Bernadette Tansey
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States
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Xconomy: Five Years After Y Combinator First Admits Biotechs, They’re Dug In
Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously → Read More
Xconomy: Nuance Spinout Cerence Vies With Tech Giants in Voice-AI for Auto
A new mobility company, Cerence, is making its public-market debut Wednesday, and its first CEO, Sanjay Dhawan, says he’s been meeting with more than 50 → Read More
Xconomy: Meissa Scores $30M to Test Vaccine for Dangerous Respiratory Virus
No vaccine is yet available for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which causes lung infections that, while usually mild, can be deadly for very young → Read More
Xconomy: TigerGraph Raises $32M to Extend Graph Database Use to Businesses
TigerGraph, one of the companies advancing the use of graph databases for faster analysis of the connections among people and things, announced today it → Read More
Xconomy: Katerra To Make Ultra-Strong Wood Panels at New Factory in WA
Construction tech firm Katerra, a 4-year-old Bay area startup with a big fundraising total, a big backer, and big ambitions, officially opened a big → Read More
Xconomy: Why Menlo Ventures Backed Its First Construction Tech Firm
Fieldwire, whose mobile app helps builders and construction crews coordinate their work, announced today it has lined up a total of $33.5 million across → Read More
Xconomy: ThoughtSpot Nabs $248M for Accessible Analytics, Nears $2B Valuation
ThoughtSpot, a software company formed to make data analytics accessible for business staffers without data science expertise, announced today it raised → Read More
Xconomy: Splunk To Pay $1B For SaaS App Monitoring Firm SignalFx
Splunk, an IT operations management and information security company, announced today it has clinched a deal to buy cloud software application monitoring → Read More
Xconomy: Ford’s Autonomic Connects EV Maker Ayro to Its Mobility Cloud
Ford subsidiary Autonomic today announced a step forward in its drive to expand the online mobility hub it built to manage digital interactions among → Read More
Xconomy: Will Porsche Fans Ever Live in a Driverless World? Porsche Says No.
Imagine the transportation future 20 years from now. Here’s one way things could roll on a weekday: Many of us get picked up at home by a sturdy, → Read More
Xconomy: Ford, Retreating From Bold Timeline, Buys Quantum Signal for AV Tech
Back in 2016, Ford’s then-CEO Mark Fields fired a shot across the bow when he made a daring pledge. The big automaker would deploy fully autonomous fleet → Read More
Xconomy: No Co-Founder? Y Combinator Offers Matchmaking at Startup School
From the moment Talia Frenkel resolved to found a company after a kitchen-table talk with her parents, the odds were against her. There were a host of → Read More
Xconomy: Freenome Snags $160M to Boost Blood Test for Early Cancer Detection
Freenome, one of the rivals racing to detect the earliest signs of cancer through blood tests, announced Wednesday it has raised $160 million in a Series → Read More
Xconomy: With Regulator’s Nod, Bosch Plans Spread of Driverless Valet Parking
Mass fleets of self-driving cars have yet to arrive on our streets, but people are already worrying about where they’re going to park. If they all just → Read More
Xconomy: Could Facebook’s Crypto Break Financial System? Congress Airs Fears
In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those → Read More
Xconomy: Performance Management Firm 15Five Pulls in $30M to Scale Up
Many companies have been adjusting to the changing workforce as millennials become a larger component of their staff rosters. Some are adapting with the → Read More
Xconomy: As Cities Ban Face Recognition, Body-Cam Firm Axon Also Nixes It
This week’s decision by police equipment manufacturer Axon to forego using facial recognition software in its body cameras follows a string of other → Read More
Xconomy: Degreed Raises $75M to Expand in Growing Workforce Training Sector
Degreed, which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 → Read More
Xconomy: Hate to Pump Gas? Booster Scores $56M to Scale Mobile Fill-Ups
Booster, an on-demand service that fills gas tanks for car owners while they shop at a mall or work at their office desks, announced Tuesday it has raised → Read More
Xconomy: Dems and GOP Senators Unite Versus Big Tech on Data Privacy Bills
To hear some people talk, you’d think the age of bipartisan action in Congress was a lost phenomenon of the distant past. But it’s not so, at least when → Read More