Lecturer, Boston University School of Management
President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Founder & Managing Director, SURGE Accelerator
Founder and CTO, Shopximity
CEO and Co-Founder, Endeavor
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Founder and Co-Chair, Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Founder, Inception Sciences
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What does an ex-Facebook tycoon with a degree in electrical engineering know about fixing the U.S. healthcare system?
Well, Chamath Palihapitiya knows that healthcare is in need of some drastic reinvention, and that to some extent, this will involve training people... Read more »
San Francisco’s Rock Health startup accelerator unveiled its latest class of startups this week. It’s the fifth group admitted to the digital health program, which provides each of its companies with a $100,000 investment and four months of intensive entrepreneurship training,... Read more »
Attendance at the annual Wireless-Life Sciences Convergence Summit in San Diego has remained relatively steady in recent years (the first conference was held in 2006), but there has been a phase change in the industry over the past year. As with... Read more »
Just a little over a month to go before our fifth annual flagship conference, XSITE 2013 (Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, & Entrepreneurship) at Babson College. The date is June 19, the theme is “Boston’s Tech Revival,” and the agenda is... Read more »
One year after it was announced, the New York Digital Health Accelerator birthed its first clutch of startups on Wednesday at a demo day—including one acquisition deal in the mix.
Pared down from some 250 applicants from across the U.S.... Read more »
Amid the hectic pace of earnings releases, we saw a number of partnership agreements and other developments coming out of San Diego’s life sciences community. Here’s my wrap-up.
—Shares of San Diego-based Receptos (NASDAQ: RCPT), a biotech developing new treatments... Read more »
Capital Royalty, a private equity investment firm that specializes in investing in healthcare technologies, has closed an $805 million investment fund, the firm announced today. Capital Royalty is headquartered in Houston and has offices in Boulder, CO, and New York... Read more »
If you try to keep up with all the business-plan contests and student startup competitions in the Boston area, you will go mad.
I’m making the rounds this spring, but I won’t be able to write about everything I see (or... 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 »
[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 »
The water’s fine in the healthcare-and-technology market, and institutional investors should come on in. That’s the message from Psilos Group, a healthcare-focused venture firm based in New York City and Corte Madera, CA, in an outlook report on healthcare economics... Read more »
Eager to nurture ripe ideas from startups in the healthcare IT sector, Tigerlabs Health accelerator in Princeton, NJ today announced it has launched an additional program to match industry needs with entrepreneurs. New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the Merck Global Health Innovation... Read more »
If your health insurance company has you playing games, you’re probably not happy. If you talk about insurance or healthcare to your friends on a social network, the odds are you’re complaining.
But a growing number of companies are trying to... Read more »
Business plan competitions are in full bloom at colleges and universities around Boston. One of the most prominent ones, at Harvard Business School, got a facelift this year and is in the process of selecting its semifinalists.
The program is now... Read more »
Graduating its third group of startups, the Blueprint Health accelerator in New York is increasingly making its presence known beyond the city. Late last week, 11 companies pitched their technology at a demo day that included platforms for improving efficiency at... Read more »
The life sciences clusters around New York and Boston may sometimes act like rivals, but they also have plenty of reasons to work together. This week was marked by deals and cross-fertilizations between big pharmaceutical companies in the wider New York... Read more »
A pretty big deal in healthcare IT this morning: WorldOne, a health data and intelligence company based in New York, says it has secured a $35 million funding commitment from Deerfield Management, also in New York. The main focus is to... Read more »
Thank you Boulder and Denver! We are extremely pleased to announce today the launch of Xconomy Boulder/Denver, the seventh bureau in our growing network of news sites covering the business of technology in key innovation clusters around the United States.... Read more »
Founder and Managing Partner, Boston Millennia Partners
Founding Partner, General Assembly
CEO of Aspect Workforce, Aspect Software
Co-Founder and Chairman, AutoHarvest
CEO, i-Human Patients.
Boston · 6/19/13
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