Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0dfb8bb1-e15a-4f4a-9e62-f4d3ca7a102b&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name FreeStride Therapeutics Mailing Address 2403 Vinewood Boulevard Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Company Description FreeStride Therapeutics is developing therapies for treatment of bone-related conditions. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $100,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Michigan … Continue reading “FreeStride Therapeutics Obtains $100,000 Seed Funding”
Larky Lands $250,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=60618b8f-db85-4496-8020-fe7537556a78&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Larky Mailing Address Undisclosed Detroit, MI 48201 Company Description Larky’s application helps consumers manage discounts from retailers, membership organizations increase loyalty, and merchants generate business. Website http://www.larky.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $250,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Receiving investment from the Pre-Seed Capital Fund has … Continue reading “Larky Lands $250,000 Seed Round”
Breker Verification Systems Secures $5,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=847b4e27-d736-47c4-89a6-3c68d35615e1&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Breker Verification Systems Mailing Address 800 West El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Breker Verification Systems solves the challenges of functional verification for complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs containing one or more embedded processors. Our TrekSoC product is proven in production at leading semiconductor companies. … Continue reading “Breker Verification Systems Secures $5,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
DocuSign Secures $47,491,299 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bce38dda-258e-4a66-826e-3fcf3f8a2bb0&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name DocuSign Mailing Address 111 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Company Description DocuSign was founded in 2003 with one goal: to make electronic signatures as ubiquitous and simple as email. DocuSign delivers the final step in the online customer relationship—the ability to complete a legally binding agreement … Continue reading “DocuSign Secures $47,491,299 New Funding”
Jetpac Obtains $2,400,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6c3fb637-a588-4417-8d30-409dc7e546e2&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Jetpac Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description The promise of a Jetpac is that it will transport you anywhere in the world. We’re going to deliver the Jetpac you were promised as a kid.Travel should be more fun. We’re building Jetpac because we want … Continue reading “Jetpac Obtains $2,400,000 Series A Financing”
Svaya Nanotechnologies Obtains $8,432,191 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=63223250-a29d-42db-9639-a556bf9ddb79&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Svaya Nanotechnologies Mailing Address 275 Santa Ana Court Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Nanotechnology has the power to transform the world in ways scientists are just beginning to imagine. Svaya’s mission is to use nanotechnologies to make everyday products better and to enable revolutionary new products. Our … Continue reading “Svaya Nanotechnologies Obtains $8,432,191 Series B Financing”
ProMed Receives $2,500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7ab05d98-52c7-4e2d-9fea-e6f8cfecd0eb&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name ProMed Mailing Address 2045 Martin Ave. Santa Clara, CA 95050 Company Description The company is developing unspecified medical devices. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed
Fuzebox Obtains $22,500,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9c637562-de91-4718-bd3a-e7547cc904b6&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Fuzebox Mailing Address 150 Spear San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description FuzeBox has developed some serious UC technology. We’ve been awarded 24 patents—with 42 more pending—in the fields of telephony, web, and visual media technologies. Website http://www.fuzebox.com Transaction Type Debt, Venture Equity Transaction Amount $22,500,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Fuzebox Obtains $22,500,000 Series A Financing”
Fuzebox Garners $22,500,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9c637562-de91-4718-bd3a-e7547cc904b6&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Fuzebox Mailing Address 150 Spear San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description FuzeBox has developed some serious UC technology. We’ve been awarded 24 patents—with 42 more pending—in the fields of telephony, web, and visual media technologies. Website http://www.fuzebox.com Transaction Type Debt, Venture Equity Transaction Amount $22,500,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Fuzebox Garners $22,500,000 Series A Financing Round”
Open Air Publishing Secures $800,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fa6b429e-15a5-4153-a542-ba6c93d8257b&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Open Air Publishing Mailing Address 89 Bleecker Street Unit 1B New York, NY 10012 Company Description We produce original, how-to e-books designed exclusively for touchscreen devices like the iPad and iPhone. Our books allow readers to master new skills through touch, sight, and sound, guided by our … Continue reading “Open Air Publishing Secures $800,000 Seed Round”
Lyst Lands $5,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=443e728c-1202-4efc-9cd6-e40b2b0d299c&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Lyst Mailing Address 152 Grand Street New York, NY 10016 Company Description Lyst.com is a social shopping site that helps you discover the best fashion for you. Follow your favorite designers, boutiques, bloggers and stylists to get their latest updates in your stylefeed, so you can stay … Continue reading “Lyst Lands $5,000,000 New Financing”
FullContact Garners $7,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=720b8f53-1f71-4841-a168-0cc18de4170a&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name FullContact Mailing Address 1621 18th Street Denver, CO 80202 Company Description FullContact provides identity resolution for all of the disparate pieces of contact information out there on the web. We do this by aggregating billions of contact records, all with numerous attributes, including quality, freshness and frequency. … Continue reading “FullContact Garners $7,000,000 Series B Funding”
Dizzion Lands $680,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=87bdfa05-7dcb-4640-b98c-1ce1aff3ae93&Preview=1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Dizzion Mailing Address 3457 Ringsby Court Denver, CO 80216 Company Description Proprietary managed desktop service built on enterprise technology that includes infrastructure, software licensing, management, support and security for a monthly fee. Dizzion is bringing the power of cloud computing to the desktop by enabling employees to … Continue reading “Dizzion Lands $680,000 Seed Funding”
Aerial BioPharma Lands $500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1fdd0e78-619d-4e48-bcc6-e5d76a1f5ab1 Date 7/13/2012 Company Name Aerial BioPharma Mailing Address 9001 Aerial Center Parkway Morrisville, NC 27560 USA Company Description Aerial BioPharma is a different kind of drug development company. We believe drug development, at its core, is an entrepreneurial pursuit best suited for creative, flexible organizations that can operate under risky and … Continue reading “Aerial BioPharma Lands $500,000 New Funding”
Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa — 7th Annual Scientific Symposium
The 2012 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa includes a scientific symposium on the last day of the conference. The first two days are intended to bring together senior members of the business development and scientific research communities with the goal of advancing stem cell science to cures for debilitating diseases and injuries. The third … Continue reading “Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa — 7th Annual Scientific Symposium”
Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa — Investor and Partnering Forum
The first two days of the 2012 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa will consist of an investor and partnering forum. The three-day conference is aimed at bringing together senior members of the business development and scientific research communities within the regenerative medicine field to advance stem cell science into cures for debilitating diseases and … Continue reading “Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa — Investor and Partnering Forum”
DocuSign Raises Another $47.5M
Updated 7/13 DocuSign, a well-funded provider of software that captures and transmits electronic signatures, has raised nearly $47.5 million in additional financing to pay for continued growth. The investment, which puts total financing in DocuSign above $100 million, was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, and SAP Ventures also invested in … Continue reading “DocuSign Raises Another $47.5M”
Microsoft Confirms Bing Fund, a New Angel Investment Vehicle
Microsoft’s enthusiasm for early stage companies is getting turned up another notch. Today, the company is pulling back the curtain on its new Bing Fund, an angel investment program targeting online and mobile startups. The fund is headed by Rahul Sood, a former entrepreneur who sold niche computer maker VoodooPC to Hewlett-Packard in 2006. Details … Continue reading “Microsoft Confirms Bing Fund, a New Angel Investment Vehicle”
San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Halozyme, Sophiris, Arena, & More
Plans by Bedford, MA-based Hologic to acquire San Diego’s Gen-Probe, are moving ahead. We’ve got the latest details, along with the rest of the innovation news in San Diego’s biotech, diagnostics, and medical device sectors. —San Diego’s BioNano Genomics, which is getting ready to introduce its nanoAnalyzer System, has raised almost $11.6 million in a … Continue reading “San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Halozyme, Sophiris, Arena, & More”
Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund Invests $600K in Three Tech Startups
The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund announced this week that it has invested $600,000 in three tech startups: Flocktag, Larky, and FreeStride Therapeutics. To date, the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund has invested $16.5 million in 75 Michigan companies. While Flocktag and Larky both want to leverage customer satisfaction and their hunger for discounts, FreeStride Therapeutics is working on treatments for … Continue reading “Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund Invests $600K in Three Tech Startups”
Xconomist of the Week: ATV’s Bob Hower on “A” Startups, IPOs, & the God of VC
The venture capital industry is in flux. A lot of firms and funds are contracting. Big guys are doing more later-stage investments (see GitHub). Little guys are trying to innovate with early stage companies. Fund investors are trying to figure out how to get more bang for their venture buck. In the midst of all … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: ATV’s Bob Hower on “A” Startups, IPOs, & the God of VC”
Crocodoc’s HTML Document Viewer Infiltrates the Enterprise
It wasn’t that long ago that you could only read Word documents in Word, you could only view PowerPoint decks in PowerPoint, and you could only read PDFs in Acrobat. But without fully realizing it, we’ve come to the end of an era—the era when reading a digital document required a specialized document viewer (usually … Continue reading “Crocodoc’s HTML Document Viewer Infiltrates the Enterprise”
The Echo Nest Nabs $17M More for Smarter Music Tech
The Boston-area startup financing train keeps rolling this week. The Echo Nest, a Somerville, MA-based music tech company, has raised a $17.3 million Series C round led by new investor Norwest Venture Partners (also a recent investor in Boston-based Gemvara). Previous investors including Matrix Partners and Commonwealth Capital also participated. The company, which closed a … Continue reading “The Echo Nest Nabs $17M More for Smarter Music Tech”
MyPod Studios is Choosy about Picking Online Videos for Its Platform
With the Web swamped by a morass of puerile videos of cats at play and the like, New York-based startup MyPod Studios has set out to build a digital oasis for viewers who are selective about what they watch. CEO Jay Miletsky says his platform only hosts content that he and the staff decide are … Continue reading “MyPod Studios is Choosy about Picking Online Videos for Its Platform”
Life Science Innovation NW Notes: SeaGen, NanoString, Viket, & More
Fifty years ago at the World’s Fair, Seattle’s visionaries were thinking about exploring space. Today, the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation observed, more of the region’s innovators are focused on “terrestrial” matters like global health and biotech. Whether that’s good or bad for mankind, we can debate another day. But as Jeff … Continue reading “Life Science Innovation NW Notes: SeaGen, NanoString, Viket, & More”
Connect’s 25th Anniversary Most Innovative New Product Awards
Join Connect on Pearl Harbor Day for its 25th Annual Most Innovative New Product Awards (MIP). In honor of the 25th anniversary of the MIP awards, Connect plans to highlight the innovation superstars who came to San Diego and transformed innovation here in life science, communications, defense, transportation, software, and more. The event is held … Continue reading “Connect’s 25th Anniversary Most Innovative New Product Awards”
ImmunoGen Emerges from Genentech’s Shadow With Novel Cancer Drugs
When ImmunoGen (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IMGN]]) said yesterday that it had started human trials of a new drug to treat ovarian cancer and other solid tumors, the announcement marked a coming out of sorts for the Waltham, MA-based company. That’s because for most of the past decade or so, ImmunoGen has been inextricably linked with biotech giant … Continue reading “ImmunoGen Emerges from Genentech’s Shadow With Novel Cancer Drugs”
Objective Logistics Secures $900,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=df0e2865-86df-4720-bd1b-26cae9e78d84&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Objective Logistics Mailing Address 195 Binney St Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Objective Logistics is gamifying the workplace. We are a retail/restaurant-focused software company that provides an artificially-intelligent, web-accessible labor management platform (MUSE) scientifically proven to increase sales and save managers countless hours of precious time. Website … Continue reading “Objective Logistics Secures $900,000 New Financing”
The Echo Nest Secures $17,300,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=daea2eeb-80d4-484c-b9b6-396c4a6ad9bb&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name The Echo Nest Mailing Address 48 Grove Street Somerville, MA 02144 Company Description The Echo Nest’s Fanalytics platform applies an unprecedented understanding of the music web to help you better target and build your online fan base. Website http://www.echonest.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $17,300,000 Transaction … Continue reading “The Echo Nest Secures $17,300,000 New Round”
iSpot.tv Receives $575,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dd16a30e-f463-4447-8dd7-41c550bde789&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name iSpot.tv Mailing Address 14042 NE 8th Street Bellevue, WA 98007 Company Description Enabling & Measuring Interactions for Brands on TV. Website http://www.ispot.tv Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $575,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed
Poptent Garners $5,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=589ec2be-7920-4521-888a-2a1216256a39&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Poptent Mailing Address 2753 Camino Capistrano San Clemente, CA 92672 Company Description Poptent is a vibrant community of filmmakers (and actors, comedians, grips, animators and more!) who are connecting to each other and to companies that want to pay them for their talents. Website http://www.poptent.net Transaction Type … Continue reading “Poptent Garners $5,500,000 New Financing”
Elevance Renewable Sciences Obtains $104,000,000 Series E Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=aa19d298-b4c0-419d-a3fd-954529d3b331&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Elevance Renewable Sciences Mailing Address 2501 Davey Road Woodridge, IL 60517 Company Description Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. creates a wide range of specialty chemicals from natural oils. Using a Nobel Prize winning technology called olefin metathesis; the company creates high performance waxes, functional oils, anti-microbials, lubricants, additives … Continue reading “Elevance Renewable Sciences Obtains $104,000,000 Series E Round”
CaptureToCloud Receives $4,700,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1d4d6d68-427d-412f-af4f-41b6f061640a&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name CaptureToCloud Mailing Address 6980 Santa Teresa Blvd San Jose, CA 95119 Company Description CaptureToCloud was established with the vision to streamline how you gather items from the internet and easily bring these items into your workflow. Our goal is to simplify how you capture information and collaborate … Continue reading “CaptureToCloud Receives $4,700,000 Series A Funding Round”
Tout.com Secures $13,400,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=99835fdd-fab8-421c-b624-5235543a1530&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Tout.com Mailing Address 139 Townsend St 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Tout is a social media platform that allows users to shoot 15-second video status updates via smartphones and webcams. Touts are shared real-time and automatically to Tout.com, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, SMS and email … Continue reading “Tout.com Secures $13,400,000 Series B Financing”
YesVideo Lands $5,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2eb343d9-9753-465b-970f-635615213c22&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name YesVideo Mailing Address 3281 Scott Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Company Description YesVideo is dedicated to providing its customers with easy and affordable solutions to preserve and enjoy their video and photographic memories. To maintain leadership in automated digital media authoring, YesVideo invents, develops and utilizes best-in-class … Continue reading “YesVideo Lands $5,000,000 New Funding Round”
Copious Obtains $5,500,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dfc3d5c2-9094-412b-8d65-cfeca4120573&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Copious Mailing Address 164 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Founded in January 2011, Copious is a social marketplace for buying from and selling to people, not strangers. Copious is backed by Foundation Capital, Embarcadero Ventures, The Blackberry Partners Fund, Google Ventures and a handful … Continue reading “Copious Obtains $5,500,000 Series A Round”
Intransa Receives $600,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=16f76c9b-90b7-4ecf-93dc-ef8f8b63f3c2&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Intransa Mailing Address 10710 N. Tantau Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 Company Description Intransa is an innovator of an enterprise class, intelligent IP storage products and software. Based on technology that leverages the low cost and maturity of Ethernet technology, Intransa’s IP SAN solutions dramatically reduce the cost … Continue reading “Intransa Receives $600,000 New Financing Round”
Shareaholic Receives $3,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=82785532-23d6-483f-91e6-4dacd4a3fdb2&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Shareaholic Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Shareaholic makes it easy to save or share material found on the Web via common social networking, social bookmarking, and news aggregator services. Website http://www.shareaholic.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Series A … Continue reading “Shareaholic Receives $3,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
InMobi Acquires AppBistro for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a6af882f-1641-4f9b-a719-2f957089e633&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name AppBistro Mailing Address 311 Oak St. Oakland, CA 94607 Company Description Created by ex-Facebook employee, Ryan Merket, and ex-Zappos consultant, Nalin Mittal, Appbistro is changing the way brands and companies use Facebook Pages. Website http://www.appbistro.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms … Continue reading “InMobi Acquires AppBistro for Undisclosed Sum”
betaworks Acquires Digg for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=39926460-b774-4ef2-8d07-a846aeaced07&Preview=1 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Digg Mailing Address 1576 12th Ave San Francisco, CA 94122 Company Description Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on Digg is submitted by our community (that would be you). After you submit content, other people … Continue reading “betaworks Acquires Digg for Undisclosed Sum”
Centice Obtains $500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=731ddad4-eb68-4aaf-a724-c230b45370a4 Date 7/12/2012 Company Name Centice Mailing Address 215 Southport Drive Morrisville, NC 27560 USA Company Description Centice designs and manufactures molecular spectroscopy optical sensors that are used by our partners in general purpose and application-specific products. Website http://www.centice.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes … Continue reading “Centice Obtains $500,000 New Funding”
Insta-Friends? Spanish Hacker Reports Big Instagram Privacy Hole
Instagram was never the most private of apps. The photos you share there are public by default, meaning they’re visible to all of your followers. And you can “follow” any Instagram user you like—unless that user has selected the “photos are private” option in the app’s privacy settings. In that case, the user has to … Continue reading “Insta-Friends? Spanish Hacker Reports Big Instagram Privacy Hole”
The Great Green Fleet: How San Diego Can Help the U.S. Navy Meet its Renewable Energy Mandate
Two years ago, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus declared that 40 percent of the Department of the Navy’s total energy consumption would come from alternative sources by 2020. In San Diego, the military accounts for 25 percent of local jobs, and biofuel companies have a chance to play an integral role in helping … Continue reading “The Great Green Fleet: How San Diego Can Help the U.S. Navy Meet its Renewable Energy Mandate”
Asteroid Miners to Hitch Rides on Richard Branson’s New Rocket
Planetary Resources, a startup that hopes to mine precious materials from asteroids, is partnering with a leading name in private space exploration: Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. The deal calls for Bellevue, WA-based Planetary Resources to use Virgin Galactic’s new LauncherOne spacecraft to send “constellations” of its telescopes into orbit near the Earth. Those telescopes are … Continue reading “Asteroid Miners to Hitch Rides on Richard Branson’s New Rocket”
In Finding Things to Do, Mobile App Uses Calendar for Search
Jan Anton, the CEO of San Diego-based uTemporis, is a little guarded about the genesis of Time to Enjoy, a free, location-based mobile app intended to answer the perennial question, “Is there anything for us to do?” The app, available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, pulls in data (from San Diego’s Eventful and … Continue reading “In Finding Things to Do, Mobile App Uses Calendar for Search”
In Search of Meaningful GAIN in Renewal of Prescription Drug Act
The repercussions of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act have largely overshadowed another key healthcare milestone—President Obama’s signing Monday of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, also known as PDUFA V. Originally passed in 1992, PDUFA V re-authorizes the FDA to collect fees from drug sponsors to speed the review and … Continue reading “In Search of Meaningful GAIN in Renewal of Prescription Drug Act”
Kinvey, Out to Kick Butt and Build Mobile Backends, Lands $5M in VC
Let’s just get the backend jokes out of the way, shall we? Kinvey is building big, beautiful backends for mobile developers. Kinvey puts the “BaaS” (backend as a service) in “Badass.” Kinvey will be doing a Sir Mix-a-Lot cover called “Baby Got BaaS.” (Can you believe that song is 20 years old? OK, I can.) … Continue reading “Kinvey, Out to Kick Butt and Build Mobile Backends, Lands $5M in VC”
Data, Analytics, & Finding Your OKM: Mixpanel Goes Beyond Page Views
What’s the true measure of success for a startup? That depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. If you work at Path, the San Francisco-based mobile social network, it’s probably not useful to obsess over how many people have downloaded your iOS or Android apps, or even how often the apps are opened or how … Continue reading “Data, Analytics, & Finding Your OKM: Mixpanel Goes Beyond Page Views”
Backupify Brings In $9M More from Symantec & VCs, Fends Off Acquirers
An old-school tech company in a new-school world. That’s what I’d call Backupify. The Cambridge, MA-based startup sits squarely at the intersection of cloud computing, data management, online backup, and now, security. Its big market opportunity is in the cloud—backing up data from business apps and social media— but its culture is firmly rooted in … Continue reading “Backupify Brings In $9M More from Symantec & VCs, Fends Off Acquirers”
Startup Superpowers, And How Big Companies Can Get Them Too
For nine years, I worked for one of the largest tech companies in the world, which will go unnamed at this particular time. I had so many ideas and was hopeful that my input and entrepreneurial spirit would be cultivated. Instead, I was consistently shut down and ended up feeling virtually powerless, like a cog … Continue reading “Startup Superpowers, And How Big Companies Can Get Them Too”