Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, has been investing in biotech companies and basic neuroscience for many years, and now he’s set up a new program to put more money to work for scientists pushing the boundaries in those fields. The Seattle-based Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is announcing today it is bankrolling seven … Continue reading “Paul Allen Donates $9M for Edgy Neuroscience, Biotech Projects at MIT, Stanford, UW”
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Altius Education Obtains $18,600,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=84e06a80-18ba-4823-9048-539aa4c088f2&Preview=1 Date 11/18/2010 Company Name Altius Education Mailing Address 2 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description Altius Education, Inc. partners with academic institutions to help them unlock the potential of their existing curricula. By establishing separate legal entities and providing them with the key financial and strategic resources, we are … Continue reading “Altius Education Obtains $18,600,000 Series B Funding”
Parallel Engines Lands $2,172,318 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e8b98c76-ea0a-439a-a9f1-740fb5f56d2d&Preview=1 Date 11/18/2010 Company Name Parallel Engines Mailing Address 10773 N. Wolfe Rd. Cupertino, CA 95014 Company Description Parallel Engines was founded in April 2008 with the goal of bringing together the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and Semiconductor-IP (Intellectual Property) worlds for the benefit of designers. Website http://www.parallelengines.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Parallel Engines Lands $2,172,318 New Financing”
Stipple Obtains $2,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c94ffa8b-ac5d-461c-93aa-e36a66e2a37d&Preview=1 Date 11/18/2010 Company Name Stipple Mailing Address 360 Ritch St. San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description The company has created a website that lets people label, share and monetize pictures on the web. Website http://www.stippleit.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Stipple Obtains $2,000,000 New Financing Round”
Oodle Acquires Grouply for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=56c68b88-ab5a-4c0d-9413-15eb094c0e90&Preview=1 Date 11/18/2010 Company Name Grouply Mailing Address 495 Seaport Ct. Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description With Grouply, you can create a new social group about anything you like or join a social group and connect with others who share your interests and passions. Website http://www.grouply.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Oodle Acquires Grouply for Undisclosed Sum”
Federated Media Publishing Acquires FoodBuzz for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=593db5a1-95ec-4899-b62c-c20a21674fb1&Preview=1 Date 11/18/2010 Company Name FoodBuzz Mailing Address 921 Front St. San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description We love Food! In fact, we’re passionate about our adventures in all things edible. Be it dining out, cooking at home, discovering a new flavor, drooling over a food blog, or swapping recipes with friends, … Continue reading “Federated Media Publishing Acquires FoodBuzz for Undisclosed Sum”
The Real Choices Facing Startups: Talking with Michael Moritz On Stage November 30 in San Francisco
Time for a reality check. Is it really easier to start a tech company these days? That’s certainly the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley—but Michael Moritz begs to differ. I’ll be chatting with the legendary Sequoia Capital partner at San Francisco’s Kicklabs on November 30 (register here), and the top item on the agenda will … Continue reading “The Real Choices Facing Startups: Talking with Michael Moritz On Stage November 30 in San Francisco”
Roche Cuts to Hit Hundreds of Genentech Workers; Scientific Staff is Spared
Roche made big news in the pharmaceutical business today when it said it is cutting 4,800 jobs as part of a major restructuring plan. And, no surprise, hundreds of those job cuts are coming from its biggest U.S. asset, South San Francisco-based Genentech. About 350 to 450 people in Genentech’s manufacturing group in South San … Continue reading “Roche Cuts to Hit Hundreds of Genentech Workers; Scientific Staff is Spared”
Sutro Biopharma Grabs $36.5M in Venture Deal to Make “Biobetters”
The buzzphrase “biobetter” is starting to catch on, and South San Francisco-based Sutro Biopharma is the latest to cash in on the trend, as one of the companies hoping to develop drugs with nifty new properties that were never seriously considered before. Sutro is announcing today it has raised $36.5 million in a Series C … Continue reading “Sutro Biopharma Grabs $36.5M in Venture Deal to Make “Biobetters””
Ardian Corrals Out-of-Control High Blood Pressure With First-of-its-Kind Device
There are plenty of cheap and effective drugs out there for lowering high blood pressure. But Ardian, a small device company in Mountain View, CA, is presenting some intriguing clinical trial results today that suggest it might have developed something that works when all else fails. Ardian’s treatment was tested in a study of 106 … Continue reading “Ardian Corrals Out-of-Control High Blood Pressure With First-of-its-Kind Device”
Dave Morin Says Path Photo App is About “Making the World a Happier Place”
On Sunday, San Francisco startup Path launched its photo-sharing app for the iPhone, and by Tuesday night it had already climbed to the number 5 spot in the Lifestyle section of the iTunes App Store. iPhone users seem to appreciate the new app, which is designed to let users share candid photos and a few … Continue reading “Dave Morin Says Path Photo App is About “Making the World a Happier Place””
Marketo Secures $25,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dbc3a25c-5f31-49c7-aabd-3b5fbcd66e9d&Preview=1 Date 11/17/2010 Company Name Marketo Mailing Address 901 Mariners Island Blvd. San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Marketo provides affordable, easy-to-use marketing automation software that helps B2B marketing professionals drive more revenue and improve marketing accountability. Our solutions automate lead generation and lead nurturing processes over multiple channels, beginning with pay-per-click … Continue reading “Marketo Secures $25,000,000 New Round”
meebo Receives $25,000,000 Series D Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=082091a0-c55a-4ace-8922-9a70d08190fe&Preview=1 Date 11/17/2010 Company Name meebo Mailing Address 215 Castro Street 3rd Floor Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description meebo is the first all-in-one, Web browser-based instant messaging service. Website http://www.meebo.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $25,000,000 Transaction Round Series D Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed, however the company … Continue reading “meebo Receives $25,000,000 Series D Funding”
Visage Mobile Garners $3,600,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6dc5c693-2169-4a7d-a631-b7129f402e7d&Preview=1 Date 11/17/2010 Company Name Visage Mobile Mailing Address 500 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description Visage Mobile, the recognized expert in MVNO development and operations, delivers a broad range of services to companies interested in offering branded wireless services. Website http://www.visagemobile.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,600,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Visage Mobile Garners $3,600,000 New Financing Round”
Sutro Biopharma Secures $36,500,000 Series C Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4abc323e-00ef-4dcc-abe9-bd2582d6744e&Preview=1 Date 11/17/2010 Company Name Sutro Biopharma Mailing Address 310 Utah Ave South San Francisco, CA 94080 Company Description Sutro Biopharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that uses its patented OCFS protein synthesis technology to develop next-generation protein therapeutics for the treatment of human disease. This commercially scalable technology overcomes important limitations … Continue reading “Sutro Biopharma Secures $36,500,000 Series C Round”
Juniper Networks Acquires Trapeze Networks for $152,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e5c4ac4d-d0d7-4e0b-acb3-0d14ae74fd60&Preview=1 Date 11/17/2010 Company Name Trapeze Networks Mailing Address 5753 W. Las Positas Blvd. Pleasanton, CA 94588 Company Description Trapeze Networks was founded with two simple goals in mind: Provide seamless mobility to the enterprise workforce and meet the requirements of network managers and IT staffs. Website http://www.trapezenetworks.com/ Transaction Type M&A Transaction … Continue reading “Juniper Networks Acquires Trapeze Networks for $152,000,000”
Imagination Technologies Ltd. Acquires HelloSoft for $47,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e5475455-5f00-4208-81ec-200f93ffb9ab&Preview=1 Date 11/17/2010 Company Name HelloSoft Mailing Address 2099 Gateway Place San Jos, CA 95110 Company Description HelloSoft is a leading supplier of signal processing technology and software-defined radio (SDR) solutions for VOIP, Wi-Fi, Cellular, and converged markets. Website http://www.hellosoft.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $47,000,000 Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms … Continue reading “Imagination Technologies Ltd. Acquires HelloSoft for $47,000,000”
Black Duck Software Acquires SpikeSource for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7add848a-859f-488a-8ccb-f33453366f87&Preview=1 Date 11/17/2010 Company Name SpikeSource Mailing Address 2000 Seaport Blvd. 2nd floor Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description SpikeSource is a software company which distributes, integrates, manages and supports open source solutions. Website http://www.spikesource.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction … Continue reading “Black Duck Software Acquires SpikeSource for Undisclosed Sum”
Intel Capital Reveals 18 New Investments Totaling $77 Million
Most of the time, we find out about companies that have collected venture investments one at a time, via announcements or regulatory filings from the companies themselves. Today Santa Clara, CA-based Intel Capital shook things up a bit, unveiling a big bundle of investments all at once. The venture wing of the giant chipmaker said … Continue reading “Intel Capital Reveals 18 New Investments Totaling $77 Million”
Facebook is Mission-Critical
Facebook is mission-critical infrastructure. Not for me and not for you either, since you reading this makes the odds of your age being greater than Zuckerberg’s quite high. However, for millions of people between the ages of 10 and 23, Facebook is critical to their lives. The reason? Homework. I’m old enough to have stopped … Continue reading “Facebook is Mission-Critical”
PayNearMe Unveils Mobile Payment Network, Collects $16 Million
There’s an industry term for the one-quarter of American households where, through choice or necessity, members don’t have bank accounts or credit or debit cards: the “unbanked.” But just because these consumers don’t have formal relationships with financial institutions doesn’t mean they don’t pay a lot for financial services. Every time they cash a payday … Continue reading “PayNearMe Unveils Mobile Payment Network, Collects $16 Million”
$1.2M for Optimizely
Optimizely, a San Francisco startup specializing in automated A/B testing of websites, has collected a $1.2 million seed round from a group of prominent individual investors, according to report today in Venture Wire. Investors include Paul Buchheit, Steve Chen, Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Mitch Kapor, Ashton Kutcher, Deep Nishar, Naval Ravikant, Chris Sacca, Joshua Schachter, … Continue reading “$1.2M for Optimizely”
Anthera, On a Lean Budget, Seeks to Tap Big Heart Attack Market By Blocking Inflammation
Big Pharma giants are gathering in Chicago this week to wine and dine doctors at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, hoping docs will keep prescribing their multi-billion dollar heart drugs. Not many little biotechs can compete in this league, but Hayward, CA-based Anthera Pharmaceuticals is hoping to lay some groundwork for a new drug … Continue reading “Anthera, On a Lean Budget, Seeks to Tap Big Heart Attack Market By Blocking Inflammation”
PayNearMe Lands $16,000,000 Series C Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5d606d5d-e08f-4eef-935f-3a961aae2f72&Preview=1 Date 11/16/2010 Company Name PayNearMe Mailing Address 100 View Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description PayNearMe enables consumers to pay conveniently with cash for a wide variety of goods and services from leading companies in e-commerce, direct response and catalog marketing, consumer finance and beyond at a local store, starting … Continue reading “PayNearMe Lands $16,000,000 Series C Financing”
BlackArrow Receives New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1b2c8baa-ac96-449f-b46e-56215dfa1195&Preview=1 Date 11/16/2010 Company Name BlackArrow Mailing Address 160 West Santa Clara Street San Mateo, CA 95113 Company Description BlackArrow was founded with the express purpose of helping programmers, agencies, and operators capitalize on the new advertising and revenue opportunities made possible by on-demand TV technologies, such as the digital video recorder, … Continue reading “BlackArrow Receives New Round”
Optimizely Receives $1,200,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=13bf5041-0665-48a0-bd62-b70e02946689&Preview=1 Date 11/16/2010 Company Name Optimizely Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description The company provides a service that allows users to perform automated A/B testing of websites. Website http://www.optimizely.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,200,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture … Continue reading “Optimizely Receives $1,200,000 New Funding Round”
Virident Systems Garners Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=54c11996-9cc9-43b4-a421-ce793db7ea8f&Preview=1 Date 11/16/2010 Company Name Virident Systems Mailing Address 500 Yosemite Drive Milpitas, CA 95035-5444 Company Description The company is developing computer component systems. Website http://www.virident.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes The funding will be used to accelerate Virident’s solid-state storage solutions and scale … Continue reading “Virident Systems Garners Series B Funding”
Yummly Secures $1,850,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=62631fc2-9115-480b-b5a6-244746226dc3&Preview=1 Date 11/16/2010 Company Name Yummly Mailing Address 2317 Broadway St. Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description Yummly is pioneering semantic search and recommendations for food. Its robust platform empowers people to search for and discover recipes based on their personal tastes and preferences, and offers a comprehensive database of more than … Continue reading “Yummly Secures $1,850,000 New Financing”
Yummly Garners New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e879ac90-d175-46e3-8bed-97f75d2591ff&Preview=1 Date 11/16/2010 Company Name Yummly Mailing Address 2317 Broadway St. Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description Yummly is pioneering semantic search and recommendations for food. Its robust platform empowers people to search for and discover recipes based on their personal tastes and preferences, and offers a comprehensive database of more than … Continue reading “Yummly Garners New Funding Round”
YuMe Receives New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ee8832c5-1f59-4f45-a0a4-ae69cdfd1c39&Preview=1 Date 11/16/2010 Company Name YuMe Mailing Address 1204 Middlefield Dr. Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description YuMe is the first dedicated broadband video advertising network built from the ground up that offers a brand safe advertising experience that can be delivered to any device – PC, TV, mobile and more – … Continue reading “YuMe Receives New Financing”
YuMe Obtains New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b5bcd600-a1f8-48bc-96b2-d0936b6a6f5f&Preview=1 Date 11/16/2010 Company Name YuMe Mailing Address 1204 Middlefield Dr. Redwood City, CA 94063 Company Description YuMe is the first dedicated broadband video advertising network built from the ground up that offers a brand safe advertising experience that can be delivered to any device – PC, TV, mobile and more – … Continue reading “YuMe Obtains New Financing”
Verismo Networks Garners $17,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6536ec70-52b8-46ae-9f1c-4ee7526ebe44&Preview=1 Date 11/16/2010 Company Name Verismo Networks Mailing Address 1451 Grant Road Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Verismo Networks is privately held Internet TV platform company headquartered in Mountain View, CA and with a research and design center located in Bangalore, India. Website http://www.verismonetworks.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $17,000,000 … Continue reading “Verismo Networks Garners $17,000,000 New Financing”
Report: UCSF Strikes $85M Deal With Pfizer to Develop Biotech Drugs
UC San Francisco has struck a big sponsorship deal with Pfizer, the world’s largest drugmaker, to develop innovative new biologic treatments, according to an online report from the Wall Street Journal. This deal, to be announced tomorrow, calls for Pfizer (NYSE: [[ticker:PFE]]) to pay as much as $85 million over the next five years to … Continue reading “Report: UCSF Strikes $85M Deal With Pfizer to Develop Biotech Drugs”
Coraid Raises $25M
Redwood City, CA-based Coraid, which makes scalable storage devices for businesses, said today that it has closed a $25 million round of Series C venture funding. Menlo Ventures was in the lead, and all of the company’s existing investors, including Allegis Capital and Azure Capital Partners, also participated. Menlo Ventures managing director John Jarve has … Continue reading “Coraid Raises $25M”
“Changing the Way We Start Companies”: Q&A with AngelPad’s Thomas Korte
Last week I reported on the inaugural demo day presentations from startups at San Francisco-based AngelPad, the newest of the Y Combinator-style tech incubators springing up around the country. After the presentations I had a chance to speak with Thomas Korte, one of the founders of AngelPad, about the vision behind the program, and I’ve … Continue reading ““Changing the Way We Start Companies”: Q&A with AngelPad’s Thomas Korte”
Overland’s Ordeal: Turnaround Continues as New Management Team Sets New Course, Readies New Products
Not too long ago, I got a chance to talk with Jillian Mansolf, who joined San Diego’s Overland Storage (NASDAQ: [[ticker:OVRL]]) as vice president of global sales and marketing about 18 months ago. A few days earlier, Overland had disclosed its acquisition of Sunnyvale, CA-based MaxiScale, a three-year-old data storage startup, a deal that prompted … Continue reading “Overland’s Ordeal: Turnaround Continues as New Management Team Sets New Course, Readies New Products”
GREENtrepreneurs: The Challenge & The Opportunity (Part 2)
[Editor’s Note: the first part of this guest post ran on Friday.] Governments, Law and Regulations, Oh My! One of the hallmarks of the growth of the Internet was a lack of government regulation or involvement. While not the case for all green businesses, many of the larger opportunities and business sectors look to government … Continue reading “GREENtrepreneurs: The Challenge & The Opportunity (Part 2)”
RockMelt’s New Browser, AngelPad’s 8 New Web Startups, Flowtown’s New Twitter Services, & More Bay Area BizTech News
Companies offering new takes on social media and collaboration dominated the local business and technology news last week, as they seem to be doing an increasing amount of the time. —After two years in stealth, a Mountain View, CA, startup called RockMelt began distributing a new Windows and Mac browser by the same name. In … Continue reading “RockMelt’s New Browser, AngelPad’s 8 New Web Startups, Flowtown’s New Twitter Services, & More Bay Area BizTech News”
TokBox Raises $12M Series C
TokBox, a San Francisco startup specializing in Web-based software for multi-party video calls, announced today that it has collected $12 million in a Series C funding round led by DAG Ventures. Existing investors Bain Capital Group and Sequoia Capital also participated. At the same time, the company introduced OpenTok, a new service that lets Web … Continue reading “TokBox Raises $12M Series C”
Web 2.0 Summit
O’Reilly Media’s invitation-only executive conference returns to San Francisco. From the event website: “Fifteen years and two recessions into the commercial Internet, it’s clear that our industry has moved into a competitive phase-a “middlegame” in the battle to dominate the Internet Economy. At this year’s Web 2.0 Summit, we’re focusing on these shifting points of … Continue reading “Web 2.0 Summit”
Dave Morin’s Path App—A Rebuke to Facebook?
Ex-Facebooker Dave Morin’s much-anticipated Path service has launched on the iPhone. It’s built around photo sharing, and it’s being billed as a “personal network,” with an explicit limit of 50 friends, as opposed to Facebook’s 5,000. The news went out in a note to journalists tonight from Path’s public relations representatives. Using the free Path … Continue reading “Dave Morin’s Path App—A Rebuke to Facebook?”
Houzz Obtains $2,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6e035449-4acd-46dc-b2cd-79430467f57c&Preview=1 Date 11/15/2010 Company Name Houzz Mailing Address Undisclosed Palo Alto, CA 94301 Company Description Houzz is a community and photo database for home design enthusiasts, with the largest collection of high quality home design photos available online. Website http://www.houzz.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Houzz Obtains $2,000,000 New Financing Round”
TokBox Receives $12,000,000 Series C Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7df1d03e-41d6-41cd-a9bc-e7c31749acde&Preview=1 Date 11/15/2010 Company Name TokBox Mailing Address 128 King St 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Tokbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video. Here’s how it works: you sign up and we give you a link. When you want to talk … Continue reading “TokBox Receives $12,000,000 Series C Round”
Y Combinator Adds Buchheit, Taggar as Partners
Y Combinator, the Mountain View, CA-based venture incubator, announced the addition of two partners today, the first to join its team since the outfit’s founding in 2005. They are Paul Buchheit, a former Google engineer who developed both Gmail and the original prototype of AdSense, and Auctomatic founder Harj Taggar, who has been advising Y … Continue reading “Y Combinator Adds Buchheit, Taggar as Partners”
Airbnb Reserves $7.2M
Airbnb, the San Francisco-based online and mobile marketplace for booking unusual accommodations such as rooms in private homes, said this week (PDF) that it has raised $7.2 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners. It’s the two-year-old startup’s first major cash infusion since collecting about $600,000 in seed funding from individual … Continue reading “Airbnb Reserves $7.2M”
Rhythm New Media Adds $10M
Independent mobile ad network Rhythm NewMedia said today it has closed a $10 million third round of venture funding. QuestMark Partners was the lead investor, and existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, and Rembrandt Venture Partners returned for the round. The startup said it would use the funds to expand its network of premium publishers.
RockMelt: A Great Social Browser for the Desktop, But Isn’t This the Mobile Era?
While nearly everything about the Web has changed since its emergence circa 1993—who’s using it, what types of content are available, how Web pages are constructed, how it’s all paid for—the desktop browser hasn’t. It’s still basically a big blank square that lets you navigate between Web pages, with a set of buttons and controls … Continue reading “RockMelt: A Great Social Browser for the Desktop, But Isn’t This the Mobile Era?”
Avila Therapeutics Pursuing Rival to Lung Cancer Drug in Dana-Farber Lawsuit
An experimental lung cancer drug discovered at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is currently at the center of a lawsuit involving Dana-Farber, Swiss drug giant Novartis, and Millbrae, CA-based Gatekeeper Pharmaceuticals. But while that complicated case continues to unfold, Waltham, MA-based biotech startup Avila Therapeutics is working on a similar molecule, which is designed to treat … Continue reading “Avila Therapeutics Pursuing Rival to Lung Cancer Drug in Dana-Farber Lawsuit”
Complete Genomics Goes Public, 23andMe Raises $22M, Genomic Health’s Dx Vision, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News
The stock market, and its lackluster appetite for new IPOs, was the story of the week on the biotech beat. —Complete Genomics, the Mountain View, CA-based company seeking to be a leader in the race to deliver complete human genome sequences for $1,000 or less, pulled the trigger on its initial public offering this week. … Continue reading “Complete Genomics Goes Public, 23andMe Raises $22M, Genomic Health’s Dx Vision, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News”
GREENtrepreneurs: The Challenge & the Opportunity
“So what is so special about green entrepreneurs?” This is an excellent question and was a central theme in my recently published book, Green Entrepreneur Handbook. Why is a green entrepreneur any different than any other sort of entrepreneur? Does it take a special entrepreneur with different skills to build a green business? Throughout the … Continue reading “GREENtrepreneurs: The Challenge & the Opportunity”