The IPO market has been much more discerning about biotechs in 2016 than it was during the 2013-2015 boom. But Wall Street investors embraced Ra Pharmaceuticals Tuesday evening, enabling the Cambridge, MA-based company to close an even bigger IPO than it... Read more »
The 36 semi-finalists competing in the annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, the state’s largest business plan competition targeting mid-to-late-stage startups, have been announced.
Although this year’s edition, overseen by Invest Detroit for the first time, has been helpfully streamlined to... Read more »
San Antonio—The San Antonio nonprofit 80/20 Foundation is giving Tech Bloc a $600,000 grant for an effort to construct a new high school focused on technology and entrepreneurship, called CAST Tech.
Tech Bloc, a San Antonio tech-focused advocacy group,... Read more »
Houston—Rebellion Photonics co-founder and CEO Allison Lami Sawyer said she’s tired of being alone when attending technology conferences full of men.
“Where is the pipeline of women behind me?” she said. “I want to see more women CEOs.”
Sawyer’s... Read more »
Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality.
The recent funding deals that... Read more »
The FDA has approved the use of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for some previously untreated patients with a certain type of lung cancer, the drug’s owner Merck (NYSE: MRK) announced late Monday.
Pembrolizumab can now be used for patients who have... Read more »
Like the Very Hungry Caterpillar, there’s more to the humble mealworm than meets the eye. It doesn’t become a beautiful butterfly, but it may contain part of the solution to one of the world’s biggest challenges: sustainably feeding the growing population.... Read more »
Green Sense Farms is on a mission to build the country’s largest network of tech-enabled, indoor vertical farms.
To help it get there, the Portage, IN-based company has turned to a new mechanism for raising capital—equity crowdfunding, which allows companies to... Read more »