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Editas Medicine, Backed By Google And Bill Gates, Files $100 Million IPO
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - 4:19pm | 299Read More...Editas Medicine, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based drugmaker backed by Bill Gates and Google Ventures among others, filed its initial public offering paperwork on Monday. The company specializes in a new gene-editing technique called Crispr, and will become the first publicly traded firm to focus...
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Google Ventures-Backed Startup Wants To Change The Way You Trade
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 4:59pm | 726Read More...Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor, but Robinhood (a new Fintech startup) wants to give investors the ability to trade without robbing anyone. "We really intend for Robinhood to be a product for a new generation of investors," Vladimir Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood,...
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Google Ventures President On Uber, Investments In Life Sciences
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 12:29pm | 306Read More...Google Ventures, operates separately from Google Inc as an independent entity. One of the major successes Google Venture had recently was Uber and its $40 billion valuation; Google Ventures invested in Uber in September 2013 Bill Maris, president and managing partner at Google Ventures, was...
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5 European Startups That Google Should Fund
Monday, July 28, 2014 - 2:33pm | 767Read More...Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) recently announced that it will begin investing in European startups. The company's venture fund, Google Ventures, already assists local startups, including Flatiron Health (the oncology industry's first cloud-based data platform) and SynapDx (which...
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Analysts React To Google's Acquisition Of Nest Labs
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 5:41pm | 706Read More...On Tuesday morning, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it plans to buy Nest Labs for $3.2 billion. Nest Labs offers apps for iPhone and Android that allows users to adjust their thermostat and check their smoke detectors. Nest Labs was co-founded in 2010 by a small group of former Apple (NASDAQ...
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Which Startup Excites Google, Threatens Salesforce?
Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 12:49pm | 466Read More...Hint: lots of investors are excited about it. Give up? Alright, I'll tell you: it's Nimble, the CRM company that, according to its website description, allows you to “easily manage your contacts, calendars, communications, and social conversations with Nimble's social CRM.” Nimble promises to “...
