Chair of the Dept. of Chemical Physiology
Managing General Partner at Pappas Ventures
CEO and Fund Manager, Renaissance Venture Capital Fund
VP of Research and Special Initiatives, Google
Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint
Partner, Third Rock Ventures
Hopster CEO
Founder, Gilt Groupe
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Cubist Pharmaceuticals is one of biotech’s unlikely stories. Rising from a fortuitous licensing deal to become a leader in the antibiotics field, Lexington, MA-based Cubist made the big leap from startup to profitable mid-cap biotech; one with an established franchise and... Read more »
Constantly testing and optimizing your website to turn more visitors into customers is one of those things everyone knows they should be doing. But companies often lack the time, expertise, and money for it.
Experiment Engine, a startup in Austin,... Read more »
Here are the week’s headlines in North Carolina tech and biotech news:
—Diagnostics and laboratory testing company LabCorp (NYSE: LH) is expanding its DNA testing capabilities by acquiring Bode Technology. Burlington, NC-based LabCorp disclosed no financial terms for its purchase... Read more »
A vacant 1.75-acre piece of land in downtown Madison, WI—once the site of a car dealership—could become one of the most important hubs for tech entrepreneurship in the state’s capital, if the backers of a proposed project called StartingBlock Madison make... Read more »
No drug has been approved to treat acute myeloid leukemia in four decades. As two specialists in the field wrote a couple years ago, “We indeed regularly administer the same chemotherapy regimens that became standard care for AML in the... Read more »
Agios Pharmaceuticals has already established itself as a star of the 2013 biotech IPO class. Since going public last year, the company has increased its value nearly six fold—from $18 per share to $105 as of Friday—and shown early signs that... Read more »
With three acquisitions of its portfolio companies, San Francisco biotech investment firm venBio has had a few good exits recently. Now one of its partners is exiting, too. Kurt Von Emster, one of four venBio founders, has decamped for Abingworth, a... Read more »
Seattle’s cloud computing cred was bolstered by yet another big cloud player planning a local office. This time it’s Dropbox, which will be competing for local talent with just about everyone else, as a new survey of Seattle CIOs reveals.
Meanwhile,... Read more »
Our latest innovation conference, Tech Agenda 2015, was a ton of fun. Some of the brightest people we’ve ever assembled delivered the latest insights from a wide range of innovative industries, including e-commerce, digital security, early stage investing, and more.
The day’s final... Read more »
Plymouth Ventures, the Ann Arbor, MI-based venture capital firm focused primarily on Midwestern companies, led CloudOne’s Series D round, valued at $4.5 million.
CloudOne, based in Indianapolis, brings enterprise applications to the cloud and helps corporations figure out their... Read more »
Over the next few days, it’s all about blood cancer: biotechs will jostle for the limelight at American Society of Hematology’s annual meeting in San Francisco, which kicks off tomorrow morning. But in the meantime, a whole lot of cash was... Read more »
It feels like every day, we hear another story of a 22-year-old who sold his app for millions. But the truth about entrepreneurs may be very different. In fact, if you look at the official data, entrepreneurship in the U.S. has... Read more »
Palo Alto, CA-based Norwest Venture Partners is one of the investment firms that are placing bets on educational technology, a fast-growing field that is transforming the way students learn, from kindergarten through college and beyond.
I talked recently with Sergio Monsalve,... Read more »
If you believe industry insiders—and a considerable amount of media hype—desktop 3D printers are about to become the proverbial next big thing, as companies like MakerBot, 3D Systems, and Solidoodle find ways to create more reliable, user-friendly printers that consumers... Read more »
A security startup that detects anomalous cyber behavior and a life sciences company that makes 3D liver tissue for use in drug toxicity testing were among eight San Diego companies that won engraved Lucite trophies last night for the most innovative... Read more »
Houston’s Mercury Fund has raised its third fund, totaling $105 million in commitments.
The closing of Mercury Fund III, which made its first investment in October 2013 and its last a year later, brings the firm’s total capital under management to... Read more »
Researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), led by CEO Oren Etzioni, recently scored a D on a fourth-grade science test—a notable accomplishment in the field.
OK, it was actually their flagship artificial intelligence effort, Project Aristo, which... Read more »
It’s not every day that a wind energy startup attracts investment from a telecom company, but that’s exactly how Altaeros Energies financed its Series A round.
Altaeros said today that Japan-based telecom company SoftBank invested $7 million in the Somerville, MA-based... Read more »
Formlabs, a 3D printer startup that makes high-end devices targeted at professional designers, has agreed to pay 8 percent of its net sales to much larger competitor 3D Systems in order to settle a patent lawsuit.
Details of the two companies’ financial deal were not... Read more »
Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
Former CEO, Calistoga Pharmaceuticals
Managing Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
CEO of the Marine Bio-Technologies Center of Innovation
Managing director, the Foundry Group
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