socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2020

San Diego-based AlphaTrAI , a fintech startup which is backed by venture capital investor Analytics Ventures, says it is launching its own, extrenal fund, and is expanding its leadership team. the founder of Hightree Advisors, to its advisory board.

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Artificial Inteligence Invest San Diego .Net 100

Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

When it comes to developing and promoting innovation, external factors beyond the control of company founders, investors, and other business leaders can also determine whether a startup succeeds or fails. Xconomy: Has the Trump era been good or bad for your company? Manoj Saxena , CognitiveScale chairman.

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.Net San Diego Startup Develop 102

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.

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San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

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.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2017

Some of my biggest worries are as follows: 1) More restrictive immigration laws will make it even harder for startups (as well as more established companies) to attract and retain the highly skilled workers that they need to be competitive. 3) The re-emphasizing of traditional fossil fuels will be accompanied by new policies.

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.Net Competition Startup Help 63

socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2014

San Diego-based Geneva Healthcare has raised $1.8M in a funding round, the company said this morning, to go towards the development of its platform for managing data from cardiac devices. The company says it is now in hiring mode after the funding. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

San Diego-based Renova Therapeutics , a biopharmaceuticals company developing treatments for congestive heart failure and other diseases, has raised $7.52M in a Series C funding round. The company said the funding primarily came from high net worth individuals. Bradbury has joined the company''s board.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

San Diego-based medical device provider ResMed has acquired healthcare software developer Brightree , in a deal worth $800M, according to the companies. ResMed said it will pay $800M in cash for ResMed, which had net sales of approximately $113M in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2014

San Diego-based sports activity registration and software provider ACTIVE Network reported two wins today at YMCA centers. ACTIVE Network said it has signed up the YMCA of the North Shore in Massachusetts and YMCA of the Brandywine Valley in Pennsylvania as customers for the company''s ACTIVE Net cloud platform.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2013

San Diego-based Arcturus Therapeutics , a developer of RNAi technology, said it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. According to Arcturus, the funding came from multiple private capital,, high net worth investors from Canada, Japan, and the United States. Names of those capital sources were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2013

In a big leadership executive shuffle over at San Diego-based ACTIVE Network , the company announced today that its current CEO, Matthew Landa, has resigned, as has its Executive Chairman and Chairman of the board, David Alberga. Reason for the big switchup at its executive ranks was not given.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

San Diego-based Arcturus Therapeutics , which is developing RNAi therapeutics to treat disease, said this morning that it has raised $1.3M The company said the round came from multiple, high net-worth private investors from the U.S. in a seed fudning round. and Canada. Names of those investors were not announced.

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Arcturus San Diego .Net Venture Capital 138

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Arena Pharmaceuticals continued its comeback Thursday, netting a whopping $800 million up front in a deal that hands United Therapeutics another experimental drug for the rare blood disorder pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). [ Updated, 11/15/18, 2:06 p.m. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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San Diego .Net Research Company 72

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2015

Vista Equity Partners the private equity firm which as been gobbling up San Diego high tech companies and moving them to Texas--has agreed to sell 80 percent of Websense to defense company Raytheon , the three said today. billion in net cash for majority ownership of a new company, to be made of those two parts.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2018

million deal netted the San Diego company eight partner programs and a 70-person R&D team in Cambridge, England, plus about $32 million in cash after deal costs. Ligand (NASDAQ: LGND ) CEO John Higgins, in a prepared statement, said the acquisition added more “shots on goal” to the company’s portfolio.

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San Diego .Net Acquisition Platform 63

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2012

San Diego-based Somaxon , a developer of treatments for insomnia, has been acquired by Pernix Therapeutics Holdings , in a deal worth $25M. According to the two companies, Pernix will acquire Somaxon in a stock-for-stock transaction worth a total of $25M in total equity. Somaxon had 12 months net sales of approximately $11.7M

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San Diego .Net Equity Acquisition 147

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2011

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , the developer of CMOS RF integrated circuits, updated its S-1 filings Friday, saying that it had a net loss of $1.0M That compares with net income of $1.0M Morgan, Needham & Company , Oppenheimer & Co., on revenues of $21.2M on revenues of $22.9M READ MORE>>.

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.Net San Diego Equity Marketing 153

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

San Diego-based Active Network has filed for an IPO, saying in its S-1 that it is looking to raise up to $150M. The firm's IPO is being underwritten by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, Allen & Company LLC, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, ThinkEquity LLC, and WR Hambrecht+Co. The firm said it had a net loss of 37.8M

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Activity Networking .Net San Diego 168

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , a developer of RF integrated circuits for the wireless and other markets, filed for an IPO late Friday, saying it is looking to raise up to $100M on either the Nasdaq Global Market or New York Stock Exchange. Morgan, Jefferies & Company, Needham & Company, LLC, and Oppenheimer & Co.

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.Net San Diego Equity Acquisition 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

San Diego-based sports and activity registration provider Active Network appears to be looking for a buyer, or maybe an outside investment, saying yesterday that it has created a committee to evaluate "strategic transactions". Active Network reported a net loss of $2.7M The disclosure came in Active Network''s quarterly results.

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Activity Networking San Diego .Net 100

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

San Diego-based MIR3 , which provides emergency notification messaging services, said today that it will donate the net proceeds for customer messages delivered to Japan for the seven weeks since the earthquake and tsunami to the Red Cross effort to aid Japan.

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San Diego .Net Email Mobile 153

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2013

San Diego-based music streaming service Slacker has a message for the industry: you can run a digital music service, and make money. The company said that, since its relaunch, it also is seeing an increase in average listening time, by 25 percent, with about 100,000 new paid subscribers joining the service. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego .Net Content Mobile 191

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

San Diego-based Zogenix , a developer of needle-free, delivery systems for the treatment of acute migraines and cluster headaches, has filed for a $90M IPO. The company reported $7.5M in revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2010, with a net loss of $49.3M. and Stifel Nicolaus Weisel. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego .Net Acquisition Report 153

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

Pernix Therapeutics is slashing its headcount by more than 20 percent as the specialty pharmaceutical company tries to move toward profitability after a streak of acquisitions. Morristown, NJ-based Pernix (NASDAQ: PTX ) will cut 60 workers , mostly from its neurology sales staff, the company said today. million net loss.

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Sales San Diego .Net Report 40

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

San Diego’s ResMed (NYSE: ticker[[RMD]]) announced its intention to buy the privately held tech company on Monday. The purchase price is 25 times MatrixCare’s pro forma 2018 earnings of about $30 million (without taking into account interest, taxes, depreciation or amortization) on anticipated net revenue of about $122 million.

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Software Acquisition .Net Pricing 89

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2010

San Diego-based Advanced Telemetry , a developer of smart energy management systems for the residential and light commercial market, reported Tuesday that it has been selected for the ZENERGY House, a demonstration net-zero-energy remodeling project in Studio City. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

LabCorp will also assume net debt of San Diego-based Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM ), bringing the value of the cash deal to approximately $371 million. In 2011, state incentives lured the company to Research Triangle Park, where it built a $19 million lab to bolster its molecular diagnostics business. LabCorp reported $8.5

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Xconomy

JUNE 16, 2020

Gene sequencing company Pacific Biosciences of California is seeking two new leaders in the wake of retirement announcements by a pair of longtime top executives. Previously Hunkapiller, a DNA sequencing industry veteran, spent more than. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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.Net Company Companies San Diego 73

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2015

Our interview this morning is with serial entrepreneur Tony Farwell , the Executive Chairman and co-founder of GovX (www.govx.com), a San Diego-based online marketplace aimed at current members of the military, veterans, and government employees, including first responders, police, and others. We have started with all U.S.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. You've done this before in other industries--what led to new company?

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2009

San Diego-based La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company , a publicly traded biopharmaceuticals firm, reported this morning that its stockholders are set to vote on a liquidation plan for the company. The firm said it is looking to fully dissolve the company, paying off its creditors and distributing any remaining cash.

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Layoffs San Diego .Net Report 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The company’s net income in the second quarter alone was more than $5 billion.

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.Net Organization Marketing San Diego 84

socalTECH

MAY 20, 2009

San Diego-based specialty pharmaceuticals firm Victory Pharma has been acquired by Atlanta-based Sciele Pharma, Sciele said this week. Victory Pharma has 182 employees, and had net sales of $57M in 2008, Sciele said. Victory Pharma has 182 employees, and had net sales of $57M in 2008, Sciele said.

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San Diego .Net Acquisition Sales 100

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

I do not advocate that you perform unnatural acts in an attempt to make your company more advantageous to venture funding. LOCATION: I Wish They All Could Be California Companies. Despite the fact that we never moved, both companies were successful. all of which continue to thrive in Santa Barbara to this day.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Technical Review 233

Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

It’s been less than a year since Needham, MA-based PTC (NASDAQ: PTC ) shelled out $65 million to acquire Vuforia, the augmented reality technology created by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ). Vuforia’s headquarters has remained in San Diego, and Vuforia continues to operate four offices in Europe and Israel, Wright said.

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