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Seattle
VC, Software, cleantech

Voyager Capital’s Daniel Ahn on the Firm’s Refocused Clean-IT Strategy

Gregory T. Huang 2/8/10

To Voyager Capital managing director Daniel Ahn, “cleantech” is just a buzzword. “Clean IT” is much more precise—and, to the point, it’s something a hardcore techie venture capitalist can get his hands around.

Last week, I spoke with Ahn by phone about Voyager’s recent investment in Coulomb Technologies, a Campbell, CA-based startup focused on electric vehicle infrastructure (networked smart chargers). The deal was a little different from what the Seattle-based... Read more »

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San Diego
Health IT, deals, wireless

PatientSafe Solutions Secures $30M Round, Report Says

Ryan McBride 2/8/10

PatientSafe Solutions (formerly IntelliDOT) has raised $30 million in a restructuring round of funding, according to a report in VentureWire. The San Diego-based startup, which develops technology that is intended to prevent costly errors in... Read more »

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Seattle
Biotech, cancer, FDA

Cell Therapeutics Shares Fall as FDA Says Lymphoma Drug Has “Substantial” Side Effects

Luke Timmerman 2/8/10

Seattle-based Cell Therapeutics’ experimental drug for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was tested in “substantially fewer” patients than planned in a pivotal clinical trial, and the data that it gathered to support its application shows the treatment has “substantial”... Read more »

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Boston
Life Sciences, VC, Biotech

Solace Pharma Closes Boston-Area Office After Pain Treatment Fails in Clinical Trial

Ryan McBride 2/8/10

Solace Pharmaceuticals has quietly shuttered its office in Cambridge, MA, near the team of biologists and venture capitalists who formed the startup in 2006 to develop new treatments for pain, company CEO Eliot Forster confirmed for... Read more »

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San Diego
Roundup, people, Internet

Quattrone Predicts VC Shrinkage, ViaSat CEO Says Bandwidth Was Key to Internet Satellite, UCSD Scientists Win Google Grant, & More San Diego BizTech News

Bruce V. Bigelow 2/8/10

With online video consuming more and more bandwidth, ViaSat’s decision to design its own high-capacity satellite for Internet service is looking more and more prescient. We’re beaming that and the rest of the news to you... Read more »

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San Diego
cleantech, funding, renewable energy

Fallbrook Technologies Spinoff Viryd Raises Another $5M for Wind Power Innovation

Bruce V. Bigelow 2/8/10

Viryd Technologies, a wind turbine technology startup spun out last May by San Diego’s Fallbrook Technologies, has secured a $5 million investment that includes a Chinese maker of automotive components.

Viryd was founded near... Read more »

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Boston
IT, travel, e-commerce

TripAdvisor: The Travel Company That’s Really All About Data

Wade Roush 2/8/10

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San Diego
Biotech, Antibiotics, Finances

Optimer Rises on Takeover Buzz and Clinical Trial Results; Still Faces Business Risks

Luke Timmerman 2/8/10

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Boston
Biotech, Weight Loss, Drugs

Zafgen’s Mysterious Weight Loss Drug Advances Into First Trial for Obese Women

Luke Timmerman 2/8/10

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Boston
Massachusetts, innovation, Government

Massachusetts Business Development Officials Set Up Outpost at Cambridge Innovation Center

Wade Roush 2/5/10

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Seattle
cleantech, Solar, VC

Infinia Raises $11.5M To Make New Solar-Power Generators, Entices Paul Allen Again

Luke Timmerman 2/5/10

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Seattle
Software, culture, Analysis

Sack Ballmer? Break Up the Company? How Microsoft Could Innovate

Gregory T. Huang 2/5/10

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Seattle
Biotech, incubators, startups

Seattle Needs an “Incubator” Culture

Matthew Scholz 2/4/10

If Seattle is to occupy a future place of dominance in the biotech world, it must foster more of an “incubator” culture. There is a “valley of death” between the well-funded... Read more »

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San Diego
Life Sciences, Big Pharma, China

What Lies Ahead for San Diego Life Sciences

Jim Pope 2/1/10

We’re at the end of one of the most challenging years in recent memory for life sciences companies. However, a broad transformation is under way in the industry, and profitable new... Read more »

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Seattle
Biotech, Global Health, people

Synchronicity is Not Just an Album by The Police. Nor is Serendipity Just a John Cusack movie.

Richard Gayle 2/1/10

The most incredible things happen when scientists with a common interest have an opportunity to simply talk with one another. On a bone-chilling December night, 50 Seattle researchers from more than... Read more »

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Boston
energy, Education, Entrepreneurship

Student “Tech Treks” Lend Reality to B-School Case Studies

James Luong 1/29/10

Earlier this month, we wrapped up two consecutive weeks of treks—business school jargon for trips that combine company visits and cohort-building activities—organized by MBA students at MIT’s Sloan School of Management... Read more »

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Boston
innovation, Entrepreneurship, IT

Boston Tech Scene Needs Fewer Doubles and Triples, More Home Runs

Tim Rowe 1/27/10

If the NSA monitored communications in Massachusetts, their analysts might raise an alert. With the baseball season over, there has been an anomalous amount of chatter using baseball terms as code... Read more »

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San Diego
innovation, Funding Gap, startups

Addressing the Innovation “Valley of Death:” It’s the Products, Stupid!

Duane J. Roth 1/26/10

Several articles published in the press this past year have emphasized the importance of technology innovation in creating high-paying jobs and fueling our nation’s economy. Janet Rae-Dupree’s aptly titled New York... Read more »

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