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JUNE 29, 2018

GroGuru , a startup developing irrigation automation technology for the agriculture industry, has raise $250,000 in a seed funding from Western Growers and Radicle Growth. GroGuru is part of San Diego- and Irvine's EvoNexus startup incubator, and develops a precision soil and irrigation monitoring system. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. The post HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm appeared first on TechZulu.

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JUNE 24, 2020

It’s common for antibiotics developers to run into financial trouble these days but what’s unusual is seeing a bidding war erupt for one of them. The competition for Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals now has a new winner : La Jolla Pharmaceutical.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

San Diego-based Radicle Growth , a new, seed-stage investor focused on the agtech and food technology sector, said this morning that it has invested $250,000 in Leaf Agriculture , a pre-seed company developing application programming interfaces (APIs) between agtech products. Bailey Stockdale is CEO of Leaf Agriculture.

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MARCH 14, 2013

San Diego-based Qualcomm has named the winner of its annual, Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Venture Investment Competition, the company said this morning. iOnRoad had previously won $100,000 from Qualcomm for winning the Israeli region competition of Qualcomm's QPrize competition. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based advanced transportation developer Hyperloop One says it has come up with eleven different, proposed routes throughout the United States, which it says could "greatly reduce passenger and cargo transit time" in the country. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Two, Southern California companies have made the semi-finalist list for the much-watch Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge competition, which promises to give out $150,000 to a company developing the "next best thing" in the Internet-of-Things area. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Two, Southern California companies have made the semi-finalist list for the much-watch Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge competition, which promises to give out $150,000 to a company developing the "next best thing" in the Internet-of-Things area. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2018

A San Diego software development team with an idea for an emergency mobile app that it said would be faster than calling 911 is headed this week to US Ignite’s Application Summit in Kansas City, MO. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , which runs a number of prize-based competitions for developing technology, has named eighteen teams for its $2 million, Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE , including two local teams. The groups will go on to submit their technology to affordably and accurately measure ocean acidification.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm has acquired European company Euvision , a developer of image recognition software, according to Euvision today. Euvision was one of the winners of Qualcomm''s annual QPrize competition. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Euvision was based in The Netherlands. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2014

San Diego-based business process management software developer BP Logix reported a win this morning with the County of Fresno, replace a legacy system in that country for automating business reporting for the county. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2012

MightyText , a Silicon Valley startup which develops Android applications to let users send SMS messages from their computer via the cloud, and syncs those messages between an Android phone and computer, has scored $100,000 from San Diego's Qualcomm. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Sirigen , a developer of fluorescent biomarkers used in flow cytometry, and which was started at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Co. Sirigen is now based in the United Kingdom, and also has operations in San Diego. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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APRIL 8, 2013

San Diego-based Cymer , the developer of semiconductor lithography light sources, and Netherlands-based ASML Holding NV said late Friday that the two firms have received U.S. Department of Justice approval for their merger. ASML said it would acquire Cymer in October, for $2.5 ASML said it would acquire Cymer in October, for $2.5

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JANUARY 31, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has named the finalists in its second annual QPrize Venture Investment Competition, the firm's global venture capital competition for investment dollars.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

One of the companies recognized in Qualcomm's QPrize annual business plan competition has scored a series A funding, four years after being named a finalist in the Qualcomm effort. Singapore-based Capillary Technologies , a developer of mobile customer relationship management (CRM) tools, said it has raised $15.5M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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Xconomy

AUGUST 21, 2017

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has been very public in expressing his desire to provide increased competition and greater choice to American consumers in a bid to drive down prices of prescription medicines. Recently, the agency he oversees took some unusual steps to back up those statements with action.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

San Diego-based Sirenas , which has developed technology to rapidly isolate and synthesize potential drug compounds from marine organisms, said it has received a $775,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sirenas mounts underwater expeditions three or four times a year to collect organisms, Esquenazi said.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Her search for solutions spurred her to move from her native Bulgaria to find greater resources in Vienna, where she began developing what is now a tablet computer that can display the text from any online source in a full page of Braille.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2010

Nine vehicles from seven teams have been named finalists in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE , the competition for super fuel efficient vehicles being run by Playa Vista-based X PRIZE Foundation this morning. The group's first big success was to drive the development of the first, commercial vehicle to reach space.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced the finalists for the firm's business plan competition, with four early stage companies spread across Europe/Israel, China, India, and North America. Tags: plan business startup winners competition qprize qualcomm. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

San Diego-based Givit , which develops social video sharing applications and services, announced this morning that it has raised $2.5M The new app is direct competition for video sharing apps like Viddy and SocialCam. in a funding round. The new round came from ATA Ventures and JK&B Capital. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Southern California's only finalist in the Automotive X Prize, Aptera , which is based in San Diego and backed by Idealab, did not win, but was being displayed at the announcement in Washington, D.C. Tags: vehicle mileage clean aptera competition prize automotive foundation xprize. alternative tandem class. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope. Echo Labs image).

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

What's the best way to share competitive intelligence and company announcements with your employees?

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm reports today that it is extending the deadline for the firm's wireless business plan competition, its Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Business Plan Competition, to August 21st. The deadline for the business plan competition was originally today, July 31st. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 20, 2010

Tax credits, incentive programs, and new policies are encouraging a larger movement toward stimulating growth and development in this sector. Today, San Diego retains both the natural resources and well-renowned research institutions that provide an advantage to become one of the leading players in clean technology.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2010

Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, the DOE will award up to $122M over five years to a team which will develop "revolutionary methods" to generate fuel directly from sunlight. The project was slected out of a competitive process, and includes initial funding of $22M this year, and an estimated $25M per year for the next four years.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

San Diego-based Kyocera Wireless has sold its Indian subsidiary, Kyocera Wireless (India) Pvt. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers. to IT firm MindTree Ltd.,

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Small Business Administration as a Growth Accelerator Fund Competition winner. It also got me thinking about what was important for winning this competition. The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The current land rush in chip development, spurred as new technologies such as artificial intelligence create new needs, is pitting established semiconductor companies like Intel and Nvidia against tech titans like Facebook that are building their own chips. A wave of next-generation chip companies has also entered the fray.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2008

San Diego-based RealGifts, a developer of a Facebook application for giving real gifts to friends, is one of the recipients of the $25,000 Facebook fbFund competition. Facebook's fbFund is a $10M fund focused on identifying talent and funding entrepreneurs developing Facebook software applications.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ). The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M Dan LeBlanc: We spent about the first year and half after we were founded, really developing our product, which we launched at the start of Q1. Talk about this recent funding round, how did that come about?

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