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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

San Diego-based Pathway Genomics has scored an investment from Google , the two said Wednesday, as part of an investment out of IBM''s Watson Group. According to the companies, the investment brings the total invested in Pathway Genomics to more than $80M in the last six years. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

San Diego-based Qualcomm and Google are in an effort to work together on Google's new, Internet-of-Things focused version of Android, Android Things , Qualcomm said on Tuesday. Qualcomm said that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, will add support for Android Things on its Snapdragon processors.

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JUNE 5, 2015

San Diego-based Lumedyne Technologies , a developer of MEMs-based, inertial direction sensors, has quietly been acquired by Google , according to multiple reports. Neither Google nor Lumedyne Technologies have announced or acknowledged the deal. The company was founded by Brad Chisum and Dr. Richard Waters.

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APRIL 30, 2013

In a move to better integrate the company''s search results with third party sites, Google announced today that it will be integrating app activites into Google Search. Other services with direct links into Google include Deezer, Flixster, Songza, SoundCloud, and TuneIn. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 4, 2015

San Diego-based EDF Renewable Energy , which develops renewable energy projects, has released more details on the company's new renewable energy deal with Google. The project will begin construction in the first quarter of 2016, and is expected to be operational by the end of the year. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 25, 2012

On August 9th, Startup Weekend San Diego and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University partnered with Google to host the very first Startup Weekend focused on helping Veterans, Service Members and Military Families turn their visions into reality in creating a startup company.

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JUNE 25, 2020

San Diego-based ClickUp , a startup which develops "remote work" software aimed at helping organizations collaborate on projects, has raised $35M in a Series A funding round. The company was founded in 2017. The funding was led by Craft Ventures, and also included Georgian Partners. Zeb Evans is Founder and CEO of ClickUp.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

San Diego-based venture investor Section 32--the venture investment firm founded by Bill Maris--says it is expanding its investing and operations teams in Silicon Valley. Tilu was most recently an investor at In-Q-Tel, and also worked at Google and GIC, among other companies.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com), So, we''re taking that concept and launching it here in San Diego. Why San Diego? com), which offers up local, peer-to-peer sales.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

The company said it already has funded more than $35M in real estate loans, across 78 properties, during its pre-launch phase. The company says that Crosby is the founder of Google Analytics; he had been a co-founder of Urchin Software in San Diego, which eventually became Google Analytics after its acquisition in April of 2005.

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MAY 21, 2020

San Diego-based venture capital fund Sectoin 32 says it has made a number of key appointments, as it expands its human resources, staffing, and communications efforts. Section 32 invests in technology, healthcare and the life sciences; the company was founded by former Google Ventures founder Bill Maris. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

San Diego-based Plantible Foods, a startup developing a system to use Lemna--otherwise known as duckweed--as a protein source for humans, has raised $21.5M The company says it has now raised $27M for its efforts. in a Series A funding.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

San Diego-based Tealium, which helps companies collect information on their customers, says it has launched a new partnership effort called the Tealium Global Partner Network. According to the company, the effort gives direct access for its clients to partners such as Meta, Google, AWS, Capgemini, Accenture and Publicis Sapient.

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MAY 10, 2011

Mountain View-based Google has followed the lead of San Diego-based MP3tunes , and debuted its own "music locker" service today at its Google I/O developer conference. MP3Tunes--one of the many companies founded by Michael Robertson, who was founder of MP3.com--has com--has been around since 2005.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

San Diego-based venture capital investment firm Section 32, led by former Google Ventures founder Bill Maris, has raised $740M in its fourth venture capital fund, the company said this morning. Section 32's prior investments include Coinbase, Crowdstrike, Relay Therapeutics, and other companies.

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MAY 22, 2019

San Diego-based Locana , a developer of RNA-targeting gene therapy technology, announced Wednesday morning that it has raised $55M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by ARCH Venture Partners, and also included Temasek and Lightstone Ventures, along with new investors UCB Ventures and GV (formerly Google Ventures).

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JANUARY 26, 2022

San Diego-based Koji, which develops an app store for helping creators earn money, said late Tuesday that it has raised $20M in its Series B fundraising. The company says it has now raised a total of $36M. Koji was founded by startup veteran Dmitry Shapiro, along with Sean Thielen.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!).

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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. Now, the company said, it has achieved the necessary temperatures to make its reactors commercially viable.

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JUNE 12, 2019

San Diego-based gene therapy startup Locana has just received $550,000 in a grant, from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), according to the MDA. The MDA said those grants go to for-profit, not-for-profit companies, and academics working on developing therapeutics. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and former executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), argues that the A.I. Eric Schmidt believes we’re entering an era where artificial intelligence will underpin most facets of human life. talent shortage is the most pressing challenge facing the industry today.

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MAY 16, 2018

After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Reports from Reuters say that Cloudflare has hired Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, which will value the company at more than $3.5 It's unclear how big of a take that Qualcomm Ventures has in Cloudflare, after it joined Fidelity, Google, Microsoft, and Baidu in backing Cloudflare in a strategic investment round in September of 2015.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

Big tech companies like Google are facing heat for developing disruptive technologies that can make traditional jobs obsolete. But at the same time, the tech industry is growing fast, and is eager to recruit workers outside the sector to fill entry-level jobs that often go begging, a Google executive says.

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JUNE 16, 2017

San Diego-based renewable energy developer EDF Renewable Energy announced early Friday moring that it has sold off 50 percent of the Great Western Wind Project, a 225 megawatt wind energy project it is developing in Oklahoma for Google. Financial details of that sale were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round, and emerged from stealth mode, the company said today. The startup said it will launch its first product in the travel and leisure area next year. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This probably isn’t news to developers, but it was news to me when I found out many tech companies still use slave-master language. GitHub talked about making these changes as early as June, when CEO Nat Friedman tweeted that it was something the company was already working on. You can sign up here.

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MAY 18, 2021

For today's interview, we sat down and chatted with >Zeb Evans, the founder and CEO of San Diego-based ClickUp (www.clickup.com), the developer of a workplace productivity software platform which is based by such companies as Google, Airbnb, and Nike. Where's your company now? What is ClickUp?

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Stealthy San Diego alternative energy vehicle firm V Vehicles , which just raised $62.25M in a funding round, apparently has added Google Ventures as an investor in the company. Google's involvement was first spotted by Xconomy , which said it has confirmed the involvement of Google with V Vehicles.

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JUNE 30, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has put its funding behind MapR , the company behind the big data software framework called Hadoop. MapR said today that it has raised $110M in a giant funding round, which was led by Google Capital, and also included Qualcomm Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Google, as it develops its smart home systems, is turning to a company that already knows how to navigate the terrain of a household—corridors, kitchens, cat beds, cast-off shoes, and chair legs included.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

San Diego-based V-Vehicle , the alternative auto company backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers LLP, Google Ventures, L.P., Boone Pickens, and others, said this week that it has renamed itself the Next Autoworks Company , and has appointed a new CEO.

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MARCH 7, 2014

San Diego-based Emotient has raised $6M in a funding round, to go towards the company''s technology for facial expression recognition, the company said Thursday. emotient venture capital facial expression recognition google glass' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Clutter currently offers up its moving services in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, , and New Jersey. Clutter's CEO is Ari Mir, and the company is venture backed by AmplifyLA, Atomico, Google Ventures, Resolute.vc, and Sequoia Capital, along with Matt Coffin, David Sacks, and Joanne Wilson.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Google CEO Sundar Pichai took his turn in the Congressional hotseat on Tuesday, following similar appearances by the chief executives of Facebook and Twitter earlier this year before lawmakers who are increasingly alert to the vast societal impact of Silicon Valley tech giants. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Section 32, which invests in healthcare and life sciences companies with a technology component, has added a third managing partner. Former Foundation Medicine CEO Mike Pellini who, like Maris, lives in Southern California, became a managing partner at the new firm within months of its launch.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm is joining Google and Microsoft in a big, $110M funding round for Cloudflare , the provider of web site security and caching services. CloudFlare said the $110M round was led by Fidelity, and also included Google Capital, Microsoft, Baidu, and Qualcomm Incorporated. READ MORE>>.

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