Business Week By Caroline Winter The U.S. Navy quietly updated its fleet last month, adding its first new patrol boatsince the mid-1980s. The Mark VI Patrol Boat is an 85-foot vessel that seats 10 crewmen and eight passengers, reaching a sprint… Read More
The Jewish Voice by Ruthie Blum The dream of every startup is to foresee and capitalize on revolutionary trends, and the video technology company Kaltura has been doing just that. Founded in 2006 by Israeli serial entrepreneurs Ron Yekutiel, Shay… Read More
by Jonathan Vanian Gigaom.com When thinking about how cloud computing has changed the nature of applications, it’s hard not to consider just how much better modern-day apps are with regards to how fast they can operate, retrieve data and perform other useful… Read More
New Suite Includes Easy to Use Video Tools for Capturing, Creating, Recording, Uploading, Editing, Annotating, Segmenting and Adding Calls to Action to Video Content, All Available Within Kaltura’s Full Range of Education Video Products NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – September 30,… Read More
Company Partners with 10 Leading Education Institutions to Advance Video Standards and Accessibility for All Learners in Video Marketwired NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – September 24, 2014) – Kaltura, the leading video technology platform (www.kaltura.com), whose system is deployed in hundreds of… Read More
La Jolla’s Avalon, drug giant funding life-science startups By Bradley J. Fikes San Diego Union Tribune Building on their groundbreaking partnership, Avalon Ventures in La Jolla and the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline announced Monday that they have jointly invested $20… Read More
Companies Include Silarus Therapeutics Developing Treatments for Anemia and Iron Overload Disorders; and Thyritope Biosciences Developing Treatments for Graves’ Orbitopathy Media Contact: Heidi Chokeir, Ph.D. Canale Communications Heidi@canalecomm.com 619-203-5391 SAN DIEGO, Sept. 22, 2014 – Avalon Ventures today announced the… Read More
Mashable BY SETH FIEGERMAN Sidecar may go down as the little engine that could. The ride-sharing startup announced Monday that it has raised another $15 million, bringing its total funding to date to more than $30 million. The latest round of funding was… Read More
Eyes and Ears Draw Biggest Increases in Investments; Heart Is Strong, but Slipping Wall Street Journal By BRIAN GORMLEY Sept. 15, 2014 What body parts are seeing the most striking rise in venture-capital funding? The answer in recent years has been… Read More
GeekWire Sidecar may not make quite as many headlines as Uber or Lyft, but the transportation startup is certainly still finding success. That was made clear today with San Francisco company announcing a new $15 million round as it prepares to expand nationally.… Read More
Says it’s all about aligning with the digital model ADWEEK By Lauren Johnson Specs Who David Cooperstein New gig CMO of Simulmedia Old gig Vp, practice leader for the CMO practice at Forrester Research Age 48 Twitter @Minicooper Photo: Alfred Maskeroni How will your experience at… Read More
(CNN) — Gregory Sancoff thinks he knows what the Navy needs, even before U.S. war planners do. The Navy, he says, needs Ghost. Sancoff is CEO of Juliet Marine Systems — maker of a futuristic-looking, 21st-century warship that he says can protect large… Read More
Rich Levandov and Avalon Ventures Lead Investment on New Product launching this Year FierceWireless SAN FRANCISCO – August 20, 2014 – OnBeep today announced that it has secured $6.25 million in funding to make beautiful wearable communication devices that unite groups and allow teams… Read More
People are the most important part of the startup equation. Here are the three most important traits that VCs look for in startup founding teams. TechRepublic When it comes to building a great company, there are many factors that come… Read More
The New York Times By: Andy Pollack Judging by some of the heavy action in the world of biotechnology, one could easily conclude that the industry is going to the dogs. Or cats, maybe.There are start-ups named Nexvet and VetDC,… Read More
Yahoo Finance PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– AeroFS today announced two new features that are promising to make file sharing and syncing simpler and more secure. As the organization continues to focus on bettering both the user and administrator experiences, these… Read More
NEW YORK – (DGIwire) — It’s impossible to ignore—the rise of gluten-free foods is upon us. Many people randomly choose to go gluten-free because they think it offers health benefits, much like cutting out meat or bread from a diet even… Read More
NEW YORK – (DGIwire) — According to Webster’s New World Finance and Investment Dictionary, an “early stage investment” is “the financing provided by a venture capital firm to a company after it has received its initial, or seed, financing.” The definition goes… Read More
U~T San Diego By Bradley J. Fikes San Diego biotech Otonomy filed Friday to raise up to $86 million in an initial public offering, just a few days after releasing positive Phase 3 data for its ear drug AuriPro. AuriPro was tested on children… Read More
IDG News Service EMC’s TwinStrata acquisition announced on Tuesday is just part of a bigger move to keep its venerable VMax storage platform up to date with large enterprises as they enter the cloud era. TwinStrata, which EMC is acquiring for an… Read More