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• International Caregiver Network, JEMS Tech Sign Mobile Health Deal

  JEMS Technology, the Orion, MI-based mobile health company, announced late last month that it has signed a deal with the Southfield, MI-based International Caregiver Network (ICN) to offer JEMS’ remote monitoring platform to ICN’s network of home health and hospice... Read more »

  Sarah Schmid5/24/13

  • Detroit

  • Mobile

  • Entrepreneurship

  • innovation

• Colorado Looks to Reward Entrepreneurs who Risk “Glorious Failures”

  Entrepreneurs know embracing risk brings with it the possibility of failure. It’s a fact of life, but it’s usually the last thing government officials acknowledge when touting job creation programs backed with state support.

  But the state of Colorado is taking... Read more »

  Michael Davidson5/24/13

  • Boulder Denver

  • Entrepreneurship

  • funding

  • business plan competitions

• Ekos, Maker of Ultrasound Blood Clot Dissolver, Bought for $180M

  Ekos has been around a long time in the business of making ultrasound devices to improve the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Now it’s getting some rewards for that investment of time and money.

  The Bothell, WA-based company agreed to be acquired... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/24/13

  • Seattle

  • Biotech

  • Devices

  • acquisitions

• Astellas Tells Aveo to Go It Alone in Kidney Cancer

  If Aveo Oncology has any plans to sell tivozanib as a kidney cancer drug, it’s going to have to do it without Astellas Pharma.

  The fallout from the disastrous May 2 FDA advisory panel continues as Cambridge, MA-based Aveo (NASDAQ: AVEO... Read more »

  Ben Fidler5/24/13

  • Boston

  • Life Sciences

  • deals

  • cancer

• Do You Have A Story to Tell? Here Are the Digital Tools You’ll Need

  Back in January I got an invitation out of the blue to give a 1-hour talk at the Palo Alto Research Center—the Xerox-owned lab better known as PARC. The invitation was completely open-ended. The full extent of PARC’s guidance was... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/24/13

  • xperience

  • Storytelling

  • IT

• East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: Regeneron, Actavis, NPS, & More

  Broad startup initiatives, big acquisitions, critical data readouts, and more characterized the news flowing out of the biotech sector along the East Coast this week. Details below:

  —Residents of Long Island, NY, were dismayed when Astellas Pharma shut down their local... Read more »

  Ben Fidler5/24/13

  • Boston

  • Biotech

  • deals

  • startups

• Wireless Health Summit Looks to “Engaged Consumer” to Drive Change

  In the beginning, the Wireless Health Convergence Summit was viewed as a way to bring innovation to reality, according to Rob McCray, a co-founder and CEO of the San Diego-based Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, which organizes the annual conference.

  “At that... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/24/13

  • San Diego

  • Wireless Health

  • people

  • healthcare

• Merrimack Aims For Penny-Wise Pipeline of Cancer Drugs

  It’s not often that you’ll find a company with six cancer drugs in clinical trials that have their own companion diagnostics, and an in-house drug discovery engine. So why all the skepticism surrounding Merrimack Pharmaceuticals?

  After going public in March 2012... Read more »

  Ben Fidler5/24/13

  • Boston

  • cancer

  • Life Sciences

  • clinical trials

• Twitter Shows Off Bluefin Labs Buy with New TV Ad Targeting

  When Twitter landed in Boston earlier this year it didn’t mess around, spending around $200 million for two startups. And we’re starting to see more of the payoff for that expensive shopping trip.

  Today, as part of its efforts to... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/23/13

  • Boston

  • startups

  • social media

  • Advertising

• Girl Develop It’s Detroit Chapter Teaches Women to Code

  It’s no secret that the tech world—in Detroit just as much as Silicon Valley or anywhere else, really—is a man’s world. Go to any local tech event to see the demographics play out. Even in a budding tech community like Detroit’s,... Read more »

  Sarah Schmid5/23/13

  • Detroit

  • Software

  • Women In Tech

  • programming

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• TechStars Boston Demo Day: Four Startups Taking Innovation Offline

  TechStars Boston has officially unleashed its latest group of early stage companies, 14 startups with well-practiced pitches and big hopes. And this time around, several companies stood out for their focus on tackling real-world problems with software and online tools.... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/23/13

  • Boston

  • startups

  • accelerators

  • incubators

• Shutterstock CEO Jon Oringer Speaks About Deciding to Go Public

  Selling digital images and video helped Shutterstock in New York make its mark. Now CEO and founder Jon Oringer sees potential to expand into other content and media. He spoke as part of Internet Week New York, discussing why his company... Read more »

  João-Pierre S. Ruth5/23/13

  • New York

  • startups

  • deals

  • IPOs

• San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Effector, Ignyta, and More

  A startup with a new approach to cancer drug development made its debut this week in San Diego. We’ve got the details, along with other local news in life sciences and industrial biotechnology.

  —Effector Therapeutics, a San Diego startup... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/23/13

  • San Diego

  • Roundup

  • Life Sciences

  • people

• Digital Lumens, Finding Its Identity, Brings Cost & Energy Savings to Light

  Among local startups, Digital Lumens is a different kind of animal. It’s a hardware company. It’s a networking software company. It’s an energy-efficiency company. It’s an LED and “smart lighting” company. So what is it?

  Well, all of the above. Interestingly,... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/23/13

  • Boston

  • cleantech

  • energy

  • startups

• Under Purple Spotlights, Surge Accelerator’s Startups Make Their Debut

  The mimosas and Bloody Marys began flowing before 9 a.m. at Houston’s House of Blues, setting up a rock-concert after-party feel for the coming out party for a group of energy startups.

  The entrepreneurs were the headliners at Wednesday’s Surge Day,... Read more »

  Angela Shah5/23/13

  • Texas

  • cleantech

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Software

• Scheduling App Maker TeamSnap Grabs Rival Weplay’s Users, Content

  A lot of professional sports teams try to steal away each other’s superstars. But what if one franchise tried to snatch its biggest rival’s entire fan base and all their ticket holders?

  TeamSnap, a Boulder-based startup, recently accomplished something very much... Read more »

  Michael Davidson5/22/13

  • Boulder Denver

  • Mobile

  • acquisitions

  • startups

• Bay Area’s TubeMogul Opens Detroit Office to Pursue Automotive Ad Dollars

  TubeMogul, a Bay Area startup that runs a platform distributing pay-per-view video ads across the Internet, announced earlier this month that it is opening an office in downtown Detroit. TubeMogul joins companies like Twitter in setting up shop in Dan Gilbert’s... Read more »

  Sarah Schmid5/22/13

  • Detroit

  • startups

  • Software

  • Big Three

• Crunchyroll Upgrades Anime Site to Connect Fans with Merchandise

  Much of the media world makes its money by pairing merchandise with television programs and movies. Now Web-streaming service Crunchyroll has updated its platform to improve the way it sells toys and other show-related products to fans.

  Kun Gao, co-founder and... Read more »

  João-Pierre S. Ruth5/22/13

  • New York

  • e-commerce

  • startups

  • video streaming

• Texas Venture Capital Market “Weak,” But Still Shows Promise

  [Corrected 5/24/13, 8:23 am. See below.] Blair Garrou came to Houston in 1996, intending to stay four years while his wife completed her degree in veterinary medicine at Texas A&M University in nearby College Station. He was working in the banking... Read more »

  Angela Shah5/22/13

  • Texas

  • Venture Capital

  • IT

  • cleantech

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• CommonAngels Pledges 20 Startup Tix for XSITE June 19: Get Yours Here

  With just under a month to go before our fifth annual XSITE conference at Babson College (agenda here), we’re pleased to announce that CommonAngels has pledged to buy 20 tickets for startups looking to attend—see below for details. (CommonAngels... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/22/13

  • Boston

  • startups

  • entrepreneurs

  • events

• Cardeas Pharma Snags $34M For Antibiotic Against Hospital Infections

  Seattle-based Cardeas Pharma just raised a lot more cash to fight a big problem that hospitals wrestle with every day, and which they’d rather not say much about publicly.

  Cardeas, the startup led by prolific drug developer Bruce Montgomery, has... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/22/13

  • Seattle

  • Biotech

  • VC

  • startups

• Ironwood, NPS Pharma Tap Wall Street To Roll Out Lead Drugs

  Ironwood Pharmaceuticals and NPS Pharmaceuticals have plenty in common: both won FDA approval of their first drugs in 2012, and both are trying to prove to investors that they can successfully sell them. And now, both have sought out Wall Street... Read more »

  Ben Fidler5/22/13

  • Boston

  • Biotech

  • Offerings

  • Drugs

• Boston Roundup: Adelphic, SoundBite, MIT $100K, Acquia, & More

  [Updated 12:55 pm] A CEO swap, some corporate M&A, student entrepreneurship, increased sales numbers, fundraising, and general deal-making in this quick trip through some Boston-area innovation headlines:

  —Mobile advertising startup Adelphic is getting a new leader. The company says... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/22/13

  • Boston

  • Roundup

  • startups

  • M&A

• Regeneron Eyes Potential Blockbuster With Asthma Drug

  [Updated: 11:05 pm ET] Regeneron Pharmaceuticals became a breakout biotech star with a new drug for treating age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness among the elderly in the U.S. Now the Tarrytown, NY-based biotech believes it’s taken... Read more »

  Ben Fidler5/21/13

  • New York

  • Life Sciences

  • Drugs

  • clinical trials

• Roundup: HasOffers Raises $9.4M, UW Bothell Chancellor, & More

  This week’s Seattle tech news roundup features a hefty venture round for mobile ad tracking startup HasOffers, the new STEM-focused chancellor of University of Washington Bothell, an Avanade study of social collaboration tools use in the enterprise, and a Seattle AWS... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/21/13

  • Seattle

  • Seattle

  • Roundup

  • Startup

• Kineta, Scouring the World for Cash, Finds Oil Money

  Seattle-based Kineta has found some more support for its drug development work from an unlikely source—a group of oil traders.

  The company said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash from Hydra, a group made up of 13 recently... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/21/13

  • Seattle

  • Biotech

  • Drugs

  • deals

• Boston and Other “Digital Cities” Visit Internet Week New York

  A bit of friendly rivalry is healthy for cities with growing technology ecosystems, but sometimes they set aside the hype and find ways to collaborate. At the onset of this week’s Internet Week New York citywide festivities, representatives from 11 cities... Read more »

  João-Pierre S. Ruth5/21/13

  • New York

  • IT

  • big data

  • startups

• Dream Chaser Reaches Edwards AFB to Prove It Has “The Right Stuff”

  The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The journey into space for a potentially breakthrough vehicle begins with a nearly 1,000-mile trip to Edwards Air Force Base—on the back of a flatbed truck, wrapped in plastic.

  At... Read more »

  Michael Davidson5/21/13

  • Boulder Denver

  • Dream Chaser

  • nasa

  • aerospace

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