 2012. If I had to sum up my reaction in eight words, it would be: “Concept: Mind-blowing. Execution: Not quite there yet.” It was clear that the technology inside the camera—which makes it possible to refocus a picture after it’s … Continue reading “How Lytro is Shifting Our Perspective on Photography”
PagerDuty Garners $10,700,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e8af39bd-ea6b-40a8-b4fd-2d669d4e483e&Preview=1 Date 2/1/2013 Company Name PagerDuty Mailing Address 51 Federal St San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description PagerDuty is an alarm dispatching service for system administrators and support teams. PagerDuty collects alerts from your business’s existing monitoring tools (Nagios, Monit, Pingdom, etc) and calls or SMSes the engineer on duty if there’s … Continue reading “PagerDuty Garners $10,700,000 Series A Funding Round”
Connected Data Obtains $6,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=293234d4-9759-48ba-8b05-676139987487&Preview=1 Date 2/1/2013 Company Name Connected Data Mailing Address 2905 Stender Way Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description We are working on a better and simpler way for consumers, professionals, and small businesses to share, access, and protect their data. The Transporter team consists of the same storage professionals responsible for creating … Continue reading “Connected Data Obtains $6,000,000 New Round”
Sift Secures $540,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c837b418-8d9c-4fb6-9354-9b8d7550d617&Preview=1 Date 2/1/2013 Company Name Sift Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Ecommerce company Sift creates a personal shopping catalog for users based on the contents of their email, all the while also de-cluttering their inboxes. The company takes all that information from promotional email from brands, order confirmations, … Continue reading “Sift Secures $540,000 Seed Funding”
Zimride Garners $15,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=29eb73ca-599a-4bc1-bc11-d67943e00ea6&Preview=1 Date 2/1/2013 Company Name Zimride Mailing Address 548 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description Zimride’s industry leading rideshare service helps organizations establish easy to use, private, social networks for ridesharing. The result: a critical mass of users sharing rides, saving money and reducing resource consumption. Website http://www.zimride.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Zimride Garners $15,000,000 New Financing”
Aggregate Knowledge Acquires Quantivo for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f69afce0-7979-417f-b397-41f09ed91881&Preview=1 Date 2/1/2013 Company Name Quantivo Mailing Address 5900 Hollis Street Emeryville, CA 94608 Company Description We founded a company to create a new way to address what we saw as a fundamental problem in understanding, handling, and responding to highly complex patterns within transactional data, believing that in doing so, transaction-based … Continue reading “Aggregate Knowledge Acquires Quantivo for Undisclosed Sum”
IBM Acquires Star Analytics for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1c6bc45e-6300-439b-b07e-c05518f78c93&Preview=1 Date 2/1/2013 Company Name Star Analytics Mailing Address 1810 Gateway Drive San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Our mission is to be the premier provider of software products and related services to fill integration and deployment gaps in Business Intelligence (BI) systems. Our products will reduce cost of ownership, increase Return … Continue reading “IBM Acquires Star Analytics for Undisclosed Sum”
Tablet Strategy West
From the event website: “Tablets are conquering the workplace. Whether they come down from the CEO’s office or up from employees’ ranks, tablets are quickly establishing themselves as an indispensable work tool. How can your company truly benefit from the tablet wave? After the resounding success of its first edition last April in New York, … Continue reading “Tablet Strategy West”
California Stem Cell Agency Shifts Focus to Clinical Treatments
California’s stem cell research funding agency has been shifting gears, and California entrepreneurs stand to benefit. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next four years to support early stage clinical trials and other work toward regulatory approval of commercial therapies. What’s more, industry advisors … Continue reading “California Stem Cell Agency Shifts Focus to Clinical Treatments”
Foresite Capital Closes $100M Fund for Late-Stage Biotechs
Biotech venture capital isn’t what it used to be, but there’s still money to invest in healthcare. Now one biotech investment firm just starting out has found $100 million to plow into “late-stage” companies. Foresite Capital Management, a San Francisco- and New York-based firm founded by Jim Tananbaum in 2011, said today it has officially … Continue reading “Foresite Capital Closes $100M Fund for Late-Stage Biotechs”
Former Battery Ventures VC Dhaliwal Launches New IT Fund
A longtime Boston venture capitalist is striking out on his own, with a new fund that aims to capitalize on big changes in the IT industry and early stage private investing. Sunil Dhaliwal, formerly of Battery Ventures, is formally unveiling Amplify Partners. The new fund has raised more than $16 million from about 25 investors, … Continue reading “Former Battery Ventures VC Dhaliwal Launches New IT Fund”
Silicon Valley Meets CrowdFunders
From the event organizers: “We invite you to the First Silicon Crowdfund Valley Conference which will bring together traditional private investors and crowdfunders. SVCrowdfund provides the participants with the unique opportunity to discuss current state of the industry, to learn from experts in venture capital, business angel and crowdfunding fields, to network and find new partnerships. The … Continue reading “Silicon Valley Meets CrowdFunders”
Tomfoolery Garners $1,700,000 Seed Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0c49d404-3a21-48bf-974b-0e334812a481&Preview=1 Date 1/31/2013 Company Name Tomfoolery Mailing Address Undisclosed San Fancisco, CA 94102 Company Description We believe great work starts with a great team, and great teams start with shared culture. We believe smart phones are the stone that David will use to bring down the Goliath of traditional enterprise software. We … Continue reading “Tomfoolery Garners $1,700,000 Seed Financing Round”
Aduro BioTech Secures $6,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=710f2d73-62f0-4ced-8bb9-4801e59dfe09&Preview=1 Date 1/31/2013 Company Name Aduro BioTech Mailing Address 626 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94710 Company Description Aduro BioTech is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company with a platform technology for therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases. The platform of attenuated and targeted vaccines based on Listeria monocytogenes has been in … Continue reading “Aduro BioTech Secures $6,500,000 New Financing”
42Floors Obtains $12,300,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3b4a870a-d4be-4f51-86c2-4993c77c8d89&Preview=1 Date 1/31/2013 Company Name 42Floors Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94125 Company Description 42Floors helps you search for your dream office by showing listings from all the brokerages, landlords, and even Craigslist. Website http://www.42floors.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $12,300,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes The company will … Continue reading “42Floors Obtains $12,300,000 Series B Funding Round”
Upstart Secures $3,500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=40e9c04e-9320-4366-84ce-9e71679fdc81&Preview=1 Date 1/31/2013 Company Name Upstart Mailing Address P.O. Box 61203 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Company Description Upstart aims to help you with the most important part of pursuing your dreams – taking the first step. It may be as simple as applying for an internship, relocating to another city, or spending … Continue reading “Upstart Secures $3,500,000 New Funding”
FIS Acquires mFoundry for $120,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=62a0baf5-656c-4dbf-8d88-819758bca03a&Preview=1 Date 1/31/2013 Company Name mFoundry Mailing Address 60 E. Sir Francis Drake Larkspur, CA 94939 Company Description mFoundry provides the only equitable mobile banking and payments solution for financial institutions and wireless carriers. mFoundry’s Spotlight Financial Platform is a cross-carrier, cross-platform solution with the broadest device support of any competitor. Website … Continue reading “FIS Acquires mFoundry for $120,000,000”
When Freemium Ain’t Free: Crowdbooster Offers a Painful Case Study
Crowdbooster is a Palo Alto, CA-based startup that solves one of the nettlesome new problems posed by the social media explosion—helping users figure out how many people they’re actual reaching when they share information on Twitter or Facebook. A lot of people like the service: within just two years of graduating from Y Combinator, Silicon … Continue reading “When Freemium Ain’t Free: Crowdbooster Offers a Painful Case Study”
The Post-Kickstarter Conundrum: Delivering Companies DOA?
Picture this: two guys in a garage coding The Next Big Thing. It’s an iconic and familiar image. Now imagine their ubiquitous computer keyboards being overtaken by a colony of 3-D foam models or CAD drawings. Now your mind’s eye sees these same guys (or gals) hacking away at something entirely different. This shift in … Continue reading “The Post-Kickstarter Conundrum: Delivering Companies DOA?”
Tech M&A: Report Finds Most Startups Didn’t Raise Outside Cash
Investors have been in a rush to finance early stage companies in the past few years, leading to angst among startup founders confronting a tougher time making it to the next stage of investment. But for companies that get successfully acquired, it turns out that outside financing isn’t a necessity. In fact, it’s a rarity. … Continue reading “Tech M&A: Report Finds Most Startups Didn’t Raise Outside Cash”
Pluto Media Garners $500,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=39ad763a-58f3-4d2c-ad66-7829904759d5&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Pluto Media Mailing Address Undisclosed Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description Pluto Media is committed to bringing the best educational games to children around the world. We want to integrate brilliant technology with world-class creative talent to develop products that foster children’s creativity, curiosity, and knowledge of … Continue reading “Pluto Media Garners $500,000 Seed Funding Round”
Nest Lands $80,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7943ddba-5a8c-4069-b688-980726733b88&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Nest Mailing Address 900 Hansen Way Palo Alto, CA 94304 Company Description Nest is focused on addressing home-energy consumption with an elegantly designed solution – one that people actually enjoy using. Website http://www.nest.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $80,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The company … Continue reading “Nest Lands $80,000,000 New Funding Round”
Soft Machines Receives $10,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1594108e-1a93-49a7-a28b-a38f760bfe71&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Soft Machines Mailing Address 3211 Scott Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description The company is developing multithreaded CPU technologies. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $10,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed
Virident Systems Lands $40,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=72e871f1-5da9-4e1a-a2af-fecee30c80b7&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Virident Systems Mailing Address 500 Yosemite Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 Company Description Virident Systems enterprise-class Storage Class Memory (SCM) solutions deliver unconditional, consistent performance that supports the most data intensive content and applications. The inherent advantage associated with this disruptive technology revolutionizes computing by speeding application response … Continue reading “Virident Systems Lands $40,000,000 New Round”
Vendly Obtains $200,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=49a58b3b-30a1-4391-bcb3-ff81c0e1f167&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Vendly Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94101 Company Description The company’s iPhone app lets users sell items, purchase goods from other vendors, and “revend” (as in promote) items on their profiles so friends and followers can see what they’ve found. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Vendly Obtains $200,000 Seed Funding”
Genesys Acquires Utopy for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=96548c44-2573-49e0-9914-831f3ef7a2b7&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name Utopy Mailing Address 1550 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description UTOPY’s proven Customer Intelligence solutions are award-winning, and our customers are Fortune 500 leaders in their respective industries. UTOPY was founded in 1999 to help companies utilize the previously untapped “voice of the customer” to … Continue reading “Genesys Acquires Utopy for Undisclosed Sum”
Unified Acquires PageLever for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=68a69343-d5bc-4c83-80f4-a119d171dfe5&Preview=1 Date 1/30/2013 Company Name PageLever Mailing Address 1499 Potrero Ave San Francisco, CA 94101 Company Description We turn data from an afterthought into a way to drive better decisions. Data is most powerful when integrated with content-creation and decision-making tools in simple formats. We believe that it’s our job to solve … Continue reading “Unified Acquires PageLever for Undisclosed Sum”
CEOs, Legislators Fight Retroactive Tax on Small-Business Investors
In December, reacting to a court ruling, the California Franchise Tax Board eliminated a tax break designed to encourage small-business investment in the state, and it said it would demand retroactive tax payments from everyone who took advantage of the incentive since 2008. Now angry voices are rising in opposition to that decision, which will … Continue reading “CEOs, Legislators Fight Retroactive Tax on Small-Business Investors”
ePrize Continues Its Mobile Growth With Mozes Acquisition
The Pleasant Ridge, MI-based interactive promotions company ePrize has announced its second major acquisition in 12 months, a move that represents the next big step in its plan to ramp up the mobile portion of its business. ePrize didn’t disclose the terms under which it acquired Palo Alto, CA-based Mozes, but did say it will … Continue reading “ePrize Continues Its Mobile Growth With Mozes Acquisition”
Marketing Tech Developer Unified Acquires Y Combinator-Alum PageLever
Enterprise marketing technology provider Unified in New York said in a statement Monday it acquired San Francisco-based PageLever, a developer of an analytics platform for Facebook Pages, for undisclosed terms. PageLever is a graduate of the summer 2011 Y Combinator startup incubator program. Unified, which also has offices in San Francisco and Chicago, was founded … Continue reading “Marketing Tech Developer Unified Acquires Y Combinator-Alum PageLever”
Testing the Bay Lights: Stunning Photos and Video
Few artists have ever had a bigger canvas at their disposal than Leo Villareal. The New York-based “light sculptor” is famous for designing huge, computer-driven LED art installations that cover entire walls of museums and other facilities around the country. But the Bay Lights, an array of individually programmed LEDs stretching across the entire Western … Continue reading “Testing the Bay Lights: Stunning Photos and Video”
Defense Secretary Gates: Underfund Basic Research at America’s Peril
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates distills a critical challenge to America’s continued prosperity and global leadership: Deliver to his generation all promised entitlements, or invest in research and education—the foundations of the country’s success. “I think it’s fair to say America’s economic pre-eminence—and I would argue our national security, and national influence as well—is largely … Continue reading “Defense Secretary Gates: Underfund Basic Research at America’s Peril”
Michael Yang Opens Up about the Startups that Excite Comcast Ventures
Media conglomerate Comcast Corp. is known for its cable system and TV networks. Meanwhile, venture fund Comcast Ventures has been backing innovation across country since 1999, with offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, and Philadelphia. Michael Yang, managing director of the Silicon Valley office, spoke with Xconomy about the types of investments Comcast … Continue reading “Michael Yang Opens Up about the Startups that Excite Comcast Ventures”
Afraxis Licenses its Drug Compounds to Roche Subsidiary Genentech
Afraxis, a San Diego biopharmaceutical founded in 2007, says today it has licensed exclusive global rights for all of its proprietary drug compounds to Genentech, the Roche subsidiary based in South San Francisco, CA. While details of the deal were not disclosed, it still counts as an exit. Afraxis says it’s eligible to get as … Continue reading “Afraxis Licenses its Drug Compounds to Roche Subsidiary Genentech”