Lawn Love Expands In Orange County
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APRIL 8, 2019
San Diego-based Lawn Love , which provides on-demand, lawn mowing and care services, says it has launched its services in Orange County, as part of an expansion effort.
Orange County Gets New Incubators
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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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EvoNexus, UC San Diego Team On FinTech Efforts
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JUNE 11, 2019
San Diego- and Orange County-based startup incubator EvoNexus and the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Management announced this morning that the two are in a new partnership, aimed at creating a new generation of FinTech startups.
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Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop
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JUNE 7, 2019
Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in Orange County, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!
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Surf Air Expands To San Diego
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NOVEMBER 21, 2014
Los Angeles-based all-you-can-fly subscription airline Surf Air made a major expansion this week, saying that it has begun flying out of the San Diego Area--or more specifically, the om McClellan-Palomar Airport (CRQ) in Carlsbad--earlier this week. The new Carlsbad location is actually convenient to both San Diego and Orange County.
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SDGE: More Than 10,000 EVs On Road In San Diego
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
San Diego now has more than 10,000 electric vehicles on the road, according to San Diego Gas & Electric. According to SDGE, those vehicles were all sold or leased in its territory--covering San Diego and southern Orange County--since December of 2010. READ MORE>>.
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Report: Amazon Launching New Game Studio In San Diego
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FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Amazon.com is launching a new game studio in San Diego, according to reports , in an effort being led by former Sony Online Entertainment chief John Smedley. The new arm of Amazon is apparently recruiting developers in Orange County, among other locations, to bolster the new game studio. READ MORE>>.
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Drizly Expands To San Diego
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MAY 5, 2016
On-demand, alcohol delivery startup Drizly said this morning that it has expanded its service to San Diego, offering up delivery of beer, wine, and spirits to users across the Gaslamp, Hillcrest, La Jolla, Little Italy, Mission Beach, North Park, Ocean Beach, Old Town, Pacific Beach and Torrey Pines neighborhoods.
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100 HelloTech Expands Tech Support Service To San Diego
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APRIL 28, 2016
Los Angeles-based HelloTech , the on-demand, in-home technical services company founded by serial entrepreneur and tech investor Richard Wolpert, said it is expanding into San Diego, and has begun offering up its services in the city. The company now offers up its services in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.
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Amazon Extends Prime Now to San Diego
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NOVEMBER 19, 2015
Amazon.com is extended its Prime Now service to San Diego today, offering up one hour delivery for a long list of items to its customers in the city from local stores and Amazon's own warehouse. and two hour deliveries for free; Amazon.com had launched Prime Now in both Los Angeles and Orange County back in September.
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100 Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center
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AUGUST 27, 2018
However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. What exactly does Walmart Labs work on in San Diego?
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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center
socalTECH
AUGUST 27, 2018
However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. What exactly does Walmart Labs work on in San Diego?
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Betterworks Plans Expansion To OC, San Diego, Austin, and NYC
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OCTOBER 17, 2011
Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the provider of a technology based, employee fringe benefits programs, said today that it is planning to expand to Orange County, San Diego, Austin, and New York in the next month.
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159 Dow Jones VentureSource: Southern California Gets $2.96 Billion In VC In Q4
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JANUARY 11, 2019
billion in San Diego and $0.42 billion in Orange County. The region had a total of 124 deals logged by Dow Jones VentureSource, split between 75 in Los Angeles, 29 in San Diego, and 20 in Orange County. billion in deals, followed by $0.77
CoreLogic Contributes $250,000 To Local Food Banks
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OCTOBER 26, 2020
The company said the contributions, made through its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) program, went to such organizations as Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, The Pantry, Foodlink, San Diego Food Bank, and others. READ MORE>>.
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Atlazo Finds $3.4M For Healthcare IoT Technology
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JUNE 13, 2019
San Diego-based Atlazo , a startup developing systems-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductors aimed at used in healthcare and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, has raised $3.4M The funding round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and the TCA's San Diego chapter. in a seed funding round. in the round. READ MORE>>.
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Surf Air Extends To OC, Via Helicopter
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MARCH 7, 2018
Los Angeles-based subscription airline Surf Air is extending its service into Orange County, with a new partnership with helicopter charter firm BLADE , the company said on Wednesday. The connecting flights will cost $199 per shuttle flight, and are not included as part of Surf Air's existing membership. READ MORE>>.
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EvoNexus Deadline Approaches On Friday
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AUGUST 19, 2019
EvoNexus charges 1% of common shares for its incubator, and does not charge any fees during the incubation of companies--which can be as long as two years. According to EvoNexus, companies that have participated in its earlier programs last year raised $226M in funding, and so far, it has seen six exits out of its participants worth over $800M.
Fairway Technologies Buys IT Strategists
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MARCH 26, 2019
San Diego-based Fairway Technologies , a provider of consulting services in the IT area, said it has acquired Los Angeles-based IT Strategists , a provider of big data and data-driven IT consulting. Brett Humphrey is CEO of Fairway Technologies, which also has offices in San Diego and Orange County, as well as Austin, Texas.
AppSec California 2019
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JANUARY 16, 2019
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Los Angeles Chapter has teamed up with the Orange County, Inland Empire, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco Bay Area Chapters to bring you another great AppSec California. Tuesday, January 22, 2019 -- AppSec California 2019.
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Shift Gets $37M More To Ramp Online Used Auto Sales
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JULY 19, 2017
The company, which has two locations here, one serving Los Angeles and Orange County, and the other in San Diego, is based in San Francisco. The company launched into San Diego in March of this year. READ MORE>>.
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113 Report: Venture Capital Dollars In 2017 On Way To Record
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OCTOBER 10, 2017
The report did not provide details on Orange County, San Diego, Ventura, or Santa Barbara counties. The report did not break down Southern California as a single region, but reported $4.408 billion invested across 386 so far in the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA this year. READ MORE>>.
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Energous Sets Up Engineering Office In Costa Mesa
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AUGUST 5, 2015
The company said the new location in Orange County will help it tap into the talent residing in southern Los Angeles, Orange County and northern San Diego Counties. The company said the location specifically helps it recruit top level engineering talent to the company.
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MoneyTree: $1.1 Billion In VC Invested In SoCal In Q1
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APRIL 12, 2017
invested across 71 deals in Q2 of 2017 in LA and Orange County, and $202.37M invested in San Diego for the quarter across 32 deals. invested in Q4, with San Diego also up from $175.73M in Q4. The report tallied up $926.4M Investments in LA/OC were up slightly from the $898.3M
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113 CrowdStrike Extends To AWS
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NOVEMBER 5, 2019
CrowdStrike , the developer of endpoint protection software and cybersecurity tools with a big presence in Orange County, is extending its software to Amazon Web Services, the company said today. The announcement was one of several made by CrowdStrike at its annual conference, Fal.Con UNITE, which is being held in San Diego this week.
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Good Eggs raises $100M and plans to launch in Southern California
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
“There’s the LA region, northern San Diego, Orange County — those areas collectively are the size of two or three Bay Areas. And it sounds like he isn’t in a rush to launch in a bunch of new markets. That’s a meaningful increase in our addressable market.”
Zillow Expands Home Buying Service To LA, OC
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DECEMBER 9, 2019
Online real estate site Zillow is expanding its home buying service, Zillow Offers , to the Los Angeles and Orange County markets, saying this morning that it will now let homeowners sell their homes directly to the company, to avoid the hassles of selling their home.
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100 Report: Southern California Venture Capital Totals $464M In Q3
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OCTOBER 14, 2010
For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M The biggest investments in Southern California for the quarter were for San Diego's SkinIt , a maker of customized "skins" for electronic devices, with $60.0M
Competition For Amazon's Next HQ Reach Fevered Pitch: 238 Proposals
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OCTOBER 23, 2017
Local, Southern California cities have all submitted proposals, with one from the LAEDC which ties together nine cities in LA County hoping for the HQ; another proposal from San Diego from the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. ; READ MORE>>.
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113 GrubHub Buys OC's Restaurants On The Run
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FEBRUARY 5, 2015
Online dining ordering service GrubHub has acquired Aliso Viejo-based Restaurants On The Run , the provider of restaurant delivery services which serves Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, San Diego, Houston, Seattle, Las Vegas and Tulsa Oklahoma. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.
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SendGrid IPO Expected Next Week
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NOVEMBER 6, 2017
SendGrid has major operations in Orange County, where one of its co-founders lives, and also has a big office in Irvine.
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From bioprinting lab-grown meat in Russia to Beyond Meat in the US, KFC is embracing the future of food
TechCrunch LA
JULY 17, 2020
Beginning on July 20, KFC will be selling Beyond Fried Chicken at 50 stores the Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego areas, while supplies last, the company said. Unlike the 3D bioprinting process used by its Russian partner, Beyond Meat uses plant-based products exclusively to make its faux chicken meat.
Southern California Startups Raise $761.12M in Q2 2014
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JULY 17, 2014
invested in San Diego, and $66.53M invested in Orange County during the period. for San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm Otonomy ; and $48.0M for San Diego''s Veredezyne , which is developing biofuels and biochemicals processes.
Tear Film Innovations Raises $9M
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NOVEMBER 7, 2017
San Diego-based Tear Film Innovations , a developer of a medical device for treating "dry eye", has raised $9M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning. The funding round was led by Visionary Ventures Fund and Tigris Ventures. Tear Film Innovations is led by CEO and President Rob Thornhill.
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Private Equity Firm Puts Epicor Software On Market
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MAY 6, 2014
Epicor Software , the supply chain management software company whose roots are in Orange County, has been put up for sale by private equity firm Apax Partners, according to reports Tuesday. Epicor still has operations through Southern California, including in Irvine, and San Diego. Apax paid $976M for Epicor back in 2011.
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185 Trio Of SoCal Investors Back Welltok
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FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Miramar and Okapi are in Orange County, and Qualcomm is in San Diego. Welltok''s founder, Jeff Margolis, had previously founded Orange County''s TriZetto, although that firm later moved to Colorado. in healthcare software developer Welltok , which announced a big funding round this morning. READ MORE>>.
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147 Sunrun Plans Major Hiring In Southern California
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
The San Francisco company said that it plans hiring and expansion in Escondido, North Hollywood, Orange County, Pomona, San Diego, and San Luis Obispo, among other locations. The company said the expansion comes due to increased consumer demand for home solar installation.
KB Home Amps Up Tech Connectivity With Google Assistant Integration
socalTECH
JANUARY 18, 2019
Lake Forest-based home builder KB Home is ramping up its connectivity--and hoping to appeal to tech-savvy buyers--with a new deal to add Google Assistant capability into its new homes at two of its Orange County developments.
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100 SIGMAnet Acquired By Minnesota's ConvergeOne
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DECEMBER 11, 2015
SIGMAnet was founded in 1990, and has more than 250 employees spread between Orange County, Los Angeles, Inland Empire, San Diego, and San Jose. Ontario, California-based SIGMAnet , a provider of IT consulting, solutions, and managed services, has been acquired by Minnesota-based ConvergeOne. READ MORE>>.
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Postmates’ newest feature is like Uber POOL for food delivery
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 20, 2019
Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Orange County, Calif. For now, the company’s party feature will only be offered in a handful of the nearly 3,000 U.S. cities in which it currently operates. The feature is now available in Chicago, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Calif.,
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Clutter Collects $200M More For On-Demand Storage
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
According to Clutter, it plans to expand into Philadelphia, Portland and Sacramento, among other markets, in 2019, and also will "double down" on its efforts in its current service areas of New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Orange County and northern New Jersey.
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113 Report: LA, OC, San Diego All Rank As Top High-Tech Centers
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JUNE 3, 2009
Canada, and Mexico, shows Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego areas are all within the top 10 "preeminent high-tech metros" ranked by high tech employment and wages. A new report by the Milken Institutue, attempting to rank the "top high-tech centers" in the U.S.,
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100 KnGrid Raises Funding Round
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FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Orange County-based KGrid , a cleantech startup working on electric car charging stations, said it has received an investment from German utility RWE , via RWE New Ventures LLC. The company apparently has a prototype, electric car charging system implemented at the University of California, San Diego. READ MORE>>.
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100 Wag Launches Four Legged Presidential Campaign
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JULY 8, 2016
Wag currently operates in New York, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, LA, Orange County, San Diego, and San Francisco. The winning dog's owner will get to select which city Wag will launch its marketplace into next. Kalanick's dog, Yobu, is a Goldendoodle; Hale's dog, Elvis, is a Maltipoo. READ MORE>>.
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