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SAN DIEGO--Local security and compliance automation company Drata announced the acquisition of intelligent user governance platform Harmonize.io, in a move positioned to enhance Drata's own user governance and AI capabilities. [...]

SAN DIEGO Autonomous boating tech startup Seasats (SeaSatellites, Inc.) is expected to ride a huge revenue wave this year, following its 2023 earnings, which, it reports, were 20 times greater [...]

SAN DIEGO Biopharma startup Alterome Therapeutics landed a massive $132 million Series B deal led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives--a wing of global investment banking mega-corporation Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). Proceeds [...]

LA JOLLA Mobile robotics tech leader GeekPlus (Geek+) is powering through production, deploying more than 75 projects across North America. It's now the company's fastest-growing region, marking a milestone achievement [...]

SAN DIEGO - AI-driven biotech innovator iBio (NYSEA:IBIO) signed a new collaboration agreement with drug maker AstralBio to discover, engineer and develop novel antibodies to treat obesity and other cardiometabolic [...]

SAN DIEGO--Carmel Valley clinical-stage biopharma startup Avenzo Therapeutics has secured an additional $150 million in an oversubscribed Series A round, bringing its total raised capital since its 2022 founding to [...]

SAN DIEGO--Local biopharma startup Tentarix struck a milestone $64 million deal with AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), granting the pharma giant access to two of Tentarix's top cancer and immunology drug candidates. [...]

CARDIFF Local computer vision solutions leader alwaysAI is breaking ground on a vision AI system for mining operations, which allows computer systems to interpret and analyze the visual world of [...]

SAN DIEGO--In a massive win, local RNA therapeutics developer Avidity Biosciences (Nasdaq: RNA) announced an oversubscribed $400 million private placement to fuel multiple rare disease programs. The company plans to [...]

SAN DIEGO--Local biopharma startup Kenai Therapeutics is celebrating a major win after scoring an $82 million Series A financing round to advance the development of its neurological disease-fighting drugs. The [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Green energy storage innovator RedoxBlox raised a combined $25 million to fuel its cutting-edge tech aimed at decarbonizing industrial heat and providing electricity storage for the grid. [...]

ENCINITAS - Local cardiometabolic virtual care platform 9amHealth announced it raised an additional $9.5 million in Series A funding, allowing the startup to grow and expand patients' treatment options for [...]

SAN DIEGO - Mental health virtual care platform Headlight announced an additional $18 million in venture funding, allowing the startup to expand into more states and add hundreds of new [...]

DEL MAR -- Local software provider Visage Imaging launched a novel imaging viewer for Apple's new, hype-worthy $3,500 VR headset, Apple Vision Pro. Visage--a subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. (ASX: [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Local medical tech creator Vektor Medical announced it secured $16 million in Series A funding to advance its FDA-cleared, non-invasive, AI-based arrhythmia analysis platform known as vMap. [...]

LA JOLLA - Local clinical-stage biopharmaceutical startup A28 Therapeutics is closing in on the final clinical stages of its novel lead drug candidate that kills cancer using targeted peptides. The [...]

LA JOLLA - Torrey Pines clinical-stage cancer treatment development company Inhibrx (Nasdaq: INBX) is being purchased by French biopharma giant Sanofi (Nasdaq: SN Y) for a staggering $2.2 billion in [...]

LA JOLLA - Local AI drug discovery company Iambic Therapeutics is celebrating the opening of its new custom-built, state-of-the-art headquarters in Sorrento Valley, allowing the company's more than 60 employees [...]

LA JOLLA - Local biotech firm Tr1X, Inc. secured a $75 million Series A financing to develop therapies to treat and possibly cure autoimmune and inflammatory diseases using specialized types [...]

SAN DIEGO - Sorrento Valley fintech institution Vervent has struck a deal to receive $180 million in funding from global investment firm Castlelake L.P. to finance origination for its credit [...]

Local clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical startup Radionetics Oncology announced it has raised an additional $52.5 million in Series A financing, bringing its total raised capital to $82.5 million. The Torrey Pines-based company [...]

Local DNA sequencing giant Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) has teamed up with Chinese biotech company HaploX to build and launch the first NextSeq 2000Dx-CN-HAP, a benchtop genetic sequencing system that will [...]

Local dental innovation biotech business Stem Cell Implants Inc. has launched its seed round after completing a private round of pre-seed investment. The downtown startup hopes to revolutionize the way [...]

Local innovative energy company Oberon Fuels is disrupting DME. The East Village-based Oberon has developed a proprietary process turning organic waste into low-carbon or carbon-negative renewable Dimethyl ether (DME) and [...]

Local women's health biotech firm Evofem (OTCQB: EVFM) is back on its feet again after being thrown a lifeline from Virginia-based medical innovation company Aditxt (NASDAQ: ADTX), which announced its [...]

Local animal health biotech company Gallant Therapeutics announced the launch of a pivotal study to evaluate its novel stem cell therapy drug for FDA-conditional approval in treating a debilitating disease [...]

Two publicly traded local diabetes-focused medical device companies are continuing their partnership with the latest connection of their innovative technologies. The wildly popular G7 Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) wearable sensor [...]

UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year $12.85 million grant to develop a Naval Innovation, Science and Engineering Center (NISEC) program funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). [...]

Local computer vision solutions leader alwaysAI announced a strategic partnership with world-leading neuroscience and machine-learning expert, Dr. Gabriel Silva, PhD. The UC San Diego professor of Neurosciences and Bioengineering plans [...]

Still privately held, Sorrento Valley's Element Biosciences reported triple-digit quarter-on-quarter growth since the 2022 launch of its signature sequencing platform, AVITI. 'Element has exceeded 100 orders of [the AVITI System] [...]

Financial advisory firm LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) announced the launch of LPL Private Wealth Management ('Private Wealth'), its new model focused on high-net-worth ('HNW') clients. 'Private Wealth represents the best [...]

Researchers at UC San Diego scored a multi-million-dollar contract to study the resilience of aging adults following stress events like fall-related injuries. Professor and Dr. Anthony Molina, PhD, is leading [...]

Local cancer-fighting bio-pharmaceutical firm MBrace Therapeutics raised an additional $85 million in Series B financing, bringing its total raised capital to $110 million. The company plans to put the funds [...]

Local defense tech firm Shield AI builder of AI pilots for aircraft--announced it has raised $200 million in Series F funding, skyrocketing the company's valuation to $2.7 billion. The oversubscribed [...]

Local biotech company Aspen Neuroscience announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance of an investigational cell therapy drug application for the treatment of Parkinson's disease [...]

Local cell-cultivated seafood developer BlueNalu has signed a partnership with NEOM, a sustainable regional development initiative in Saudi Arabia. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) seeks to advance BlueNalu's cell-cultured seafood [...]

Encinitas-based benefit automation tech platform Payroll Integrations has raised $20 million in its Series A funding round, led by Arthur Ventures. The Minneapolis growth equity firms specializes in in B2B [...]

Biotech startup Rampart Bioscience announced an $85 million Series A financing to continue its development of novel DNA-based medicines. The new financing builds on an initial $40 million seed investment [...]

LA JOLLA--Nonprofit sustainability organization My Green Lab (MGL) is advancing the green lab certification process with the addition of a third-party verification program run by its new commercial subsidiary. Impact [...]

LA JOLLA--Clinical stage pharmaceutical startup Skye Bioscience (OTCQB: SKYE) scored $40 million in new funds to fuel the development of distinct medications targeting receptors in the body's so-called endocannabinoid system [...]

SAN DIEGO--Local biotech startup Capstan Therapeutics has secured $175 million following the successful closing of an oversubscribed Series B financing, allowing the company to advance its leading autoimmune drug candidate [...]

CARLSBAD--Insurance tech startup sureti continues sealing deals with its streamlined claims payments platform, this time with Missouri mutual insurance provider, CFM Insurance. CFM plans to offer sureti's tech to its [...]

SAN DIEGO -- In a sweeping deal, local robotic AI software provider Brain Corp.'s next-gen navigation software and hardware suite will exclusively power a new line of autonomous mobile robots [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Local AI edge computing and video telematics company Netradyne scored a massive deal with cash-in-transit specialist Loomis (STO: LOOMIS) to improve the safety of its armored trucks. [...]

SAN DIEGO - Local AI-powered lending software innovator Point Predictive inked new partnerships with a collection of prominent auto dealerships across the country, including Napleton Automotive Group, Carriage Auto Group, [...]

SAN DIEGO - Controlling interest of local high-tech data cooling system maker DDC Cabinet Technology has been acquired by St. Louis private investment firm Cequel III and private equity leader [...]

SAN DIEGO - Local health tech startup Welfie - short for 'wellness selfie' - is celebrating the milestone win of an Anthem Award, presented by the coveted Webby Awards, the [...]

Local biotech company VedaBio launched big with more than $40 million to develop molecular detection using a novel form of the well-known gene editing technology, CRISPR. 'The $40 million in [...]

Endeavor Biomedicines will pay Hummingbird Bioscience up to $430 million for the worldwide rights to its tumor-targeting drug. The license agreement exclusively provides Endeavor with HMBD-501, Hummingbird's cancer-treating therapeutic. Hummingbird [...]

Food commerce startup Vistry is working to help hungry customers order meals faster and more efficiently through generative AI and restaurant automation technology. Its Chat GPT-like generative AI platform uses [...]