TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Facebook parent-company saw its stock price get bludgeoned after a bad earnings report showcased that Apple’s ad-blocking changes are shaving billions off its books and the company’s crown jewel — the Facebook platform — has stopped growing and actually shrank this quarter. Image Credits: Facebook. the big thing.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2016

After the national MoneyTree Report was released last week, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Ryan Spencer said he spent time on a call with Thomson Reuters, which provides the raw data, trying to figure out a change in the numbers for venture capital activity in San Diego. But the San Diego data was off. Of the $350.5

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. As Xconomy reported last week , third-quarter venture funding also slipped nationwide to $14.99

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JANUARY 9, 2017

San Diego-based Harvest.ai , a developer of software that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to prevent data loss from enterprises, has reportedly has been acquired by Amazon.com. in funding from Trinity Ventures back in March of 2015. The company was reportedly acquired for around $20M. Harvest.ai

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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

LumaTax , a new startup has offices in both San Diego and Seattle, Washington, has raised $2M in a funding, the company said on Thursday. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners, and angels. The company is initially launching its product in California.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. We’ve called these nine and 10-figure deals, which shine brightly in the media and are hefty enough to bend the curve of VC fund sizes upwards, “ supergiants ” after their stellar counterparts. 2018 is already a record year for venture funding worldwide.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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MAY 29, 2019

San Diego-based eSub Construction Software , a startup developing construction project management tools, has raised $12M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Catalyst Investors, and also included Revolution Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 23, 2010

San Diego-based V-Vehicle the stealthy developer of alternative automobile technology, has reported started to provide more details of its products to state officials in Louisiana. V-Vehicle has been courting Louisiana officials as part of its bid for federal and state funds to help it start up a factory in that state.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity , a startup working on data analytics for direct-to-consumer retailers, has raised $2.3M in a funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by Okapi Venture Capital, and also included Serra Ventures, Cove Fund II, 1855 Capital, and Mooring Ventures LLC.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

Randy Churchill and his team at PricewaterhouseCoopers meticulously prepare a quarterly report detailing the venture landscape, called Shaking The Money Tree. The Three Enthralling Factors Of Venture Funding. I do not advocate that you perform unnatural acts in an attempt to make your company more advantageous to venture funding.

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APRIL 12, 2017

billion in venture capital dollars were invested in the Southern California region in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report , issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and CB Insights. The report tallied up $926.4M Investments in LA/OC were up slightly from the $898.3M Nationally, investors invested $13.9

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JUNE 5, 2018

San Diego-based Raken , a startup developing mobile software to manage construction projects, has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by U.S. Raken has now raised $12M, including its earlier $2M seed funding announced in March of 2017. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

You can sign up here. Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” Let’s start with Prop 22. Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area – GeekWire.

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APRIL 26, 2012

The moves are sure to be welcome news to Orange County entrepeneurs, who have not had as many options as companies in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas, in terms of incubation/acceleration programs.

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MARCH 28, 2017

San Diego-based Raken , the software startup backed by Rincon Venture Partners, Eniac Ventures, and Spider Capital, said this morning that it has joined Facebook's Start Accelerate program. The Facebook program helps startup with scaling and integrating Facebook into their applications. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to startup tech hubs, U.S. cities from San Francisco to Austin to Boston come first to mind. But that is starting to change, as Asian cities—particularly in China—are snapping up more tech venture capital funding and exits, according to a new report from CB Insights.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. I have started to publish a version of the newsletter on TechCrunch. I will repeat my appeal from last week: Maybe you’re a startup founder, a safety driver at an autonomous vehicle developer, a venture capitalist, engineer or gig economy worker.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2017

TP Therapeutics, which raised $45 million in May to advance its work on drug-resistant cancers, raised the most venture capital in San Diego County during the three months that ended June 30, according to regional data released today. Altogether, venture firms invested a total of $406.4 That was down slightly from the $411.2

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APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. What is Tradesparq?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92

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JUNE 24, 2016

San Diego-based Reflexion Health , a provider of cloud-based, digital medicine products, said this week that it has raised $18 in a Series B funding round. The funding came from current investor West Partners and others. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

San Diego-based music startup Slacker has apparently lost its CEO, according to a report from VentureWire. Slacker is venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds. The firm has raised around $70M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

San Diego-based Sotera Wireless reports today that it has received FDA clearance for its continuous, patient blood pressure monitoring system. The venture backed startup said the U.S. READ MORE>>. sotera wireless clearance lifescience medical device healthcare blood pressure'

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JANUARY 17, 2013

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report were released today, finding that a total of $683.7M The funding brings Southern California's total 2012 investments to $3.2 The funding brings Southern California's total 2012 investments to $3.2 in funding.

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APRIL 14, 2016

Southern California startups raised $810.5M in venture capital in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. in funds invested, across 47 deals; Orange County had $158M invested across 15 deals; and San Diego had $253.5M

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Santa Monica-based Siemer Ventures , the venture investing arm of investment banking firm Siemer & Associates , reported yesterday that it saw the first exit in its portfolio recently, with the sale of company CloudTrigger. The fund also reports that it now has 39 digital media and technology startups in its portfolio.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

“More dollars, fewer deals” has been a prevailing trend in venture funding over the past couple of years, and it was evident again in the three months that ended September 30, according to the latest Venture Monitor report. While there was a 6 percent downtick from funding in the previous. Venture firms invested $21.5

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

In this Xconomy Special Report , our veteran technology journalists Bernadette Tansey, David Holley, and I bring you deep insights from key industry leaders and observers about what the future holds for.

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JULY 15, 2016

billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. The boost in funding came despite a lower overall deal count, with 89 funding deals in Q2, versus 97 in Q1. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2011

According to the MoneyTree report, released last night, Orange County led fundraising, with $319.3M in funding, and San Diego $198.18M in investments. Quarter to quarter, investments were up from Q1, when $585M was invested in the region. across 966 deals, up 19 percent from the first quarter, when there was $6.3

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The amount is up from $528.0M raised in Q4 of 2010, and up from the $652M invested in the region last quarter. The report found that the amounts invested represented the third highest annual investment total in the past ten years. In Southern California, San Diego County took the lead in investment totals, raising $262.1M

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JANUARY 16, 2015

billion in Southern California startup, according to the latest MoneyTree Report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association last night, based on data from Thomson Reuters. The report tallied $1.09 in investments in San Diego. Venture capitalists invested more than $1.3

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