Amgen goes full speed ahead on biosimilar drugs
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Inogen co-founder to leave company in April
Brenton Taylor, the executive vice president for engineering at the Goleta medical device company Inogen and one of the company’s three founders, will be leaving Inogen next year. Inogen announces his departure Oct. 12, along with the promotion of Dr. Stanislav Glezer to the position of chief technology offcer. Glezer has been with Inogen since Read More →
Mindbody to buy billion-dollar fitness company, fueling talk of new IPO
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was updated Oct. 15 with more information about the merger and an interview with Mindbody founder Rick Stollmeyer. After a year of pandemic-related struggles in the health and wellness industry, two companies are announcing a merger just as the sector is starting bounce back. San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody announced Oct. 13 Read More →
ParentSquare takes its school-tech platform nationwide
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Our View: Cal Lutheran’s investments in science and tech will pay off; SLO takes big step with new mayor
This month, California Lutheran University is unveiling some big investments in the future of its Thousand Oaks campus. The Swenson Science Hall, officially dedicated on Oct. 22, will add a 47,000-square-foot facility dedicated to research and science education, that will more than double the amount of available space on campus dedicated to those purposes. With Read More →
Trade Desk CEO is region’s richest, at $4.4B
The 2021 edition of the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans has just one person whose primary residence is in the tri-county region: Jeff Green, the CEO and co-founder of The Trade Desk in Ventura, with a net worth of $4.4 billion. Green is No. 253 on the Forbes list, which was released Oct. 5. Read More →
Amgen invests $100M in startup pursuing brain treatments
An Amgen-funded biotech company launched Oct. 7, announcing a strategic partnership between the two companies that includes $100 million in funding and global rights to develop and sell some of Amgen’s experimental drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, one of the largest biotech companies in the world, committed $100 million in equity investment to Read More →
