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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. 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. They sponsor TWiVC.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

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JULY 10, 2019

San Diego-based Chatmeter , a provider of local search marketing and reputation management services for multi-location businesses, has raised a round of investment from private equity investor Providence Strategic Growth (PSG). Chatmeter is led by founder and CEO Collin Holmes, and was founded in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M 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

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Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

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AUGUST 11, 2010

San Diego-based ecoATM , a developer of automated kiosks for recycling cell phones and other electronics, has scored a strategic investment from kiosk maker COinstar. ecoATM was the winner of a contest run by Coinstar in 2009 focused on finding innovative ideas for kiosks. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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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 BeneChill has previously raised funding from Healthcap Venture Capital, Medventure Associates, NGN Capital, and the Solon Foundation, most recently $13.5M

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Venture Capital San Diego Capital Funding 124

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APRIL 14, 2011

The latest venture capital numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters, was released tonight, showing that Southern California had $493.2M Nationally, venture capital investment up slightly, at $5.9 in San Diego.

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Southern California Invest Orange County Tech Coast Angels 186

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

San Diego-based Grid2Home , a developer of energy management software, said today that it has raised a seed round of funding. The funding was led by Granite Ventures. The company said it was founded in 2009 by Don Sturek and Mike Bourton. in October of 2009. READ MORE>>.

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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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Funding San Diego Venture Capital Capital 140

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Southern California venture totals for Q3 totaled around $1.0 billion in investments, according to the Q3 analysis of venture capital deals by socalTECH.com. Other big deals included $60M in investment in San Diego's Skinit , a developer of personalized "skins" for electronic devices, and $37.0M

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JULY 26, 2016

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. It’s unclear, though, if the $41.8 million disclosed in a July 14 filing includes $27.3M

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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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Incubator San Diego Resource Startup 180

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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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San Diego Venture Capital Funding Capital 124

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital, and also included Qualcomm Ventures, an existing investor in the company. Capillary was one of Qualcom's 2009 finalists for the QPrize; the firm is now based in Singapore, with offices in Palo Alto. Qualcomm is based in San Diego.

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Funding San Diego Competition Mobile 168

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

A new report released today by Next 10 , a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy group, says that Southern California--and California, as a whole--leads the green innovation, cleantech venture capital, and energy market. billion invested in cleantech venture capital in the state since 2006.

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Southern California Report Orange County Patents 165

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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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Southern California Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital Technical Review 100

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JULY 21, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association are reporting today that venture capitalists invested $3.7B in 52 venture deals. According to the report, financing nationally was essentially flat from Q1 of 2009, when $3.2B in 12 deals; and San Diego $172.2M in 22 deals.

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Southern California Invest Orange County Report 100

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JUNE 2, 2016

After a painful restructuring earlier this year, Berkeley, CA-based 3D Robotics appears to be raising additional capital. 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

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San Diego Funding Capital Startup 71

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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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JANUARY 19, 2009

Southern California's venture capital numbers for Q4 slipped, as did numbers nationally, according to numbers released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2

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Southern California SoCal Orange County Venture Capital 100

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MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. However, our challenge is that there are not a lot of venture capital investors in Southern California. You see that it's pretty high here in Orange County, as it is in San Diego. Thanks for the time this morning.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

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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. and San Diego’s Avalon Ventures.

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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

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Right now, we have developers in Belgium, Texas, New York, San Diego, Florida, and in the Bahamas. I thought I would be an investment banker, and I decided I was probably going to move to San Francisco to enter private equity, venture capital, or a startup. What is the idea behind that effort?

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Startup Mobile Venture Capital Resource 217

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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. Qualcomm Ventures, which previously invested about $11 million in Brain Corp.,

Artificial Inteligence 75

Artificial Inteligence Incubator Funding Invest 75

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JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing.

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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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Santa Monica Commerce Report Acquisition 62

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JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

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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. Uncertainty surrounding this year’s presidential election has kept U.S.

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MAY 6, 2012

He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78