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MAY 11, 2017

San Diego-based Miva , the developer of e-commerce shopping cart software, has received a growth capital funding from private equity investor Bison Capital Partners, the companies said this week. Miva said that the investment is the first time in its history that it has accepted growth capital funding. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

According to PwC/NVCA, investments in 2009 were at the lowest level since 1997, with only $17.7 Locally, San Diego led the region in terms of venture deals for the quarter, with $300M invested, followed by Los Angeles, with $239.1M invested--the vast majority of that in the San Diego area. in investments.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

San Diego-based Accumetrics , a developer of medical devices used to measure antiplatelet therapy, a technique used to prevent heart attack and stroke, said this morning that it has closed on a $24M funding round. Of that funding, $7M was raised recently, with the remainder having been received in the Fall of 2009.

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JULY 2, 2013

San Diego-based startup EcoATM , the developer of automated kiosks used for recycling cell phones and other electronics, has been acquired by newly renamed Coinstar (now known as Outerwall). in funding to date. According to Outerwall, it will pay $350M in cash for EcoATM. Outerwall already owned 23 percent of ecoATM.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

According to PwC/NVCA, investments in 2009 were at the lowest level since 1997, with only $17.7 Locally, San Diego led the region in terms of venture deals for the quarter, with $300M invested, followed by Los Angeles, with $239.1M invested--the vast majority of that in the San Diego area. in investments.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Today, a startup that is doing this in the specific area of distressed property is announcing a round of growth funding to ramp up its team and expand its business. The funding is being led by QED Investors; Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, Navitas Capital, and Prudence Holdings also participated.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

EvoNexus , the San Diego-based startup incubator, has opened up application for its next program, with a deadline of January 23rd. CommNexus, which is led by Rory Moore, said that it has admitted 39 companies since 2009 to the incubator, with five new companies admitted to the last cycle of the program.

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JULY 30, 2013

In what might be one of the first successful examples of an energy startup company making effective use of taxpayer guarantees, San Diego-based Sapphire Energy , which is developing algae-based crude oil technology, said it has completely paid of a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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JULY 26, 2016

The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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Xconomy

JUNE 2, 2016

The high-profile drone startup, which raised $50 million in venture funding early last year in a Series C funding round led by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ), has raised almost $26.7 After a painful restructuring earlier this year, Berkeley, CA-based 3D Robotics appears to be raising additional capital.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

San Diego-based BeneChill , a firm developing medical devices for treatment of cerebral ischemia, has raised $600,000 as part of $1.2M in debt funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Source of the new funding was not announced. in a Series C in July of 2009. in a Series C in July of 2009.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009. Tags: tech coast angels funding venture capital seed fund. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

San Diego-based Zogenix , a pharmaceutical firm developing treatments for neuroscience disorders and pain, said Wednesday that it has completed a $51M, Series B preferred stock financing. The firm said that $36M of the funding has been received, with $15M available to the firm for use between December 2009 and February 2010.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. Hylton’s appointment comes less than two months after UC San Diego named Henrik Christensen as director of the robotics institute.

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MARCH 16, 2009

San Diego-based Cytori Therapeutics , which is developing medical technologies for regenerative medicine, said late Friday that the firm has raised $10M in a private placement. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Source of the funding was not disclosed. The plan for the funding had been announced March 10th.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

According to an analysis of socalTECH's proprietary database of venture capital deals, venture investors invested slightly more than the $966M in Q3 of 2009, but less than the $1.6 based in Malibu, which secured around $100M in funding to acquired the North American Credit-on-Self division of D&B in July. billion invested in Q2.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2010

What does it take for a San Diego company to raise a Seed or Series A round? With 2009 finally behind us, what can we expect in 2010? Where will the funding come from? What exactly will it take to get funded? Tuesday, June 8, 2010 -- Raising the First Round of Capital. Will investments pick up?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

San Diego-based Ardea Biosciences, which is developing small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of HIV, gout, cancer and inflammatory diseases, announced Thursday that the firm has scored an $8M growth capital loan from Oxford Finance Corporation and Silicon Valley Bank.

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JULY 21, 2009

According to the report, financing nationally was essentially flat from Q1 of 2009, when $3.2B was invested in 105 firms, and flat from Q1 of 2009, when $301.26M was invested in 55 firms. in 12 deals; and San Diego $172.2M in 12 deals; and San Diego $172.2M was invested in 603 deals. in 22 deals.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2017

San Diego’s Brain Corp., founded in 2009 as a Qualcomm-incubated startup to develop software and computer systems that emulate the human brain, seems to have found a new path forward. SoftBank’s new Vision Fund has led a $114 million investment to advance the company’s artificial intelligence technology.

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APRIL 20, 2009

in deals, Orange County seeing $92.1M, and San Diego with $87.4M PwC found the largest funding deals were for San Diego's Mpex Pharmaceuticals, with $27.5M The largest deal for Los Angeles was $15M in a funding for Buzz Media. in 54 venture capital deals, with Los Angeles reporting $115.6M in 67 deals.

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JULY 9, 2009

A recent analysis by socalTECH, of our detailed tracking of venture capital investment activity in Southern California, finds that there was around $932M in funding raised in the area in Q2, a rise from roughly $700M in Q1. in San Diego; actual investment amounts into the firm have not been confirmed by the company.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- Converging Technologies for Health Information: A New Venture Frontier / Entrepreneurial Opportunities: the $40 Billion Stimulus and Beyond. MIT Enterprise Forum of San Diego. More is being directed into Health Information Exchanges to provide a means for EHRs to communicate.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

began life in 2009 with a lofty goal of reverse-engineering the human brain. Headed by the computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich, the company maintained a low profile at Qualcomm’s San Diego headquarters until 2013, when Brain Corp. emerged in the collective glow of the Obama Administration’s brain initiative.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. Tim Grace: We all get our started at HNC Software in San Diego. Finally, what's next for you?

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

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APRIL 13, 2009

San Diego-based GreatCall , the telecom firm which runs the Jitterbug cell phone service, disclosed this morning that it is looking to hire over 150 employees for a new, Carlsbad-based customer service and sales call center. The company said it plans to have the 150 positions filled by the time the firm's offices open in May 2009.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

San Diego’s Avelas Biosciences , founded in 2009 to advance a fluorescing biologic agent intended to help surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue, has completed a $20 million Series C round of venture funding. Inbio Ventures, a venture capital management company, represented Pharmstandard in the deal.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— 5D Robotics , founded in 2009 in Carlsbad, CA, (about 30 miles north of San Diego), has developed a device that integrates GPS, inertial guidance, optical positioning, and other technologies. SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales.

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San Diego Seed Funding Guide Technology 40

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In the nine years since San Diego’s EvoNexus incubator began amid the great recession of 2009, CEO Rory Moore has emphasized it is a pro bono program—startup teams admitted to the technology accelerator get free office space and other perks, with no strings attached.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom is not new to the startup world -- in fact, his last startup, Fruugo, raised an astounding $48M in funding, and became one of the most heralded-- and controversial --startups in Finland. Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016. The institutional research firm is predicting a surge of IPOs in the weeks and months to come.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The two biggest acquisitions were Whole Foods last year and Zappos in 2009, according to Statista.) That would make Amazon’s purchase of Ring the third largest in the Seattle e-commerce giant’s history. Santa Monica, CA-based Ring makes smart doorbells connected to cameras that alert homeowners when someone is at their door.

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APRIL 3, 2012

For San Diego-based Mob Science (www.mobscience.com), an injection of cash, some key advisors--and a deal with Zynga. Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers.

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

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APRIL 16, 2010

After starting CheapCheapCheap to understand the consumer behavior and trends, I decided to get into the hyperlocal area in 2009. Finally, how are you funding this business? We didn't need funding or anything of that sort, and started up the business through bootstrap funding. Hyperlocal is the next wave. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Among those startups is San Diego-based Independa (www.independa.com) , which is trying to crack the code to figure out how to apply the convergence of wireless technology, cloud computing, and software to elderly care. Kian Saneii: I was at Websense here in San Diego, and my last position was General Manager of Websense Wireless.

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