CEO of PlumAlley
Co-Founder and Managing Member, Psilos Group
Professor of Computer Graphics, UC San Diego
Chair of Dept. of Genetics and Development, Columbia University
Professor, MIT
Co-Founder, BuddyTV
Founder, MicroCHIPS
President and CEO, Biocom
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 industry, focusing on energy, but as... Read more »
What are the most powerful forces affecting innovation and the economy? That is one of the key questions facing the nation as we inch our way out of the economic mire.
Juan Enriquez may not have all the answers, but he... Read more »
Utility companies and the nation’s power grid might be getting smarter, but consumers don’t seem particularly interested. That’s according to a national survey tracking consumer opinions about smart meters, renewable energy, and demand management technologies.
Navigant Research, the Boulder, CO-based... Read more »
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Some news on VC fundraising, startup investment, corporate layoffs, and student entrepreneurship in this midweek rundown of items to catch up on:
—Matrix Partners, based in Waltham, MA, has confirmed that it’s... Read more »
Call this bit of news a “blast from the past” that will make people in Colorado’s oil and gas industry smile—and could leave environmentalists and members of the clean energy industry shaking their heads.
Rigzone, an online industry news and... Read more »
Solar power advocates hope this will be the summer that drought-stricken Texas sees the potential of this abundant natural energy source, and changes electricity market structures to take advantage of it.
“Texas is one of the largest untapped solar markets in... Read more »
Fallbrook Technologies was founded in San Diego, and it spent 15 years working to commercialize its design for a new type of continuously variable transmission, with the potential to increase fuel efficiency, reduce emissions, and improve vehicle performance. The company bills... Read more »
For the past couple of years, a variety of high-level federal officials have sounded increasingly urgent alarms about the vulnerabilities of the U.S. power grid to cyber attack.
In October, for example, former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned that increasingly... Read more »
Houston’s energy sector is an economic powerhouse, but not one usually associated with startup culture.
“Energy is extremely global but it’s also extremely myopic,” says Kirk Coburn, founder and managing director of Surge Accelerator in Houston. “It doesn’t look outside... Read more »
Texas has always had a larger-than-life reputation.
Big business, big politics—even big hair—the state’s outsized persona often takes center stage in our national story. No matter where I’ve traveled, be it in a village in Nepal or the glitzy hotels of... Read more »
I’ve been coming to Texas regularly for more than 20 years—first to meet my future in-laws, and ever since to visit a growing extended family network around the state. I didn’t envision opening a Texas business arm on that initial visit... Read more »
Finally, the economy seems to be heading in the right direction, but frustratingly slowly—and peril lurks around every sequester corner. Is that the new normal in this age of rising healthcare costs, venture capital belt-tightening, and a nearly broken Congressional system... Read more »
Even with the big BIO International Convention in Chicago this week, San Diego still managed to make life science headlines, as Avalon Ventures unveiled a pharma partnership that could bring nearly a half-billion dollars in startup capital to San Diego. We... Read more »
According to MoneyTree data released today, first-quarter venture funding in southeast Michigan was down compared to the first quarter of 2012, though the deal count rose by one. Compared to last year, funding in Q1 2013 was down by almost two-thirds,... Read more »
[Updated 4/23/13 2:30 pm. See below.] The year is off to a slow start in terms of venture capital investing, both for companies in the Boulder/Denver area and around the country, according to the MoneyTree Report released today.
Sixteen companies in the... Read more »
Overall venture capital activity slowed in the U.S. during the first three months of 2013, with venture capitalists investing $5.9 billion in 863 deals nationwide, according to the MoneyTree Report released today.
Compared with the previous quarter, VC funding was off... Read more »
Provost and professor of chemistry, Rice University
Professor of Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University
Co-Founder and CEO, Genoptix
Chair, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF
Founder and CEO, Trada
San Francisco · 6/3/13
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