Archive for January, 2008

VentureBeat’s new job board

Folks, we’re going to start promoting our job board more prominently.
Today we kickoff officially with a new group run by Rohin Dhar, who graduated last year with a Stanford MBA.  I met Dhar during a business plan competition and was impressed. He took second place out of a group of 60. This whole time, we’ve [...]

5AM Ventures puts $3.3M into stealthy immunology startup ImmunoNewco

See our exclusive story on this stealthy biotech at VentureBeat Life Sciences.

Google’s Marissa Mayer: Social search is the future

At an event in August, Marissa Mayer, Google’s leading VP in search, said social search hasn’t shown much promise, but if it does, Google would be in a good position to incorporate it. I wrote about that here.
Now, in an interview with VentureBeat (see Q&A below), she says she considers social search to be an [...]

Life sciences briefing: Thursday, Jan. 31, 2007

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Tissue regenerator Healionics pulls in $1.8M (release)
EGeen, clinical research organization, receives $245K (VentureWire)

Ensenda, a provider of last-mile logistics, raises $10.3M

Ensenda, a San Francisco provider of last-mile logistics, has raised $10.3 million in a third round of funding, according to a regulatory filing cited first by PE Wire. Questmark was joined by return backers Alloy Ventures and Bay Partners.