Dean, University of San Diego School of Law
Lecturer, Boston University School of Management
Partner, Latham and Watkins
General Partner at Founder's Co-op
Partner, Latham & Watkins
founder and CEO, Atlantis Consulting Group
Professor, MIT
Chair of the Dept. of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute
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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 »
Last week, Allen Park, MI-based EcoMotors announced a $200 million deal with China’s Zhongding Power to build a manufacturing plant in Anhui Province. The plant will produce EcoMotors’ opposed piston opposed cylinder (“opoc”) engines, which the company says are cheaper to... Read more »
Who are all these new guys around town?
Over the past year or so, Massachusetts has seen lots of outside companies set up offices in the Boston area. Not a new trend, but something to keep an eye on. Tonight a... Read more »
You can’t help but be inspired after spending a couple of hours with the 20 Northwest student teams at the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge.
Despite the shortcomings of our education system at multiple levels, rising tuition, and laments about diminishing American... Read more »
Four years ago this week, I put the deposit down on my first apartment in Detroit. I had been spending an increasing amount of time in the city on weekends, and every time I visited, I felt—at the risk of sounding... Read more »
San Diego’s emerging agricultural biotech cluster has added three new companies, with DSM, ZeaKal, and Algenetix setting down roots here. I’ve got details about them below, along with the rest of the life sciences news over the past week.... Read more »
GreenLancer, the Detroit-based solar engineering company Xconomy profiled last July, announced last week that it has oversubscribed its Series A fundraising round, snagging $275,000 from four Michigan-based investors.
The company, which is based online and employs a national network of contract... Read more »
CEO of PlumAlley
Chief Scientist, Mimecast
Founding Managing Partner, Forward Ventures
President, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Founder and International Chairman, Boston Power
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