VP of Research & Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Professor of Systems Biology, Columbia University
President and CEO of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership
Head of global research and development at Life Technologies
Vice President for Corporate Engagement, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Founder, The Haul Company
Partner at New Enterprise Associates
Managing Partner at Pappas Ventures
Austin—RealSavvy, a customizable online service that enables real estate brokers and agents to communicate with potential clients, is taking a $2.5 million round of financing that the company will repay in payments based on its monthly revenue.
Timia Capital is... Read more »
Exact Sciences has gone from being a customer of Biomatrica, a San Diego-based vendor of equipment for storing and preserving blood and saliva samples, to now being the company’s owner.
Madison, WI-based Exact (NASDAQ: EXAS), which is developing diagnostic tests... Read more »
Novartis has agreed to pay $2.1 billion cash to acquire Endocyte, expanding an ongoing effort by the Swiss firm to develop targeted radiation treatments for cancer.
Under the agreement, Novartis (NYSE: NVS) will pay shareholders of West Lafayette, IN-based... Read more »
Merck could soon join rival Bristol-Myers Squibb in making immunotherapy an option for kidney cancer patients who have never had treatment before.
Merck (NYSE: MRK) reported today that its blockbuster drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda) has hit its marks much earlier than... Read more »
AbbVie is positioning itself to add fibrosis drugs to its pipeline through a new research and development partnership with startup Morphic Therapeutics.
Under the agreement, AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) will pay Morphic $100 million up front for exclusive options to license... Read more »
Codelicious, the Indianapolis-based educational tech startup, is on a mission to create access and remove barriers to teaching and learning computer science, says CEO Christine McDonnell.
Over the summer, the organization raised nearly $1 million from Collina Ventures, GRE... Read more »
Enterprise planning software company Anaplan pulled off its IPO in the middle of a broad market slump last week—raising $263.5 million—and its 43 percent share price surge on the first day of trading continues to hold while Nasdaq and the Dow... Read more »
In 2011, Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen penned a widely read essay declaring that “software is eating the world.” If he were to write an updated version today, it might proclaim that machine learning is eating the world.
Advances in data... Read more »
Applied Systems, a Chicago-area company that sells its cloud-based software to groups in the insurance industry, announced Wednesday that it has acquired Dynamis Software. West Allis, WI-based Dynamis develops software that insurance brokers and agents can use to compare the different... Read more »
The scientific interests of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen led him to fund a pair of major research centers in the Boston area devoted to cracking mysteries of the human biological code—and aiming to recreate the sort of foundational work... Read more »
[Updated 10/17/18, 2:52 p.m. See below.] Express Scripts has just exerted its influence over the emerging market battle between drug makers trying to sell a new class of migraine-preventing medicines. The pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) is excluding a new... Read more »
Austin—Icon Technology, a company that builds 3D-printed homes and was permitted to construct its first home in Austin, TX, earlier this year, has closed a $9 million seed round of funding.
The company plans to use some of the money... Read more »
The inventor and developer of a drug, nusinersen (Spinraza), are among the winners of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Adrian Krainer (pictured) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Frank Bennett, senior vice president of research at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, share the... Read more »
Gener8tor went north of the border to find some of the participants in its latest Wisconsin startup accelerator program.
The organization, which trains entrepreneurs and invests in some of the companies they run, appears to have picked two startups headquartered in... Read more »
Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank. Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in... Read more »
Origin Code Academy, one of San Diego’s few coding schools—for-profit companies that offer short-term vocational training in computer programming—said this month it will shutter on Nov. 16 after about three years in business.
The company opened in late 2015, offering a... Read more »
If you had more than $300 million to try and fix the healthcare industry, how would you do it?
For a startup called Devoted Health, the answer involves a combination of providing more home healthcare and support to the seniors it... Read more »
San Antonio—Cybersecurity is a fast growing area of the insurance industry as insurers capitalize on the smattering of fear-inciting headlines, from the Equifax and Facebook breaches to the ever-present risk of ransomware.
Large companies like Nationwide Mutual Insurance offer businesses... Read more »
Technology and life sciences leaders say they’ll remember Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist, and investor who passed away Monday at age 65, as an “inspiration” whose work will impact the fields he worked in for years to come.
Allen died... Read more »
An agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Stratatech, a Madison, WI-based maker of human skin tissue, $26 million in new funding.
Stratatech, which is developing cell-based regenerative skin tissue for burn victims and others,... Read more »
Warp Drive Bio started up in 2012 with a potential buyer, Sanofi, already in place. Six years later the Cambridge, MA, company is being acquired—by another startup, Revolution Medicines.
The companies aren’t disclosing financial details of the acquisition, other than to... Read more »
Tulerie makes its debut today, joining a growing roster of online clothing rental startups.
The New York-based Tulerie focuses on high-end couture—items that retail for $1,000 to $10,000—that might be worn a time or two but mostly take up space in... Read more »
Robust ecosystem supports tech hub and startup community
Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
Software Engineer at Skelmir
Gravy Live co-founder
CEO and co-founder of BoostSuite
Chair, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute; Co-director, Center for Physiological Proteomics, The Scripps Research Institute
Vice president, chief strategy and operating officer of the Texas Medical Center
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