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Nature Biotech Honors Some Of 2014's Best Academic Startups

2015-03-07 02:29:22| Biotech - Topix.net

I'm a partner at Atlas Venture, a biotech-focused early stage venture capital firm, where I focus on helping start and fund emerging companies. You can follow me on Twitter @LifeSciVC and my blog at www.LifeSciVC.com.

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Canadian Oil Imports to U.S. Gulf Rise on Pipeline Startups

2015-03-05 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The December startup of two major pipelines that move Canadian heavy crude to the United States helped increase U.S. Gulf Coast imports more than 12 percent from November, U.S. government data showed just days after President Barack Obama vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline. The relatively swift uptick in Canadian oil arriving at the Gulf Coast, home to nearly half of U.S. refining capacity, follows the opening of two connecting lines that link Canada to U.S. tropical waters: Enbridge Inc's 600,000...

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Venture funding for biotech startups is seeing an uptick

2015-03-01 05:22:17| Biotech - Topix.net

Consider Grand Prairie-based Neos Therapeutics, which raised $20.6 million to support the regulatory review of a drug to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The investment, announced last week, was the latest funding for the specialized pharmaceutical company.

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Ratan Tata puts his heart into e-commerce start-ups

2015-02-24 07:07:57| Steel - Topix.net

In 2009, he registered a company, RNT Associates, with only his long time lieutenant, R K Krishna Kumar, as a second director with a token share. The firm, set up with the objective of undertaking consultancy in the field of international collaboration, mergers & acquisitions and acquiring technology, is behind Tata's recent investments in e-commerce newsmakers, Snapdeal, Bluestone, UrbanLadder and CarDekho.

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