Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Call him an optimist if you must, but San Diego Venture Group president Mike Krenn says venture financings for San Diego’s early stage tech startups are on a tear. “I I haven’t seen it this good since 2007,” he says. Venture data, however, only partly support Krenn’s exhuberance.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2018

But in the United States, it was the year of the unicorn—at least according to the Venture Monitor report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. A record number of unicorn financings—venture-backed companies valued at $1 billion or more—helped drive U.S.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

He was accused of diverting more than $18 million from the $283 million Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund III under the guise of management fees. Those amounts, siphoned away during the period between December 2007 and September 2013, were not owed to him, according to a Department of Justice account. Burrill was also charged.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. Howard Lindzon is CEO and Co-founder of StockTwits (www.stocktwits.com), the financial micro-messaging service.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Miragen was formed in 2007 and raised an $8 million Series A round from Atlas and Boulder a year later. A few examples of reverse mergers over the past few years include Tobira Therapeutics (NASDAQ: TBRA ) ( recently acquired by Allergan ), Pulmatrix (NASDAQ: PULM ), Retrophin (NASDAQ: RTRX ), and Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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