Life-science briefing: Friday, April 11, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Stent maker IDev Tech raises $25M (VentureWire)
Xytis gets $15M for brain-injury drugs (VentureWire)
Diagnostic maker Iris Biotech plans to go public, launch breast-cancer test (Edgar)
RiverVest Venture Partners raises $75M life-science fund (release)
Concentric Medical names Maria Sainz CEO (release)
[Note: I’m a little sad to announce that this will be my last life-science briefing at VentureBeat, although with luck, it won’t be the end of my time here. Starting Monday, I’ll be blogging regularly on the drug industry and… Continue Reading
Social video startup uvLayer looks to be growing up fast
Social video startup Unknown Vector launched a browser-based version of its uvLayer application yesterday.
I covered the company back in February following the release of its uvLayer desktop-only app (built on Adobe AIR), and I was pretty impressed with it then. The application lets users create “stacks” of videos collected from YouTube and Truveo via simple drag and drop.
You can also build collections of videos based on a search term, and when you access the video via that search term, you can drag and drop… Continue Reading