Managing director, the Foundry Group
Chairman, CEO, & Founder, Alexandria Real Estate Equities
Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks
Professor of Systems Biology, Columbia University
Founder and CEO, Lighter Capital
Director, Silicon Flatirons Centers' Entrepreneurship Initiative
Head of global research and development at Life Technologies
Chair, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute; Co-director, Center for Physiological Proteomics, The Scripps Research Institute
San Antonio—VelocityTX, an organization established last year as a resource center for entrepreneurs and startups, and a Brazilian organization are being given a grant worth about $50,000 to support young companies in the South American country.
VelocityTX and the... Read more »
We’ve heard a lot, especially since the presidential election in 2016, about how technologies like social media are effectively reducing empathy and harming civil discourse. But what if technology could instead be used to stoke a better appreciation of the daily... Read more »
IPO activity has waned in the dog days of summer, but two more biotechs have now joined the growing list of companies with Wall Street ambitions. Entasis Therapeutics and Principia Biopharma have filed to go public, hoping to raise the cash... Read more »
Acquia is known for software that helps businesses manage content on their websites. But these days, the 11-year-old company describes itself as a builder of “digital experiences,” a nod to the ever-expanding list of technological vehicles through which brands market their... Read more »
When tech entrepreneur Onno Faber learned he had an extremely rare genetic disease with no available treatments, he leaned on his tech skills and organized a Silicon Valley “hackathon” in 2017 to dig into his own DNA and perhaps help others... Read more »
Propeller Health said this week that it has partnered with an Ohio-based health insurer to help a group of its Medicare patients who have respiratory disease better manage their symptoms.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio has begun recruiting... Read more »
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 »
CVC provides new funding source for startups
Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
Vice President for Corporate Engagement, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
CEO and Co-Founder, Tamr
Founder and Managing Director of DEV
Chairman and CEO, Nanobiosym Diagnostics Inc.
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