San Diego’s Antengo Marching to Next Round in Mobile Classified Ads
Bruce V. Bigelow
Marcus Wandell tells me he was attending a music festival in New York City’s Lower East Side in 2009, “getting price-gouged on a $12 beer,” when he ...
San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Allergan, Qualcomm Life, & More
Bruce V. Bigelow
We saw a spate of funding deals and other activity in the week or so preceding Thanksgiving. Here’s our roundup of life sciences news, with best wishes ...
The Road Not Taken and Genomatica’s Renewable Chemicals Strategy
Bruce V. Bigelow
A few weeks ago, BP cancelled a $350 million project in Highlands County, FL, that was supposed to produce 36 million gallons of ethanol a year from “energy ...
The Road Not Taken and Genomatica’s Renewable Chemicals Strategy
Bruce V. Bigelow
A few weeks ago, BP cancelled a $350 million project in Highlands County, FL, that was supposed to produce 36 million gallons of ethanol a year from “energy ...
Qualcomm Throws Up Some Big Numbers, Sees Double-Digit Growth Ahead
Bruce V. Bigelow
With 300 million smartphones sold worldwide during the first six months of this year, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs is feeling bullish about industry trends that ...
Janssen Forms “Investigator Databank” to Help Streamline Drug Trials
Bruce V. Bigelow
In a bid to ease the administrative burden on the scientists who run clinical trials, J&J’s Janssen Research & Development is today unveiling a ...
Keeping Web Focus, Social Leverage Raising $15M for Micro VC Fund
Bruce V. Bigelow
Howard Lindzon, the entrepreneur, hedge fund investor, and CEO of Coronado, CA-based StockTwits, is raising capital for a new and slightly more formalized ...
Epic Sciences Raises $13M, Advances Ultra-Sensitive Cell Diagnostics
Bruce V. Bigelow
[Corrected 11/14/12, 3:45 pm. See below.] Epic Sciences, a San Diego startup developing diagnostics to identify and analyze tumor cells and other rare cells ...
San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Deals at MEI Pharma, Auspex, Ambit
Bruce V. Bigelow
It was a good week for raising capital in San Diego’s life sciences community. We have a rundown of the big deals and other news, too.
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Auspex Raises $25M for Longer-Lasting, Deuterium-Based Drugs
Bruce V. Bigelow
At San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals, CEO Larry Fritz is overseeing a drug development program based on a fairly simple premise: If an FDA-approved small ...