2010 Medical Innovation Summit: Obesity, Diabetes & the metabolic crisis. Sunday, October 31 to Wednesday, November 3 2010. InterContinental Hotel and Bank of America Conference Center, Cleveland, Ohio, US
Month: June 2010
Cody Gate makes bold US hiring plans
UK’s defenece research spin-out companies team up to move into the US.
Google emerges in Bazaar seed funding
Google Ventures continues investment spree ahead of Google TV launch
Venture philanthropy meets for-profit companies
Noaber and Docor join independent venture capital firms in backing med-tech company EarlySense.
BlueTech Innovation Forum
Potable water is the most scarce resource in the world and advanced water technology a potential solution to resource constraints.
Goel moves home in India
Arun Goel to join LIC Housing Finance’s planned corporate venturing fund
Google accepts Invite Media’s offer
Search engine giant Google snaps up venture-backed Invite Media
Motricity flotation to reap its rewards
Corporate-backed Motricity revises Nasdaq listing plans
SR One welcomes the stars
GlaxoSmithKline’s SR One leads $22m series B round for Constellation Pharmaceuticals
SAP starts its DeviceVM operation
SAP Ventures joins DeviceVM consortium by leading $10m funding round.
Pfizer catches lab rodent deal
Pfizer joins series A round for Ablexis as drugs companies seek mice to test
Managers behind BlackBerry fund discuss merger option
Corporate-backed BlackBerry Partners Fund looks at organisation change as global expansion begins.
European governments ride to VCs’ rescue
Research by European Investment Fund finds governments responsible for nearly a third of venture funding
Swiss group power up GreenTeg’s spin-out
Swisselectric forms club to fund GreenTeg’s spin out.