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MARCH 25, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010 -- San Diego Founder Institute Open Community Session. New and experienced entrepreneurs, future founders and co-founders, and all those passionate about startups are invited to a special Open Community Session of the Founder Institute. See [link] (more).

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MARCH 3, 2010

Kyocera Solar , a manufacturer of solar modules, said today that it is planning to begin manufacturing solar modules in San Diego, to serve the U.S. Kyocera already maintains its North American businesses from San Diego. Kyocera Solar is the Arizona-based photovoltaic arm of Japanese firm Kyocera Corporation.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Saturday, August 21, 2010 -- San Diego Startup Weekend. See [link] (more).

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Sunday, August 22, 2010 -- San Diego Startup Weekend. See [link] (more).

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Friday, August 20, 2010 -- San Diego Startup Weekend. See [link] (more).

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

In 2010, Xconomy convened “San Diego Life Sciences 2030,” a séance with the soothsayers of San Diego as they gazed into the future at what the local life sciences landscape might look like 20 years from now. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The change has caused me to reflect a bit on the state of finance in biotech and in San Diego biotech particularly. During the process of arranging early funding for Organovo in 2008-2010, I worked with angels in San Diego, all over the country, and around the world. About 40 percent of my financing at.

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 -- A Showcase of San Diego Clean Technology Companies. The CommNexus EcoCom SIG has organized an ensemble of 10 local and innovative companies where cleantech plays a major role in their business.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Saturday, January 16, 2010 -- BarCamp San Diego 6. See [link] (more).

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 -- San Diego Bootstrappers Breakfast welcomes eMOBUS founder, Moe Arnaiz. Moe Arnaiz, founder of eMOBUS, joins Bootstrappers Breakfast to discuss lessons learned. Join Other Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems For Breakfast See [link] (more).

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Sunday, January 17, 2010 -- BarCamp San Diego 6. See [link] (more).

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JULY 9, 2010

Thursday, July 15, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents: Wireless Health What Does Healthcare Reform Mean to San Diego Businesses? How does the enactment of this far reaching legislation change the way San Diego wireless health and life sciences companies conduct business? See [link] (more).

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When Xconomy gathered a handful of life sciences visionaries in 2010 to predict what the local life sciences landscape would look like in 2030, biotech CEO John Mendlein talked about the intertwining ingredients of people, money, and ideas—how they work together to strengthen a life sciences ecosystem. “We It really is all in our hands.”

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Not long after ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT ) acquired San Diego-based LonoCloud in 2013 , former LonoCloud executives Tom Caldwell and Hossein Eslambolchi met for coffee at the Specialty’s Café and Bakery in University City. Webroot also plans to expand in San Diego, and Caldwell said he plans to stay on.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County. Innovation Companies in San Diego (Courtesy Connect Innovation Report).

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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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AUGUST 8, 2017

San Diego- and Baltimore-based private equity investor JMI Equity announced this morning that it has made two promotions. Contrella is based in Baltimore, and has been at the firm since 2010. Chang is in San Diego, and has been at JMI Equity since 2013.

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MAY 26, 2017

San Diego-based Qualcomm has agreed to pay $940M to BlackBerry Limited , in a conclusion of an arbitration case, over overpayment of royalties by BlackBerry to Qualcomm, BlackBerry said on Friday. The payment comes as a result of overpayments by BlackBerry between 2010 and 2015. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

San Diego-based Seismic , which develops sales enablement and marketing software, has joined the unicorn club, saying this morning that it has raised $92M in a Series F funding, which values the company at approximately $1.6 The company says that it now has over 900 employees spread across 14 offices; the company was founded in 2010.

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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 startup is led by Robert Shulte, who was founder of sales tax software provider Taxient, which was based in San Diego, and who he sold to tax software developer Avalara in 2010.

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APRIL 3, 2017

San Diego-based MEI Pharma , which is developing cancer treatments, said today that it has named Brian Drazba as its Chief Financial Officer. Zech had been CFO since June of 2010. Drazba was most recently CFO of Heron Therapeutics, and also had served at ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Insight Health, and Arthur Andersen & Co.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

San Diego-based cell phone recycling kiosk maker ecoATM -- which was recently sold to Outerwall -- reports that it has now reached more than two million phones and devices recycled in its four year history. The company only started its recycling kiosks in 2010, and was previously a winner of the San Diego Venture Group''s Pitchfest.

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MAY 3, 2012

San Diego-based Qualcomm has renewed its investment in Visage , as part of a Series C funding for the enterprise mobility management software provider. Qualcomm was the lead on the February 2010 round for Visage, whose software is used to manage the security and mobile policy for enterprise customers.

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APRIL 16, 2014

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor said Wednesday that it has named Duncan Pilgrim as its new Vice President of Marketing. Peregrine has been at the company since 2010, and previously served at Sequoia Communications, RFMD, GEC Plessey Semiconductor, and Marconi.

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APRIL 1, 2014

San Diego-based DivX , the developer of digital video encoding and decoding technology has been acquired by private equity firms Parallax Capital Partners and StepStone Group , the companies said yesterday, in a deal worth $75M in cash plus earnout. DivX said that it was assisted int he deal by San Diego''s Karmel Capital.

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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). EcoATM had only launched its automated kiosks in 2010, and was a winner of the San Diego Venture Group''s Pitchfest in 2009.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

In the end of a sad saga for the startup investment community in Southern California, a San Diego man has been convicted in the murder of a Tech Coast Angels member last year. The San Diego Union Tribune reported that Kent Thomas Keigwin has been convicted of the murder of angel investor and retired biotech executive John G.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

San Diego-based venture capital investor Mission Ventures has re-upped its investment in San Francisco-based Alpine Data Labs , a developer of Hadoop software for the big data market. Greenplum was acquired by EMC in 2010. READ MORE>>. mission ventures alpine data hadoop bigdata venture capital metapa greenplum'

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Kent Thomas Keigwin was convicted of five felony counts, including murder, grand theft, burglarly, identity theft, and forgery in the murder of Watson, who was very active in the San Diego Tech Coast Angels. Watson had been found dead by fellow Tech Coast Angels members in June of 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

San Diego-based Bevo Media , an online ad exchange and ad tracking platform developer, has been acquired by private equity investor Vize Capital. Bevo Media was founded in 2010, and plays in the performance marketing area. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 28, 2011

San Diego-based PacketVideo , the former unit of Nextwave Wireless which was acquired by NTT DOCOMO, is suing hot online music streaming service Spotify , according to a lawsuit filed in the California Southern District Court in San Diego yesterday. NextWave Wireless sold PacketVideo to DOCOMO in August of 2010.

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APRIL 29, 2015

The company and site was acquired by San Diego-based Resource Nation / JMI Equity back in 2011, after prior owner Dex One said in 2010 that it would be shutting down the site. Szatkowski had previously served at such companies as Autobytel, Local.com, Miva, and AdKnowledge. Business.com is led by Tony Uphoff. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

San Diego-based ServiceNow , the venture-backed, privately backed developer of IT management software, said today that it has passed $125M in annual revenues, and has opened up a new, San Jose development center. the firm's new San Jose development center will be headed by Moti Eliav.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

San Diego-based wireless communications module developer On-Ramp Wireless announced Wednesday that Kevin Hell, the former CEO of DivX, has joined the company as President and CEO. Hell sits on the boards of Hold-Free Networks, Perminova, Inc, MicroPower Technologies and Pixon Imaging, Inc.

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MARCH 7, 2012

San Diego-based CareFusion said yesterday that it has agreed a technology and consulting firm focused on pharmacy automation, PHACTS, LLC. CareFusion said that it has been a exclusive reseller of PHACTS pharmacy inventory management software and automation since November of 2010. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

San Diego-based DivX is changing hands, once again, and has been acquired by streaming video technology provider NeuLion , the two companies said Monday, in a deal worth $62.5 Prior to that, DivX had been part of Rovi, which acquired the company in 2010 for $325M. million, split between $37.5M READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has made another investment in femtocell and picocell technology developer ip.access , as part of a new round of funding. Qualcomm and Ip.access inked that technology deal in September of 2010. READ MORE>>.

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