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MAY 17, 2017

San Diego-based TealTech Capital , a new, $60M venture investment fund backed by Torrey Pines Investment, has launched its new investment fund, and made its first investment. Size of the investment in TealNet MMO was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Irvine-based cybersecurity software developer Cylance said today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with In-Q-Tel , the investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community. The company said the agreement will support further development of its artificial intelligence and machine learning technology.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

El Segundo-based CUJO AI , a developer of artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity software for telecom network operators, has raised a round of growth capital from KPN Ventures, the company said this morning. Size of the investment, which was part of a larger Series B investment, was not announced.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital , the venture capital investment firm led by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings, has raised its first official fund, a $19M seed stage venture fund. Moonshots said the new fund will focus on seed stage deals, holding reserve capital for follow-on pro rata.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor TenOneTen Ventures is one of the investors in a newly launched startup, which is looking to use artificial intelligence and DNA testing to identify autism and other medical conditions. Size of the investment round was not announced. The company's CEO and co-founder is Lukas Lange.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Carlsbad-based NextWave Ventures , a venture capital investor which focuses on commercializing early stage technology, said it has launched a new artificial intelligence start, Apical Technology. Size of the investment in Apical Technology was not announced. The startup was founded by Ron St. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Los Angeles-based Trace , a developer of mobile apps which automatically track your sports activity using sensors, video, and artificial intelligence, has scored a round of investment from Intel Capital. Size of the funding round was not announced.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this guide, you'll learn exactly what Claude is, how it works, and all about its parent company, Anthropic. Who Owns Anthropic, and Who Funds It? Anthropic largely focuses its work on building large language models (LLM) and the chatbots that subsequently use them. What is Anthropic AI?

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MAY 18, 2016

Anaheim-based Cogitai l, a new artificial intelligence (AI) software startup, said Tuesday that it has raised a strategic round of investment from Sony Corporation. Size of the investment was not announced. Cogitai said it is developing "core" artificial intelligence software technology.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Irvine-based Bitvore , the big data, artificial intelligence, and data analytics startup, has upped its latest funding round to $14.2M, as part of what appears to be an ongoing $17.75M funding effort. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

[ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. technologies. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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JUNE 29, 2017

We've summarized the funds that have announced new funds in the last nine months or so, or that are in the midst of raising funds--a total of more than $1086 million in total funds. List ordered by fund size). Fund size: $230M fund. Fund size: $100M fund. Fund size: $100M fund.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

Los Angeles-based fintech startup InvestCloud and seed-stage venture capital fund Stage Venture Partners have announced a new collaboration, where Stage will move into InvestCloud's "Innovation Center" in Los Angeles. Stage says it recently raised its second fund. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

It's turning out to be a great time for entrepreneurs looking for funding in the region, with not only high profile exits of such companies as Snap Inc., but a bunch of new, early stage investors looking to seed or fund the next big tech success story. www.watertowerventures.com) Fund size: $5M. Fund size: $40M.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Artificial intelligence innovation has become part of our everyday lives—retailers use it to tailor the product recommendations they make; biotech companies hope it can create customized medicine. Take, for example, facial recognition technologies that work best on white people and make the most errors on black people.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Los Angeles-based Catasys , a provider of AI- and technology-enabled healthcare services, said today that it has received $10M in a debt financing round, split between a receivable facility agreement of $2.5 million with Horizon Technology Finance Corporation.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based REX , which is developing technology buying and selling homes, said on Monday that it has raised $45M in a Series C funding round. REX says it acts as a licensed, residential real estate brokerage, using artificial intelligence and big data to power its services. REX has now raised $75M in total.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. ” TAE Technologies Michl Binderbauer standing next to the company’s novel fusion reactor. .”

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

March Capital Partners , the Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, has raised $300 million for its latest fund. ” Those two themes are borne out in the support March Capital has provided for The Hive , an artificial intelligence-focused incubator, and The Fabric , an infrastructure and internet of things-focused incubator.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Shamrock Capital reports this morning that it has led a $30M investment in Pixellot , an Israeli firm developing automatic, artificial intelligence-driven software for producing streaming sports video. Pixellot has now raised more than $40M in funding.

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JUNE 13, 2019

in a seed funding round. The funding round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and the TCA's San Diego chapter. According to the TCA, its angel network members invested $2.5M in the round. The TCA said the deal is one of the largest, initial raises from the TCA in its history.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor TenOneTen Ventures is one of the backers in a round for consumer debt collection technology startup TrueAccord , which was announced this morning. The Series B funding for San Francisco-based TrueAccord was worth $22M, and was led by Arbor Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence developer Boundless Mind , which is uses AI to personalize the interaction of users on apps, has been acquired by New York-based Thrive Global , a startup founded by Arianna Huffington focused on behavior change. Size of that investment was not announced.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) announced last week that it has raised a second fund, worth $300M. To learn about the new fund, we sat down with Jamie Montgomery , one of the fund's co-founders, to hear about March Capital's strategy and the new fund.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. This was the cumulation of several years as an entrepreneur based in Pasadena growing clean energy technology companies.

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MARCH 28, 2019

We spoke with Meredith Finn a new Partner at March Capital--who headed up that the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur sessions this year--to hear more about her perspectives on investments, what the Rise of the Female Entrepeneur was all about, March's interests in artificial intelligence and more.

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MAY 15, 2018

Metawave Corporation , a developer of automotive radar technology with has an office in Carlsbad, has raised $10M in a funding round, the company announced on Tuesday morning. The company has offices in Carlsbad and Palo Alto.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. We spoke with Retina's CEO, Michael Greenberg , to learn more. We see you do that through machine learning and artificial intelligence?

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Glendale-based Beyond Limits , a venture-backed developer of artificial intelligence software, has named Meghan Sharp, Ph.D., Sharp most recently led BP Ventures/Americas investment in Beyond Limits in 2017, leading the company's $25M Series B funding round and joining its board. The company is headed by CEO AJ Abdallat.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

The USC Viterbi Startup Garage , the startup accelerator that is part of the University of Southern California, has scored backing from the Amazon Alexa Fund , the venture investment arm of Amazon that invests in startups using Amazon Alexa. Financial details of the investment by the Amazon Alexa Fund were not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

In the early days this is expensive because the logistics & warehouses are amortized over a small customer base but with scale this infrastructure and the technology that drives it becomes a powerful moat and hard for new entrants to compete. years of software development.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2016

Los Angeles-based ZestFinance has received a strategic investment from Baidu , according to the company on Sunday. ZestFinance did not disclose the size of the Baidu investment. ZestFinance, led by Douglas Merrill, is using machine learning to help with credit underwriting and lending. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

New research has found that San Francisco and London have become two of the world’s leading hubs for VC investment into tech solutions that address one or more of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), more commonly referred to as “Impact Tech” They are followed by Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Shanghai and Beijing.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 22, 2020

Embodying the tensions that cities across the world face as they wrestle with controlling a pandemic in dense, urban environments, Urban-X , the accelerator for technology startups focused on the problems cities face, has launched its eighth, fully remote, cohort. Xtelligent : a company rethinking traffic signal technology.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Costa Mesa-based Connectifier , the artificial intelligence software developer led by John Jersin, has been acquired by LinkedIn , the companies said Thursday afternoon. in funding from such investors as Galeo Ventures, Goldcrest Investments, Okapi Venture Capital, and True Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pasadena-based ObEN , an Idealab-backed startup which is developing artificial intelligence technology for creating highly realistic, virtual reality avatars, has raised $7.7M in a series A funding, the company announced this mroning. Entertainment Co., Gordon Cheng (Cameron Pace Group China), and Idealab.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2017

SoftBank’s new Vision Fund has led a $114 million investment to advance the company’s artificial intelligence technology. Qualcomm Ventures, which previously invested about $11 million in Brain Corp., was the only other investor in the Series C funding round. San Diego’s Brain Corp.,

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