An on-demand staffing firm for food and beverage contract employees has closed on a $1.3 million funding after going through Phoenix tech startup accelerator Coplex. Phoenix-based startup Qwick Inc. will use the seed round of capital to more than double its nine-person staff in the next six months and expand into new markets, said Qwick […]
A venture-capital fund focused on University of Arizona spinoffs has announced its fourth investment since its founding last year, backing a Phoenix-based startup with an online platform to help hotels and restaurants quickly find temporary workers. UA Venture Capital Fund LLC participated in funding a seed round of growth capital for Qwick Inc., which was […]
A small rocket from a little-known company lifted off Sunday from the east coast of New Zealand, carrying a clutch of tiny satellites. That modest event — the first commercial launch by a U.S.-New Zealand company known as Rocket Lab — could mark the beginning of a new era in the space business, where countless […]
HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a provider of instruments, reagents, and services for molecular profiling applications, today announced the appointment of Maureen T. Cronin, Ph.D., as the Company’s Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President as of November 16, 2018. Dr. Cronin is a veteran biotechnology, translational science and diagnostic executive. “HTG is incredibly […]
The artificial intelligence powered cybersecurity startup CYR3CON has completed a $1.5M seed round financing led by New York-based Scout Ventures. Many cyber attacks such as NotPetya spread through larger enterprises in seconds – leaving security teams scrambling. To address this need, CYR3CON combines artificial intelligence and information from malicious hacking communities to predict cyberattacks. For […]
Gryphon Online Safety, a San Diego tech startup founded by the people that brought you the MiFi mobile hotspot, announced today that they have been granted allowance on one of the key patents covering the technology behind their machine learning-based content filtering. In the underserved consumer and SMB network protection space, Gryphon is a simple-yet-powerful […]
HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (“HTG”), a provider of instruments, reagents, and services for molecular profiling applications, today announced that the Institute of Oncology Research (“IOR”) is now running the HTG EdgeSeq technology for extraction-free, targeted next-generation sequencing (“NGS”) in its genomics facility. The technology will support the IOR’s research and clinical trials in […]
Rocket builder Vector said Friday it has raised $70 million in a round of financing, with a Morgan Stanley alternative investment fund joining Silicon Valley backers. Vector is developing small rockets priced at less than $3 million a launch. They are designed to be capable of putting up satellites and spacecraft about the size of […]
The market for small satellites in low Earth orbit is expanding faster than the gas in a thruster nozzle, and Vector aims to be the go-to launch platform for companies looking to put a bird in the air on short notice. The company just raised a $70 million B round and aims to take its […]
Tucson-based Vector Space Systems Inc., a microsatellite launch company led by a founding member of Elon Musk‘s SpaceX, has raised $70 million in fresh capital. The money, collected in a Series B round of funding, will be used to expand its sales and marketing teams, build a rocket manufacturing facility in Tucson and hire up […]