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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 -- CloudCamp San Diego. CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions.

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MARCH 27, 2014

A number of Southern California angel investors, and one of its venture firms, have scored an exit over at social media influence measurement startup Klout , as the San Francsco company said Thursday that it is being acquired by Lithium Technologies. The deal is reportedly worth $200M. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Thursday, June 24, 2010 -- Red Herring Conference San Diego. On June 22-24, 2010, more than 500 industry professionals will connect in San Diego, California to honor the Top 100 private technology companies in North America.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 -- Red Herring Conference San Diego. On June 22-24, 2010, more than 500 industry professionals will connect in San Diego, California to honor the Top 100 private technology companies in North America.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 -- Red Herring Conference San Diego. On June 22-24, 2010, more than 500 industry professionals will connect in San Diego, California to honor the Top 100 private technology companies in North America.

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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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JULY 30, 2009

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 -- MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego. This has become the chapter's signature event, and is widely recognized as the premier networking event for San Diego's technology and biotechnology community. Networking event. See [link] (more).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

in San Diego, and Wyatt Technology , in Santa Barbara. The SBA also gave a "Hall of Fame" award to eight companies, including San Diego's Qualcomm and carlsbad-based ViaSat , as previous SBA grant recipients. Aerius Photonics in Ventura; Opto-Knowledge Systems of Torrance, Space Micro, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 -- San Diego - The Nation's Hub for Wireless Healthcare. CTIA, the West Wireless Health Institute, Qualcomm, and CommNexus San Diego. Scripps Health and Qualcomm are collaborating closely as the Institute's healthcare affiliate and technology sponsor. Topol, M.D., and Donald Jones.

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MARCH 19, 2010

According to DEMO, Thousand Oaks-based Invested.In , Santa Barbara-based Phone Halo , San Diego-based Tastr , and Los Angeles-based Immitter will all be presenting at the technology launch conference. DEMO has traditionally been a major launch event for startups and new technology products.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- San Diego  The Great, Good, Bad and the Ugly. James Adams will moderate our distinguished panel of San Diego technology leaders and put them on the spot to label San Diego "great, good, bad, or ugly" on more than 20 factors. SDSIC Entrepreneur's Forum.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. SoCal tech and life science companies are scaling faster than at any point in history. Given SVBs market position, that is great news.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The White House said this morning that President Obama has honored seven researchers with the National Medal of Science, and five inventors with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, including two Southern California scientists. The California Institute of Technology's Jacqueline K.

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JULY 22, 2010

Those firms include Pasadena-based Genmark Diagnostics , Westlake Village-based Inphi , San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies , Los Angeles-based GameFly , San Diego-based Trius Therapeutics , City of Industry-based NewEgg , and Thousand Oaks-based Nexsan.

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APRIL 2, 2009

socalTECH tracks day-to-day venture capital activity in the Southern California region, and uses venture data disclosed by companies announcing funding; self-reported by both technology companies and venture firms; as well as regulatory filings and other sources. billion in funding. Among the top deals for the quarter were an $86.6M

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JANUARY 5, 2010

DEMO , the technology company launch conference which has traditionally been held in Palm Springs or the San Diego area, is moving its conference to the San Francisco Bay Area, new executive producer Matt Marshall announced today. Tags: techcrunch50 venturebeat startup technology conference demo.

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JULY 19, 2011

in funding, and San Diego $198.18M in investments. Other large deals included $40M in funding from ShoeDazzle , the celebrity-and-ecommerce startup headed by Brian Lee, former CEO of Legalzoom; $50M for biotech startup Sangart in San Diego; and $25M for clean technology firm Transphorm , which is based in Goleta.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

500/5000 list, highlighting a number of Southern California, technology related firms in its listing. in revenues), TrueCar at number 209 (1,407%, $16.6M), RealD at 347 (843%, $149.8M), and San Diego's Covario , at number 420 with 704 percent growth and $15.3M Business magazine Inc. has released its annual Inc. in revenues.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories. Exciting times in the Southern California tech community.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

The biggest investments for the quarter went to Irvine-based Fisker Automotive , which raised $78.0M, followed by Hawthorn-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), the commercial rocket firm of Elon Musk, which raised $50.2M. In terms of the region, San Diego led in terms of total investments, with $193.1M

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JULY 15, 2010

in 21 deals, and San Diego saw $170.6M Southern California's venture totals were significantly boosted by clean technology, and more specifically, financing for electric car manufacturers. Nationally, venture deals in the U.S. totaled $6.5 billion, the strongest quarter since the third quarter of 2008. Los Angeles saw $407.2M

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

The second major startup launch event this month, DEMOfall 09, kicks off next week in San Diego, with four Southern California firms among the list of 56 companies slated to present at the conference. will all be presenting at the event next week sometime.

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JULY 7, 2010

Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm. His latest startup, Row 44, is providing hardware to Southwest Airlines and other airlines for wireless access, and has a number of announced wins.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories. Exciting times in the Southern California tech community.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

A number of Southern California firms are on the list for DEMO 09, the technology conference which has been one of the traditional launching ground for new products and startup firms.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Local technology executives seem to be optimistic going into the new year, believing the worst of the economic decline has passed, and are also looking at hiring this year, according to the latest socalTECH.com Industry Survey. 20, and included responses ranging from San Diego County to San Luis Obispo County.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Here are the venture firms who have been most active in SoCal (Santa Babrara - Los Angeles - Orange County - San Diego) in the last twelve months, based on the number of deals: 1. However, for members of socaltech.com, it's a click away with our real time analysis of venture funding flows. Upfront Partners - 11 deals.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

billion--that drop represented the weakest quarter in SoCal in 5 years, according to Dow Jones. Locally, San Diego led the region with $182.5M Among the few bright spots for Southern California as a whole was the Information Technology industry, which was up both quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year at $222.4M, up from $184.4M

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Thursday, February 11, 2010 -- Evolution of Bluetooth Wireless Technology. Bluetooth low energy is the next step in the evolution of Bluetooth wireless technology. Consuming a fraction of the power, it will give consumers new ways and new places - like sports, wellness and entertainment - to put Bluetooth technology to use.

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AUGUST 8, 2009

Friday, August 14, 2009 -- CommNexus presents EvoNexus 101: The 5 W's of Technology Incubators. EvoNexus, San Diego's first ever non-profit incubator, is currently being launched by CommNexus San Diego. This event offers information as the first companies begin to move in.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. But before you think of moving out of SoCal, our 19th deal also closed in 2016, and this was a growth equity investment in Brentwood based Docupace Technologies.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs (..)

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. We started our company in China, however, for two reasons.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- Converging Technologies for Health Information: A New Venture Frontier / Entrepreneurial Opportunities: the $40 Billion Stimulus and Beyond. MIT Enterprise Forum of San Diego. More is being directed into Health Information Exchanges to provide a means for EHRs to communicate.

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JULY 26, 2012

The MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego signature wine social, held annually, is widely recognized as the premier networking event for San Diego's technology and biotechnology community. Wednesday, August 1, 2012 -- MIT Enterprise Forum, Wine Social.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego. With backgrounds in innovative energy storage technology, Yau and Yeagley recognized the need for added battery power on-the-go and saw an opportunity in the rechargeable battery market for the introduction of charger swaps.

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