The number of San Diego startups angling for investor attention has spiked this year thanks to a warming climate for entrepreneurs. A record-breaking number of startups have applied for a spot on San Diego Venture Group’s roster of Cool Companies — a hand-picked group of young companies chosen to meet local and out-of-town venture capitalists. […]
Tucson-based micro-satellite launch company Vector Launch is one of three companies chosen by the Defense Department’s research arm to show they can rapidly launch small payloads into space — and potentially win millions of dollars in prize money. Vector was picked along with a subsidiary of Virgin Orbit and an undisclosed company to take part […]
Three launch vehicle developers, one of which is still in stealth mode, have qualified to compete in a DARPA competition in early 2020 to demonstrate responsive launch capabilities.In a briefing at the 35th Space Symposium here April 10, DARPA announced that Vector, Vox Space and a stealth-mode company have qualified to participate in the DARPA […]
There was plenty of talk about the recent progress Arizona is making to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem for bioscience companies — with some fresh faces leading the charge, at the Tucson edition of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap annual luncheon Wednesday. Sponsored by the Flinn Foundation, a Phoenix-based nonprofit, Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap is a plan hatched in […]
HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a diagnostic company whose mission is to advance precision medicine, announced it has released a new HTG EdgeSeq Mouse mRNA Tumor Response Panel available now in the United States and Europe. The HTG EdgeSeq Mouse mRNA Tumor Response Panel is designed for use in mouse oncology models to […]
Qwick Inc., the Scottsdale-based on-demand staffing startup for food and beverage contract employees, has closed on a $3.5 million seed round of funding. This new capital round, which closed Monday, is on top of the $1.3 million it raised in December, pushing its total raised in seed funding so far to almost $5 million, said […]
Fiverr is acquiring ClearVoice, a company that helps customers like Intuit and Carfax find professionals to write promotional content. The two companies seem like a natural fit, as they both operate marketplaces for freelancers. Fiverr covers a much broader swath of freelance work, but CEO Micha Kaufman (pictured above) said the marketplace’s professional writing category […]
Positive results of NuvOx Pharma’s NVX-208 in the treatment of stroke have been published at the International Stroke Conference. The trial was sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. William “Bill” Culp, MD, the principal investigator on the trial, said, “Such strong safety and promising efficacy results meet our highest hopes for this […]
Tempe-based GT Medical Technologies Inc. received FDA approval to use its GammaTile Therapy in patients with recurrent brain tumors. The company’s new FDA-approved procedure replaces the need for months of radiation following brain surgery. The first surgical procedure using the product was conducted Jan. 30. https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2019/02/04/tempe-cancer-treatment-firm-gets-10m-financing.html
Stimwave Technologies, the leading innovator of wireless medical device bioelectronic technology, today announced pending publication and completion of long-term clinical data from the SURF study. The SURF RCT study, a prospective, randomized, multi-center clinical trial was the first ever pivotal study conducted utilizing a wirelessly powered Spinal Cord Stimulator (SCS) system comparing a variety of […]