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•  IU Spinout Vascugen Turns to Stem Cells for Blood Vessel Repair

  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 »

  Sarah Schmid Stevenson5/21/18

• Iora Health Goes Big With $100M to Advance Collaborative Care Model

  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 »

  Gregory T. Huang5/21/18

• Mobileye Sets Safety-Based Rules of the Road for Self-Driving Tech

  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 »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/21/18

• What’s Hot in Seattle Biotech: Here’s the Agenda for the June 12 Event

  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 »

  Frank Vinluan5/21/18

• NewStore Bags $20M After Ex-Victoria’s Secret, TJX CEOs Join Board

  [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 »

  Jeff Engel5/21/18

• Data Could Make Roche Drug a Hemophilia Standard, But for How Long?

  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 »

  Ben Fidler5/21/18

• Aiming to Digitize Term Life Insurance Industry, Bestow Raises $15M

  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 »

  Angela Shah5/21/18

• Microsoft Snaps Up Semantic Machines to Push Conversational A.I.

  [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 »

  Jeff Engel5/21/18

• Bright Cellars, AmFam, Coinigy & More: This Week’s WI Watchlist

  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 »

  Jeff Buchanan5/18/18

• U-M Students, Faculty Building Driverless Shuttle with Industry Help

  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 »

  Sarah Schmid Stevenson5/18/18

• Ojo Labs, AI-Enabled Chatbot Maker for Real Estate, Raises $20.5M

  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 »

  Angela Shah5/18/18

• Aided By Facebook Ads, Wantable Carves Out Niche in Online Fashion

  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 »

  Jeff Buchanan5/18/18

• Bio Roundup: ASCO Abstracts, Migraine Drug Prices & “Blueprint” Fallout

  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 »

  Alex Lash5/18/18

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• EntryPoint Aims to Increase Inclusion, Diversity in Startup Ecosystem

  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 »

  Sarah Schmid Stevenson5/18/18

• Accent Therapeutics Debuts With $40M To Target RNA Modification

  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 »

  Corie Lok5/18/18

• Amgen Migraine Drug Gets FDA Nod, First in New Class of Medicines

  [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 »

  Frank Vinluan5/17/18

• Rackspace Acquires RelationEdge, Adding to IT Customer Management

  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 »

  David Holley5/17/18

• OncoNano, Maker of Tumor Imaging Technology, Raises $11.7 Million

  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 »

  Angela Shah5/17/18

• FluGen to Study Versatility of Its Universal Flu Vaccine Candidate

  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 »

  Jeff Buchanan5/17/18

• Underscore VC Quickly Raises $117M for Second Early-Stage Fund

  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 »

  Jeff Engel5/17/18

• Arevo Adds $12.5M to Expand 3D Printing into Manufacturing

  [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 »

  Bernadette Tansey5/17/18

• MIT’s Inclusive Innovation Challenge Is Coming to Detroit in the Fall

  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 »

  Sarah Schmid Stevenson5/17/18

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• Amgen Migraine Decision Looms, Maybe the Next Drug Price Fight, Too

  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 »

  Frank Vinluan5/16/18

• As a Google Partner with Fresh Capital, Zesty.io Aims to Disrupt CMS

  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 »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/16/18

• New Startup Group Aims to Encourage Women Founders to Be Brazen

  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 »

  Angela Shah5/16/18

• InsightSquared Scores $23M to Advance Sales and Marketing Software

  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 »

  Gregory T. Huang5/16/18

• Boston Tech Watch: SmartBear, Wellist, LogoMix, Biobot, NEVYs & 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 »

  Jeff Engel5/16/18

• Verdine Picks Backers For FogPharma’s $66M Round, Keeping Firm Control

  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 »

  Ben Fidler5/16/18

• Seattle Tech IPO Watch: Avalara, nLight, Smartsheet & 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 »

  Jeff Buchanan5/16/18

• Silicon Valley, Detroit Need Each Other to Get Driverless Cars Humming

  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 »

  Sarah Schmid Stevenson5/16/18

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