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JULY 26, 2016

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded.

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JUNE 12, 2013

San Diego-based biotech investment firm Domain Associates announced this morning that it has promoted Nimesh Shah to Partner at the firm. Shah has been at the firm since 2006. He also is a board member for the San Diego Venture Group, and previously served at Cutlass Capital and Alex.

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JULY 9, 2012

San Diego-based Novatel Wireless , the maker of the MiFi mobile hotspot products, reported this morning that it has gained a patent covering that product and its other products. The patent was issued on June 26th, and was originally filed on August 28, 2006. Novatel said it was awarded U.S. patents and 58 filed U.S>

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The firm--which has its R&D facilities in San Diego--said the round was led by Split Rock Partners, and also included prior investors Menlo Ventures and Stanford University. The firm's headquarters are in Bellevue, Washington, and it has been supplying its systems since 2006. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 7, 2011

San Diego-based RF Industries , a manufacturer and distributor of RF connectors, cable assemblies, medical cabling, and other products, said today that it has appointed James Doss to the additional position of President. Doss is currently CFO of the firm. Prior President Howard Hill continues as CEO.

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JULY 20, 2010

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, is continuing to back biometric fingerprint sensor maker Validity in its latest funding round. Qualcomm has been an investor in Validity since before 2006. Validity is based in San Jose. Validity said Tuesday that it has received $12.6M

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MARCH 23, 2011

The sale this morning of El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies was a big win for San Diego investment firm TVC Capital. TVC invested $4M in Accordent in 2006--the only investment round the firm raised over its lifetime. TVC was the sold institutional investor in Accordent, which sold to Polycom for $50M.

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APRIL 1, 2013

San Diego-based Proximal Data , which develops serve-side caching software for accelerating I/O access to virtualized machines, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series B round of funding. Bolt was most recently at Avamar Technologies, where he was CTO of the firm before its acquisition by EMC in 2006.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

San Diego-based Orexigen Therapeutics announced this morning that its CFO, Graham Cooper, is resigning from the firm. The company said that Cooper is resigning for personal reasons, and partially because he has been commuting from the San Francisco Bay Area since 2006.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

SeedTrack, building off of earlier efforts by the group's San Diego and other chapters. According to the O.C. Tech Coast Angels, the new program will provide seed funding, strategic planning, and execution of day-to-day functions of startups.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Prolific San Diego angel investor Howard Lindzon , who runs StockTwits , has scored a big exit at one of his portfolio companies, LifeLock , after the firm had its IPO this morning. Lindzon said it was an early angel investor in the company, and made his investment in 2006 at "well under a $10M valuation".

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JUNE 22, 2010

San Diego-based DexCom , a developer of continuous glucose monitoring systems, said today that it has named Steven R. Pacelli has been Chief Administrative Officer of the firm since December of 2008, and has been at the firm since April 2006. Pacelli as its Chief Operating Officer, and Jorge Valdes as Chief Technology Officer.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

One of the portfolio firms of San Diego venture capital firm Enterprise Partners is heading towards an IPO, according to a S-1 filing Friday. Enterprise has been an investor in Complete Genomics since 2006, when it was a Series A investor in the firm.

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APRIL 8, 2019

billion into startups nationally during the first three months of 2019, the second largest amount for any quarter since at least 2006, according to data released overnight by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. Venture firms sent $32.6

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AUGUST 20, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcommm said today that it has named its join venture with Verizon Wireless, as nPhase. Qualcomm acquired the name nPhase back in 2006, when it bought the Chicago-based company of the same name. nPhase was also focused on the M2M monitoring industry, and was co-founded by Pazol. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the first “public cloud” offering third-party data storage and compute services, launched in March 2006, and by 2012, there were multiple credible competitors. The hype was strong.

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JULY 15, 2009

San Diego-based InnerCool , a wholly owned subsidiary of Cardium Therapeutics, has been acquired by Royal Philips, Philips said Wednesday. InnerCool was acquired by Cardium Therapeutics in March of 2006 for around $6M, and develops and manufactures disposable catheter systems. in trade payables.

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JULY 10, 2009

San Diego-based Scoperta , which is developing fabless specialty steel technology utilizing scrap materials, has raised $1.4M round back in 2006 in the firm. out of a $1.875M round, according to a regulatory filing. According to the firm's filing, the funding will go towards general working capital purposes and payroll.

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JULY 28, 2010

San Diego-based Illumina announced its acquisition of Helixis yesterday, saying it would pay $105M for the firm. The venture firm closed its first fund, Okapi Ventures I, LP, in 2006. Okapi's other investments include RF Nano, My Damn Channel, Transaction Wireless, OrthAlign, SecondVoice, and Obalon Therapeutics.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

billion invested in cleantech venture capital in the state since 2006. The Next 10 report found that California accounted for 24 percent of total global investment in clean technology, with a total of $11.6

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JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. How big was the team in San Diego?

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MAY 15, 2017

San Diego’s Scientist.com set out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations (CROs).

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JANUARY 2, 2018

In March 2006, Amazon launched Simple Storage Service (S3). Although few people paid much attention at the time, the announcement of S3 marked the beginning of a great migration of data from on-premises storage to the cloud.

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JUNE 9, 2017

The company, founded in 2006, began by selling easy-to-use “Jitterbug” mobile phones, and expanded its offerings to include a variety of welfare and safety-related services. GreatCall operates a virtual telecommunications network that provides healthtech products and services for more than 800,000 older consumers throughout the United States.

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APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers.

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. It wasn’t about raising multiple rounds and burning jet fuel. It has allowed us to scale in a very measured way.”.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

Daniel is now the founding executive director of what he calls a “shell” advisory group in San Diego named Catalysis Advisors, from which he’s advising some biotechs and venture firms and acting as a “founding consultant” to other startups. Daniel joined Celgene in 2006.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering. So, I thought that I'd not only bring it to the neighborhood, but also put my own spin on it. Let's talk about your background, and also how this related to CheapCheapCheat?

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JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription). Total raised: $5.3mm Read more: TechCrunch. __. They sponsor TWiVC.

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JULY 26, 2016

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. We started in the mobile area in 2003 and 2004, and in 2006 we formed a company, MyNumo LLC, which initially started as a portal for artists to publish their ringtones, mobile videos, and more.

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Mobile Software Review Startup Platform 216

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Last week, San Diego-based Kidzui --the kid's website and kid-friendly browser developer, announced another round of funding, and also launched Zui Studios, a new effort to create original content for the portal. Give us an overview on KidZui. Cliff Boro: At KidZui, our job is to give kids access to the best content on the Internet.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

We actually went and calculated our returns, and lo and behold, according to Cambridge and Associates, we're in the top decile for the 2006 vintage of venture funds. We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like. Is there a market?

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). My blog was wiped out. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. Tempus Fugit.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks.

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JULY 19, 2019

From 2006 to 2012, the number of pills distributed to pharmacies increased by more than 50 percent. The opioid crisis reaches all corners of the nation, and newly released data this week revealed how the growth of the epidemic tracked with a massive increase in the production and distribution of these drugs.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. We were able to present at the screenings in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, and met lots of very interesting people who asked lots of great questions. How did you get into this - looks like you came from the entertainment world?

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