Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2017

Following a six-month trial of its digital mortgage platform, San Diego-based Approved has officially launched its Web-based software for home loan applications. Sadhal and Taylor (pictured above) founded Approved in August 2015, and moved into the San Diego tech incubator.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service. Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3

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Xconomy

MAY 25, 2018

million in 2015 for IDchecker , a Dutch provider of identity and document authentication technology, and $15 million last October for iCar , a Barcelona-based specialist in digital identity verification software, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. After paying $10.6

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

billion that was invested in 2,559 deals (2,545 companies) in the third quarter of 2015. billion that venture firms invested in 2015, according to PitchBook records that began in 2000. PitchBook data also shows a nearly 29 percent decline in year-over-year funding, from the $21.1 That would be second only to the $78.9 Dallas, TX.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to reassure users Wednesday that its new and old modifications will prevent the wholesale capture of millions of personal profiles, like the 50 million that fell into the hands of political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica by 2015.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In late 2015, the National Science Foundation awarded a $6 million grant to the non-profit organization U.S. Ignite to help drive the development of next-generation “gigabit applications,” as part of a broader effort to create “smart gigabit communities” throughout the U.S.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Alto launched in 2015 under the name ScriptDash Pharmacy, initially offering a mobile app-enabled prescription delivery service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Like others in its industry, Alto offers online ordering and delivery (including same-day delivery) of prescription drugs. In conjunction with a $23 million venture investment it.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

KnuEdge says its software makes the security of human voice-based biometrics possible in noisy, real-world environments. As Intellisis, the company sought to recruit specialists in neuroscience, software, and hardware technologies to develop innovations that support pattern recognition, speech processing, and high-throughput computing.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

The privately held company made its first investment in a startup in late 2015, and last year it officially launched a corporate venture. But in the past few years, Bose has also started to look outside its walls for other sources of innovation. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That expanded into a 10-city tour in 2015, and a world tour in Europe and Asia in 2016, Pinnell says. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. Its first mission was to launch a Bay Area VR festival to showcase works in the new immersive art forms. It was a pivotal year when.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

billion, 2,034 deals) and the third quarter of 2015 ($21.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window. As a percentage of overall activity, seed investing dropped from 55 percent in the third quarter of 2015 to 50 percent in this year’s third quarter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising. The control is yours to keep.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

—The Detroit News published a detailed report this week regarding Ford’s Silicon Valley lab, which the automaker established in 2015 to oversee the development of autonomous technologies and build relationships with tech industry “thought leaders.” Read on for details.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

billion invested in 198 deals in 2015, according to EdSurge. Those stats track with the overall trend in VC funding nationally: the industry saw a “correction” or “normalization” downward after hitting a peak in 2015. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2018

As Belmonte explained in 2015, “In a venture studio, you’re building your own companies. Spoutable began more than three years ago as part of Cursive Labs , a kind of holding company for startups that was founded with $2.2 million on a “venture studio” model that allows experienced entrepreneurs to run with their own ideas.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

The FTC decision comes in the wake of recent reports about the ease with which political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to as many as 50 million Facebook user profiles by or before 2015.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2018

The company was co-founded in 2015 by Michael Marks, the former CEO of contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics. Katerra , a building construction startup inspired by the efficient practices of electronics manufacturing, announced today it has raised $865 million in a Series D fundraising round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

That is down 13 percent from a peak in 2015, when global fintech investment soared to $14.6 According to a report released today, financial technology companies around the world attracted $12.7 billion in venture capital across 836 investments last year.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

San Francisco-based Puls, founded in 2015, offers to dispatch technicians quickly to a customer’s home or office to replace malfunctioning parts, mount a widescreen TV on the wall, or install smart home devices such as security systems, voice-activated assistants, and Internet-connected thermostats.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

He said MoneyTree data shows the second quarter of 2015 as one of the biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested. A lot of money went into software, mostly because of some big, expansion-stage deals.”. It is the 27 th straight quarter in which software raked in the most funding. billion, according to VentureSource data.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Fast forward a couple of years and the company is now beyond 8-figure million of recurring revenue, has dozens of sales reps and growing rapidly and is now gearing up for multiple offices, enterprise integrations and relationships with Salesforce.com, HubSpot, Marketo, Marin Software and many others. And here’s the thing.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In 2015, Chaturvedi conceived his mission to “spoil” health product development managers a bit by creating an online marketplace where they could quickly hunt for outside experts needed to shepherd a new treatment to its next stage.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Hulme, blogging at Cloud Commons , believes that the cloud will spur a jobs explosion, though the jobs descriptions will differ. All types of IT expertise will be needed at SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS providers as well as independent software vendors [ISVs],” he said. Finally, IT security expertise will remain important.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

We like what Eric calls the boring back-end software,” said co-founder and managing director Jack Scatizzi, referring to a company’s internal, business-related software and the operating system that controls how a consumer-facing website operates. billion in 2015—a number estimated to grow by 25 percent this year to $6.7

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Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2017

Heller founded Wrapify in early 2015 with the idea of creating a business that would pay motorists to wrap their cars in digitally printed advertising.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2017

Ball was also part of Austin Ventures for a decade before the firm shuttered in 2015. Smerklo says the firm will largely focus on Austin startups, making Series A and B investments in tech companies innovating in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

They departed in 2015, after selling a majority stake to an investor group led by Accel and Technology Crossover Ventures that reportedly valued GoFundMe at $600 million. Financial terms were not disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday by GoFundMe. Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010.

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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. Four of the companies here were founded in 2014, another three were started in 2015, and two—CureMatch and Lymber—debuted earlier this year.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists. RetailNext data shows that sales over the 2015 Thanksgiving weekend were down by 4.7 98 percent for mobile sites.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

2015 saw the introduction of the iPhone 6s, a minor makeover of the previous year’s iPhone 6. Planes have evolved on the inside through the addition of features like all-glass cockpits and fly-by-wire software. Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter. It’s more like a synchronization problem.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

were unfilled as of March 2015.” ” Using impact modeling software (Implan), the study found that the economic impact of San Diego’s cybersecurity cluster amounts to about $1.9 billion in direct and indirect impact on the local economy, as well as some “induced effects” such as increased wages.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015. There is more integrity to the process,” Gilbert said, because National Funding uses traditional loan analysts as well as software to analyze and process its loan applications. million in loans to small and medium businesses, up about 45 percent from the first half of 2015.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015. There is more integrity to the process,” Gilbert said, because National Funding uses traditional loan analysts as well as software to analyze and process its loan applications. million in loans to small and medium businesses, up about 45 percent from the first half of 2015.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The latest quarter also was down by 33 percent from the same quarter in 2015, when VCs pumped $420.3 That was 32 percent lower than the $414.4 million that venture firms invested in San Diego during the prior quarter, although the deal count was up by 10 percent from the 39 companies that received funding. million into 61 local companies.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2016

A better comparison for the recent quarter might be the second-quarter of 2015, when VCs invested almost $134 million in 23 San Diego deals, according to the latest MoneyTree data. Software. $40 Software. $5 Software. $5 The investors included Illumina, Celgene, and GE Ventures. (A Solana Beach. 40 million. Consumer. $25

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

That’s roughly the same investment pace as 2015, when Intel Capital invested a total of $514 million in 63 new companies and 79 follow-on deals. —Embodied, based in Pasadena, CA, and founded by USC computer science professors Paolo Pirjanian (the former iRobot CTO) and Maja Matarić, are developing robots to care for people.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

in July 2015. Here’s more on the startup, which runs primary care clinics imbued with software that helps track patients’ health. . —Shares of San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) fell more than 32 percent after the next-gen sequencing giant slashed its revenue projections once again. Here’s more from CNBC.

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