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In its early years, Uber was a headstrong force knocking down preconceived ideas about transportation and, along with Lyft, sparking the imaginations of countless entrepreneurs who are now building a new industry called “mobility.”
As it closes in on its first... Read more »
Live Undiscovered Music, a Madison, WI-based startup whose software helps users discover new music and share it with friends, captured first place in one of the state’s more closely watched pitch competitions Thursday.
The startup, which goes by LUM for... Read more »
Over the past few years, immunotherapy has rapidly begun to change how lung cancer is treated. But it hasn’t been an option for patients with a particularly aggressive form of the disease, small cell lung cancer (SCLC), until today.
The FDA... Read more »
[Updated 8/17/18, 10:21 a.m. See below.] We’ll start the roundup this week with two drug approvals that came late last Friday. Both were landmarks for the companies receiving the nod, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Amicus Therapeutics.
We also saw a... Read more »
DoorDash has upped its valuation to $4 billion with a new $250 million financing round, five months after it raised $535 million to gain its “unicorn” status.
The new $250 million funding round was co-led by Coatue Management and DST Global.... Read more »
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Wednesday that Bill Murphy, an engineering professor at the school who has also helped launch several startup companies, will co-lead a new biomanufacturing collaboration that will seek to promote technological innovation and job creation across the... Read more »
Take a walk through the downtown core and it’s obvious the Motor City has mounted a comeback.
Downtown Detroit is unquestionably benefitting from significant private investment, and witnessing its growth in the past decade has been truly impressive: Tech companies large... Read more »
Techstars, which works to advance early stage startups through 45 accelerator programs across the world, today announced its newest accelerator focused on construction and infrastructure materials.
The accelerator, located in Indianapolis, is being run in partnership with the Heritage Group... Read more »
Austin—[Updated 2:11 p.m. See below.] MassChallenge gave out $510,000 in cash to eight startups Wednesday, including to six early stage companies from Texas.
During an award ceremony in Austin, two hometown companies won $100,000 each, the top awards... Read more »
A new class of pain drugs that might offer an alternative to addictive opioids—if they’re safe enough to use chronically—is inching closer to an FDA review.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN) and partner Teva Pharmaceutical (NYSE: TEVA) said this morning... Read more »
Pfizer has become the latest drug maker to bet that synthetic messenger RNA molecules (mRNA) can be a new source for vaccines.
This morning, the New York pharma company cut a deal with BioNTech, of Germany, to co-develop mRNA vaccines for... Read more »
After a sluggish start to 2018, hiring has accelerated recently at the top software companies in three of America’s largest technology hubs.
That’s according to the latest quarterly Digital Jobs Index compiled by John Barrett, a Boston-area partner with executive... Read more »
Best Buy is paying $800 million in cash for GreatCall, a San Diego-based healthtech company which private equity firm GTCR bought early last year.
GreatCall operates a virtual mobile telecommunications network for a customers base of more than 900,000 elderly... Read more »
Houston—Sometimes, when a startup has matured to a certain point, a founder is not considered to be the best person to lead it during the next stage of growth. At Station Houston, a startup-focused organization founded in 2016, new leadership... Read more »
Austin—Bumble, the dating app maker that has expanded into other areas of social networking, has launched an investment fund focused on startups founded by women.
The Bumble Fund plans to make early stage investments that focus on diverse female founders... Read more »
With so many stellar Xconomy Award nominees this year, we wanted to recognize several who don’t fit neatly into the other categories, so we’ve created categories just for them. One of these nominees for X of the Year is gaining influence... Read more »
There’s a new venture fund in town, focused on the hypiest of hyped sectors right now: blockchain systems and cryptocurrencies. It’s a small fund, but what’s interesting about Castle Island Ventures is the pedigree of the Boston firm’s founders and the... Read more »
Full Harvest, an online market for imperfect produce that previously would have been thrown out, announced it has raised $8.5 million in a Series A round of funding.
The funding was led by Spark Capital and includes investors such as Cultivian... Read more »
The American Center for Mobility, the Ypsilanti Township, MI-based public-private entity developing and testing advanced automotive technologies, announced this week that it has parted ways with John Maddox, its president and CEO.
Taking the helm on an interim basis is... Read more »
For years, the patient records software company Epic Systems has held an annual conference, which attracts thousands of leaders from hospitals and clinics that use Epic’s software to the company’s headquarters in Verona, WI.
The customer conference, known as Users... Read more »
Seattle-based Analytics Pros has sold to another Google-focused marketing company, Denver, CO-based AdSwerve, for $24 million in a private equity-backed deal, according to a company spokesman.
Boston-based Abry Partners funded the acquisition, and Analytics Pros will “transition” into AdSwerve in January... Read more »
Exabeam, a cybersecurity company that analyzes activity logs and other data generated by computers and devices as it scans for potential threats, announced today that it raised $50 million in a Series D funding round.
San Mateo, CA-based Exabeam is... Read more »
CVC provides new funding source for startups
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