Sometimes the innovation community can be a tough insider’s club. If you’re a biotech startup, you’re only real when Merck/Pfizer/Novartis/Glaxo/Roche or some big VC like Kleiner Perkins bets cash that says you might be real. So sometimes a potentially groundbreaking idea has to find some other way to get critical support. That’s what San Francisco-based … Continue reading “Jennerex, Charging Ahead With Tumor-Killing Virus, Follows Biotech Road Less Traveled”
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Anchor Therapeutics Hooks Deal Worth Up to $480M with J&J
Anchor Therapeutics has landed its largest corporate partnership yet. The Cambridge, MA-based biotech startup has secured a partnership that could be worth up to $480 million with Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, part of the healthcare products giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: [[ticker:JNJ]]). Ortho-McNeil-Janssen, based in Titusville, NJ, has agreed to pay Anchor an undisclosed upfront fee, provide … Continue reading “Anchor Therapeutics Hooks Deal Worth Up to $480M with J&J”
San Diego Business Analytics Startup Anametrix, Launched by WebSideStory Founder Blaise Barrelet, Raises $1.15M
San Diego-based Anametrix, the developer of cloud-based analytics technology for business customers, has raised $1.15 million of an intended $2.3 million round from private investors, according to a recent regulatory filing. Anametrix, founded last year, is bringing together some iconic figures from San Diego’s dot-com boom of the 1990s—beginning with Blaise Barrelet, the startup’s founding … Continue reading “San Diego Business Analytics Startup Anametrix, Launched by WebSideStory Founder Blaise Barrelet, Raises $1.15M”
ZymoGenetics Reaches the End, Stratos Genomics Nabs $4M, Children’s New Ventilator, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News
One huge story hit Seattle biotech this week. I got all the usual “who, what, when, where” in the initial reports. But I’m still thinking hard about the nuances of why this happened, and what will come next. Stay tuned. —The big news, of course, came when Bristol-Myers Squibb said it has agreed to acquire … Continue reading “ZymoGenetics Reaches the End, Stratos Genomics Nabs $4M, Children’s New Ventilator, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News”
CityVoter Gears Up for “Best Of” Voting Push, Looks to Cash In on Daily Deals and Rewards
It’s good to know that the dive bar around the corner from where I used to live for seven-plus years has spawned at least one intriguing tech startup. The bar is Joe Sent Me on Mass. Ave. in North Cambridge, MA—and it’s not a dive anymore (hasn’t been for years). The startup is CityVoter, which … Continue reading “CityVoter Gears Up for “Best Of” Voting Push, Looks to Cash In on Daily Deals and Rewards”
Livescribe Gets $39 Million to Prove the Power of the Smart Pen
Smart pens, which can record handwritten notes and drawings and transfer them to a computer for storage, searching, and sharing, have never exactly written their own ticket. The technology behind the devices was first developed in the late 1990s by Swedish firm Anoto Group, and has since been licensed to more than 250 companies around … Continue reading “Livescribe Gets $39 Million to Prove the Power of the Smart Pen”
Intersect Rolls Out Online Storytelling Platform, Using Time, Place to Create Personal ‘Storylines’
It’s safe to say that the face of the media has gone through some major changes recently—with the onset of blogging and digital media, practically anyone with a camera phone and sharp texting skills can become a citizen journalist. Even the oldest names in traditional media are going social, with many publications signing up for … Continue reading “Intersect Rolls Out Online Storytelling Platform, Using Time, Place to Create Personal ‘Storylines’”
Helicopter Lasers, Health Record Exchange, and Rick Snyder’s Past—A Michigan Roundup
There has been a smattering of innovation news from around the state this week: —University of Michigan researchers are developing a laser-based system to protect military helicopters from heat-seeking missiles by jamming their sensors, according to a report in Gizmag. Mohammed Islam, a U-M professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is leading the research … Continue reading “Helicopter Lasers, Health Record Exchange, and Rick Snyder’s Past—A Michigan Roundup”
Software Veteran John Mutch Moves IT Security Specialist BeyondTrust to San Diego, on Path to Build “Freemium” Business Model
When Agoura Hills, CA-based Symark acquired Portsmouth, NH-based BeyondTrust for a little over $20 million a year ago, the deal was viewed as a complementary combination of similar IT security technologies for fundamentally different markets. BeyondTrust specialized in providing IT security for Windows-based networks by managing the access privileges granted to both system administrators and … Continue reading “Software Veteran John Mutch Moves IT Security Specialist BeyondTrust to San Diego, on Path to Build “Freemium” Business Model”
Rhythm Boosts Series A Round to $40M, Adds Third Rock Ventures to List of Backers
There’s new scientific and financial power behind the Boston biotech startup Rhythm Pharmaceuticals. Third Rock Ventures has joined as the company’s latest investor to help close its $40 million Series A funding round, and Third Rock partner Lou Tartaglia has joined the startup as a director and its chief scientist. Rhythm, a developer of peptide … Continue reading “Rhythm Boosts Series A Round to $40M, Adds Third Rock Ventures to List of Backers”
iPierian Nabs $28M, With New Backing From Glaxo and Biogen Idec, To Use Stem Cells for Drug Discovery
One of the Bay Area’s promising stem cell startups just got a big shot of cash from a couple of major pharmaceutical players in Boston. South San Francisco-based iPierian is announcing today it has secured a full $28 million in its Series B venture round, which includes GlaxoSmithKline’s SR One venture arm, along with Biogen … Continue reading “iPierian Nabs $28M, With New Backing From Glaxo and Biogen Idec, To Use Stem Cells for Drug Discovery”
Shiftboard Emerges From Eight-Year Stealth, Sees ‘Triple Digit’ Growth in Online Scheduling
Shiftboard has managed to stay under the radar for quite some time, despite a slew of big name clients, but that is starting to change. The Seattle-based scheduling and dynamic workforce management software developer, founded in 2002, has started to come out of stealth mode, so I figured it was time to sit down with … Continue reading “Shiftboard Emerges From Eight-Year Stealth, Sees ‘Triple Digit’ Growth in Online Scheduling”
Reality Show Project Seeks to Capture MassChallenge Competitors in Their Entrepreneurial Element
Pick an activity, an industry, or a social phenomenon and there’s probably a reality show about it, from fashion design to wilderness survival to the nightlife of 20-somethings in shore towns. But Warren Anderson, a local entrepreneur and Harvard Extension School master’s student, can name one area that he says hasn’t been depicted by the … Continue reading “Reality Show Project Seeks to Capture MassChallenge Competitors in Their Entrepreneurial Element”
Onyx Pockets $59M Upfront From Japanese Partner, to Market Myeloma Drugs
Onyx Pharmaceuticals has found a new partner to help sell its lead drug candidate for multiple myeloma in Japan, less than two months after it unveiled some promising clinical trial results. The Emeryville, CA-based developer of cancer drugs (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ONXX]]) is announcing today that it has struck a new partnership with Japan-based Ono Pharmaceutical, in … Continue reading “Onyx Pockets $59M Upfront From Japanese Partner, to Market Myeloma Drugs”
Take Home an Open Source Robot from Willow Garage for $400,000
Menlo Park, CA-based Willow Garage is one of a growing number of companies producing robots meant to navigate everyday human environments rather than factory floors or the surfaces of distant planets. As the New York Times described in an article last week, for example, early testers at the Mozilla Corporation are using the company’s Texai robot, which … Continue reading “Take Home an Open Source Robot from Willow Garage for $400,000”
VMware Makes Two Acquisitions, Mascoma Picks Up SunOpta Unit, Vela Gets $6M, & More Boston-Area Deals News
The holiday weekend hasn’t seemed to slow down deal-making in New England. We’ve seen acquisitions, funding rounds, and even an IPO registration for companies in the life sciences, software, and energy spaces. —Drugmaker giant Pfizer said it had agreed to purchase FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge, MA-based developer of drugs for rare diseases like the neurodegenerative … Continue reading “VMware Makes Two Acquisitions, Mascoma Picks Up SunOpta Unit, Vela Gets $6M, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
ZymoGenetics Reaches End of Road in Seattle, Faces Uncertain Future, Potential Job Cuts
[Updated: 5:12 pm Pacific, 9/7/10] ZymoGenetics, the company that once aspired to replace Immunex as the anchor company of Seattle’s biotech cluster, has reached the end of its road as an independent company. Many of its 320 employees could potentially lose their jobs as part of a takeover agreement reached with Bristol-Myers Squibb. The companies … Continue reading “ZymoGenetics Reaches End of Road in Seattle, Faces Uncertain Future, Potential Job Cuts”
ZymoGenetics, Seattle Biotech Pioneer, Acquired by Bristol-Myers for $885M
Big breaking news just hit the Seattle biotech community. Seattle-based ZymoGenetics, a pioneer in the Northwest life sciences cluster that was founded back in 1981, has agreed to be acquired by pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb for $885 million. The deal, approved by the boards of both companies, values ZymoGenetics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ZGEN]]) at $9.75 per share—a … Continue reading “ZymoGenetics, Seattle Biotech Pioneer, Acquired by Bristol-Myers for $885M”
Vertex Nails Third Big Trial With Hepatitis C Drug, In Toughest Patients to Treat
Vertex Pharmaceuticals stepped up to the plate this year with three big swings for the fence, and it can now say it has gone 3-for-3. The Cambridge, MA-based biotech company (NASDAQ: [[ticker:VRTX]]), which has significant operations in San Diego, is announcing today that a combination of standard treatment and its novel drug for hepatitis C … Continue reading “Vertex Nails Third Big Trial With Hepatitis C Drug, In Toughest Patients to Treat”
Stratos Genomics Raises $4M, Pushes Ahead in Competitive Field of Low-Cost DNA Sequencing
Stratos Genomics, a Seattle-based developer of low-cost gene sequencing technology, said today it has raised $4 million in a Series A round of venture financing. The deal was led by Fisk Ventures, and included Stratos Group LLC. While the amount of investment isn’t huge, the fact that Stratos raised the cash is interesting on its … Continue reading “Stratos Genomics Raises $4M, Pushes Ahead in Competitive Field of Low-Cost DNA Sequencing”
Plexxikon Shows How New Drug Hits Molecular Target for Deadly Skin Cancer
Plexxikon has just landed a one-two punch in a couple of the world’s top medical and scientific journals. Just a couple weeks after the Berkeley, CA-based biotech company delivered some eye-opening results in the New England Journal of Medicine on its drug candidate for a deadly type of skin cancer, it is following that up … Continue reading “Plexxikon Shows How New Drug Hits Molecular Target for Deadly Skin Cancer”
San Diego’s Zogenix Files for $90M IPO to Expand Development of Needle-Free Injector and Pain Drugs
San Diego-based Zogenix, which markets a needle-free injector for treating migraines, intends to raise $90 million through an initial public stock offering, according to a recent regulatory filing. The biotech startup, which I profiled last month, has also been developing compounds for treating pain and central nervous system disorders, and plans to pair each new … Continue reading “San Diego’s Zogenix Files for $90M IPO to Expand Development of Needle-Free Injector and Pain Drugs”
Healthcare Industry Concepts Rise from the Grave
There was a great article authored by Gregory Huang and posted on Xconomy last week called Party Like It’s 1999: 10 Old Tech Ideas That Are New Again. The article was basically about the top 10 things that are hot right now but are, essentially, “back to the future” developments in technology that had a … Continue reading “Healthcare Industry Concepts Rise from the Grave”
Back from Labor Day: Three Posts You Should Read
Was there a summer slowdown this year in the tech-business world? I’m not so sure (and neither are some other observers). In any case, let’s get ready for the craziness that is fall news and events in our industries. Here are three blog posts from around the Web—and around the country—that you might have missed … Continue reading “Back from Labor Day: Three Posts You Should Read”
Cerus, With Technology to Knock Out Viruses in Blood, Finds New Potential in Chronic Fatigue
Cerus has struggled for years to convince regulators that its technology for ridding the nation’s blood supply of pathogens deserves a chance on the U.S. market. Now the Concord, CA-based biotech company is pinning some renewed hope for its business on a study that says it can wipe out a newly discovered virus that some … Continue reading “Cerus, With Technology to Knock Out Viruses in Blood, Finds New Potential in Chronic Fatigue”
Eset Expands Smartphone Security, Qualcomm’s Firethorn Offers Swagg, Proximetry Focuses on Private Wireless Networks, & More San Diego BizTech News
Is Swagg something you’d want—or not want—on your smartphone? If you don’t know, you better catch up on what Qualcomm’s Firethorn has planned for the upcoming holidays, along with the rest of last week’s tech news. —Privately held Eset, which develops computer security and anti-virus software, released a new security product for mobile devices using … Continue reading “Eset Expands Smartphone Security, Qualcomm’s Firethorn Offers Swagg, Proximetry Focuses on Private Wireless Networks, & More San Diego BizTech News”
Bioinformatics Education Should Start in High School
The Puget Sound region is home to more than 175 biotechnology institutions. These facilities have many of the brightest minds focused on improving health here and around the world. As a high school science teacher, one of my aims is to excite students about rapidly growing and rewarding career pathways. Those who excel in the … Continue reading “Bioinformatics Education Should Start in High School”
Worry About Customers, Not Financing or Exits, Says Angel Investor Joe Caruso
It’s been three months since Angel Boot Camp in Cambridge, MA—a seminal event in the local ecosystem of angel investors and entrepreneurs. I’m curious to follow up on what progress has been made since that meeting, so I’ve been getting to know some of the local angel investors in technology who were there, and/or who … Continue reading “Worry About Customers, Not Financing or Exits, Says Angel Investor Joe Caruso”
DigitalScirocco Inks Deal with US Presswire, Plans Expansion into Tech Content Space
Bruce D’Ambrosio wants to make online content sharing easy. Eager to bridge the gap between content owners, and publishers, the 63-year-old serial entrepreneur and computer science professor at Oregon State University founded DigitalScirocco in 2009, and rolled the startup out of stealth mode in March. Since then D’Ambrosio, who serves as the company’s CEO, says … Continue reading “DigitalScirocco Inks Deal with US Presswire, Plans Expansion into Tech Content Space”
Google Goes for Games with SocialDeck, Apple Goes Social with iTunes, 3Par Goes to the Highest Bidder, & More Bay Area BizTech News
Three Silicon Valley standbys—HP, Apple, and Google—captured most of the tech news headlines last week. But VMware and Intel were busy too. —Hewlett-Packard won its bidding war with Dell for Fremont, CA-based 3Par. The final price: $33 per share, or about $2.35 billion, more than twice Dell’s original offer. —SocialDeck, a Waterloo, Ontario-based maker of … Continue reading “Google Goes for Games with SocialDeck, Apple Goes Social with iTunes, 3Par Goes to the Highest Bidder, & More Bay Area BizTech News”
Apptio Nabs $16.5M, Zillow Partners With Apartments.com, MOD Systems Raises $6M More Despite Executive Controversy, & More Seattle-Area Deals News
As summer draws to an end, the deals seem to be trickling back in. Take a look at the highlights from the past week. —Bellevue, WA-based technology business management developer Apptio raked in $16.5 million in Series C financing led by continuing investor Shasta Ventures. The four-year-old company, which designs software to help businesses manage … Continue reading “Apptio Nabs $16.5M, Zillow Partners With Apartments.com, MOD Systems Raises $6M More Despite Executive Controversy, & More Seattle-Area Deals News”
Michigan’s Renaissance “Fund of Funds” Closes at Nearly $50M, Ready to Make Connections Between VCs and Entrepreneurs
To Chris Rizik, one of the best things about yesterday’s announced final close of nearly $50 million in investment funds for the Renaissance Venture Capital Fund is that the money comes with no government strings attached. “There’s not one government dollar in this,” says Rizik, CEO of the Detroit and Ann Arbor, MI-based “fund of … Continue reading “Michigan’s Renaissance “Fund of Funds” Closes at Nearly $50M, Ready to Make Connections Between VCs and Entrepreneurs”
Cerulean Pharma Makes Progress in Attacking the Big C with Tiny Drugs
Cerulean Pharma has made lots of progress since its early days in 2007 when I first visited the biotech startup, then called Tempo Pharmaceuticals, and company chairman Alan Crane broke out his laptop to show me an animation of the newly hatched firm’s nanoparticle drugs congregating inside tumors and killing them. The Cambridge, MA-based startup, … Continue reading “Cerulean Pharma Makes Progress in Attacking the Big C with Tiny Drugs”
Wetpaint Rolls Out New Platform to ‘Reinvent Publishing,’ Wetpaint Entertainment
Wetpaint has long been considered one of the Northwest’s top young tech startups. The Seattle-based company, founded in 2005, has raised $40 million from venture capitalists, including one who backed Facebook. Wetpaint has been heralded by Jude O’Reilley (then at online-health startup Trusera, now at Amazon) as “stars in the consumer wiki space,” and a … Continue reading “Wetpaint Rolls Out New Platform to ‘Reinvent Publishing,’ Wetpaint Entertainment”
Gaming Away Labor Day: The Top 10 Sessions at PAX 2010
For many Seattleites, Labor Day weekend is a time to take refuge in the outdoors. Some 50,000 people will spend the holiday weekend wandering around the Seattle Center grounds listening to live music, cooling off in the International fountain, and filling up on $5 elephant ears (for those of you who’ve missed the phenomenon, these … Continue reading “Gaming Away Labor Day: The Top 10 Sessions at PAX 2010”
Qualcomm’s Firethorn Begins Rollout of Wireless Gift Card Ahead of Holiday Season
Three years ago, San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: [[ticker:QCOM]]) paid $210 million in cash to acquire an Atlanta mobile banking startup called Firethorn Holdings. At the time, some commentaries emphasized that mobile banking in the United States was emerging at a snail’s pace. Even Firethorn founder Tripp Rackley told GigaOm last November, “It’s going to be … Continue reading “Qualcomm’s Firethorn Begins Rollout of Wireless Gift Card Ahead of Holiday Season”
MOD Systems Inks $6M Series B, Surviving Controversy Surrounding Indictment of Co-Founder Mark Phillips
Seattle-based MOD Systems, a developer of digital-media delivery systems, has had a rocky couple of years, but now it has found a new lifeline in the form of a $6 million investment. The company, which develops technologies that allow consumers to purchase digital movies, TV shows, and music, and load them onto SD cards portably … Continue reading “MOD Systems Inks $6M Series B, Surviving Controversy Surrounding Indictment of Co-Founder Mark Phillips”
The Innovation Imperative: How Corporations and Nations Can Survive the Tsunami of Global Competition and Thrive
Government leaders in Europe and North America are seeking to formulate enlightened, effective policies to create the necessary ecosystems and help their corporations respond to threats of loss of markets at home and abroad. The need to better commercialize public and private investments in R & D is well understood, but does not always happen … Continue reading “The Innovation Imperative: How Corporations and Nations Can Survive the Tsunami of Global Competition and Thrive”
The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple’s Undoing
With each new product that Apple announces, including the revamped Apple TV and the new Ping social network, Steve Jobs reveals a little bit more of his plan to dominate the media universe. But I can summarize that plan’s fatal flaw in one word: iTunes. Don’t get me wrong. I think Apple’s hardware is unbeatable, … Continue reading “The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple’s Undoing”
PerkinElmer Sells Unit for $500M, Aveo Stock Climbs, Pfizer Buys FoldRx, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News
This week we saw news of acquisitions from drug giants, and got updates on several New England biotechs. —The FDA alerted South San Francisco-based Genentech that it was not going to review its application for accelerated approval of its “empowered antibody” drug, developed with technology from Waltham, MA-based ImmunoGen. The FDA said that T-DM1, which … Continue reading “PerkinElmer Sells Unit for $500M, Aveo Stock Climbs, Pfizer Buys FoldRx, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News”
It’s Time for Universities to Get More Nimble
“Early to bed, Early to rise, Makes a man healthy, Wealthy and wise.” Attempting to motivate their children to go to bed at a reasonable time, parents have for generations invoked these three time-honored rewards. Probably least compelling was the promise of health. Health is the absence of something–sickness–and is only fully appreciated when we … Continue reading “It’s Time for Universities to Get More Nimble”
Life Image Secures $5.2M in Second Financing Round to Push Medical Images in the Cloud
Life Image has won further investor support after more hospitals have bought its new technology for exchanging medical images via the Internet cloud. The Newton, MA-based software startup has closed $5.2 million of a planned $10 million Series B funding round to finance increased sales, marketing, and product development, company co-founder and chief executive Hamid … Continue reading “Life Image Secures $5.2M in Second Financing Round to Push Medical Images in the Cloud”
The Feds Need to Start Supporting Early-Stage Drug Development
The U.S. Congress is on track to fund a pivotal element of healthcare reform, a $50 million dollar down payment on the $500 million dollar Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) initiative. This is a critically important element of the landmark new law. It’s also an opportunity Congress should seize to refocus the National Institutes of Health … Continue reading “The Feds Need to Start Supporting Early-Stage Drug Development”
Buildings that Act Like Guinea Pigs for Energy Efficiency: The Puget Sound Regional Council Plan for Green Jobs
Everyone is looking for the next big thing during an economic downturn, whether it be individuals searching for ways to reinvent their careers after lags and layoffs, or whole regions needing to rebuild their economies. This region has a history as a technology and innovation hub, which has translated in the past to jobs—lots of … Continue reading “Buildings that Act Like Guinea Pigs for Energy Efficiency: The Puget Sound Regional Council Plan for Green Jobs”
Orexigen Nabs $1B Deal With Takeda to Market Obesity Drug, Shares Climb
San Diego-based Orexigen Therapeutics has found a partner to help it compete in the growing market for drugs to combat obesity. It’s Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical. Under the terms of the deal, Takeda has obtained an exclusive license from Orexigen to market the combination drug of bupropion/naltrexone (Contrave) in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. In return, … Continue reading “Orexigen Nabs $1B Deal With Takeda to Market Obesity Drug, Shares Climb”
Apple Vs. Amazon Battle Continues: Adventures in TV Land
[Corrected, 11:00 am. See below] First it was the iPad vs. the Kindle. Now the battleground is shifting to television. Apple keeps rolling out new devices to control how consumers interact with screens of different sizes. What the world really needs is a smart, stretchable display material so people could adjust their screen to whatever … Continue reading “Apple Vs. Amazon Battle Continues: Adventures in TV Land”
U.S. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council Quietly Holds First Meeting in DC, Starting with Steve Case-Hosted Dinner
It’s a big day for U.S. innovation strategy. The National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship is holding its first official meeting at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, today—and Xconomy has some exclusive details. The council, made up of 26 national leaders in business, technology, and academia, is charged with helping the Obama … Continue reading “U.S. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council Quietly Holds First Meeting in DC, Starting with Steve Case-Hosted Dinner”
Otonomy Gets $38.5M, Avalon Helps Restart Drug for Age-Related Blindness, Accumetrics Heads Toward Profitability, & More San Diego Life Sciences News
The life sciences news over the past week was almost all about deals. Money came out of INC Research, a contract research organization in North Carolina that was founded in San Diego. Money went into Otonomy, Accumetrics, and some other San Diego startups. We round it all up for you here. —San Diego-based Otonomy, a … Continue reading “Otonomy Gets $38.5M, Avalon Helps Restart Drug for Age-Related Blindness, Accumetrics Heads Toward Profitability, & More San Diego Life Sciences News”
Buzzient Makes Social Media Analytics Software, Attracting Business Customers From Gaming to Financial Services
You’ve been sleeping under a rock if you haven’t realized yet that what’s being said on Twitter, Facebook, user forums, wikis, YouTube videos, and personal blogs has a big impact on what people think about a brand. And there’s no shortage of companies developing technology to monitor this ever-changing buzz to paint a picture of … Continue reading “Buzzient Makes Social Media Analytics Software, Attracting Business Customers From Gaming to Financial Services”
Spinout Doctors: How New Venture Partners Saved Freescale’s Magnetic Memory and Other Stranded Technologies
Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, or MRAM, promises to change everything about how our computing devices work. It’s as fast as classical static RAM at the core of today’s microprocessors, but it doesn’t wear out, and it also holds data permanently, even when the power is off, like today’s flash memory. It could enable true “instant-on” … Continue reading “Spinout Doctors: How New Venture Partners Saved Freescale’s Magnetic Memory and Other Stranded Technologies”