Illumina CEO Jay Flatley memorably called the bioinformatics industry “road kill” in an interview with Xconomy about 18 months ago. But have new opportunities started to emerge for genomic software startups now that scientists are really, Really, Really! crying out for better software to manage the data deluge? After all, isn’t the genomic data going … Continue reading “When Will Software for the Genome Take Off? Find out Oct. 24”
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Saint Steve? Not Exactly. Apple and the Power of the Dark Side
Today’s column was co-written by myself and Curt Woodward, Xconomy’s Seattle-based senior editor. There’s a great term of art in the history profession: hagiography. It’s from the Greek for “holy writing,” and at one time it pertained mostly to biographies of saints. Well, there’s a whole lot of beatification going on this week as the … Continue reading “Saint Steve? Not Exactly. Apple and the Power of the Dark Side”
Enterproid Continues Development of App With $11M Series A From Comcast, Google, Qualcomm
Bruce V. Bigelow in San Diego contributed to this story. With $11 million from a Series A that was announced yesterday, New York-based Enterproid is moving closer to a full release of its app, which allows users to set their smartphones for business or personal use. Comcast Ventures (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CMCSA]]) led the round, with participation from … Continue reading “Enterproid Continues Development of App With $11M Series A From Comcast, Google, Qualcomm”
Five Perspectives on Steve Jobs: Reflections from Around the Xconomy Network
When the news broke that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died, there was no shortage of tributes and remembrances, from names big and small. And they’re still pouring out, from entrepreneurs, technologists, consumers, and more. We were able to tap into our network of guest authors, known as the Xconomists, for some insights into Jobs’ legacy … Continue reading “Five Perspectives on Steve Jobs: Reflections from Around the Xconomy Network”
SolarReserve Lands $15,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=07d3a25d-770d-4ead-9788-3cc595b86b85&Preview=1 Date 10/7/2011 Company Name SolarReserve Mailing Address 2425 Olympic Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90404 Company Description SolarReserve was formed to solve two of the fundamental barriers of renewable energy: scalability and storage. Unlike hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, and other renewable energy technologies that use limited renewable fuel sources, SolarReserve’s power plants draw … Continue reading “SolarReserve Lands $15,000,000 New Funding”
FDA Adopts New Initiative, Scripps Health Begins Longevity Study, & More San Diego Life Sciences News
What was the biggest life sciences news over the past week? It might be that five San Diego companies landed financing deals, grants, and payments. Here are our highlights. —The U.S. Food and Drug Administration outlined a new strategic initiative intended to address industry criticism that the agency has been thwarting life sciences innovation through … Continue reading “FDA Adopts New Initiative, Scripps Health Begins Longevity Study, & More San Diego Life Sciences News”
The Essential Steve Jobs for Today’s Pharmaceutical Executive
It is hard to overestimate the importance of Steve Jobs on the American psyche. The co-founder and guiding force of Apple has died, succumbing to a long illness after only recently stepping down as chief executive. But his impact continues beyond his life, his business, his industry, his leadership, and his vision. One only needs to … Continue reading “The Essential Steve Jobs for Today’s Pharmaceutical Executive”
Steve Jobs & the Power of Vision: My Visits to the ‘Reality Distortion Field’
Steve was an incredible product visionary and had an uncompromising sense of product design. Aldus and desktop publishing came about because Steve had a vision of what was possible by marrying a plain paper copier to a computer to make the Apple Laserwriter. When the Laserwriter was introduced it cost $7000, more than twice as much … Continue reading “Steve Jobs & the Power of Vision: My Visits to the ‘Reality Distortion Field’”
Steve Jobs: The Soul of an Industry
When I heard the news of Steve Jobs’s death last night, even though I was hardly surprised, I felt like I had been kicked in the gut—as if the industry in which I’ve spent my career had lost its soul. I’m rarely shy about criticizing the titans of our industry, but from the beginning Steve … Continue reading “Steve Jobs: The Soul of an Industry”
Steve Jobs: A Few Memories
I’m so sad this evening—as millions are—to hear of Steve Jobs’s death. Scattered over the last quarter century, I learned much from Steve Jobs, and was proud to consider him a friend. And indeed, he contributed in various ways to all three of my major life projects so far: Mathematica, A New Kind of Science and Wolfram|Alpha. I … Continue reading “Steve Jobs: A Few Memories”
Sweeney Among the Florence Nightingales: Wireless Health Pioneer Jim Sweeney Customizes iTouch for Patient Care
When it comes to healthcare, San Diego’s Jim Sweeney has some serious entrepreneurial street cred. Before taking over the San Diego company now known as PatientSafe Solutions in 2009, Sweeney founded eight healthcare companies, beginning in 1979 with Caremark, which sold to Baxter for roughly $600 million in 1987. His enterprising run continued to CardioNet, … Continue reading “Sweeney Among the Florence Nightingales: Wireless Health Pioneer Jim Sweeney Customizes iTouch for Patient Care”
Xconomist of the Week: Five Questions for New York Life Sciences 2031 Panelist Eric Schadt
Eric Schadt’s career as a scientist has been focused on unlocking genetic cues to common human diseases such as diabetes and obesity. He is the chief scientific officer of Pacific Biosciences, a Menlo Park, CA, company that develops gene-sequencing technologies. He recently joined Mount Sinai Medical Center as the director of the Institute for Genomics … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: Five Questions for New York Life Sciences 2031 Panelist Eric Schadt”
How Steve Jobs Rewired Our Lives-and Raised Our Expectations
What was Steve Jobs’ greatest contribution to society? The amazing thing is that there are so many answers to choose from. Was it the insanely great Mac? Or perhaps the iPod and the MP3 music revolution? Or Pixar and Toy Story and all of the studio’s other animated wonders? Or the iPhone and the iPad … Continue reading “How Steve Jobs Rewired Our Lives-and Raised Our Expectations”
Kareo Receives $10,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4ea30da9-2df8-42eb-9a37-8dcbdd08e932&Preview=1 Date 10/6/2011 Company Name Kareo Mailing Address 111 Academy Dr. Irvine, CA 92617 Company Description Kareo offers the first on-demand revenue cycle automation software for medical billing companies. Kareo connects medical billing professionals with healthcare providers on one system to share information and coordinate workflow across organizational boundaries. Kareo makes the … Continue reading “Kareo Receives $10,000,000 New Financing Round”
CoDa Therapeutics Obtains $6,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=de155ebe-45b6-4e9b-ade6-5cf554571e4e&Preview=1 Date 10/6/2011 Company Name CoDa Therapeutics Mailing Address 10505 Sorrento Valley Road San Diego, CA 92121 Company Description CoDa Therapeutics, Inc. is a San Diego-based pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of wound care therapeutics based on gap junction modulation. Website http://www.codatherapeutics.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $6,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “CoDa Therapeutics Obtains $6,000,000 New Funding Round”
Steve Jobs: A Technology Guy For the Rest of Us
It’s impossible to overstate Jobs’s contributions. First, monumental contributions to design. Design is at least as much about what to omit as it is about what to include, and Jobs was a master of both. As you saw in the New York Times last month, Jobs’s design patents ranged from the Mac Air, the iPhone, … Continue reading “Steve Jobs: A Technology Guy For the Rest of Us”
ImThera Gets Cyberonics’ Funding in Quest to Put Sleep Apnea to Rest
Houston’s Cyberonics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CYBX]]), which makes an implantable neurostimulation device used to treat epilepsy and depression, says today it’s making a $4 million investment in San Diego startup ImThera Medical. Cyberonics says its investment could eventually total $12 million, providing that ImThera meets certain milestones. The San Diego startup has been developing technology that fits … Continue reading “ImThera Gets Cyberonics’ Funding in Quest to Put Sleep Apnea to Rest”
Unless You Are Awesome, You Will Be Outsourced
We’re quickly moving to a new world where the wealth gap is compounding and increasing. We’re moving to a world that is going to look a lot like Hollywood: a few people enjoying insane success … and everyone else spends their days waiting tables. The delta between A-players and B-players in companies has always been … Continue reading “Unless You Are Awesome, You Will Be Outsourced”
Tweetchat on RNA Interference Upstages iPhone (Not Really, but It Was Still Fun)
Who says you can’t be smart, witty, or say anything of substance in 140 characters or less? Alnylam Pharmaceuticals CEO John Maraganore had a zinger ready yesterday as Apple’s dog-and-pony show was happening during the first Xconomy “Tweetchat,” on the latest ups and downs in RNA interference. “RNAi vs iPhone, RNAi better for patients” is … Continue reading “Tweetchat on RNA Interference Upstages iPhone (Not Really, but It Was Still Fun)”
Six Cities, Six Big Tech Ideas Coming to Boston on December 1: Stephen Wolfram to Keynote
Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. Ahem. [A giant “6×6” fills the screen.] Macho narrator voice: Star Wars had The Empire Strikes Back (Vader: “I am your father”) The Godfather had The Godfather Part II (Pacino: “You broke my heart”) Mad Max had The Road Warrior…well, you get the idea. Now Xconomy presents 6×6, the … Continue reading “Six Cities, Six Big Tech Ideas Coming to Boston on December 1: Stephen Wolfram to Keynote”
FDA, After Taking Heat, Offers Up Reforms to Support Pharma, Biotech & Device Innovation
The FDA has spent decades talking about how its job is to make sure all kinds of U.S. medical products are safe to use, and effective. Now it’s coming out with a new strategic outline on how it intends to do all that same stuff, while also spurring the development of more innovative drugs and … Continue reading “FDA, After Taking Heat, Offers Up Reforms to Support Pharma, Biotech & Device Innovation”
GluMetrics Receives $5,005,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a76ab992-abc0-4133-b4bb-5a441c7129f6&Preview=1 Date 10/5/2011 Company Name GluMetrics Mailing Address 15375 Barranca Parkway Irvine, CA 92618 Company Description GluMetrics, Inc. is a medical device company focusing patented technology on a currently shifting paradigm in the care of critically ill patients. Website http://www.glumetrics.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $5,005,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds … Continue reading “GluMetrics Receives $5,005,000 New Funding Round”
Puma Biotechnology Lands $55,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c1709554-efa9-4532-bc0a-0a9c13a7b37d&Preview=1 Date 10/5/2011 Company Name Puma Biotechnology Mailing Address 10940 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90024 Company Description Puma Biotechnology, Inc. is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to in-licensing and developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Website http://www.pumabiotechnology.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $55,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes … Continue reading “Puma Biotechnology Lands $55,000,000 New Financing Round”
DARPA Awards Aethlon $6.8M for Technology to Combat Sepsis
The Pentagon’s Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $6.8 million contract to San Diego’s Aethlon Medical to develop a medical device that could be used to reduce the incidence of sepsis, a potentially fatal bloodstream infection. In a statement today, Aethlon says sepsis often the cause of death in combat-injured soldiers. Aethlon … Continue reading “DARPA Awards Aethlon $6.8M for Technology to Combat Sepsis”
Join Us at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific for RNAi “Tweetchat” with Alnylam’s John Maraganore
Here’s just a quick reminder that we’re doing the live Tweetchat today with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals CEO John Maraganore. This chat, which anyone with a Twitter account is free to join, will be held today at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. The best way to follow the questions and answers will be to follow the live … Continue reading “Join Us at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific for RNAi “Tweetchat” with Alnylam’s John Maraganore”
San Diego Startup Tracks Your Social IQ (Influence Quotient), Looks to Raise Capital
With the flip of a switch, a Web 2.0 startup that began life in mid-2009 has launched SocialIQ.com, a new beta website that also marks the San Diego company’s change to a new identity. Originally known as Soovox, the company now known as SocialIQ is making a strategic adjustment to align its corporate brand with … Continue reading “San Diego Startup Tracks Your Social IQ (Influence Quotient), Looks to Raise Capital”
Predixion Software Garners $6,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2e4791cc-e275-4a53-a483-33f48d382db9&Preview=1 Date 10/4/2011 Company Name Predixion Software Mailing Address 31831 Camino Capistrano San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 Company Description Predictive analytics enable organizations to use and analyze current and historical data to make predictions about the future that can be applied across a multitude of functional areas. Predictions are used to increase … Continue reading “Predixion Software Garners $6,000,000 Series B Financing”
SweetLabs Raises $13M, Entropic Invests $10M, Young & Restless Prefer Other Cities to San Diego, & More San Diego BizTech News
While some tech companies said last week that they are expanding their operations, fresh concerns are emerging about San Diego’s ability to attract and retain the young entrepreneurs driving the next generation of innovation. We’ve got all that and more in our summary of last week’s tech news. —Intel Capital was the lead investor in … Continue reading “SweetLabs Raises $13M, Entropic Invests $10M, Young & Restless Prefer Other Cities to San Diego, & More San Diego BizTech News”
Complete Genomics, Scripps To Sequence 1,000 Old Folks’ Genomes to Find Secret to Long Life
Nobody a year ago could have realistically imagined sequencing 1,000 genomes of old, healthy people just to see what might be their secret to long and healthy life. But Mountain View, CA-based Complete Genomics and the Scripps Health system in San Diego are looking to take advantage of the advances in super-fast, super-cheap sequencing to … Continue reading “Complete Genomics, Scripps To Sequence 1,000 Old Folks’ Genomes to Find Secret to Long Life”
ServiceNow Hires New CTO From Microsoft Cloud
[Corrected 10/3/11, 10:25 am. See below.] ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman said in August that he was accelerating hiring as the Web-based provider of IT services makes its transition from a fast-growth startup to an established leader in the Software as a Service industry. [Updated to correct and clarify Luddy’s role] Today the San Diego company … Continue reading “ServiceNow Hires New CTO From Microsoft Cloud”
Lee Davenport, A Technological Hero, Dies at 95: Here are His 7 Rules for Fostering Innovation
Over the weekend, I learned that one of my heroes, Lee Davenport, had just passed away. Lee died of cancer at the age of 95 in his longtime home of Greenwich, CT. That’s where I first met him in 1994, when I was researching a book about the MIT Radiation Laboratory, the World War II … Continue reading “Lee Davenport, A Technological Hero, Dies at 95: Here are His 7 Rules for Fostering Innovation”
Why Universities Are Key to the Future of Biotech, and How UCSF’s Chief is Showing the Way
These are hard times at universities in America. State support is dwindling, tuition is booming, and federal research dollars are in jeopardy. Morale has taken a beating. But U.S. academic research centers are still the driving force for innovative new medicines, like always. And anyone who cares about U.S. universities should pay attention to what’s … Continue reading “Why Universities Are Key to the Future of Biotech, and How UCSF’s Chief is Showing the Way”
Reinventing the Board
Imagine a world where technology companies are more successful and grow faster because of the strategic help and guidance from their boards of directors. Or, at least imagine a world where they don’t suffer from unhelpful, or worse, problematic boards that consume management’s precious time. Some commentators like Steve Blank, Jeff Bussgang, Brad Feld, and … Continue reading “Reinventing the Board”
Can Crowdsourcing Make a Dent in Unemployment? Ask MobileWorks
Jobs are the single biggest political issue of the day in the U.S., and rightly so. As of August, the official unemployment rate in the United States stood at 9.1 percent. That was down one point from the October 2009 peak of 10.1 percent, but still higher than at any time since the 1930s, with … Continue reading “Can Crowdsourcing Make a Dent in Unemployment? Ask MobileWorks”
CalciMedica Receives $4,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8ff0f02d-ad08-4bfa-82dd-367c620a5d39&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2011 Company Name CalciMedica Mailing Address 505 Coast Blvd S. La Jolla, CA 92037 Company Description The company is developing drugs focused on autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Website http://www.calcimedica.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $4,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms … Continue reading “CalciMedica Receives $4,000,000 New Funding Round”
Connexity Garners $2,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6c27b22a-d377-48d0-84cf-1b8272ec1525&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2011 Company Name Connexity Mailing Address 505 Poli Street Ventura, CA 93001 Company Description Connexity is introducing advertisers and publishers to audience networking and cross-channel connectivity. Connexity applies social networking architecture, recommendation engine learning, and best-of-breed targeting & optimization technology to media representation and media buying. Website http://www.connexityllc.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Connexity Garners $2,000,000 New Financing”
What’s Next in Life Sciences: Cancer Cell Diagnostics
How hard is it to detect and analyze individual circulating tumor cells? Find out what’s next in cancer diagnostics and why such work has the potential to revolutionize how cancer is diagnosed and treated. Invited speakers are Peter Kuhn, a professor at the Scripps Research Institute, and Thomas Broudy, chief scientific officer at Molecular Response. … Continue reading “What’s Next in Life Sciences: Cancer Cell Diagnostics”
Elevation Partners Grabs $17M, NanoSort Wins Grants, NIH Collaborates with Afraxis on Rare Disease R&D, & More San Diego Life Sciences News
Funding needed to advance innovative technologies came in small dollops for several local life sciences startups last week, although one company got a big serving. Our weekly briefing begins now. —San Diego’s Elevation Partners, which has been developing a long-lasting aerosol drug for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, took in a $17 million tranche in … Continue reading “Elevation Partners Grabs $17M, NanoSort Wins Grants, NIH Collaborates with Afraxis on Rare Disease R&D, & More San Diego Life Sciences News”
Excerpt from “The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America”
No particular group, right or left or somewhere else, is immune from the sense that change is accelerating at an ever faster pace with each passing year. The experience of too-rapid change, whether trivial or profound, is a characteristic of modernity. Information technologies are perhaps the sentinel sources and examples of what Alvin Toffler called “future shock” in 1970, right … Continue reading “Excerpt from “The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America””
Intel Capital Leads $13M Round for SweetLabs in Bid to Re-Invent Desktop Experience
SweetLabs scored what could be construed as a Google seal of approval in April 2010 when the San Diego startup, then known as OpenCandy, landed $5 million in a Series B round of venture funding led by Google Ventures. Today, the four-year-old startup says it has scored a similar coup—raising $13 million in a Series … Continue reading “Intel Capital Leads $13M Round for SweetLabs in Bid to Re-Invent Desktop Experience”
Xconomist of the Week: Pfizer’s Barbara Dalton to Speak at Our NY Life Sciences 2031 Forum
As Pfizer’s vice president of venture capital, Barbara Dalton will bring two valuable perspectives to Xconomy’s Life Sciences 2031 panel discussion on October 13: that of a VC and that of a pharma executive. Dalton, who was trained in immunology and virology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, began her career as a research scientist … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: Pfizer’s Barbara Dalton to Speak at Our NY Life Sciences 2031 Forum”
SweetLabs Secures $13,000,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1c862559-bcde-4056-bdec-8f97a5387e4b&Preview=1 Date 9/29/2011 Company Name SweetLabs Mailing Address 656 5th Avenue San Diego, CA 92120 Company Description OpenCandy was started by founding and early members of DivX, at which we were responsible for distributing hundreds of millions of DivX software downloads, and now we want to use what we’ve learned to help … Continue reading “SweetLabs Secures $13,000,000 Series C Funding Round”
Connect Lists Finalists for San Diego’s Most Innovative Product Awards
Connect, the San Diego nonprofit group for innovation and entrepreneurship, says it has selected three finalists in eight categories for the region’s 24th annual Most Innovative New Product (MIP) Awards competition. The 24 finalists were culled from more than 140 nominations submitted, according to a statement from Connect. The finalists in each category are evaluated … Continue reading “Connect Lists Finalists for San Diego’s Most Innovative Product Awards”
San Diego’s Innovation Economy, and What it Takes to Recruit “The Young and Restless”
As the chief operating officer of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. (EDC), Lauree Sahba says, “Our region’s future as a technology center of excellence depends on our ability to attract and retain the next generation of innovators and young talent.” Yet Sahba frets that the renowned research institutions and balmy weather that drew … Continue reading “San Diego’s Innovation Economy, and What it Takes to Recruit “The Young and Restless””
Join Us for a Live ‘Tweetchat’ on the Future of RNAi, With Guest John Maraganore of Alnylam
Usually when I want to chat with someone, I still pick up that 19th century contraption called the telephone or sometimes meet in person. Each of those communications methods has its merits, but you can bring a lot more voices to a conversation through a real-time chat like the ones happening now on Twitter. So … Continue reading “Join Us for a Live ‘Tweetchat’ on the Future of RNAi, With Guest John Maraganore of Alnylam”
Parking in Motion Lands Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e466ba9d-e2ac-4421-92c4-80f74a4b018f&Preview=1 Date 9/28/2011 Company Name Parking in Motion Mailing Address 1512 11th Street Santa Monica, CA 90401 Company Description Parking In Motion (PIM), founded by Sam Friedman and Alex Israel and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, is a provider of dynamic and real-time parking data. PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities … Continue reading “Parking in Motion Lands Series A Financing”
Unlimited Abilities: A View from the MedtechVision Conference
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. —Ralph Waldo Emerson In a world thick with healthcare conferences, MedtechVision, held September 15-16 at the Rosewood Hotel in Menlo Park, CA, stood out, both for its quality of content and for its participants. “I hadn’t given any thought to the fact that it … Continue reading “Unlimited Abilities: A View from the MedtechVision Conference”
Complete Genomics, PacBio CEOs to Lead Off “Computing in the Age of the $1K Genome” Oct. 24
Complete Genomics and PacBio are two of the companies pumping out huge volumes of DNA data that needs to be kept on computers somewhere. So I figured it would be cool to get the leaders of both companies to sit down and talk about what they are doing to deal with one of their big … Continue reading “Complete Genomics, PacBio CEOs to Lead Off “Computing in the Age of the $1K Genome” Oct. 24″
FastCall411 Lands New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=36d3fb41-0931-4d47-9e85-fd4048517e53&Preview=1 Date 9/27/2011 Company Name FastCall411 Mailing Address 8033 Sunset Blvd Hollywood, CA 90046 Company Description FastCall411 puts you ahead of the numbers game with a patent-pending sales automation system that boosts the marketing power of your sales force by qualifying every lead so that your sales force is talking to people … Continue reading “FastCall411 Lands New Round”
San Diego’s Entropic Invests In, and Partners With, Cupertino’s Zenverge
San Diego semiconductor designer Entropic Communications (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ENTR]]) says today it has formed a strategic partnership with Zenverge, a Cupertino, CA-based chip design firm to work together on the next generation of multimedia products for home entertainment systems. In a separate release, Zenverge says it has closed a $20.5 million Series D round of financing … Continue reading “San Diego’s Entropic Invests In, and Partners With, Cupertino’s Zenverge”