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OCTOBER 26, 2015

The company says that Crosby is the founder of Google Analytics; he had been a co-founder of Urchin Software in San Diego, which eventually became Google Analytics after its acquisition in April of 2005. The company said it already has funded more than $35M in real estate loans, across 78 properties, during its pre-launch phase.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Internet giant Google said Friday that it will be shutting down web analytics service Urchin , the onetime San Diego startup which had been acquired by Google in April of 2005.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

San Diego-based DexCom , a developer of continuous glucose monitoring systems, said Monday afternoon that Donald A. Lucas is Founding Managing Member at RWI Group, which was an investor in DexCom before the firm's IPO in 2005. Lucas has resigned from the firm's board of directors.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

San Diego-based Conatus Pharmaceuticals said Friday that it has acquired the Idun Pharmaceuticals subsidiary of Pfizer. Idun has been acquired by Pfizer in 2005. Idun has been acquired by Pfizer in 2005. who also was CEO of Idun Pharmaceuticals when it was acquired by Pfizer in 2005. Mento, Ph.D.,

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AUGUST 23, 2011

San Diego-based MP3tunes , the cloud music storage service run by Michael Robertson, has scored a win over EMI, according to Robertson. Robertson launched MP3tunes in 2005. The firm's services have recently been replicated by companies such as Amazon and Google. Robertson and MP3tunes were sued by EMI in 2008. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. What was the biggest news from you or your firm this year? What is the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Irwin Jacobs , co-founder of San Diego-based Qualcomm , is retiring from the company's board, Qualcomm said last night. Jacobs had already stepped away from day to day management of Qualcomm back in 2005, and had stepped down as Chairman in March of 2009. Qualcomm is now in the hands of Jacobs' son, Dr. Paul E. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2011

Mountain View-based Google has followed the lead of San Diego-based MP3tunes , and debuted its own "music locker" service today at its Google I/O developer conference. com--has been around since 2005. MP3Tunes--one of the many companies founded by Michael Robertson, who was founder of MP3.com--has READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2010

San Diego-based DexCom , a developer of continuous glucose monitoring systems, said today that it has named Steven R. Valdes was most recently the firm's Senior Vice President of Operations, and joined the firm in November of 2005. Pacelli as its Chief Operating Officer, and Jorge Valdes as Chief Technology Officer.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. That is on top of the many Southern California firms who have recently had a successful IPO, including Monrovia-based Green Dot , Beverly Hills-based RealD , San Diego-based MaxLinear , and Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

San Diego-based DivX said late Friday that board member Jerry Murdock has resigned. Murdock is a managing director at Insight Venture Partners, and joined the firm's board of directors in 2005. Murdock will leave the company's board effective December 31st. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2017

Dan Goldin founded KnuEdge (initially known as Intellisus) in 2005 to realize his vision for neural-based computing—and to fundamentally transform the way humans interact with machines. As he puts it, “a tidal wave is coming. It’s going to be bigger than the Internet. It looks and feels like the early ‘90s—but better.”

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

San Diego-based Axesstel, a developer of fixed wireless and broadband data products, said Monday afternoon that the firm's Chairman, Bryan B. Min has been on the firm's board since November of 2005, and is the founder and CEO of Epison System Solutions, Inc. Min, is resigning.

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MARCH 4, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm said Tuesday that it has named Paul E. Paul Jacobs was appointed CEO of Qualcomm in 2005, succeeding his father, and has been at the company since 1990. Jacobs, the firm's CEO, as chairman of the board. Jacobs replaces his father, Qualcomm co-founder and former CEO, Irwin Jacobs.

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MAY 21, 2019

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

Scientists from Synthetic Genomics, the San Diego-based industrial biotech, have re-engineered a fast-growing microorganism found in salt marsh mud to maximize its production of proteins and to optimize other common bio-based processes. Privately held Synthetic Genomics was founded in 2005 by the human genome pioneer J.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Within 20 years, computer keyboards will be relegated to the technology dustbin, says Android co-founder Rich Miner. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices.

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MARCH 10, 2017

The 44-year-old Gottlieb is a physician, a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates, and was also the deputy commissioner of medical and scientific affairs at the FDA between 2005 and 2007, during George W. Bush’s administration. Gottlieb is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Irvine-based Broadcom is continuing its patent skirmish with San Diego-based Qualcomm, saying Tuesday that Qualcomm has been held in contempt of an injunction entered into last December, covering the use, sale, and import of certain EV-DO chips. in May 2005. Broadcom sued Qualcomm over U.S. 5,657,317 in the U.S.

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JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. How big was the team in San Diego?

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MARCH 16, 2017

Paul Larson, who co-founded Daylight Solutions with CEO Tim Day in 2005, said they followed a path that was very different from a classic defense contractor, but not too different from a typical high-tech startup. “We We called it ‘doing defense the Silicon Valley way,’” Larson said Thursday in an e-mail interview with Xconomy.

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MAY 9, 2017

From 2005 to 2007, he worked as the FDA’s deputy commissioner of medical and scientific affairs under President George W. He succeeds former FDA commissioner Robert Califf, who stepped down in January after President Donald Trump took office. Gottlieb is already familiar with the agency he will oversee.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. I had built an audio company before.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. There was legislation moving through in 2004, which ultimately came out in 2005, which was a starting point for the smart meter discussion. For our readers who might not be familiar with Teridian, can you describe what your business is?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. How has the startup experience been for you versus Intuit? That was a very different experience.

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JUNE 30, 2016

“Sure, we’d like to see more drugs available for patients,” said Scott Lippman, director of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego. Cancer experts around the country stress the need to balance speed and scientific rigor. “Even our reviewers don’t know yet.”

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JANUARY 19, 2009

billion in 554 deals, invested -- the lowest quarter since 2005. Locally, San Diego led the region with $182.5M According to the report, investments in Southern California total $421.80M across 51 deals, down from $902.16M and 58 deals in Q3. Nationally, venture capital investments slipped 30%, to only $5.5

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APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Or, as always, summary notes available below. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. was starting.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. You have a runway that would make San Diego Airport’s look long. Call me when you’re ready to leave.” ” Now they have a deep sigh when they hear what you’re actually working on. “Dude, we saw a bunch of those last year. Sorry, brah.”

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JULY 20, 2015

By 1972, he had refined his product, which he mixed in his garage, packaged by hand and sold to surf shops up and down the California coast, from Santa Cruz to San Diego. In 1970, Zog closed his surf shop and focused his efforts on formulating a better wax.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. Derrick Oien: We launched Rabble in June of 2005, and we launched the first version of ANTHEM in September of 2007.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus. The next two deals were companies in a company in San Diego, Verve Wireless, and a local company here called GumGum. Can you talk about your experience?

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AUGUST 20, 2009

In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. We were able to present at the screenings in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, and met lots of very interesting people who asked lots of great questions. How did you get into this - looks like you came from the entertainment world?

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APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I was immediately reminded that they were interested in seeing the slides as the main partner who had courted me at DEMO in San Diego shuffled nervously through the print outs of the slides I had sent him in advance.

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JULY 6, 2015

There was a meme that started going around LPs around 2005 that “I’m not sure LA is really its own venture market” and some LPs actually believed that. We do a lot of deals in San Francisco. ” (effectively a “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” sort of argument).

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