Co-Founder and CEO, DNAnexus
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Managing director, the Foundry Group
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CEO, FullContact
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Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks
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Stay current on news from Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines:
—Bright Cellars, a monthly wine club that seeks to help its subscribers develop more sophisticated palates, said it raised a $2.8 million funding round. Participating investors included Chicago-based Cleveland... Read more »
Late last month, the University of Michigan-Dearborn unveiled a new autonomous shuttle project called MDAS.ai, in which students and faculty will build a driverless vehicle for low-speed, pedestrian-filled environments.
Made possible through a collective $100,000 contribution from Osram Opto Semiconductors... Read more »
Austin—Ojo Labs, which is developing artificial intelligence-enabled chatbots designed for the real estate industry, has raised $20.5 million.
The new Series B funding round comes from investors such as Realogy Holdings, Royal Bank of Canada, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and... Read more »
When it comes to advertising on the Web, Google remains king. But second-place Facebook has rapidly been narrowing the gap.
From 2012 to 2017, Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) ad revenues increased 833 percent, to $39.9 billion, according to Statista.com. That’s... Read more »
There’s nothing abstract about a 20 percent jump in a company’s stock price. But yeah, that happened to Loxo Oncology when it released data previews for its American Society for Clinical Oncology presentations; the meeting starts in two weeks in Chicago.... Read more »
The tech industry and the investment community that funds it are notorious for being, shall we say, safe spaces for white men.
The myth of meritocracy persists in the tech world even in the face of data indicating a longstanding... Read more »
The story of how genes are regulated has gotten a whole lot more complicated in recent years. Scientists, using ever-improving sequencing technologies, are discovering the many ways the cell can turn gene activity up or down. With this growing insight comes... Read more »
[Updated 5/18/18, 8:38 a.m. See below.] An Amgen migraine drug developed to head off pain before it starts has won FDA approval, the first for a new class of preventive drug candidates for the condition.
The Amgen (NASDAQ:... Read more »
San Antonio—Cloud computing giant Rackspace has acquired a company that helps other businesses implement and use the Salesforce software. The deal expands Rackspace’s focus on helping companies use software and computing services, including those of cloud computing businesses it historically... Read more »
Dallas—OncoNano Medicine, which is developing an imaging agent to help surgeons better remove tumors, has raised $11.7 million in Series A funding.
OncoNano’s lead product, ONM-100, is an injectable imaging agent that targets the acidic pH within tumors to better... Read more »
The U.S. is coming off the worst influenza season in nearly a decade, highlighting the potential benefit of a universal flu vaccine that could protect against multiple strains of the disease.
One company developing an experimental universal flu vaccine is FluGen... Read more »
Underscore VC’s partners planned to begin seeking capital for the firm’s second early-stage venture fund in the fall. Instead, their backers approached them, eager to re-invest.
“We were pre-empted,” says co-founder and partner Michael Skok. “That’s pretty unusual.”
The result of... Read more »
[Updated 5/17/18, 9:45 am. See below.] Silicon Valley company Arevo, which competes with a growing number of rivals to transform 3D printing into a tool for mass manufacturing, announced today it raised $12.5 million in a Series B... Read more »
MIT’s Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC), a competition awarding more than $1 million to tech entrepreneurs driving economic opportunities for workers, is coming to Detroit.
The brainchild of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, the IIC seeks to find and... Read more »
For some migraine sufferers, bright lights or loud sounds are enough to touch off an attack. For others, stress sparks the onset of pain. Bright lights, loud sounds, stress: Migraine triggers vary from one patient to another. But a common element... Read more »
After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers.
The three-year-old company already provides its content... Read more »
Dallas—Jasmin Brand says organizations geared to support women founders tend to focus on personal rather than professional development.
“It always seemed they were focused on soft skills,” she says. “It’s OK to do social events, but that’s not how you... Read more »
Here’s an update on a quintessential Boston tech startup. InsightSquared, which got started in 2011, said Wednesday it has pulled in $23 million in Series D funding.
The round was led by Tola Capital, with previous investors Accomplice, DFJ, Two... Read more »
[Updated 5/16/18, 10:09 am. See below.] It’s time to catch up on recent news from the Boston-area tech sector, including a pair of acquisitions; investments in digital health, artificial intelligence, and wastewater analytics; and scenes from this year’s “Star... Read more »
At first blush, the $66 million Series B round that startup FogPharma is announcing this morning seems standard fare, particularly this year, when private biotechs have raised gobs of cash hand over fist. But a closer look shows careful steps... Read more »
In recent weeks, a business developing industrial laser technology and another that sells software to help corporate teams collaborate are among the Pacific Northwest companies that have held an initial public offering, or filed paperwork to do so. Let’s get caught... Read more »
Last month, the University of Michigan hosted a daylong conference about the economic and social impacts of future mobility, when autonomous and connected vehicles will likely upend transportation as we know it.
Because the research associated with autonomous vehicles and other... Read more »
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