Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County. Software startups made up nearly 63 percent (255 companies created) of all new high-tech ventures created in 2015, a trend fueled chiefly by software app development, according to the report.

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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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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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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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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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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. How supportive is that environment to third party software and partners?

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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

APRIL 13, 2015

Is the world ready for another event management software provider? Gregg Parise What we are doing, is we are going into the event management software space, and doing it through a platform technology. People are spending their capital in a social manner, engaging with others. The world today is not about that.

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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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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

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. A San Francisco investment firm, Muddy Waters Capital, announced on Sept.

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Xconomy

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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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

JULY 21, 2017

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. 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. We’re manipulating.

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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. Esperanto plans to use its new influx of capital to produce its first generation of 7-nanometer chips.

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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.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin). billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

billion last year , roughly double the 2014 total. The annual AgTech Investment Report from AgFunderNews found that investment in agriculture and food-related technology startups alone hit $4.6

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