socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 -- Insider Insights: You got your VC meeting, now what? San Diego Venture Group. You got your VC meeting, now what? Just like your company is unique, so too are venture capitalists and their investment strategies.

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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Three, local venture capital investors -- Miramar Venture Partners , Okapi Venture Capital , and Qualcomm Ventures -- are part of a group investing $22.1M Miramar and Okapi are in Orange County, and Qualcomm is in San Diego. According to Welltok, it raised its new $22.1M

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 21, 2010

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 -- 2010 VC Outlook: An Investment Banking Oracle's Perspective on the Venture Capital Industry. San Diego Venture Group.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Sequoia Capital''s Douglas Leone, was placed at number six for his role in funding San Diego''s ServiceNow ; Bessemer''s Byron Deeter was ranked #36 due to his role in funding Santa Monica''s Cornerstone OnDemand ; Stephen Jurveston, of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, was ranked at #59 for his investment in Hawthorne-based SpaceX.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, were released this morning, finding that there was $587.8M invested--the vast majority of that in the San Diego area. invested in Southern California in Q4.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2010

Investments by venture capitalists in Southern California were up, both in terms of deals and dollars in Q2, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Nationally, venture deals in the U.S. in 21 deals, and San Diego saw $170.6M

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2019

Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. At this OC Event, we will be showcasing some of the newest early-stage venture funds and angel groups in the San Diego area! We're doing it again!

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

SoCal tech and life science companies are scaling faster than at any point in history. But its even better news for the regional SoCal innovation ecosystem. These data points provide yet more evidence that SoCal has become one of the most profound technology ecosystems in the United States.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2009

Thursday, January 29, 2009 -- Venture Capital Outlook 2009. San Diego Venture Group. How will these shifts influence the venture capital landscape? What industries will be winners in the venture capital sweepstakes, and which will find the well dry?

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2009

Southern California Venture capital totals were up slightly in Q1 of this year from last quarter, to around $718M in deals, according to an analysis of socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database. However, venture funding totals were still well off the first quarter of 2008's nearly $1.2 billion in funding.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, were released this morning, finding that there was $587.8M invested--the vast majority of that in the San Diego area. invested in Southern California in Q4.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Southern California venture totals for Q3 totaled around $1.0 billion in investments, according to the Q3 analysis of venture capital deals by socalTECH.com. Other big deals included $60M in investment in San Diego's Skinit , a developer of personalized "skins" for electronic devices, and $37.0M

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5 aims to create a network of support and mentorship along with access to capital where people can build on creative ideas with the help of successful business people, and connect with investors to get their concepts off the ground. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio. I did that for a couple of years, which got me and my wife down to SoCal. I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2009

Southern California's venture capital numbers for Q4 slipped, as did numbers nationally, according to numbers released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2

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socalTECH

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. Tags: entrepreneur startup venture capital investment repeat. Have we missed a repeat entrepreneur or company you think ought to be watched?

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2012

San Diego-based Avalon Ventures , one of the venture capital investors in social gaming phenomenon Zynga , may be set to cash in on its shares of the newly public gaming firm, after Zynga said this week that it is planning a $400M, secondary offering of its stock. Zynga went public in December. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M San Diego was not far behind, with $222.4M in 29 venture capital deals for Q1. for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5 aims to create a network of support and mentorship along with access to capital where people can build on creative ideas with the help of successful business people, and connect with investors to get their concepts off the ground. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

It's often tough to figure exactly who the venture capital funds are who are funding startups in the area. However, for members of socaltech.com, it's a click away with our real time analysis of venture funding flows.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2015

That round came from Sutter Hill Ventures, along with Index Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. Qualcomm Ventures is the venture arm of San Diego's Qualcomm. The company announced the plans in conjunction with a new, $25M Series B funding for the company.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After launching a study to identify how tech hubs work, the leader of a nonprofit consortium created to boost Southern California’s startup ecosystem says he is focusing on three initiatives to supercharge the seven-county SoCal region as a hotbed for innovation.

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SoCal CTO

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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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association are reporting today that venture capitalists invested $3.7B in 52 venture deals. in 12 deals; and San Diego $172.2M in 612 deals in Q2 of the year, according to data from Thomson Reuters, with Southern California seeing $331.2M in 22 deals.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 27, 2011

San Diego Tech Coast Angeles. Early Exits describes a strategy for startup investors and entrepreneurs to build a new ventures, prove business models and exit companies in 2-3 years without the need for multi-million dollar investments. Thursday, June 2, 2011 -- Early Exits. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 -- The San Diego Tech Coast Angels present Early-Stage Valuation. Program Overview: This interactive workshop educates and empowers angel investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in access to capital on a variety of ways to value pre-revenue companies.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Join the San Diego Venture Group on to hear some of the leading minds in the Wireless and Mobile Health industry -- from West Wireless Health Institute, Qualcomm, PhiloMetron, and VC fund Kleiner Perkins -- share their views about how entrepreneurs will reshape the healthcare system in the coming decade.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Join San Diego Venture Group for a first-of-its-kind panel in which Diego Miralles and our surprise guest VC ask entrepreneurs three questions about their game-changing strategies. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

However, our challenge is that there are not a lot of venture capital investors in Southern California. I think the big challenge, is to take advantage of the homogenization of the West Coast--the corridor between San Francisco and San Diego--and taking advantage of the fact that things are becoming more blended.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Like any entrepreneur, we had the idea that there should be local capital, supporting the local ecosystem.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 8, 2016

San Diego-based a href="[link] Therapeutics , which is developing biopharmaceuticals aimed at cancer and other diseases, said this morning that it has closed on $140M in private placements. The company, which is publicly traded as SRNE on the NASDAQ, said the funding came from Ally Bridge Group, Beijing Shijilongxin Investment Co.,

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2016

Unmanned aerial vehicle maker 3D Robotics , which was started in San Diego but now is based in Berkeley, has raised nearly $27M as part of what looks to be an ongoing funding round. According to a regulatory filing by the company, the drone maker has raised $26,699,526 out of a target of $45M, in a round which kicked off on May 21st.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 -- "Funding Your Campaign: Company Financing Alternatives in Challenging Times" San Diego Venture Group. Your company is promising, but it needs capital to win its "campaign for success." True venture capital is favoring later stage companies. The IPO market is sluggish.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2010

This coming week the tour is making two stops in Southern California, one in San Diego, CA on June 15 and another in Irvine, June 16. So if you are a Startup in SoCal or maybe even a company that has been around a while but have a new product that is launching, this is something you don't want to miss.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. The great NorCal vs. SoCal debate is a longstanding, undeniable rivalry between the stereotypical surfer dudes of the south and environmental geeks to the north. There are a lot of misconceptions about SoCal and it’s time we set them straight. MYTH 3: SoCal lacks Fortune 500 Tech Leadership.

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