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126 Articles match "Fund","Research"
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Friday, March 19, 2010
in a funding round, which includes Morgenthaler Ventures, according to a regulatory filing this week. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. Elecelyx Therapeutics is headed by Alain Baron, former Senior Vice President, Research, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, and now an EIR at Morgenthaler. San Diego-based Elecelyx Therapeutics , a stealth mode biotech firm, has raised $1.2M The filing indicates the firm is looking to raised $2.2M
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. Thankfully, because of Caltech and CRNS--the Center for National Research and Science, where the work was done, we have been able to take a look beyond lithium, where there are lots of players, where the chemistry was developed and led by the Japanese, and now the Koreans, and lots of startups in the U.S. This week, the firm announced that it was renaming itself Contour Energy (www.contourenergy.com)--and said it was ready to talk about what its battery technology is all about.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
in funding from CMEA Capital, Harris & Harris, Schlumberger and US Venture Partners--said it is targeting the transportation, government and defense, medical, industrial, portable electronics and specialty application markets with its products, which were developed out of a collaboration between CalTech and CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research. Azusa-based CFX Battery , the stealthy Caltech battery spinoff, said today that it has renamed itself Contour Energy , and emerged out of stealth mode. Contour Energy said it is developing advancements in fluorine-based
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Very few people fund individuals. I Go research it. You Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. In And whenever I needed to round up signatures for future fund raisings it was difficult to track him down / get him to care. The This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC .
Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
Technical Strategy I support the technical team to: review short and long-term technology strategies to help direct strategic technical decisions and help to ensure appropriate technology usage, help define needed technical research activities, assess new and emerging technologies to determine application to business needs, help determine resource needs within business constraints, review and influence business and technical processes to help balance competing needs and priorities. Support operational and technical team to revise product roadmap Review and discuss short-term and
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Have you noticed how some entrepreneurs look at getting funding as the ultimate sign of success? Not only is funding not the finish line, but the mistakes you make when you get investors can cost you when you finally do get to the finish line and are ready to sell your company.
Brandon has done stints as an operator at all stages of the funding cycle, and at Soros Private Equity, investing over $70M in technology deals. Brandon Watson came to Mixergy to talk about how he raised money for his startup, how he grew it, and why he had to sell it. The two most powerful points
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time researching their market and customers. But, when it comes to raising money, they tend to approach anyone with a heartbeat! The problem with this approach is that a large majority of the investors you pitch are simply not appropriate for what you are doing or where you are as a company. So, any time you spend on them is wasted.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. as part of its Google Focused Research Awards, to help fund research in ares of study that are of key interest to the company. Google said that the firm is awarding a total of $5.7M Among the 12 projects, which include 31 professors at 10 universities, are one on the use of mobile phones as data collection devices
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Pasadena-based Arrowhead Research, a publicly held firm commercialization technology in the life sciences, electronics, and energy markets, said today that it has raised $5.4M The firm said the funding activity helps the firm to conserve capital and maintain commercialization progress at its subsidiaries. The shift of funds from Tego Biosciences to Arrowhead was a result of Tego deciding to focus on for a number of the firm's subsidiaries. According to Arrowhead, it raised $2.7M
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which operates a secondary marketplace for privately held company shares, is expanding the amount of third party research on its market. According to the firm, it has added Blueshift Research and Liquid Scenarios as providers of private company research and data to its subscribers. The firm also features research from Next Up! SharesPost's site features in-depth analysis of privately held firms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tesla Motors, eHarmony, and other popular privately held firms. Research and VC Experts.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Monrovia-based Tanner Research has received a $1.2M contract from the Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), the firm said Friday afternoon, in additional funding as part of a research program. Tanner said the funding is part of the firm's development of technology to intercept rocket, artillery, and mortar threats for ARDEC. Tanner Research scored its initial contract for the technology in 2006. Tanner provides technology research in the area of image processing, chemical detection, and other areas for such customers as
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monrovia-based Tanner Research , which provides technology research, electronic design automation (EDA) software, and other products and services, said Tuesday that it has been awarded a SBIR Phase I contract worth $100,000 from the Army Research Office. Tanner said that the funding will go towards developing zinc-oxide nano-wire based ultra-violet light detectors, which are being applied to military applications such as detection of missile plumes, bio/chemical agents, and explosives. The firm said the research is a partnership of the firm along with UC San Diego research lab of Prof.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Department of Energy (DOE) said this week that it has awarded $377M in funding for 46, Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) focused on reducing dependence on imported oil and to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, including a center at the University of California, Santa Barbara , and one at the University of Southern California . The DOE said the awards--which were funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act--includes $19M given to UCSB, which will go towards discovering an developing materials that control the interactions between light, electricity, and heat at
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