Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego has formed a partnership with Downtown Works, a new co-working space in downtown San Diego, which will give the local Plug and Play program a place to call home. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”. billion under management.

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San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

LumaTax , a new startup has offices in both San Diego and Seattle, Washington, has raised $2M in a funding, the company said on Thursday. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners, and angels. The company is initially launching its product in California.

Software 100

Software San Diego Report Sales 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010 -- Power of Angel Investing. San Diego Tech Coast Angels. This full-day seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals and developing angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success.

Invest 100

Invest Tech Coast Angels Angel Case Study 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2012

raised in Q4 of 2010, and up from the $652M invested in the region last quarter. In Southern California, San Diego County took the lead in investment totals, raising $262.1M Los Angeles had $226.75M invested in companies. The biggest Los Angeles deal was a funding for SolarReserve , for $27.0M. in venture funding.

Southern California 157

Southern California Orange County San Diego GRP Partners 157

socalTECH

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". and $11.50

Symantec 133

Symantec San Diego Pricing Invest 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

The Tech Coast Angels is stressing its mixer program, seed investment efforts, and a new website, as it kicks off a 2010 program, according to the angel investing group. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Orange County Seed Funding Santa Barbara 157

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2011

Los Angeles had $222.5M in funding, and San Diego $198.18M in investments. Investments were slightly down from Q2 of 2010, when the region saw $856M in funding. active firms (all with three deals each) being Rustic Canyon Partners , DFJ Frontier , the Tech Coast Angels , Amgen , GRP Partners , and Mission Ventures.

Southern California 167

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 167

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

invested in Q1 of 2010. Locally, the report totaled $201.28M in deals in the Los Angeles area, $191.89M in the Orange County area, and $100.0M in San Diego. Frontier , the Tech Coast Angels , and New Enterprise. in investments in Q1 of the year, across 54 deals. Investments were down from $625.4M

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Southern California Invest Orange County Tech Coast Angels 186

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 -- Raising Capital Today. What does it take for a San Diego company to raise a round of capital in today's market? What is the market environment like for companies, and VCs? Specific to the software, communications and IT sectors - what is of interest to capital sources. See [link] (more).

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Capital Tech Coast Angels GRP Partners Southern California 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 -- Raising the First Round of Capital. 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? Will investments pick up? Where will the funding come from? What exactly will it take to get funded? Just how high is the bar?

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Capital GRP Partners Southern California 100

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

The Cleantech Open , the clean technology focused business competition, has named the semifinalists for its 2010 competition, indicating a number of Southern California firms are semifinalists in the competition. READ MORE>>.

Southern California 174

Southern California Monterey Park Riverside Venice 174

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

The third biggest investment was for San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies , a maker of transmission systems for the electric vehicle industry, which raised nearly $39.2M In terms of the region, San Diego led in terms of total investments, with $193.1M in investments for the Los Angeles area. in a funding round.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Southern California Invest Capital 154

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles saw $407.2M in 21 deals, and San Diego saw $170.6M San Diego's biggest deals were for Sonexa Therapeutics , which raised $37.2M, Astute Medical , which raised $26.5M, and Nereus Pharmaceuticals , with $20.0M billion in investments so far in 2010. and 80 deals in Q1. totaled $6.5 in the quarter.

Southern California 174

Southern California Orange County Rustic Canyon SoCal 174

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, twelve companies moved into the new downtown San Diego, EvoNexus incubator--which is run by CommNexus. Running that effort is Kevin Hell , the founder of DivX, who we caught up with to learn more about EvoNexus and how the group is trying to help grow technology startups in San Dieog.

Incubator 212

Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

billion in investments in 681 deals in the first quarter of 2010. invested across 18 deals, followed by Los Angeles, with $224.4M San Diego was not far behind, with $222.4M Southern California's investment totals bucked the national trend, which found that there was a 9 percent drop in dollars to $4.7 across 31 days.

Southern California 208

Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 5, 2010

This Wednesday April 7, 2010 the #InfluenceSD awards will be taking place at the Anthology Fine Dining and Music Hall located in San Diego. InfluenceSD will recognize and celebrate the most influential members of the San Diego social media community. And you guessed it! What is the #InfluenceSD Awards?

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Media San Diego Social Media Southern California 40

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The Los Angeles-based private equity firm provided funding from its Kayne Partners Fund Group, which invests in high-growth technology businesses. Proficio, a Carlsbad, CA-based startup providing cybersecurity protection services for middle market companies, has raised $12 million in an investment round led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.

Equity 40

Equity Los Angeles Invest Networking 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. 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. Here’s this week’s outline: INTRO to FARB NIVI. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2015

Since its inception in 2010, EAT Club has scaled its service in the Bay Area, delivering more than three million meals to allow thousands of companies like Netflix , Tesla and Cisco to find their workplace zen. Sales earned his MBA from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree in Finance from San Diego State University.

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Commerce Netflix Sales Los Angeles 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2010

The DEMO conference announced the lineup of 65 companies that will share their products and value propositions to the technology community at DEMO Spring 2010 on March 21-23 in Palm Desert, California. And now without further Delay the DEMOnstrators: DEMO Spring 2010 Demonstrators: ABJK NewCo, Inc.; San Diego, California; [link].

Cerritos 40

Cerritos Thousand Oaks Santa Barbara Startup 40

Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. —South San Francisco-based Second Genome hired a new CEO and president. He is replacing Peter DiLaura, the company’s CEO since 2010. —Enough good trial news.

News 40

News Technical Review San Diego Startup 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. SV Angel / Ron Conway closes $20mm venture fund. Read more: TechCrunch. Read more: PEHub.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. Jason Howe: Yes, it's a Series D, though our Series A was an angel funding. I think that there might be cash toward the end of 2010 or 2011, where IPOs might be reasonable.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move. MYTH 4: Research institutions are stronger in NorCal. Let’s compare.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. So no prizes for guessing my New Year’s resolution for 2010. I plan to be 25 pounds lighter by December 31st, 2010. I prefer to write the December 2010 post about what a great year I had.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308