San Antonio is a city in transition. After years of being summed up simply as a sleepy, blue-collar town, the Alamo City has come into its own as a leader in several key industries — from manufacturing, to bioscience, to cybersecurity and information technology. We are a city on the rise, and a…
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- Two Years After Near-Fatal Burns, Marty Wender Thanks 'Medical City'
Long before health care and bioscience became a $37 billion San Antonio industry, Charles Martin Wender – “Marty” to his friends – emerged as a strong, vocal supporter. A prominent real estate developer, Wender served on the boards of the San Antonio Medical Foundation and the University of…
- What Silicon Valley is doing to make humans live longer
Other companies like Unity Biosciences is working on finding those senescent cells in your body and destroying them. So cells will grow and they'll stop growing so they don't become cancerous and it's called senescence. But when those cells start becoming inflammatory, they can damage your body…
- Meet the Brazilian venture capitalist leading startups to San Antonio
Janssen is parsing through numerous Brazilian tech and bioscience startups for a binational program in which startups will be incubated in Rio de Janeiro and San Antonio. The first cohort of roughly a dozen startups is expected to arrive in San Antonio in the fall and include some health care…
- Retention Deficit: How SA is pitching tech to the next-gen workforce
The organization has been going to countries across Latin America to bring new technology startups and leaders to San Antonio alongside plans to foster and mentor existing startup businesses that span cybersecurity, emerging technologies and bioscience. Varela sees value in the existing San…