The Stanford University School of Medicine’s Division of Clinical Anatomy has joined zSpace’s Academic Advisory Council, a network of universities focused on advancing innovation, design and research. Stanford joins Olin College, University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California…
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The fourth annual National Robotics Week, April 6-14, 2013, is expected to bring together engineers, scientists, students and families to share a passion for technology, learning, and of course, robotics. Working with NASA and iRobot, the National Robotics Week Advisory…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Former Twitter product manager Anamitra Banerji has been named a partner at Foundation Capital. Mr. Banerji spent the past year as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Foundation Capital, where he served as a consultant in the investment process. He…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Trifacta, a provider of productivity platforms for data analysis, has raised $4.3 million in funding from Accel Partners’ Big Data Fund, along with additional investment from X/Seed Capital, Data Collective, and angel investors Dave Goldberg, Venky Harinarayan and…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] SoFi (which stands for Social Finance) has raised $77.2 million in series B funding led by Baseline Ventures and joined by DCM and Renren, China’s largest social networking site. SoFi offers a lending solution that gives students access to…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced an $800,000 grant to StartX. StartX, formerly SSE Labs, was initially launched in 2010 by Stanford students to accelerate the development of student entrepreneurs through experiential education. Kauffman’s grant will help it scale…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Pulse, a popular mobile news app, is getting a Web avatar. Pulse worked in conjunction with the developers at Pixel Lab and the Windows Internet Explorer team at Microsoft to completely redesign Pulse into a Web service using HTML5. The Web version will work…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Lex Machina has closed a $2 million funding round led by X/Seed Capital. Besides X/Seed Capital, other participants in this round include Costanoa Venture Capital (recently founded by Greg Sands), Naval Ravikant, (founder of Angel List), Jeff Hammerbacher (founder and chief…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Stanford chemical engineering Associate Professor Zhenan Bao, materials science and engineering Associate Professor Yi Cui and members of their labs, have designed an electrically conductive gel – a jelly that feels and behaves like biological tissues, but conducts electricity…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Stanford is offering a free online video course on creating apps for the iPhone and iPad. This time, participants will have their questions answered by course instructors (“course captains”) and by their fellow online learners. This peer-to-peer social feature…
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