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. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Carlsbad-based Zingle , a developer of mobile messaging and customer experience software for the hospitality, travel , and retail markets, has been acquired by San Francisco-based Medallia , a provider of customer experience management software. Medallia said it will pay approximately $42M in cash for Zingle. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As you might expect from the name, Freeletics operates its mobile fitness coaching app on a freemium model, with tiered pricing beginning at $11.99 for one month or $74.99 for a year-long membership. “We want to be there for people who want a long-term athletic lifestyle,” Sobhani told TechCrunch.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Here's a rundown of some of the venture capital investors who have set up shop in Southern California, plus those with big new funds, which have been announced so far since January of this year. Watertower Ventures. Fika Ventures. Greycroft Ventures. www.watertowerventures.com) Fund size: $5M. Fund size: $40M.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

San Diego-based Tourmaline Labs , a startup developing location-aware smartphone software for mobile apps hsa raised a round of funding, and appointed a new CEO. According to Torumaline Labs, it has received an investment from ClearVision Equity Partners, and appointed Marc Brungger as its new CEO. Lukas Kuhn and Sven Beerweiler.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Now, some founders are seeking to use tech tools such as chatbots, artificial intelligence, analytics, and mobile to help clients remedy those deficiencies. As the last year has shown, the tech industry has a significant problem with sexual harassment and ensuring that women are treated equitably in the workplace.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Venture capital firms invest in potentially disruptive technologies with the hope of profit, then keep watch for further advances that could overtake their existing portfolio companies. All this is done while they guide startups through other external challenges such as fundraising droughts and overall market downturns.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2019

First, entrepreneurs vying to invent self-driving vehicles, virtual assistants, and intelligent industrial machines created a hunger for more powerful semiconductors that could enable scattered devices to take over sophisticated calculations powered by artificial intelligence software.

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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., San Diego’s Brain Corp., was the only other investor in the Series C funding round.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Mountain View, CA-based Esperanto is vying with a host of competitors to create new processors for high-order tasks like machine learning and deep learning, while also minimizing power consumption. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Certona describes itself as an “omnichannel” vendor—meaning its technology enables retailers to collect consumer data across online, mobile, e-mail, call center, and in-store interactions. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a tech culture that looks toward self-driving cars as the pinnacle of mobility innovation, we’re still debating whether fully autonomous vehicles are an imminent reality for our roads or an ever-receding Shangri-La.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 20, 2017

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA ), the Santa Clara, CA-based maker of specialized graphics processing chips that have become workhorses in artificial intelligence, has joined a group of investors that put $20 million into TuSimple, a Chinese startup developing self-driving technology for long-haul trucks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Gil Elbaz: The primary developer demographic for our products is people building web and mobile applications. As you know, that's a very fast growing category, particularly in mobile, with interest in things such as proximity searches, and finding businesses near you for check-ins.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Other investors in the firm include Mayfield , Menlo Ventures , GGV Capital , Inventus Capital , SoftTech VC , Union Grove Venture Partners , and Cross Creek Advisors. That brings the total funding raised by the Redwood City, CA-based company to $160 million.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We chatted with Wayne about how SURE--backed by IA Capital, Menlo Ventures, FF Venture Capital, Nationwide Ventures, Assurant and AmTrust--is applying technology and working with, not against, insurance companies to make buying insurance something you can easily do with your smartphone or tablet.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

In a world where there seems likes there is a major, security breach every day, where usernames and passwords are just not enough because they keep getting stolen, and where hackers have even started to hijack people's mobile phones to break into accounts, what do you do? You might remember Quest Software and Vinny Smith.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2018

In its early years, Uber was a headstrong force knocking down preconceived ideas about transportation and, along with Lyft, sparking the imaginations of countless entrepreneurs who are now building a new industry called “mobility.” As it closes in on its first decade, Uber is a conundrum: A Silicon Valley unicorn with $7.3

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer. Venture capital. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago. Cloud storage.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2017

View the Slideshow Whether you think self-driving cars are the stuff of science fiction or a potentially paradigm-shifting new form of transportation, autonomous vehicles are coming—and the companies developing them are spending big money to make it happen.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Convoy , an online marketplace that connects shippers with freight truck fleets and independent drivers, announced today it raised $185 million in a Series C fundraising round led by CapitalG, the growth equity investment fund of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. regions, CEO Dan Lewis says.

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Xconomy

MARCH 9, 2018

If a shopper interacts with technology in a typical grocery store, it’s usually at the very end—as they are paying for their items. That could be about to change, though.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2019

San Diego’s prowess in computer science, medical devices, and life sciences makes it a natural hub of innovative digital health companies.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The word “cloud”—as in cloud computing, and cloud storage—has served as a handy shorthand term, but it has always been inherently vague and a little misleading.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2018

As the Xconomy Forum on Big Data Meets Big Biology draws near, one of the best arguments for understanding the significance of the convergence of data science and the life sciences may lie in what came out of the 2013 sale of San Diego’s EcoATM.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. Here’s how they did it … Mobile First —  It is now well understood that “mobile first” dominated the consumer Internet and we take this for granted.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Part 1: Inside the mind of an angel investor and how it differs from professional seed investors and VC. A typical VC (A round) will reserve at least 100-200% of initial investment. We discuss Googles plan to pay more to Verizon in order to be on a higher speed connection and get its mobile content to users faster.

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