Managing director, the Foundry Group
Professor of Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University
Member, NASA Technology Roadmap Review Steering Committee
Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks
Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School
Chairman, CEO, & Founder, Alexandria Real Estate Equities
President, Rockefeller University
Professor, J. David Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
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When Media Camp opened its doors in downtown San Francisco in 2012, it represented an exotic new species of startup accelerator. Unlike most other accelerators, it was owned and run by a big corporation—Turner Broadcasting. It was focused on a single... Read more »
Austin, TX-based venture capital firm S3 Ventures has raised a $75 million fund to invest in information technology and medical device companies.
The fund is the firm’s fifth and largest to date, and is the first tech fund in Texas to... Read more »
Santarus (NASDAQ: SNTS) CEO Gerald Proehl has been named as the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for San Diego in the life sciences category, and EcoATM CEO Tom Tullie won as Entrepreneur of the Year in technology.... Read more »
A smattering of fundraising news from companies and investors around the Boston area, and beyond:
—Covestor, a Boston-based online investing marketplace, has raised $12.75 million in private investment. The Series B round came from Union Square Ventures, Spark... Read more »
Eight months after its public debut, Menlo Park, CA-based Calysta Energy has announced its first partnership deal. Calysta, a synthetic biology company, will attempt to engineer a new microbe that can live off methane gas and produce raw materials for... Read more »
In this “always on” era of online products and services, there is a time-saving appeal to the product introduced today by San Diego-based SlimSurveys. It’s designed to help businesses gather feedback from customers without sucking up too much of their time.... Read more »
There’s a set of companies in Colorado that’s spinning off one innovative startup after another. Their products and unique style are having an impact across their industries, and some of the most influential people and organizations have roots in the area.... Read more »
Clovis Oncology’s big two weeks came to an end Monday with the closing of a secondary public offering of $275 million for the Boulder, CO.-based biopharmaceuticals company’s $275 million public offering.
Since the start of June, Clovis Oncology (NASDAQ: CLVS)... Read more »
Time travel. Invisibility cloaks. Quantum supercomputers?
QWave isn’t doing any of that stuff. But it’s a good way to begin a story that involves investments in quantum physics and materials science companies.
QWave, aka Quantum Wave Fund, is a young... Read more »
In the free-for-all of the online video sector, it can be tough to stand out. But today New York’s Content Galaxy rolled out a platform it believes can give print media a new way to engage audiences who watch streaming videos.... Read more »
Google was back on the stump Tuesday, trying to convince enterprise software buyers that it really, truly cares about their business.
Amit Singh, the president of Google’s enterprise business, took the stage at the E2 conference in Boston to talk about... Read more »
Civitas was spun out of Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS) two years ago based on technology that can deliver a precise, high dose of a drug through an inhaler. With a new round of cash from the Michael J. Fox Foundation and... Read more »
Richard Douglas has long-standing ties to the University of Michigan. He went there for his undergrad degree in honors chemistry before getting his PhD at UC Berkeley and a job with the Boston-based life sciences company Genzyme, where he eventually... Read more »
It has been a busy morning for Nina Nashif.
The CEO and founder of Chicago-based Healthbox is in town for the accelerator program’s second “innovation day” in Boston. Nine health IT startups will present their pitches this afternoon to a crowd... Read more »
It’s time for the video game industry to grow up.
No longer the purview of introverts on the sidelines of the creative arts, gaming is a global business worth tens of billions of dollars, and its practitioners need to become as... Read more »
Investors are betting on Seattle-area companies working on everything from uterine fibroids (Mirabilis Medica) to video storage and licensing (Ninu). Those companies, along with microscope camera maker Exo Labs and social decision-making platform Yabbly, raised capital recently. Meanwhile, car-sharing services are... Read more »
San Diego’s Ambrx, co-founded in 2003 by the prominent chemist Peter Schultz (who remains on its board), has advanced its technology for antibody-drug conjugates by forging a series of drug discovery and development partnerships with Big Pharmas like Merck, Eli Lilly,... Read more »
Seeing dogs riding in cars with their ears flapping in the wind is common in summer, but canines need much more exercise than sticking their heads out of windows. FitBark, based in the Forest Hills section of Queens, believes its wearable... Read more »
Russell Conard, co-founder of the Ann Arbor-based startup Ornicept, likes to describe himself as a computer scientist with a birding habit. Conard hooked up with Ornicept’s other co-founder, Justin Otani, who is the son of a wildlife biologist, while they... Read more »
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Co-Founder and CEO, Seattle Genetics
Managing Dir. of Life Sciences, Hercules Technology Growth Capital
Director, Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Co-Founder and Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners
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