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Madrona Venture Group, one of the most active venture capital firms based in the Seattle area, said Tuesday that it has raised a new, $300 million fund to support early stage technology businesses in the region and beyond.
Madrona had previously... Read more »
Amazon will invest $150 million in a new package fulfillment center on the west side of Michigan, the tech giant announced today.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) said it will lease a 100-acre site in Gaines Township from Steelcase, a Grand Rapids,... Read more »
Adobe has made a big bet emphasizing the “shop” part of its best-known product.
The maker of the Photoshop suite of software announced late Monday it is buying fellow Bay Area firm Magento Commerce for $1.68 billion to gain a larger... Read more »
San Antonio — Two Texas startup programs are teaming up to run a “pre-incubator” for startups that are still developing their business ideas.
Called the Velocity360 program, the incubator is run over eight weeks by VelocityTX and its partner, EPIcenter. Entrepreneurs... Read more »
Many people who spend a significant amount of time on the phone at work use headphones or a headset so they can go hands-free during calls and type as they talk.
While they have yet to enter the mainstream, there are... Read more »
Let’s get caught up with the latest innovation news from Xconomy Texas.
—Austin, TX-based venture firm Silverton Partners announced it has closed on a $108 million fund, which it will use to invest in startups in the enterprise and consumer... Read more »
Grail, the Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) spinout that merged last year with China’s Cirina, has raised an additional $300 million to advance its ambitious quest to develop a blood test sensitive enough to detect cancer.
The Hong Kong-based Ally Bridge... Read more »
After postponing a May 7 shareholder vote in a power struggle for control of San Diego’s Arcturus Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ARCT), the company’s board of directors has set a new date for its showdown with ousted CEO Joseph Payne.
In a... Read more »
Vascular-degenerative diseases such as critical limb ischemia are on the rise in the United States, but the millions of people affected by these disorders worldwide have limited treatment options and no cures. An regenerative medicine startup spun out of Indiana University... Read more »
Iora Health has become of the bigger players in digital healthcare and non-traditional health systems. The Boston company just announced a $100 million Series E funding round from investors including .406 Ventures, Devonshire Investors, F-Prime Capital, Flare Capital Partners, and GE... Read more »
It’s been a busy year for Jerusalem-based Mobileye since Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) completed its $15.3-billion acquisition of the Israeli specialist in autonomous navigation technology.
In a recent update, Mobileye co-founder and CTO Amnon Shashua said the company has almost doubled... Read more »
Seattle’s innovation economy has dual identities: the technology sector that develops the hardware and software that comprise our increasingly digital lives, and the biotechnology sector that is searching for new ways to treat disease. The convergence of those fields makes the... Read more »
[Updated 5/21/18, 3:43 pm. See below.] Mobile commerce startup NewStore has hauled in $20 million in fresh venture capital, according to a document filed with the SEC.
That brings the Boston-based company’s funding total to around $109 million, according... Read more »
It’s been a bumpy ride for emicizumab (Hemlibra) in 2018. The Roche/Genentech drug, approved by the FDA in late 2017, has a chance to become the choice treatment for people with hemophilia A, and new data today help that case.... Read more »
Dallas—Melbourne O’Banion, co-founder and CEO of Bestow, sees opportunity in using analytics to bring the insurance industry into the 21st century.
To that end, the Dallas-based startup announced today it’s raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led... Read more »
[Updated 5/21/18, 3:16 pm. See below.] Microsoft said it has acquired “conversational A.I.” startup Semantic Machines, as it tries to bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities in its longstanding competition with Google, Apple, Amazon, Baidu, and other tech leaders.
The... Read more »
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 »
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