TechFlash: Who won in $1B Dollar Shave sale; Audentes hits IPO target

Here's who cleaned up on Dollar Shave's $1B sale to Unilever

A number of Bay Area venture investors backed the e-commerce company as its value rocketed from $5 million to $1 billion over four years.

'Bold' IPO hits target, may say a lot about Wall Street's biotech appetite

Gene therapy offers lots of promise, but will investors pony up cash to ride this San Francisco company over the long term?

U.S. regulator weighs requiring its OK before self-driving cars can hit road

The move comes amid calls for tighter regulation of self-driving car technologies after a fatal crash involving a Tesla while using its autopilot feature.

Ford-backed StartX alumnus wants to make cars that think like humans

Civil Maps, which builds '3D mapping' software, is getting a lot of attention from major automakers, including Ford, which recently invested in the small startup that is an alumnus of the Stanford-affiliated StartX accelerator. CEO Sravan Puttagunta discusses the barriers to getting self-driving cars on public roads, and the key to 'removing humans from the equation' completely.

Food tech startup Ripple pulls in $30M from Google, others, for faux milk

Food tech startup Ripple Foods is making milk from an unlikely source: split peas. While that may sound strange, the company secured one of the highest funding rounds for a food tech company this year with $30 million from the likes of Google, Khosla Ventures and more.

Website management platform Pantheon raises $29M, adds board member

Developers and marketers use Pantheon to build and run Drupal and WordPress websites

Taking it personally, cutting-edge biotech snags $45 million

This year-old company is taking on fibrotic diseases — and it's a personal battle.

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