socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2014

The investments were a drop from Q4 of 2012, $711.8M Los Angeles led the region with $309.79M in total investments for Q4 of 2013, with San Diego ($145.0M) and Orange County ($143.6M) with nearly the same venture investment toal. Southern California''s venture capital investments totaled a little more than $598.4M For Q4, $8.4

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. What is Tradesparq?

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2013

In a new twist on the crowdfunding space, a new startup, Dealstruck , said it has launched a new service to help small businesses find business loans from investors. The startup said it is looking for businesses seeking $50,000 to $1M in capital, and is matching those businesses with secured, commercial loans.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012. Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Wait, didn’t you just raise a fund? Insurance Companies.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine).

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. Jean Balgrosky.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 18, 2012

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 -- The Tech Coast Angels presents MEET THE ANGELS. Are you thinking about starting your own company or in the early stages? The Tech Coast Angels invites San Diego's up and coming entrepreneurs to "Meet the Angels" that can help you make your dream come true.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Friday, November 9, 2012 -- Silicon Beach Fest. Check out panels on What Accelerators Want, Meet the Junior VCs, Music, Games, Social TV, Arts Education, PR for Startups, Women Developers, Ad Tech, Telling Your Story: Script to Startup, Film Financing: Crowdfunding and VCs.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

WeWork , the co-working space operator which has a significant presence across Southern California, with nineteen locations in the Los Angeles area plus a location in San Diego, has acquired Teem , a software startup backed by active LA venture investor Greycroft Ventures. Teem was founded in 2012, and had over 100 employees.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

DriveCam , the San Diego startup developing technology which analyzes and tracks the performance of commercial fleet drivers, reported this morning that it has just reached over $100M in 2012 sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I entered Pepcom’s Mobile Focus event with heightened excitement after driving through the busy intersections of Downtown San Diego’s rickshaw littered streets. And if you’ve never had the Mexican food in San Diego… stop what you’re doing and go.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

The fund also reports that it now has 39 digital media and technology startups in its portfolio. Siemer said it added five new companies in the last quarter, and had 24 new investments in 2012. CloudTrigger, which was based in San Diego, was acquired by Cloudsherpas over the holidays. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2012

MightyText , a Silicon Valley startup which develops Android applications to let users send SMS messages from their computer via the cloud, and syncs those messages between an Android phone and computer, has scored $100,000 from San Diego's Qualcomm. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2013

San Diego-based WhatRunsWhere said today that it has launched a brand new service, which helps advertisers track what ads competitors are running into mobile apps for the Android operating system. The firm said the mobile products come thanks to its August 2012 acquisition of mobile ad measurement startup Mobile Ad Spy.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 16, 2012

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 -- New Ways to Raise Capital under the JOBS Act. this bill is a potential game changer" for start-ups and small businesses. President Obama recently signed the bipartisan JOBS Act into law proclaiming, ".this

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

San Diego-based cloud storage firm Nirvanix is shutting down, and has given its customers only two weeks to move their data elsewhere, in a stunning flameout for the venture backed startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. The post HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm appeared first on TechZulu.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Irwin Jacobs , co-founder of San Diego-based Qualcomm , is retiring from the company's board, Qualcomm said last night. According to the company, Jacobs will retire at the firm's 2012 annual stockholder meeting. Jacobs co-founded Qualcomm on July 1, 1985, taking the firm from startup to more than 22,000 employees.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original and largest startup tech entertainment festival, celebrating the burgeoning tech scene in Los Angeles. Silicon Beach uniquely features startup and Hollywood entertainment speakers at panels, parties, hackathon, demo day, startup showcase, and more events, June 19-22, 2013 in Los Angeles.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. Hylton’s appointment comes less than two months after UC San Diego named Henrik Christensen as director of the robotics institute.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

PacketSled, a cybersecurity startup based in suburban San Diego, has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Keshif Ventures, a local angel investment fund that has put money into dozens of tech startups in the San Diego area.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Two venture-backed startups that have developed technologies intended to speed up the drug discovery and development process are combining those tools in a bid to achieve their goals together. San Francisco-based Atomwise has developed deep learning techniques for use in structure-based small molecule drug discovery.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

After Techstars opened its first program in Boulder, CO, in 2007, the startup accelerator program expanded into three cities over the next four years. But then the real growth started happening. In 2011, Techstars began launching accelerators that focused on startups innovating in a specific sector in partnership with big companies.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2018

That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

As the Federal Aviation Administration sets new rules for commercial operations of unmanned aircraft, legions of new startups are using drones to perform all kinds of tasks—from aerial inspections to mapping, imaging, and analysis. We sell the hardware at a fixed price, with recurring revenue on the analytics.”.

San Diego 40

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. That goes beyond just a phone call or I can't get up and have fallen.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Now Loring and Andres Bratt-Leal, who joined her lab in 2012 as a post-doctoral. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the first “public cloud” offering third-party data storage and compute services, launched in March 2006, and by 2012, there were multiple credible competitors. The hype was strong.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

From 2006 to 2012, the number of pills distributed to pharmacies increased by more than 50 percent. The opioid crisis reaches all corners of the nation, and newly released data this week revealed how the growth of the epidemic tracked with a massive increase in the production and distribution of these drugs.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

When the FDA approved the drug in 2012, the agency was concerned about heart risks. They also evaluate how a therapy works over a longer period of time. This week, results of such a study led to the market withdrawal of weight-loss pill lorcaserin (Belviq). But the post-marketing study revealed a higher incidence of.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 million since it was founded in 2012. million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor. Including the latest round, ScoreStream has raised a total of $6.8

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2012

After the very successful 3-day Silicon Beach Fest this past June 2012 which attracted over 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London, Digital LA is bringing it back for a 1-day packed event on November 9 th. The post Silicon Beach Fest is Back!

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego. The Growth Accelerator Fund competition is for organizations that help startups grow, become commercially viable, and have an economic impact. Next, demonstrate your success.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology. The company is growing up,” he added. healthcare systems, CEO Joe Smith said late Monday.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Live at the Apple Event: iPad Mini (and more?). Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago. Cloud storage. Enterprise.

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 29, 2011

million series A investment round, which has helped us scale the team to over 15 people, up from just Jason and I when we started. We’ve launched some high profile clients this year including Honolulu, San Diego, Abu Dhabi and dozens more worldwide. We’re planning another trip July 2012 for a week this time.

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