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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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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Venture capital investments in Southern California for Q3 of 2011 are up from last year, but down from last quarter, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. in San Diego, and $141.4M

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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. in investments in San Diego. San Diego''s largest deal was nearly $22M invested in BioNano Genomics.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health).

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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.

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APRIL 5, 2010

billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. in deals tracked by our database. in a March deal.

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Xconomy

APRIL 5, 2019

—Mobile app startup Bitmo announced it had raised more than $3 million in seed funding from investors including Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, and several Southern California-based family fund offices. The company says it has about 130 national brands on the platform, including Nike, Nordstrom, and Old Navy.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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MARCH 21, 2019

San Diego-based Bitmo , a startup developing a mobile gifting and payment app, has raised $3M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday afternoon. According to the company, its mobile gifting software allows users to gift from a mobile wallet, split and exchange card values from store gifts cards, and more.

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JULY 7, 2010

One complaint we sometimes hear from venture capitalists visiting Southern California for the first time, is the difficulty of finding experienced entrepreneurs and executives. 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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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. For the startup CEO, it can be their most important job. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

Seismic, an enterprise software company with ambitious growth plans, has raised $100 million in a Series E financing and added Microsoft chairman John W. The venture investment, which the San Diego startup announced Tuesday, is one of only a few so-called mega-rounds—$100 million or more—recorded this year in the region.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. 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.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Thursday, February 25, 2010 -- The Art of the Start-Up. San Diego Software Industry Council. An interactive workshop and panel discussion focusing on practical guides to business, legal, and fund raising choices. See [link] (more).

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

WeWork , the co-working space operator which has a significant presence across Southern California, with nineteen locations in the Los Angeles area plus a location in San Diego, has acquired Teem , a software startup backed by active LA venture investor Greycroft Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Two, Southern California startups -- whole home music system developer Sonos , and streaming music service Beats Music -- made their Super Bowl commercial debuts yesterday, an unusual occasion for the startup community here. turbotax startup hulu crackle seinfeld debut commercial bowl super superbowl sonos music beats'

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom is not new to the startup world -- in fact, his last startup, Fruugo, raised an astounding $48M in funding, and became one of the most heralded-- and controversial --startups in Finland. What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas. How did you end up here in Southern California?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. What does your startup do? founded in summer of 2017.

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MARCH 6, 2013

Howard Lindzon , the San Diego angel investors who also heads up stock micro-messaging site StockTwits , has invested in another private company-- Discoverly. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2016

San Diego-based KnuEdge , a startup which was founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin, said this morning that it has unveiled its voice recognition and authentication technology--which it has developed with $100M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

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MARCH 11, 2016

What do you get when you combine a charitable pub crawl, the movie Anchorman, and a software developer randomly hired off Craigslist? In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. What is Classy?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Some entrepreneurs, though, are acting as if Prop 64, known officially as the California Marijuana Legalization Initiative, has already passed. Co-founder and CEO Eric Gomez said Canopy San Diego won’t enroll startups or entrepreneurs who are directly engaged in the cultivation or sale of marijuana or its derivatives.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies. In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies.

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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. How did you guys end up working together on investments? A few years back, I started looking at angel investing. Why start an investment firm in Los Angeles?

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MAY 5, 2010

Yossi is much sought out by entrepreneurs both here, in Silicon Valley, and the rest of the world for his insights into startups, having backed Mirabilis (ICQ, sold to AOL), Answers.com (IPO), Tucows (IPO), and dozens of other successful startups. What is it about Israel that has made it such a center of high tech and startups?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2017

In his first public appearance since leaving Google Ventures, Bill Maris said Wednesday his new venture fund, Section 32, is nearly fully invested—less than four months after he officially unveiled its existence in the San Diego area.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. Can you talk about how Redpoint splits up investment -- do certain partners handle certain industries, or is it more geographic? We really believe in the market.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

One of the largest areas of Southern California's technology base is in the wireless and communications market. To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

All systems were go for the product, and we were really focused on getting the product out of the door, marketing it to customers, and setting up meetings in the academic space, with researchers who wanted to use the technology. When you started, we were in a completely different kind of world, in terms of the economy.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

One of the players in that market is San Diego-based Proximetry , which is a venture-backed company which develops software to control the quality of service in those outdoor networks. Tracy Trent: We started the company about five years ago. Is your product all software, or is there also hardware involved?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. There's lots of media and blogs in Southern California, who could use it as well. How did you start NativeTung?

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APRIL 14, 2014

Cojoin offers business intelligence software to collect and analyze data easily and quickly. Instead of having multiple departments to handle this function, Cojoin expects companies to easily get rid of communication problems with their business intelligence software. What do you think about LA as a startup area?

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JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales.

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