Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b586298d-6782-459f-8998-4da9dbdec9e2 Date 8/22/2013 Company Name InfraReDx Mailing Address 34 Third Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 Company Description The company has now developed a fiber-optic, catheter-based, near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy system designed to characterize the composition of coronary plaques in patients undergoing catheterization. This NIR system is currently being evaluated in a clinical study. … Continue reading “InfraReDx Obtains $25,000,000 New Funding Round”
Category: Boston
Apple, Samsung, or BlackBerry? A Smartphone Model for VC Strategy
[Updated 9:20pm] After many years as a boutique investment class dominated by well-known names, the venture capital business is hitting some turbulence. Average returns for the past decade-plus have been lackluster, and there have been consequences—notable investors pulling back their checkbooks, and firms that can’t make the grade shrinking or disappearing entirely. At the same … Continue reading “Apple, Samsung, or BlackBerry? A Smartphone Model for VC Strategy”
Join Us, and Boston’s “Life Science Disruptors,” on Oct. 2
If you want to be successful in biotech, incremental gains aren’t the way to go—you’ve got to shoot higher. One of Celgene’s top executives, George Golumbeski, said it best when I spoke with him recently: the company is always on the prowl for something ‘disruptive.’ Disruptive science capable of shaking up the biotech world. Disruptive … Continue reading “Join Us, and Boston’s “Life Science Disruptors,” on Oct. 2”
Axeda Lands $12,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e60e0036-dc64-4ea1-8650-0279f7400bd9 Date 8/21/2013 Company Name Axeda Mailing Address 25 Forbes Boulevard Foxboro, MA 02035 Company Description Axeda’s products and services are designed with one purpose in mind: to enable you to get the maximum results out of your remote service initiative. We work with you to understand your business goals, and then … Continue reading “Axeda Lands $12,000,000 New Round”
Green Mountain Digital Garners $3,800,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c7f57edd-0918-4bb9-b927-46f04d850345 Date 8/21/2013 Company Name Green Mountain Digital Mailing Address 16 Central Street Woodstock, VT 05091 Company Description Green Mountain Digital is an innovative digital media publisher and the mobile apps market leader in nature and wildlife. The company designs and publishes authoritative and comprehensive mobile applications that work to engage users … Continue reading “Green Mountain Digital Garners $3,800,000 Series B Financing”
Joule Unlimited Secures $50,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ebd79f6c-1aed-43c6-927c-f38f9e49626e Date 8/21/2013 Company Name Joule Unlimited Mailing Address 18 Crosby Drive Bedford, MA 01730 Company Description Joule is pioneering the production of Liquid Fuel from the Sun, surpassing today’s barriers to abundant, sustainable, cost-competitive supply. Website http://www.jouleunlimited.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $50,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes … Continue reading “Joule Unlimited Secures $50,000,000 New Funding Round”
Joule Swaps CEOs, Raises $50M More for Renewable Fuels
If there’s a high-risk, high-reward startup in town, it’s Joule Unlimited. The Bedford, MA-based company got started in 2007, has raised more than $160 million in total funding, and is trying to reinvent the fuel and chemical industries from the ground up. Or, more accurately, from the sun down. Now the company is going through … Continue reading “Joule Swaps CEOs, Raises $50M More for Renewable Fuels”
Adimab Teams Up With Celgene, Innovent, in Latest Partnership Deals
Adimab turned a corner in July when two big drugmakers agreed to license the technology surrounding its yeast-based process for discovering antibodies, and bring it in-house. While the Lebanon, NH-based company isn’t duplicating those results today, it is bringing two new names into its growing list of partners who have agreed to at least “kick … Continue reading “Adimab Teams Up With Celgene, Innovent, in Latest Partnership Deals”
Mobile Shopping Startup Snapette Snapped Up by PriceGrabber
After ping-ponging around the country on a thoroughly contemporary startup journey, mobile shopping startup Snapette has been acquired by veteran e-commerce company PriceGrabber, giving the Los Angeles-based parent company a shot of mobile-tech DNA. Terms of the deal between the two private companies were not disclosed, but it sounds like a happy enough ending for … Continue reading “Mobile Shopping Startup Snapette Snapped Up by PriceGrabber”
TraceLink Garners $500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d39f8a14-f36b-4287-a31e-3278ecb588bd Date 8/20/2013 Company Name TraceLink Mailing Address 200 Quannapowitt Parkway Wakefield, MA 01880 Company Description TraceLink protects patients, enables health, grows profits and ensures compliance for companies across the global Life Sciences network through the TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud. Website http://www.tracelink.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “TraceLink Garners $500,000 New Funding”
NewForma Receives $5,100,000 Series D Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5eb11e50-4697-4b51-9709-6c0cb84b708f Date 8/20/2013 Company Name NewForma Mailing Address 1750 Elm Street 10th Floor Manchester, NH 03104 Company Description Newforma Project Center project collaboration software makes managing the architectural and engineering building process easier. Website http://www.newforma.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,100,000 Transaction Round Series D Proceeds Purposes Proceeds will be used … Continue reading “NewForma Receives $5,100,000 Series D Funding Round”
Industry, Vioby, & Voice Dream: Three Mobile Entrepreneur Stories
Mobile technology is becoming a redundant term—almost everything is mobile these days—but the classification is still useful. It helps organize trends and themes that otherwise cut across swaths of different industries. Consider the wide range of mobile entrepreneurs in the Boston area. There are well-established mini-clusters around mobile advertising, marketing, and enterprise apps. There’s a … Continue reading “Industry, Vioby, & Voice Dream: Three Mobile Entrepreneur Stories”
Who Should Biotech Pros Follow on Twitter? An Update for 2013
[Updated: 12:07 pm PT] Twitter is where the biotech industry comes to trade news, analysis, and gossip every day. This has been true for a couple years. The 140-character blogging platform just keeps gaining strength every day as more people join, more people figure out how they can contribute in a meaningful way, and more … Continue reading “Who Should Biotech Pros Follow on Twitter? An Update for 2013”
ShopAdvisor Receives $4,958,539 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=50d142ee-ab99-4ae1-9797-8488c5687050 Date 8/19/2013 Company Name ShopAdvisor Mailing Address 9 Damon Mill Square Concord, MA 01742 Company Description The ShopAdvisor deferred purchasing platform generates revenue for media publishers, bloggers, retailers & brands by helping consumers remember and follow through on their shopping interests when the time is right. Website http://www.shopadvisor.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “ShopAdvisor Receives $4,958,539 New Financing”
GoDaddy Acquires Locu for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8c2aa0de-ae3c-436b-81a0-781f5e284c0d Date 8/19/2013 Company Name Locu Mailing Address Undisclosed Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description Founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers, Locu is creating the world’s largest semantically-annotated repository of real-time small-business data. We are excited to have the support and backing from a group of acclaimed angel investors and early-stage … Continue reading “GoDaddy Acquires Locu for Undisclosed Sum”
ShopAdvisor Receives $5,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=50d142ee-ab99-4ae1-9797-8488c5687050 Date 8/19/2013 Company Name ShopAdvisor Mailing Address 9 Damon Mill Square Concord, MA 01742 Company Description The ShopAdvisor deferred purchasing platform generates revenue for media publishers, bloggers, retailers & brands by helping consumers remember and follow through on their shopping interests when the time is right. Website http://www.shopadvisor.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “ShopAdvisor Receives $5,000,000 New Financing”
Benu Networks Garners $5,030,248 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4fad750d-94fa-4438-9d69-fe8d8e76e0b3 Date 8/19/2013 Company Name Benu Networks Mailing Address 300 Concord Road Billerica, MA 01821 Company Description Benu Networks is a Boston Area Startup Company focused on delivering next generation Networking and Wireless Communication products. Website http://www.benunets.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,030,248 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were … Continue reading “Benu Networks Garners $5,030,248 New Funding”
Boston Deals: ShopAdvisor, Evolv, Christensen, CareCloud
A few startups—some more secretive than others—and a notable business professor’s private investment fund are in this roundup of deal news to round out your week: —ShopAdvisor, which adds e-commerce functions to publishers’ digital ads, has raised about $5 million in venture funding. The Maynard, MA-based company, which had previously raised about $2 million, said last year … Continue reading “Boston Deals: ShopAdvisor, Evolv, Christensen, CareCloud”
EmTech 2013
The conference on emerging technologies that matter, organized by MIT Technology Review. EmTech MIT is where technology, business, and culture converge. It’s the showcase for emerging technologies with the greatest potential to change our lives. It’s an access point to the most innovative people and companies in the world. Most of all, it is a … Continue reading “EmTech 2013”
Biotech VCs, Stung by Startup Returns, Elbow into Royalty Financing
The new landscape for venture capital investing does not seem to leave much room for classic company formation. Investor after investor has shut down or moved beyond startups into what seem like greener pastures. So it should come as no surprise that at least a few VC firms are now expanding into the royalty space, … Continue reading “Biotech VCs, Stung by Startup Returns, Elbow into Royalty Financing”
East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: Epizyme, Rodin, Ophthotech, & More
The action-packed summer in biotech slowed down a bit on the East Coast this week, but we’ve still got all your required biotech reading—including the real key to pulling off a successful IPO—below: —Cambridge, MA-based Epizyme (NASDAQ: [[ticker:EPZM]]) could’ve ended up as acquisition fodder for Big Pharma, but instead it inked a partnership with Summit, … Continue reading “East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: Epizyme, Rodin, Ophthotech, & More”
High-Speed Rail or Hyperloop? Let’s Try Both, and Reward the Winner
It’s been a bumpy week for high-speed rail advocates in California. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times published a story saying that groundbreaking on the first section of the “bullet train” route linking L.A. and San Francisco will likely slip into 2014—more than two years behind schedule. Then on Monday, aerospace and automotive mogul Elon … Continue reading “High-Speed Rail or Hyperloop? Let’s Try Both, and Reward the Winner”
Agero, Pride of Medford, Sells Texas Business to SiriusXM for $530M
An interesting automotive deal today involves people and companies in at least three states. Medford, MA-based Agero is selling off its connected-vehicle business, based mostly in Irving, TX, to radio broadcaster Sirius XM, based in New York City. The price tag is $530 million in cash, and the deal is expected to close in the … Continue reading “Agero, Pride of Medford, Sells Texas Business to SiriusXM for $530M”
IBM Back on the Prowl in MA, Snaps Up Trusteer in Security
IBM is making a major new investment in cybersecurity, involving a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based startup. Big Blue (NYSE: [[ticker:IBM]]) said today it is acquiring Trusteer, a software company that specializes in protecting organizations against data breaches and financial fraud. Terms of the deal weren’t given, although one report (sourced from Israel) pegs the price … Continue reading “IBM Back on the Prowl in MA, Snaps Up Trusteer in Security”
Epizyme Execs Share the Secret to a Successful IPO: PowerBars
The IPO that set the biotech world afire hit the Nasdaq in May, but it really began way back in April 2012. Cambridge, MA-based Epizyme (NASDAQ: [[ticker:EPZM]]) had already spent five years building itself brick by brick when it faced the decision that looms for every startup biotech: whether to groom itself for a sale … Continue reading “Epizyme Execs Share the Secret to a Successful IPO: PowerBars”
Drync Receives $900,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=671363e4-2be4-446e-ab3e-1062803b47e8 Date 8/15/2013 Company Name Drync Mailing Address 37 Larchwood Dr Cambridge, MA 02138 Company Description Drync is a Boston-based mobile software application that enables consumers to purchase wine at the moment it is most relevant to them – while they are drinking it. Website http://www.drync.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Drync Receives $900,000 New Funding Round”
Zypsee Obtains $1,410,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f977d2d0-a0ee-488f-b40c-f8a8b5ae506b Date 8/15/2013 Company Name Zypsee Mailing Address 55 Gurley Rd Stamford, CT 06902 Company Description The Zypsee signal on the main screen instantly informs you how likely it is to find a driver nearby your current location. The more cars nearby the stronger the signal. Please make sure your location services … Continue reading “Zypsee Obtains $1,410,000 New Financing”
IBM Acquires Trusteer for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=10200d4e-dcd3-4488-9d6b-83df767568db Date 8/15/2013 Company Name Trusteer Mailing Address 545 Boylston Street 5th Floor Boston, MA 02116 Company Description Trusteer is a privately held corporation founded by senior Internet security industry executives with specific expertise in enterprise and consumer desktop security. Trusteer is well financed by private investors including the information security veterans … Continue reading “IBM Acquires Trusteer for Undisclosed Sum”
Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit 2013
The Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit will provide insights from top industry experts, private equity and venture capital investors, corporations, healthcare IT innovators, and government officials. Information and registration details here. This event will provide a strategic understanding of the healthcare market and opportunities to drive change and create value for all healthcare constituencies through the … Continue reading “Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit 2013”
Sage Taps Former Shire Exec to Lead CNS Drugs Into Clinical Trials
Third Rock Ventures has spent close to two years refining the strategy for startup Sage Therapeutics. Now it’s found the management team to execute it. Cambridge, MA-based Sage announced today that Jeffrey Jonas, the former head of Shire’s (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SHPG]]) regenerative medicine unit, has been named its new CEO, taking over for Kevin Starr, the … Continue reading “Sage Taps Former Shire Exec to Lead CNS Drugs Into Clinical Trials”
New State “Technology Tax” Is Really a Tax on Innovation
Over the course of its history, Massachusetts has been regarded as a hub of innovation and a leader in developing new technologies that improve the quality of life for people around the globe. Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, and Amar Bose are three giants of innovation with Massachusetts roots whose brilliance and technological advancements shaped … Continue reading “New State “Technology Tax” Is Really a Tax on Innovation”
Survey: VCs Less Confident in Global Markets, Look to Home Turf
Private-market investors tend to be an optimistic bunch, at least in public—it comes with the territory when you’re betting on unknown or unproven companies and their founders. But a new survey of market confidence from the National Venture Capital Association shows a pretty dour outlook in several cases from VC, private equity, and growth equity … Continue reading “Survey: VCs Less Confident in Global Markets, Look to Home Turf”
VGo Communications Receives $3,691,806 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bdd4f139-367c-40e9-9d73-7980203a92f4 Date 8/14/2013 Company Name VGo Communications Mailing Address 100 Innovative Way Nashua, NH 03062 Company Description VGo Communications, Inc. develops and markets visual communications solutions for the workplace. Website http://www.vgocom.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,691,806 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. Not … Continue reading “VGo Communications Receives $3,691,806 New Financing Round”
Wanderu Obtains $2,450,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=06d9f91c-8a1f-4b16-b37a-851896e9f975 Date 8/14/2013 Company Name Wanderu Mailing Address 8 St. Mary St Boston, MA 02215 Company Description Wanderu makes it effortless for you to find and book inter-city buses and trains between any two points in the Northeast. We are expanding quickly and will be offering cheap bus tickets throughout the country … Continue reading “Wanderu Obtains $2,450,000 New Round”
Dashbell Secures $723,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1b0f60b0-8eae-414b-9df5-e5c118d8f7f8 Date 8/14/2013 Company Name Dashbell Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center 6th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Dashbell was started in 2012 by an international team of experienced travel entrepreneurs. Based in Boston, Bogota and around the world, we have spent years working on products in online travel and accommodations. Dashbell … Continue reading “Dashbell Secures $723,000 New Funding”
Millennial Media Acquires JumpTap for $225,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4d3abd1e-254f-4a26-8fb1-7e76a66469ae Date 8/14/2013 Company Name JumpTap Mailing Address 155 Seaport Boulevard 8th Floor Boston, MA 02210 Company Description JumpTap, Inc. provides wireless carriers with an end-to-end, carrier-branded mobile search solution that drives third-party revenue for mobile operators while providing a quick, easy and fun mobile search experience for subscribers. Website http://www.jumptap.com Transaction … Continue reading “Millennial Media Acquires JumpTap for $225,000,000”
End of an Era: Jumptap Bought by Millennial Media for $200M+
Call them the Big Five, and please fill in the blank: Third Screen Media, Enpocket, Quattro Wireless, Where, …? The fifth spot belongs to Jumptap, the Boston-based mobile advertising company that is being acquired by rival Millennial Media (NYSE: [[ticker:MM]]), based in Baltimore. Those four previous Boston-area mobile-ad companies were acquired in the past several … Continue reading “End of an Era: Jumptap Bought by Millennial Media for $200M+”
Xconomy Xchange: Boston’s Life Science Disruptors
Every life sciences startup aims to shake up and challenge the status quo. But what Boston companies are taking the most radical approaches and seem poised to become the biggest disruptors? What are their goals, what is their approach to building a great biotech company, and how are the founders working with their leading venture … Continue reading “Xconomy Xchange: Boston’s Life Science Disruptors”
Boston Roundup: PerkStreet, Extreme Reach, DraftKings, Aquaback
[Updated 9:55 am with last item] A startup shutdown, an ad-tech merger, and some fundraising news to catch up on around the Boston area: —PerkStreet Financial, a banking startup that gave customers cash back and shopping discounts for using debit cards, is shutting down. In a message posted on the company’s website, PerkStreet says it … Continue reading “Boston Roundup: PerkStreet, Extreme Reach, DraftKings, Aquaback”
Arsanis Secures $12,999,999 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=01fa6721-91bc-4f8b-b590-9669b0cb4482 Date 8/13/2013 Company Name Arsanis Mailing Address 16 Cavendish Court Lebanon, NH 03766 Company Description Arsanis is committed to the development of fully human monoclonal antibodies against severe infectious diseases for which current prophylactic or therapeutic approaches are ineffective or non-existent. Website http://www.arsanis.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $12,999,999 Transaction … Continue reading “Arsanis Secures $12,999,999 New Funding”
Buoyed by Partnerships, Bind Therapeutics Floats $80.5M IPO Plan
(Updated, 2/7/14, 12:39 pm ET) Bind Therapeutics started off its 2013 with a flurry of big partnerships and a name change designed to show it’s serious about making its own drugs. Now it’s trying to cap it off by joining the parade of biotech companies lining up for the public markets. The Cambridge, MA-based company … Continue reading “Buoyed by Partnerships, Bind Therapeutics Floats $80.5M IPO Plan”
Wanderu: The Next Big Travel Company? $2.45M Says Yes
The Boston area has a rich tradition of Internet travel companies. But the future is uncertain. Who will follow in the huge footsteps of ITA Software (now part of Google), Kayak (acquired by Priceline, with an engineering team near Boston), and TripAdvisor (independent again, and now one of the East Coast’s biggest Web companies)? Could … Continue reading “Wanderu: The Next Big Travel Company? $2.45M Says Yes”
Atlas Startup, Rodin, Hopes to Rewire Neurons to Improve Memory
Epigenetics isn’t new. But so far, the growing scientific understanding of gene regulation has largely been used to make cancer drugs. What if you could use the same concept to reprogram neurons to combat neurological disorders? This is the plan that Atlas Venture has shaped for its new startup, Rodin Therapeutics. Named after Auguste Rodin, … Continue reading “Atlas Startup, Rodin, Hopes to Rewire Neurons to Improve Memory”
Six Reasons Why Giving Scientists Big Bonuses Won’t Fix Pharma R&D
Scientists in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry are an underappreciated bunch. They make decent salaries, but nowhere near the big bucks that go to their bosses. Even when an industry scientist discovers a new drug that helps people and makes billions, he or she almost never gets publicly recognized. They live mostly anonymous middle class … Continue reading “Six Reasons Why Giving Scientists Big Bonuses Won’t Fix Pharma R&D”
Cignifi Garners $150,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=76c83c63-b5a7-441b-adb2-82dacb9ecf8e Date 8/12/2013 Company Name Cignifi Mailing Address 245 First Street Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Cignifi is revolutionizing the way financial service companies meet the needs of 2.7 billion people worldwide with a mobile phone but no access to formal financial services. The company has developed the first proven analytic platform … Continue reading “Cignifi Garners $150,000 New Funding Round”
GreenLight Biosciences Lands $7,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e019e8e1-5716-4c73-9431-dc38fc0d3146 Date 8/12/2013 Company Name GreenLight Biosciences Mailing Address 196 Boston Avenue Medford, MA 02155 Company Description GreenLight Biosciences is a privately-held biotechnology company focused on sustainable production of chemicals and fuels using its Unconstrained Metabolism technology platform. This revolutionary technology enables the biological conversion of economical, renewable substrates to valuable products … Continue reading “GreenLight Biosciences Lands $7,000,000 New Financing Round”
Logicbroker Obtains $1,600,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dfc7bad9-9f78-45bf-a184-029f81e0a112 Date 8/10/2013 Company Name Logicbroker Mailing Address 1000 Bridgeport Avenue Shelton, CT 06484 Company Description Logicbroker resources have 10-20 years of experience each building and deploying supply chain management tools in the eCommerce domain. Our experience spans the full suite of web stores, back-end ERP systems, intranet, and business intelligence/data warehousing. … Continue reading “Logicbroker Obtains $1,600,000 Series A Financing”
The Geek Doesn’t Always Get the Girl: A Novelist on Hacking Romance
In today’s Silicon Valley, the hacker wunderkinds are ascendant. Boy-kings are running billion-member social networks, founding massive new venture capital firms, building incubators that churn out hundreds of new startups every year, and even fighting poverty and disease by drilling for water in Ethiopia. Materially, at least, their revenge on whatever high-school cliques once excluded … Continue reading “The Geek Doesn’t Always Get the Girl: A Novelist on Hacking Romance”
East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: KiiLN, Celgene, Acceleron, & More
[Updated, 11:26 a.m. ET] The New York metropolitan area, for a change, dominated the landscape of life sciences news coming out of the East Coast. This week, big plans for Manhattan startup incubators were unveiled, a new healthcare IT company got its sea legs, and one of biotech’s savviest dealmakers continued doing what it does … Continue reading “East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: KiiLN, Celgene, Acceleron, & More”
In Memoriam: Duane Roth Was a Driving Force in Our Innovation Economy
Duane Roth was a very special person to me and to the San Diego life sciences community. After he took over as the CEO of Connect at the end of 2004, he took on a larger role for the entire technology community—or as Duane would call it, the “Innovation Economy.” For Duane, San Diego has … Continue reading “In Memoriam: Duane Roth Was a Driving Force in Our Innovation Economy”