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Texas’s Innovative 2014: IPOs, Startup Funding Programs & SXSW
Angela Shah Another year comes to a close. Before you pop that champagne-bottle cork, let’s pause to remember the top innovation themes in Texas in 2014. The funding environment was (Read more...)
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Birdhouse Aims to Be Go-To App for Families Coping with Autism
Sarah Schmid [Corrected 1/5/15, 2:35 pm. See below.] Ben Chutz and Dani Gillman, co-founders of the Detroit-based startup Birdhouse for Autism, launched their company in 2012 because (Read more...)
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Qualcomm Ventures Forms Joint Investment Business with Novartis
Bruce V. Bigelow Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), the San Diego wireless technologies giant, plans to form a joint investment business through its corporate ventures arm with the Swiss pharmaceutical giant...
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Big Deals Drive Jump in 2014 VC Investment in Colorado
Michael Davidson Venture capital investors pumped more cash into tech and life sciences companies across the country in 2014 than they have in years, with a handful of companies such (Read more...)
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Primary Care Provider Iora Health Takes In $28M to Fuel Growth
David Holley Iora Health has raised $28 million in a Series C funding round as the primary care provider plans to double the number of practices it operates in the (Read more...)
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True Vault: Helping Digital Health Apps Grapple With HIPAA
Bernadette Tansey Look on Apple’s app store, and you’ll find endless columns of exercise counters, baby trackers, cardio monitors, personal medication diaries…and many, many butt workout regimens....
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As California Drought Lingers, Tule’s Sensors Guide Crop Irrigation
Bernadette Tansey Californians have been using their garden hoses sparingly to help conserve water during one of the state’s driest years in history. But what if you’re a farmer with (Read more...)
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Social Network for Pharma’s Supply Chain TraceLink Grabs $20M Series B
David Holley TraceLink, a company that sells a cloud-based platform tracking pharmaceutical drugs, has raised a $20 million Series B funding round to develop its products and build a (Read more...)
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Fears Percolate as Billion-Dollar Private Company Valuations Climb
David Holley There are 73 private companies in the world with valuations of more than $1 billion, up from 40 just one year ago, according to a report published by (Read more...)
View ArticleSF Startups From App-Searching Tool to Mobile Defense Get VC Funding
David Holley A half-dozen Bay Area startups announced early stage funding during the last 24 hours. They include a business specializing in anti-hacking technology for mobile devices, a...
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GE Backs Evidation Health to Tackle Digital Health
David Holley Digital health is an amorphous category that can encompass everything from electronic health records to fitness apps. It’s been hard to grasp the real value of some of (Read more...)
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Evercharge and Others Nab Last Finalist Slots in $650K Challenge Cup
Bernadette Tansey In the Bay Area’s environmentally conscious neighborhoods such as Berkeley, electric cars hum almost silently through streets of single family homes. But what about the apartment...
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MicroVentures Brings Venture Investing to the (Accredited) Masses
David Holley There’s an element of crowd sourcing behind most investing. Venture capital and private equity firms find limited partners—the few obscenely rich individuals or institutions worldwide...
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Business Analytics Firm Birst Brings In $65M Series F
David Holley Birst, a San Francisco-based business analytics company, has received $65 million from Wellington Management and existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad, DAG...
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Meerkat and the Live Streaming Phenomenon at SXSW: A Tech Timestamp
David Holley What better place than South by Southwest to encounter technology that distracts you from the world around you? At Capital Factory’s A-List pitch event on March 13, a (Read more...)
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