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4/16/2008
- Sencera Raises $3.6 Million
- Wakefield Group Joins Other Southeastern Funds in FrontStream Payments Deal
- NC Entrepreneurs Raised $909 Million in 2007
- Pozen’s Treximet wins FDA Approval
- Phase Bioscience Names Christopher Prior as CEO
- UNC Charlotte’s Five Ventures Winners Named
4/7/2008
- Twenty Seed Companies Selected for April 17th Angel Retreat & Start-Up Speed Dating
- SCYNEXIS Raises $13.5 Million
- Kryosphere Lands $1 Million Angel Investment
- MARBIONC Launches “Go Blue” Initiative
- Modality CEO Receives Apple Innovation Award
- Adherex Begins Phase III Trial
3/31/2008
- SCYNEXIS Raises $13.5 Million
- Kryosphere Lands $1 Million Angel Investment
- AVI BioPharma Finalizes Merger
- NC Research Campus Core Lab to Open in April
- Quintiles to Provide Services in Japan
- Greer Begins Phase 3 Trial for Allergy Drug
- Durham, Raleigh Make Best Places to Live and Launch List
- Near-Time, Purdue Launch Community for Workforce Innovation
3/24/2008
- Ziptronix Closes $2.3 Million in Funding
- Affinergy Awarded $3 Million in Federal Grants
- Horticultural Asset Management Lands $3.2 Million B Round
- Phase Bioscience Secures $1 Million Loan, Expands Headquarters
- Red Hat Buys Amentra
- Metabolon Partners with European Group
- Misys Healthcare Merging with Allscripts in $330 Million Deal
- BD Plans $134 Million Expansion
- Healthcare Engineering Alliance Formed
3/17/2008
- Affinergy Awarded $3 Million in Federal Grants
- Horticultural Asset Management Lands $3.2 Million B Round
- Phase Bioscience Secures $1 Million Loan, Expands Headquarters
- Murdock Gives N.C. State $2 Million
- Inclinix Receives Patent for Expert System Platform
- Argolyn Bioscience Moving to Triangle
- Azure Capital Partners and Bridgescale Partners Acquire Neonova
- Ercole Biotech Sold to Oregon Drug Development Partner
- Targacept Upgrading Equipment with BB&T Loan
3/11/2008
- Chesson Labs Raises $3.3 Million
- RFMD Buys Back Shares, Acquires UK Company
- Hamner Institutes Awarded Jet Fuel Research Grant
- Pfizer Buying Durham-based Serenex
- Motricity Moving Headquarters
- Piedmont Healthcare Management Sold to Georgia Company
- TransTech Pharma Acquires Novo Nordisk Programs
- Metabolon Announces Third-generation Metabolomics Platform
- Cree Acquires LED Lighting Fixtures
3/3/2008
- DataFlux Receives Patent for Management Technology
- Adherex Receives Orphan Drug Designation for Melanoma Treatment
- Metrics Doubling Its Greenville Operations
- Precision Biosciences Receives Grant for Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutic
- onePAC Offers New Customized Prescription Packaging
- Taproot Develops Software for Texas Instruments
- NCSU Scientists Discover Promising Particles
- Japanese University to Open Tech Transfer Office
- Startups at NCSU Incubator Boost Economy
2/25/2008
- SilkRoad technology, inc. Secures $10 Million
- Precision BioSciences Repays Seed Financing
- RTI to Develop Web-based Forensic Science Program
- Lab Escape Launches Two New Products
- Addrenex Files First New Drug Application
- JBoss Announces Product Expansion Deal
- Defense Incubator Opening Satellite Offices
- IBM and N.C. State Team Up on Project Zero
- Wake Forest University Wins NSF Grant
2/18/2008
- Cary’s Carpio Lands $10 Million Investment
- SIMtone Buys Aspeed Software
- Get Interactive Set for First Offering
- NCSU, Partners, Receive Grant for Fuel Generation
- State Announces Transportation Energy Center
- GlaxoSmithKline Refuses State Incentives
- Biotech Center Funds Biology Lab at Mount Olive College
- State Launches Green Business Grant Program
- CED Releases a New On Demand Resource for Entrepreneurs
- Project to Explore the Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization
2/11/2008
- PPD Acquires Russia’s Innopharm
- Biolex Withdraws IPO Registration, Commences Phase 2A Trial
- Biomarck Cleared for Phase 2 Trial
- Plureon Wins Diabetes Funding
- Clinipace Secures Funding from Hatteras Venture Partners
- Pfizer Invests Again in Icagen
- Qimonda Sells Convertible Debt
- Near-Time and AltSearchEngines Team Up
- Test Vaccine Prevents Development of Prostate Cancer in Mice
- North Carolina Nanotech Conference Slated
- Lenovo Debuts Lightweight Adapter, Inks Partnership
2/4/2008
- Sunrock Ventures Sets Sights on Southeast
- RTI Partners with Commons Capital on Global Health Initiative
- Inclinix Secures Expansion Capital
- TransTech Purchases Metabolic Portfolio
- Inlet Technologies Releases New Version
- SEBIO Elects 2008 Board and Officers
- FM:Systems Inks New Partnership Deal
- Biotech Networking Group Forms in Charlotte
- Digital Media Expert Joins UNC’s J-School
- RTI Study Quantifies Incubators’ Value
1/28/2008
- Inclinix Secures Expansion Capital
- TransTech Purchases Metabolic Portfolio
- NC IDEA Grants Awarded to Charlotte, Triangle Companies
- More Good News About 2007
- Business Plan Competition Set for UNC Charlotte
- N.C. Entrepreneurship Summit Planned
- Burke County Works to Lure Entrepreneurs
- Location Is Everything for Women Entrepreneurs
- Kauffman-RAND Study Quantifies Small Companies’ Roles in Economy
1/21/2008
- Entrepreneurship Is Going Global
- Funding for Biotech Research May Be National Model
- M3 Technology Group Expands
- Plant-Made Biotechnology Big in NE NC
- NC A&T, nCoat, Inc. Partner
- Greensboro’s Entrepreneurs Make an Impact
- Winston-Salem Named an “Intelligent Community”
- Fifth Annual Technology ROI Awards
- Venture-Backed IPO Exits Strengthen in 2007
- Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte Among Best for African Americans
1/14/2008
- Batanga.com Is No. 1 Hispanic Site
- Precision Human Biolaboratory Raises $500,000
- $2.6B in Cleantech Investments Recorded Last Year
- High Point Biotech Cos. Receive $9M in Incentives
- VCs Expect to Divest in 2008
- $52.9B in IPOs and M&A Deals for Venture-Backed Cos. in 2007
- State Has “Top Business Climate”
- State Unemployment Figures Released
- N.C. Tops in In-migration
1/3/2008
- Motricity Completes $135 Million InfoSpace Acquisition
- EMC to Acquire Document Sciences Corp. in $85 Million Transaction
- RFMD to Acquire Wafer Fabrication Facility for $25.1 Million
- Trinity Convergence Raises $8 Million to Advance IP Technology
- InnerOptic Secures $370K in Funding, Looks to Raise More in Near Future
- Quintiles Forms New Investor Partnership
- Lenovo Breaks Ground on New Facility in Morrisville
- Biogen Idec Sells Cancer Drug for $30 Million
- Salix Partners to Develop Generic Drug
- Addrenex Licenses University’s Adrenalin Technology
- OncoMethylome Partners with Abbott to Profile Tumors
- GSK Files with FDA for New Blood Disorder Drug
- UNC Awards $4 Million in R&D Grants Throughout University System