Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2018

I started roasting my own coffee and taking it with me overseas,” he says. “I I set up a coffee shop for me and my buddies downrange.” When he rejoined civilian life in 2014, Hafer says he wanted to transition into working with something for which he already had a passion. That was the start of Black Rifle Coffee. “My

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

However, that wasn’t the problem San Diego startup LabFellows was looking to solve when it launched in 2014. Scientists, no matter how sexy the research they’re conducting, aren’t immune from the administrative minutiae of office life. Such tasks steal time away from researchers’ main objectives.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others. And importantly they play an important role in helping to introduce you to the right A-round VC based on your startup type. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. Whisper’s last round was a $36 million Series C back in 2014.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Nxt Robotics , a San Diego startup developing robots for private security, has named San Diego CyberHive and CyberTech founder Darin Anderson as CEO. Jeff Debrosse, the San Diego cybersecurity expert who founded Nxt Robotics in 2014, will continue as CTO, according to a statement from the company.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

The following year, the startup created an algorithm that automatically adjusts the rhythm and tempo of songs to match the user’s pace and heart rate. The algorithm to manipulate music tempo based on steps didn’t come in until mid-2014, because it was really challenging to develop that software,” he said. We’re manipulating.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? As a bonus, you''ll also enjoy a robust number of Pinterest, Tumbler and Instagram followers and you''ll still have room in your budget for 250 comments on your blog and about 100,000 views on Vimeo. Thus, in 2014, accrue your social media status the old-fashioned way - earn it.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So pervasive has this thinking become that on several occasions startup companies with profitable & fast growing services businesses have come to me wanting to show me the product businesses they created internally to see whether they would be financeable or whether they might be able to create “spin outs&# that could be financed.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.) Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). To keep up to date with People+’s work, be sure to visit and follow their Twitter and Homepage. But speculation is merely that. Speculation.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. Karat, a startup building a bank for creators. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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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. MedCrypt is focused on preventing the sort of thing that happened to St.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The Carlsbad, CA-based company has also developed software that it says can help healthcare providers and other organizations keep track of orthotic devices and bill patients for their use. On Tuesday, Breg announced it will be getting an assist on the software side from Redox , a healthtech startup based in Madison, WI.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Esperanto Technologies , a startup AI chip developer that has operated mostly below the radar since its founding in 2014, announced this week that it raised $58 million in a Series B fundraising round. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. The study pegged the overall economic development of the software industry in San Diego at $12.2

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

San Diego’s innovation clusters continued to grow in 2015, as local startups, funding deals, and job growth extended an economic growth spurt that began in 2013. The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Back in 2014, I wrote a column intended to help consumers walk away from their. With the growing interest in cord-cutting, you’d think it would be getting easier to find alternative sources for broadband Internet service. But no, it’s actually a bit more complicated than it used to be, because there are more options to choose from.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 billion active mobile users monthly as of March 31, 2014, while Twitter has 255 million active users.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

AJ: Buddytruk has been active and accepting pickups in Los Angeles since August 1, 2014. TZ: What was the development schedule from idea to picking up your first haul? We’re currently working on partnerships with some companies in the area to assist them with their delivery needs and customer pick-ups as well.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Lyft’s pricey showing rivals Alibaba’s 2014 IPO as one of the largest deal sizes ever among US IPOs, according to. Lyft sold 30.8 million shares at $72 apiece, according to Renaissance Capital —the top of a new range that Lyft originally set at $62 to $68. The company was valued at $15.1

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Before getting out on the open road, however, the company wants to show its self-driving system can clean up a mess in aisle 3 at Jimbo’s. As an independent startup backed by the corporate venture arm of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ), Brain Corp. The startup moved off-campus in 2014, with $11 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. What is CHNL? John met Jason at Ingrooves.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million. San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

Often companies start small and siloed teams choose a tool that works for them, but as the company scales, adopting to one unified tool for collaboration is often painful. The startup is gaining momentum with $3.5 The enterprise collaboration market is forecasted to grow from $47 billion in 2014 to $71 billion in 2019.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window. Notably only three of the top-10 companies were software companies, which over the past few years has been the category that represented so many of the “unicorns.”. The projected $43.2

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

It was fitting this week that, in the lead-up to two of biomedicine’s biggest self-celebrations, we were served ample reminder of the industry’s expensive decisions gone wrong. billion in December 2014, it counted on blockbuster sales of Cubist’s skin-infection antibiotic daptomycin (Cubicin) for years. But the U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 4, 2016

The San Diego company sees many reasons why wireless charging will eventually become a robust global market, according to Steve Pazol, a Qualcomm vice president who took over the company’s wireless charging business in 2014. Pazol said he expects to sign up more licensees by the end of this year. and other nations.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

At Xconomy, we have seen growing investments in the sector—both in a rash of new agtech startups and by bigger players such Monsanto, Bayer Crop Sciences, and Syngenta. The annual AgTech Investment Report from AgFunderNews found that investment in agriculture and food-related technology startups alone hit $4.6 and Cybersecurity.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Cho, a former sales manager for Nikon Instruments and Vala Sciences, founded Echo Labs in 2014. A record 140 startups applied to compete in this year’s Quick Pitch event as a result. CourseKey’s software automatically tracks student attendance, shares key information, and sends pop quizzes to students’ devices.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. How much money will they reserve from their fund for future investments in your startup? What percentage of their fund will you be? We lived that first hand.

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