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Entrepreneurship
FAST & Fellow Company News
- Current FAST company Fauna Bio announced they have raised a seed round of $4.1 led by True Ventures to further their discovery platform that focuses on hibernating mammals to find new therapeutic targets for human diseases Read More
- C.Light Technologies (FAST Spring ’18) announced they have received funding from Arrow Capital (VC powered by Bow Capital) Read More C.Light is also a finalist for the 2019 Lyfebulb–Celgene “Addressing Unmet Needs in MS: An Innovation Challenge” and will be competing on June 13, 2019 for $25,000 Read More
- YourChoice Therapeutics (FAST Fall ’18) featured in Business Insider article: A startup seeded by Silicon Valley’s hottest mentorship program aims to bring the first male birth control to market Read More
- BioAmp Diagnostics (FAST Fall ’17) has been accepted into Illumina Accelerator’s ninth funding cycle Read More
- Inflammatix (FAST Fall ’17) has been named a finalist for the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s (AACC) Disruptive Technology Award for their rapid HostDx™ tests Read More
- GigaGen (FAST Spring ’15) announced publication of a study in peer-reviewed scientific journal mAbs validating feasibility and benefit of rapid parallel immunization protocols for discovery of novel monoclonal antibodies Read More GigaGen was also listed as 1 of 6 award-winning life science companies in the Bay Area by BioSpace Read More
- Whole Biome (FAST Spring ’14) secured $35M in Series B financing, led by Sequoia Capital Read More and just announced positive clinical results showing the efficacy of its proprietary microbiome Live SynbioticsTM formulation in improving glucose control in patients w/ T2D Read More
- Xcell Biosciences (FAST Fall ’13) announced the launch of their Technology Access Program (TAP) and their first TAP partner Belgian company ImmunXperts Read More
- Sandstone Diagnostics (FAST Fall ’13) announced it has raised an additional Series A financing of $2.5million to accelerate the development of Zero Delay (ZD) plasma preparation system Read More
- Fellows member Checkerspot announced closing of its Series A financing of $13 million Read More
CARB-X News
- CARB-X announced 4 new funding rounds for 2019 Read More
- CARB-X awarded an additional $1.7 million to California-based company Specific Diagnostics after reaching their milestone to proceed with the second stage of funding for Specific’s Reveal™ rapid antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) instrument Read More
Events
- 6/20 | South San Francisco, CLSA Innovation Breakfast: Data Management
- 7/9 | Berkeley, CLSI Startup Buzz Networking Event
- 7/17 | San Diego, CLSA 4th Anniversary Celebration & San Diego Open House
- 7/23 | South San Francisco, CLSA 4th Annual Celebration & South San Francisco Open House
- 11/15 | San Francisco, 16th Annual Pantheon 2019 Presenting DINA Awards
Community Events
- 6/13 | San Francisco, QB3 Seminar: Dennis Schwartz, Repostive “How to Access Genomic Data for Cancer Therapeutic Discovery”
- 6/19 | San Francisco, MBC BioLabs Founders At Work Speaker Series: Mattershift
- 6/19 | San Francisco, 6th Annual Rosenman Symposium
- 6/20-24 | San Francisco, ASM Microbe 2019
- 6/25 | San Francisco, IndieBio Demo Day, San Francisco
- 6/26 | San Francisco, MBC BioLabs Larger than Life Science: Critical Cash
- 7/10-12 | San Francisco, Smart Medtech @ Semicon West
- 9/3-6 | Boston, ASM/ESCMID Conference on Drug Development to Meet the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance
- 9/24 | South San Francisco, JLABS: Meet with BARDA
- 9/24 | San Diego, JLABS Science, Startup, Repeat- Breakfast with Serial Entrepreneur Mike Gilman
- 10/2-6 | Washington DC, IDWeek 2019