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• Crunchyroll Upgrades Anime Site to Connect Fans with Merchandise

  Much of the media world makes its money by pairing merchandise with television programs and movies. Now Web-streaming service Crunchyroll has updated its platform to improve the way it sells toys and other show-related products to fans.

  Kun Gao, co-founder and... Read more »

  João-Pierre S. Ruth5/22/13

  • New York

  • e-commerce

  • startups

  • video streaming

• Texas Venture Capital Market ‘Weak,’ But Still Shows Promise

  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 »

  Angela Shah5/22/13

  • Texas

  • Bazaarvoice

  • Blair Garrou

  • DreamIt Ventures

• CommonAngels Pledges 20 Startup Tix for XSITE June 19: Get Yours Here

  With just under a month to go before our fifth annual XSITE conference at Babson College (agenda here), we’re pleased to announce that CommonAngels has pledged to buy 20 tickets for startups looking to attend—see below for details. (CommonAngels... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/22/13

  • Boston

  • startups

  • entrepreneurs

  • events

• Cardeas Pharma Snags $34M For Antibiotic Against Hospital Infections

  Seattle-based Cardeas Pharma just raised a lot more cash to fight a big problem that hospitals wrestle with every day, and which they’d rather not say much about publicly.

  Cardeas, the startup led by prolific drug developer Bruce Montgomery, has... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/22/13

  • Seattle

  • Biotech

  • VC

  • startups

• Boston Roundup: Adelphic, SoundBite, MIT $100K, Acquia, & More

  [Updated 12:55 pm] A CEO swap, some corporate M&A, student entrepreneurship, increased sales numbers, fundraising, and general deal-making in this quick trip through some Boston-area innovation headlines:

  —Mobile advertising startup Adelphic is getting a new leader. The company says... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/22/13

  • Boston

  • Roundup

  • startups

  • M&A

• Kineta, Scouring the World for Cash, Finds Oil Money

  Seattle-based Kineta has found some more support for its drug development work from an unlikely source—a group of oil traders.

  The company said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash from Hydra, a group made up of 13 recently... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/21/13

  • Seattle

  • Biotech

  • Drugs

  • deals

• Boston and Other “Digital Cities” Visit Internet Week New York

  A bit of friendly rivalry is healthy for cities with growing technology ecosystems, but sometimes they set aside the hype and find ways to collaborate. At the onset of this week’s Internet Week New York citywide festivities, representatives from 11 cities... Read more »

  João-Pierre S. Ruth5/21/13

  • New York

  • IT

  • big data

  • startups

• UT Horizon Fund Aims to Build, and Capture, Value from Its Startups

  Campuses at the University of Texas, such as the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, can boast of star-studded faculties to rival the innovative scientific leadership at UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley and Stanford University. In 2009, the 15-institution University of... Read more »

  Bernadette Tansey5/21/13

  • Texas

  • VC

  • startups

  • Biotech

• Swipely Swipes $12M More to Advance “Operating System for Local Commerce”

  Don’t look now, but Swipely is becoming a big player.

  The Providence, RI-based startup led by Angus Davis (of Tellme Networks fame) has just raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Shasta Ventures. Previous investors First Round Capital, Greylock... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/21/13

  • Boston

  • deals

  • VC

  • startups

• Juan Enriquez on the Forces Shaping Innovation: A Napa Summit Preview

  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 »

  Robert Buderi5/21/13

  • Napa Summit

  • innovation

  • Economy

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• Yahoo Locks in $1.1B Deal for Tumblr, Promises Not to Screw Up

  David Karp’s wallet just got a lot fatter.

  After a flurry of speculation over the weekend, Tumblr in New York is being acquired by Sunnyvale, CA-based Yahoo, in a deal announced early Monday at the previously reported price of $1.1 billion,... Read more »

  João-Pierre S. Ruth5/20/13

  • New York

  • deals

  • startups

  • Web

• Andy Miller on Leap Motion as the New Apple, & Sacramento Kings Deal

  I’m on the phone with Andy Miller, and I don’t know where to begin.

  Ask him about working with Steve Jobs at Apple? About how Leap Motion may or may not be the next Apple? Or what about how that $348... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/20/13

  • Boston

  • people

  • startups

  • sports

• Appconomy Aims for Share of China’s Mobile Shopping Market

  We’ve all been there, standing in a superstore, shopping list in hand. We stare at the dozens and dozens of rows of consumer products before us and don’t have a clue where to find anything.

  But if you’re in China, Appconomy... Read more »

  Angela Shah5/20/13

  • Texas

  • Mobile

  • retail

  • Software

• Accelerate LI’s Lofty Goal: Create the Next U.S. Innovation Cluster

  When Astellas Pharma shuttered the labs of OSI Pharmaceuticals last week, no one felt that loss as acutely as the residents of Long Island, NY. OSI, famed for its lung cancer drug erlotinib (Tarceva), had shown that it was possible to... Read more »

  Ben Fidler5/20/13

  • New York

  • startups

  • Life Sciences

  • Tech

• Zillions of Biotech Conferences Want You. Which Should You Attend?

  Biotech industry conferences are happening, somewhere on this green Earth, every day. If you’ve been around a while, and you’ve attended a few, chances are you get invitations, or marketing pitches, that ask you to attend a different meeting every day.... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/20/13

  • BioBeat

  • conferences

  • Life Sciences

• Boston Roundup: Skyword, SimpleTuition, Jelly, Pebble, MIT

  A smattering of fundraising announcements involving Boston-area companies and investors, along with a student entrepreneurship program in this collection of local news tidbits:

  —Skyword, a Boston-based marketing company that links freelance copywriters with advertisers and other clients, has raised... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/17/13

  • Boston

  • Roundup

  • Tech

  • startups

• Going Beyond Early Promises, NY Works On Its Follow-Through (Part 2)

  For cities to truly thrive in this economy, fresh ideas must be cross-pollinated from beyond their borders—and New York offers its share of honey to lure in startups. This international gateway can be the place for companies to break into the... Read more »

  João-Pierre S. Ruth5/17/13

  • New York

  • startups

  • people

  • innovation

• Nine Lessons for Innovators from a Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist

  I was pretty slow about getting around to reading Thinking, Fast and Slow. The career-capping book by Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman, one of the founders of behavioral economics, spent months on all the bestseller lists back in 2011. I finally... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/17/13

  • xperience

  • startups

  • Economics

• XBiotech Takes Aim at Inflammation That Weakens Cancer Patients

  Few could accuse XBiotech CEO John Simard of failing to think big.

  The Austin, TX-based startup he founded in 2005 is testing a novel biological drug candidate that is aiming to treat the persistent inflammation that makes cancer patients feel so... Read more »

  Bernadette Tansey5/17/13

  • Texas

  • Biotech

  • cancer

  • startups

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• Cambridge Innovation Center Strikes Deal for St. Louis Expansion

  The Boston area’s best-known startup hub is taking another big step in its national expansion plans.

  The Cambridge Innovation Center, an all-in-one office space and services provider that houses some 500 companies near the MIT campus, is opening a branch... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/16/13

  • Boston

  • startups

  • Real Estate

  • Biotech

• The Daily Grommet Leads Wave of “Anti-Amazon” E-Commerce in Boston

  First of all, the company is no longer called the Daily Grommet. Now it’s just The Grommet.

  “We still execute daily,” says CEO Jules Pieri, “but we dropped the word because it seemed to be superfluous.” She adds, “We love... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/16/13

  • Boston

  • Internet

  • e-commerce

  • strategy

• Matterport Isn’t Playing Games with Kinect-Style 3D Camera

  When Tel Aviv, Israel-based PrimeSense came out with its first depth-sensitive, near-infrared camera-on-a-chip in 2010, nobody could have predicted how many uses hardware makers would dream up for the technology within a few short years.

  The first and most famous was... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/16/13

  • San Francisco

  • startups

  • IT

  • Computer Vision

• Going Beyond Early Promises, NY Works On Its Follow-Through (Part 1)

  After much clamor about becoming a sanctuary for startups, New York faces the “now what?” stage of its growth as a tech hub.

  Plans have been laid down to fill the streets with engineers—in another decade or two. But... Read more »

  João-Pierre S. Ruth5/16/13

  • New York

  • startups

  • Venture Capital

  • angel investing

• Matrix Genetics Emerges from Algae Biofuel Wilderness With a Partner

  Matrix Genetics is one of those startups that never really got off the ground in its early days, but never died, either. While the Seattle-based company lived on fumes at various points over the past four years, it saw other contenders... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/16/13

  • Seattle

  • Biotech

  • Biofuels

  • startups

• Bellicum in Trials with Cancer Vaccine, Cell-Suicide Switches

  Less than a decade after being hatched out of a Texas university, Houston-based Bellicum Pharmaceuticals is in the midst of clinical trials on two innovative cancer therapies that, if successful, could result in new ways of attacking and killing off harmful... Read more »

  Iris Kuo5/16/13

  • Texas

  • Biotech

  • Life Sciences

  • startups

• San Diego’s RuiYi (aka Anaphore) Focuses Anew on Antibodies & China

  It’s been almost two years since Paul Grayson was named as CEO of San Diego’s Anaphore—more than enough time for the former Fate Therapeutics CEO to put a new strategy in place.

  The company unveiled the first element of its new... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/16/13

  • San Diego

  • Life Sciences

  • cancer

  • Antibody Drugs

• Kiva’s Domestic Microlending Initiative Expands to Flint

  Kiva Detroit, Kiva’s first domestic microlending initiative—and the country’s first community-led microlending program—spent its first year focused on expanding the social network of lenders and community volunteers on the ground actively recruiting small businesses in need of a loan.... Read more »

  Sarah Schmid5/16/13

  • Detroit

  • innovation

  • social entrepreneurship

  • Microloans

• Atlas Leans on Amgen, Novartis to Build New Startups

  [Corrected on 5/16/13, 9:11 a.m., see below] Fresh off raising $265 million to bankroll its ninth fund, Atlas Venture has forged strategic partnerships with Amgen and Novartis to help supply the bigger companies with innovative new drug candidates. The... Read more »

  Ben Fidler5/16/13

  • Boston

  • Life Sciences

  • VC

  • deals

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