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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MARCH 2, 2013

Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud. Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

million Series D round in early 2015, re-upped in the latest round, which included all existing investors and some debt, Tealium CEO Jeff Lunsford said last week. Tags are a creature of Web analytics, generating data that enable marketing teams to determine if users viewed a Web page or e-mail. It’s been about data.

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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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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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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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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

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 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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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

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

JULY 21, 2016

The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. The company said its Web-based technology can automatically respond with a programmed response, (For example, responding automatically to a hotel guest who asks: “What is the wifi password?”)

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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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