socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2019

FTD also agreed to sell both its North American and Latin American businesses to private equity investor Nexus Capital Management , in a move that includes San Diego-based Proflowers. FTD acquired San Diego's ProFlowers in 2014, paying $430M for the online flower and gift delivery service. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2019

San Diego-based Lawn Love , which provides on-demand, lawn mowing and care services, says it has launched its services in Orange County, as part of an expansion effort.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter and sponsor of socaltech over the years. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. Risk taking yields innovation.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2018

San Diego-based LoanHero , which had offered up a service to help merchants offer up point-of-sale financing options to consumers, has been acquired by Georgia-based LendingPoint. According to LoanHero had been venture backed by Alsop Louie Partners and Mucker Capital, and had raised $4.2M LoanHero had been founded in 2014.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Louis, MO-based venture capital firm with additional offices in San Diego, CA, and Cleveland, OH, has raised $184.4 Among the notable exits was San Diego’s Lumena Pharmaceuticals, which Irish pharmaceutical giant Shire (NASDAQ: SHPG ) bought for more than $260 million in 2014.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County. Innovation Companies in San Diego (Courtesy Connect Innovation Report).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2014

San Diego-based cyber security software developer EdgeWave has raised $2M more in a Series A funding, the company said Wednesday. from TVC Capital, $500,000 from Northgate, and $300,000 from Bill Baumel and RWI Ventures. The company said the new funding brings its total raised in 2014 to $8M. The funding included $1.2M

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NOVEMBER 13, 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. I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list.

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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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Xconomy

MAY 20, 2019

Yet another new biotech company has been founded in San Diego by serial entrepreneur Mike Grey and other alumni of rare disease startup Lumena Pharmaceuticals. Grey, who was president and CEO of Lumuna from 2011 through its 2014 acquisition by Irish drugmaker Shire (now part of Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” Both Vaughn and his Saucey co-founder Daniel Leeb will take management positions at PCH, and Blumberg Capital and Bullpen will have a large equity stake in the newly formed holding company, Vaughn said. We’ve spent the past decade in bev-alc at the forefront of providing solutions to changing consumer shopping behaviors.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2018

San Diego-based Gossamer Bio , a biotechnology company focused on therapeutics in the autoimmune, allergy/inflammation, and immuno-oncology disease areas, said on Monday that it has raised $230M in a Series B funding round. co-founder and the company's current President and Chief Operating Officer, shifting into the CEO role.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2016

San Diego-based residential solar power installer OneRoof Energy said late Friday that it has "significantlyr educed" its work force, and has begun winding down its operations, after it said it was unable to secure financing necessary to continue sales, marketing, and development. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

LumaTax , a new startup has offices in both San Diego and Seattle, Washington, has raised $2M in a funding, the company said on Thursday. The startup is led by Robert Shulte, who was founder of sales tax software provider Taxient, which was based in San Diego, and who he sold to tax software developer Avalara in 2010.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

billion invested in venture capital in Q4 of 2015, according to the latest numbers released over the weekend by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. billion invested in the region in Q4 of 2014, and was only slightly less than the $1.46 in San Diego. in Orange County, and $334.0M

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MARCH 22, 2019

The company, which started operations in 2014, has raised nearly $148 million since inception. The San Diego biotech is developing what it describes as a “next-generation” drug as a treatment for cancers associated with genetic variations that alter the enzymes ALK, ROS1, and TRK.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ), a San Diego-based company that was a pioneer in gene sequencing technology, founded the accelerator in 2014, along with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The software of Portfolium, a San Diego startup that hosts online portfolios for students trying to showcase their achievements to potential employers, is set to join the portfolio of Utah educational software company Instructure. Instructure (NYSE: INST ) has agreed to acquire privately held Portfolium.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2016

San Diego-based life sciences investor Domain Associates has raised $163.6M Fundraising for the new fund first began in December of 2014, according to the filing. in a new fund, Domain Partners IX, LP , according to a regulatory filing by the firm last week.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2014

The latest numbers are out on venture capital investments in Southern California from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, finding that the region had nearly $762.88M invested in companies in the region during Q1 of 2014. in funding. The investment of $762.8M Image courtesy Bigstock. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. The company became a Wall Street darling when it raised $1 billion-plus through its 2014 IPO, and now claims to have deployed roughly $19 billion in loans since inception.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

San Diego-based Qpex has raised $33 million to advance The Medicines Company’s (NASDAQ: MDCO ) old preclinical compounds toward human testing. He had joined the Parsippany, NJ, drug maker when it bought Rempex Pharmaceuticals in 2014. New Enterprise Associates led the Series A round. That company was developing.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

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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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies has increased its stake in San Diego-based Ocean Aero , a developer of unmanned, robotic underwater and surface vehicles used for the scientific, defense, and oil and gas market, the company said late Friday. Teledyne made its initial investment in Ocean Aero in July of 2014.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2015

billion in investments in Q1 of 2015, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association. Other large funding deals in the quarter included $186M invested in Lynda , $76.28M invested in San Diego''s aTyr Pharma , and $50.0M billion in venture capital was invested for the quarter.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego startup Sensemetrics is applying that technology to the industrial Internet-of-things sector (IIoT), selling access to its cloud platform to the world’s largest mining companies and government agencies monitoring major infrastructure, such as dams. CEO Matt Meehan says Sensemetrics.

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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. We need to be on a path-finding mission to find tangential investments,” he told reporters.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. Do we want to raise capital? That was the initial, hardest challenge.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Dermata Therapeutics , a San Diego development-stage biotech advancing new treatments for rosacea, eczema, and related dermatological diseases, said it has secured $5 million in Series A financing and entered into a $5 million credit facility with Silicon Valley Bank.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Southern California has seen another, big venture capital investment quarter, with companies raising $1.46 According to the report, which was released this evening, there were 97 deals totaling $1.467 billion across the Southern California region, a rise, dollarwise, over Q3 of 2014, when there was $797.0M in 108 deals. in 108 deals.

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MARCH 28, 2019

billion in new capital Thursday as the company completed an IPO that set its market capitalization at $24.3 million shares at $72 apiece, according to Renaissance Capital —the top of a new range that Lyft originally set at $62 to $68. billion, The New York Times reported. Lyft sold 30.8 The company was valued at $15.1

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Why do they invest in venture capital?

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter. In August, 2014, the Defense Department said it had awarded a $58.3 It’s unclear, though, if the $41.8

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window. The projected $43.2

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Peter Lee is the Microsoft Research executive in charge of the NExT initiative—an effort quietly begun in 2014 by CEO Satya Nadella and Harry Shum, head of the company’s A.I. Lee says he and his team work like venture capital investors inside Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) , evaluating what.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a boon for the South San Francisco startup founded in 2014, but not an unusual haul for competitors in the same field, where the tantalizing promise of a simple test to find cancer sooner, when it is much easier to treat, has emerged from advances in DNA sequencing, sophisticated data crunching, and the understanding of cancer biology.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The company, headquartered in Cranbury, NJ, disclosed this morning that it has raised a $74 million Series B round from Topspin Biotech Fund, Euclidian Capital, InterWest Partners, OrbiMed Advisors, and Osage University Partners. PMV raised a $30 million Series A in 2014.

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