Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Our investment strategy has always been to do predominantly Series Seed & A round deals, which makes up > 85% of our first investments. And daunting.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

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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 30, 2012

San Diego-based StockTwits , the online, stock-focused micro messaging startup, said Friday that it has integrated its service with social charting service Chartly. Chartly, originally a developer of publicly accessible stock charting tools, had been acquired by StockTwits in 2009. StockTwits is led by Howard Lindzon.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Opendoor has opened the door, so to speak, for startups to apply their technical expertise in search, marketplaces and audience segmentation to rethink the very antiquated and analogue world of property. All are previous investors from the startup’s last round, a $16.55 million Series A also led by QED.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 -- SD Venture Summit. San Diego Venture Group. The San Diego Venture Group is proud to present our Seventh Annual "Venture Summit" program. We'll start off the program with a keynote speech from former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox over lunch. See [link] (more).

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APRIL 15, 2010

for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M received in the region in Q1 of 2009.

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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. What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas. How did you end up here in Southern California?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

How do you come up with a compelling, mobile videogame title? We thought it would be interesting to hear the story behind Jonathan's startup efforts and where he hopes his mobile gaming startup will go. When we started the company, we wanted to make it the next generation, social video game developer. What is Playzon?

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Irwin Jacobs , co-founder of San Diego-based Qualcomm , is retiring from the company's board, Qualcomm said last night. Jacobs co-founded Qualcomm on July 1, 1985, taking the firm from startup to more than 22,000 employees. According to the company, Jacobs will retire at the firm's 2012 annual stockholder meeting.

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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 The company could raise up to $45 million through the financing, which began May 21st, according to the filing.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 -- Building Your Business in the Face of Global Competition: Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times. MIT Enterprise Forum of San Diego. Some start up companies see bad times as an opportunity and will thrive in the face of this global economic crisis.

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Xconomy

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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. They sponsor TWiVC.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 19, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- Using Social Media to Market Your Business. San Diego Venture Group. Social networking tools are being integrated in the marketing efforts of many corporations, from start-ups to multi-nationals. Special Keynote Headliner: Guy Kawasaki. Resistance to social media is futile.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

However, the report split employment across Southern California across the Inland Empire (3,630 jobs), Los Angeles, Orange County (3,895 jobs), and San Diego (2,389) separately, and if accounting for all of those areas together, Southern California actually had more jobs in total--19,284--than the Bay Area in clean technology.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Before getting out on the open road, however, the company wants to show its self-driving system can clean up a mess in aisle 3 at Jimbo’s. As an independent startup backed by the corporate venture arm of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ), Brain Corp. began life in 2009 with a lofty goal of reverse-engineering the human brain.

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Product Artificial Inteligence San Diego Training 106

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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. They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool.

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

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APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

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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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JULY 10, 2017

There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. Tim Grace: We all get our started at HNC Software in San Diego.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

As the Federal Aviation Administration sets new rules for commercial operations of unmanned aircraft, legions of new startups are using drones to perform all kinds of tasks—from aerial inspections to mapping, imaging, and analysis. We sell the hardware at a fixed price, with recurring revenue on the analytics.”.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. That goes beyond just a phone call or I can't get up and have fallen.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

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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Artificial Inteligence Incubator Funding Invest 75

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. That was primarily driven by the economy; when the economy is down, investments are down, and it is increasingly difficult to d a startup. In order for startup ecosystem to really flourish, you need to pump money into the system.

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JULY 9, 2009

The funding numbers were boosted significantly by the inclusion of an unofficial $100M in funding from car startup V-Vehicle Corp. in San Diego; actual investment amounts into the firm have not been confirmed by the company. Tags: venture capital investment southern california 2009.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This technology allows us to see what is hot. This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods. It also includes some other social signals such as traffic, clicks, etc.

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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

Xconomy

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. The first-in-human trials of AVB-620 began last year at UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center.

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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. By December of 2009, with our little portfolio of simple games such as Snowball Fight, we were at 27 million monthly user son Facebook, and we were one of the top 10 developers on Facebook in terms of pure reach.

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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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year. If you’re thinking about breaking away from the cable monopolies and getting your data, music, and video in other ways, congratulations, I’m with you.

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Xconomy

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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Santa Monica Commerce Report Acquisition 62

Xconomy

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. Another new startup he’s involved with is focused on the neurobehavioral field, he says.

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 29, 2011

My business partner and I launched CitySourced Sept 2009, so we’ve been at it for just over two years now. million series A investment round, which has helped us scale the team to over 15 people, up from just Jason and I when we started. In December we announced we closed $1.33 Public Speaking. Vancouver Left.

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MARCH 8, 2011

That nightmare happened to Jim Carol , a serial entrepreneur who was co-founder and CEO of San Diego's PacketVideo , when his son was diagnosed with cancer. Tell us the story of how you started the organization? Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Most of us think junk is bad and we have been brought up thinking the only way to dispose of junk is to trash it. She adds that in San Diego, she was responsible for commenting on Environmental Impact Reports, coordinating with city planners, and drafting specs for best practices in C&D recovery/diversion.

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