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JULY 21, 2010

A local technology group is hoping to support women supporting technology and science education, by tripling the size of its scholarship program. Tags: science technology education scholarship women female engineering.

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MARCH 1, 2010

The Tech Coast Angels said today that the angel group invested in seven new deals, and seventeen follow-on deals in 2009, a total of $4.7M The group said that as part of those deals, its portfolio companies raised an additional $57M in funding from venture capital groups and other angel investors. in investments.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

One of the companies recognized in Qualcomm's QPrize annual business plan competition has scored a series A funding, four years after being named a finalist in the Qualcomm effort. Singapore-based Capillary Technologies , a developer of mobile customer relationship management (CRM) tools, said it has raised $15.5M

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. billion fund.

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JULY 12, 2012

Callwave, which started in 1998, gained venture funding, went public in an IPO in 2004, went private, and then switched its business model to online meeting and collaboration software, renamed itself to FuzeBox back in 2009 and moving its headquarters to San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2010

Anyone looking for signs that the economy is turning around, might want to look at what appears to be happening in Southern California's technology jobs market. Mangers said that it appears that for companies that have survived the storm of 2009 and the economy, things are looking up. Why the disconnect?

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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 The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. million, according to a recent regulatory filing.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Thursday, October 22, 2009 -- Los Angeles County Technology Week. Los Angeles County Technology Week (Tech Week) is the premier celebration of and showcase for technology innovation and leadership in LA County.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Coinstar announced the investment Wednesday, saying that ecoATM's technology is "innovative and compelling" and that it believes ecoATM "could be a viable business". ecoATM was the winner of a contest run by Coinstar in 2009 focused on finding innovative ideas for kiosks.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. I’m not a doomsday guy, but just believe that we won’t see a V shaped recovery, which could make VC funding more difficult for tech start-ups (don’t shoot the messenger!).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. Nick is an alum of UC Berkeley and Wharton, worked at Warby Parker and then most recently at the venerable LA-based Seed Fund, Crosscut.

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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. VC’s often talk about this term as in the total amount of funds EVER raised by that VC. What is a VC fund? What is total assets under management? -

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). Talk about the new firm and the new fund? Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- Converging Technologies for Health Information: A New Venture Frontier / Entrepreneurial Opportunities: the $40 Billion Stimulus and Beyond. With billions of stimulus funding, the US government is encouraging national adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. See [link] (more).

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MAY 8, 2009

Thursday, May 14, 2009 -- Commercializing Wireless-Life Sciences Technology Successfully. Opportunities abound with a new US administration promising to fund healthcare technology and economic challenges that demand increased efficiency in healthcare.

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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You don’t.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Mike Macadaan , the designer behind MySpace''s redesign in 2009 , has a new project: a Kickstarter effort to fund the design of a line of electronics accessories to organize your pile of electronic charging and accessory cords. Macadaan is currently Chief Creative Officer at Los Angeles technology studio and incubator Science, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 -- The Workshop: Get Funded in One Day (Dealmaker LA). Brought to you by the team who produces Startonomics and Dealmaker LA, this hands-on "workshop-style" event will allow entrepreneurs to drill down on the key issues we face when laying the foundation to build and fund their company.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Convetro , the online advertising targeting and optimization technology developer headed by serial entrepreneur Jeff Zwelling, has raised $5M in a Series B funding round, the company said this morning. The firm said the funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners and DAG Ventures, and will go towards sales and marketing.

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JULY 19, 2017

founded in 2009 as a Qualcomm-incubated startup to develop software and computer systems that emulate the human brain, seems to have found a new path forward. SoftBank’s new Vision Fund has led a $114 million investment to advance the company’s artificial intelligence technology. San Diego’s Brain Corp.,

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JANUARY 16, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009 -- How to Fund Your Business When Venture Capital Has Said No. Especially for entrepreneurial and fast-growing technology companies. Venture funding isn't available to everyone, and-newsflash-isn't right for every company. Capital - CASH -- is a key ingredient for any business.

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JULY 30, 2013

In what might be one of the first successful examples of an energy startup company making effective use of taxpayer guarantees, San Diego-based Sapphire Energy , which is developing algae-based crude oil technology, said it has completely paid of a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Camarillo-based Cool Planet Biofuels , a firm developing biofuels technology to replace gasoline using biomass, has raised $3.0M funding round, according to a filing by the firm today. Source of the new funding was not announced, however, the firm is now backed by North Bridge Venture Partners. as part of an ongoing, $8.0M

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the developer of cloud computing products headed by Winston Damarillo, announced this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series C funding round. The firm said the funding will go toward deployment in the ASEAN and North American area. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The Tech Coast Angels , [ profile ] the largest angel investment group in Southern California, outlined its 2010 deals today, saying that it funded a total of 31 deals in 2010, and had three profitable exits. Investments were up in terms of deals compared to 2009, when the group invested in 24 deals. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In the nine years since San Diego’s EvoNexus incubator began amid the great recession of 2009, CEO Rory Moore has emphasized it is a pro bono program—startup teams admitted to the technology accelerator get free office space and other perks, with no strings attached.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The firm said along with the announcement that it will be adding ad serving, forecasting, and other functionality to its system in 2010, and that it is taking an aim at current provider of ad server technology. Tags: rubicon project merger acquisition investment banker advertising software technology server. READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 29, 2020

The disruptive technologies in electric vehicles and artificial intelligence have taken even longer to see any dramatic payback. Innovation doesn’t even require technology. Pick a specialized technology within an existing movement. Pick a specialized technology within an existing movement.

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MAY 6, 2015

As an active investor in the Los Angeles technology market we’re always seeking to better understand the data and trends of why our market has grown so rapidly since 2009. Most importantly – this should encourage LP funds to back more local firms and I would hope to see more indigenous funds to develop.

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JUNE 7, 2010

A report from the WSJ Monday morning says that Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp. SpaceX), the commercial space flight venture of Elon Musk, still needs more than $1 billion in funding over the next year or two, to reach its goal of transporting astronauts to the International Space Station. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Irvine-based Visiogen , a developer of intraocular lens technology for treating cataract patients, is being acquired by Abbott in a deal worth $400M. According to Abbott, it will pay $400M in cash for VisioGen, whose intraocular lens technology addresses presbyopia for cataract patients. READ MORE>>.

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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. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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JANUARY 21, 2010

The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2014

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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AUGUST 10, 2010

El Segundo-based Wyle , a provider of systems engineering, testing, and information technology services, said today that it has agreed to acquired CAS, Inc. , The firm said the acquisition will be funded by approximately $20M in equity from Court Square Capital Partners, plus approximately $200M in incremental debt.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Irvine-based WaterHealth International, which is developing water purification and disinfection technology, has scored the first close of a Series D funding round, the firm said late Tuesday. The firm said the funding brings its total funding in the round to more than $10M.

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