Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2018

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals , a San Diego biotech focused on developing new drugs for endocrine disorders and endocrine-related cancers, said today it has raised $63.5 million in a Series B financing led by Perceptive Advisors, the New York biotech fund. In a statement Tuesday, Crinetics said it plans.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

A report on venture capital fundraising released this morning reveals that Domain Associates , which has its west coast offices located in San Diego, was the biggest venture capital fundraise in Q2, with a $371.1M early stage fund, Domain Partners VIII. was raised.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2011

in funding, and San Diego $198.18M in investments. Investments were slightly down from Q2 of 2010, when the region saw $856M in funding. The report said that the investment level was the highest total in a single quarter since Q2 of 2008. Both of those fundings significantly boosted the totals for Orange County.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. The new machine was first fired up in the summer of 2017.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

San Diego-based Mabvax Pharmaceuticals , which is developing vaccines and human antibodies targeted at treating cancer, has gained $500,000 out of a $4M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Mabvax had previously raised $8M in Series A funds from GBP Capital in February of 2008.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The report , compiled for the NVCA by IHS Global Insight, found that venture backed companies accounted for 11 percent of private company employment in 2008, or 12.1 trillion in revenue in 2008, or roughly one-fifth of the country's gross domestic product. in San Diego. in San Diego.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lindzon led StockTwits as CEO until last year, and continues as chairman.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

San Diego-based Metaplace , the online virtual world startup headed by Raph Koster, disclosed today that the firm is now allowing users to easily embed virtual worlds into any web page. Metaplace said that web users can now embed the firm's Flash-based virtual worlds into blogs or webpages. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2009

San Diego-based H2O Audio has apparently raised around $1M in funding, according to a recent regulatory filing. According to a filing filed April 13th, the capital came as part of a round first started in May of 2008. According to a filing filed April 13th, the capital came as part of a round first started in May of 2008.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

A recent analysis by socalTECH, of our detailed tracking of venture capital investment activity in Southern California, finds that there was around $932M in funding raised in the area in Q2, a rise from roughly $700M in Q1. PwC/NVCA officialy reported $950M invested in Q2 of 2008.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. So you ended up here in San Diego because of Intuit? Tom Allanson: Yes, I came to San Diego in 2000 to run the tax business for Intuit, including the TurboTax group.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2010

billion, the strongest quarter since the third quarter of 2008. in 21 deals, and San Diego saw $170.6M San Diego's biggest deals were for Sonexa Therapeutics , which raised $37.2M, Astute Medical , which raised $26.5M, and Nereus Pharmaceuticals , with $20.0M and 80 deals in Q1. totaled $6.5 invested in 24 deals.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2009

According to numbers derived from socalTECH's venture database, there was $717.96M invested in Southern California in the first quarter, up from only $465M in Q4 of 2008. However, venture funding totals were still well off the first quarter of 2008's nearly $1.2 billion in funding. billion in funding.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2010

Some years there is an excitement about the hot economy, more recently it's been shock and awe over the 2008-09 financial meltdown. What's more remarkable is that three of them have been in Los Angeles, the oft-overlooked poor stepchild to San Francisco, Silicon Valley and even San Diego when it comes to California tech hotspots.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2009

in deals, Orange County seeing $92.1M, and San Diego with $87.4M PwC found the largest funding deals were for San Diego's Mpex Pharmaceuticals, with $27.5M The largest deal for Los Angeles was $15M in a funding for Buzz Media. in deals from Q1 of 2008. in venture investments during the quarter.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

San Diego’s Avelas Biosciences , founded in 2009 to advance a fluorescing biologic agent intended to help surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue, has completed a $20 million Series C round of venture funding. and San Diego’s Avalon Ventures.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. billion and 407 deals in 2008. in funding, driven in a large part by a $32M round for Solarflare Communications.

Southern California 100

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

When I told Larry Bock in an email about four months ago that I had been diagnosed with cancer, the renowned San Diego life sciences investor asked if he might see me at UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center. Bock started or funded 50 companies; a definitive list is here.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media.

San Diego 40

San Diego Startup Software Capital 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It billion.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

For San Diego-based Mob Science (www.mobscience.com), an injection of cash, some key advisors--and a deal with Zynga. Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. We have several openings in our team in Carlsbad.

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socalTECH

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. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers.

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I noticed that in the e-commerce realm, there was a tremendous uptick in sales, where people were promoting bargain hunting for nationwide merchants such as Amazon and Best Buy--especially as the recession hit in 2007 and 2008, and started taking a toll. Finally, how are you funding this business? Hyperlocal is the next wave.

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

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. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. How tough was it to start up a new fund?

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Southern California Startup Rustic Canyon Palomar 153

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Among those startups is San Diego-based Independa (www.independa.com) , which is trying to crack the code to figure out how to apply the convergence of wireless technology, cloud computing, and software to elderly care. Kian Saneii: I was at Websense here in San Diego, and my last position was General Manager of Websense Wireless.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. SV Angel / Ron Conway closes $20mm venture fund. 10mm in Series C.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

That nightmare happened to Jim Carol , a serial entrepreneur who was co-founder and CEO of San Diego's PacketVideo , when his son was diagnosed with cancer. Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008. How long has the organization been around?

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. He began developing the business model for scoreAscore.com in October of 2008. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5 Brian Norgard – Co-founder of Chill. link] Keep A Breast. Magnanimous.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. Downtown San Diego Condos. Wealthy Investors Flock to Puerto Rico. Gramercy Park Condo Goes Into Contract. Sky Garages Allow High-Rise Parking.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44