by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | NW Regional Business News
And then there were 15. Two Bay Area biotech companies — one that started its first clinical trial in eye diseases in July, the other a pioneer in the fledgling field of hunting down cancer via a simple blood draw — seek to raise $100 million each in the region’s 14th...
by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | NW Regional Business News
Redwood City-based deep-linking startup Branch is raising $129 million in a Series D funding round, which would value the company at roughly $1 billion, TechCrunch reports, citing unnamed sources. The four-year-old startup has raised $113 million to date from an...
by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | NW Regional Business News
The Portland Thorns are marching in to the playoffs on a nice season-ending roll. The NWSL’s defending champions solidly defeated their Seattle Reign rivals 3-1 Friday, clinching, effectively, home field advantage for the playoffs. Midfielder Lindsey Horan, in...
by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | NW Regional Business News
Mark Bley became Dome’s CEO in 2008 and the company has become known for its work as a general contractor on biotech projects. In addition to Genentech, Dome clients include Facebook and Google. More: Dome Construction CEO on building for life sciences, technology,...
by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | NW Regional Business News
Whether one believes the value of Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ads will help or hurt the company appears, like the country itself, to be split down the middle. In a poll among Portland Business Journal readers, respondents were split evenly as to whether the ads will...
by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | NW Regional Business News
Cupertino-based Apple, Inc. has warned the government that prices would rise on a “wide range” of its products if President Donald Trump enacted new tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports to the U.S. Trump responded over the weekend, with what he called an...
