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JUNE 17, 2020

San Diego-based startup Trust & Will , which offers up online estate planning, says it has hit 100,000 members to its service. Trust & Will is backed by Link Ventures, Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Western Technology Investment, Techstars Ventures, Luma Launch and Halogen Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 24, 2012

San Diego-based Life Technologies , the maker of life sciences equipment, has signed on as the first competitor in the Archon Genomics X PRIZE , the life sciences prize being administered by Marina Del Rey-based X Prize Foundation. Life Technologies is fielding the Ion Torrent X PRIZE team, headed by Dr. JOnathan Rothberg.

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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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DECEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The company originally raised funding as part of the San Diego Tech Coast Angels, in a "Quick Pitch" competition three years ago.

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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

San Diego-based Radicle Growth, which focuses on incubating early stage agriculture and food technology, and agriculture giant UPL said today that the two are in a new partnership, which will invest $1.25M in two startups that can "positively impact and reduce the carbon footprint and improve soil health of the food value chain."

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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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AUGUST 8, 2019

The company says that so far, it is offering up its scooter service in Los Angeles and San Diego. SUN said its new custom shared scooter has 10 inch, solid tires, 30 percent better battery capacity than what it's using now, and "all new technology" compared to its existing scooters, and is far more durable.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Financial firms are facing competition from legacy players and disruptive fintech startups as technology continues to reshape the heavily regulated industry. Two financial firms are betting on a nonprofit incubator program in San Diego in hopes of identifying top talent and potential targets for investment or acquisition.

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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''s technology automatically sorts photos based on their content, and was spun off from the University of Amsterdam. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Mission Edge, a nonprofit organization backed by the San Diego Foundation and three corporations, has chosen 10 companies and organizations to participate in a 12-week program intended to improve each entity’s financial performance, and thereby long-term sustainability. Ken Davenport, CEO of San Diego-based Mission.

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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.

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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.

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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. How was it you ended up in San Diego? The majority of our time is now spent online.

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2010

Deloitte & Touche announced its national Fast 500 winners today, the firm's annual list of fastest growing technology firms in the nation. Tags: competition ranking firms technology growing fast deloitte.

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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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JUNE 15, 2010

The Cleantech Open , the clean technology focused business competition, has named the semifinalists for its 2010 competition, indicating a number of Southern California firms are semifinalists in the competition. Tags: cleantech open clean technology business plan energy. 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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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. Tags: automotive xprize prize cleantech clean energy auto competition.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The move is an interesting one, given the number of Southern California technology companies trying to go the other direction, and to hit the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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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 28, 2009

The 9th annual GadgetFest is fast approaching, and tech companies in the San Diego region and beyond are preparing to showcase their newest, most innovative technologies for this years competition. This year, we expect heightened competition from large companies as well as from smaller stealth-startups.

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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. million in nine months.

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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.

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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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MAY 20, 2010

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. Tax credits, incentive programs, and new policies are encouraging a larger movement toward stimulating growth and development in this sector.

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JULY 22, 2010

Department of Energy is continuing its efforts to fund new energy innovation projects, saying Thursday that it is awarding up to $122M in funding to a project being led by the California Institute of Technology , based out of Pasadena. According to U.S. The new effort will be directed out of Caltech by Professor Nathan S.

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JULY 6, 2018

Our friend and one of our earliest employees, San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow, died suddenly last weekend. Bruce covered everything—and everyone—in San Diego’s innovation scene, including the life sciences. Xconomy was dumbstruck this week, and not by the fireworks overhead.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Every year, CommNexus challenges tech companies within and beyond the San Diego region to enter their latest technologies into GadgetFest and compete for the coveted title of "Greatest Gadget."

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

But even if the purchase ultimately boosts IBM’s bottom line, some cloud technology executives and investors are wondering whether it will have any transformative effects on the sector.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2008

San Diego-based FrameMax has raised $10M in a round of venture capital, for the firm's light gauge steel framing technology for the construction industry. According to FrameMax, its turnkey solutions offers faster construction at competitive or below normal construction costs. Ventures, Cross Creek Capital, and NVestech.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Employers are increasingly offering remote work options as a differentiator to attract top talent in today’s competitive hiring market. And, with modern technology at their fingertips, employees have come to expect a seamless working experience whether they’re home, in the office, or on the road.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available.

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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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