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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. San Diego. $35 San Diego. $20 San Diego. $20

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MAY 1, 2017

Kyriba , which develops cloud-based treasury management software, and was founded in San Diego, said over the weekend that it is in an expansion in Southern Europe, particularly in Italy and Spain. The company said its growth rates between 2015 and 2016 in the countries are 166 percent for Italy and 67 percent for Spain.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

San Diego-based Renovate America , which provides home improvement financing for energy efficiency projects, said this week that it has named Adam Garfinkle as its Chief Financial Officer. Garfinkle was most recently SVP and Head of Capital Markets for Renovate America, and has been at the company since 2015.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2016

After the national MoneyTree Report was released last week, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Ryan Spencer said he spent time on a call with Thomson Reuters, which provides the raw data, trying to figure out a change in the numbers for venture capital activity in San Diego. But the San Diego data was off. So the $350.5

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme. The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said. The San Diego startup.

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Xconomy

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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JULY 18, 2016

San Diego-based Airgain , a developer of embedded antenna technology for the wireless networking market, has filed for an IPO, saying that it is looking to raise $17.5M in a public offering on the NASDAQ Capital Market. The company's IPO is being underwritten by a single underwriter, Northland Capital Markets.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The new Series D round of financing announced Wednesday boosts the San Diego-based company’s valuation to land it on the growing list of “unicorns”—the tech-world term coined for companies valued at $1 billion or above. TuSimple, founded in 2015 in San Diego and Beijing, raised its Series C round of $55 million in late 2017.

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APRIL 14, 2016

in venture capital in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion raised in Q4, and even lower than Q1 of 2015, when $2.01 Southern California startups raised $810.5M billion was raised in the region.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? spencer capital 2014 reflections venture' What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? maybe even 10x.

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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. in San Diego. That's definitely not the case in Southern California, which saw a massive, $1.3 billion invested in Q4 matched the $1.3

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

San Diego-based Jecure Therapeutics , a new startup focused on treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and fibrosis of the liver, has raised $20M in a Series A funding round. The academic founder of Jecure is Ariel Feldstein, MD, Division Chief of Gastroenterology at the University of California, San Diego.

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MARCH 22, 2017

San Diego-based Lightpost Digital , a digital agency which provides online marketing services to local businesses, has raised a round of funding, the company disclosed this week. The company is a spinout of Deal Current, and was founded in 2015. The funding came from Canal Partners and DWP Investments.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

San Diego-based life sciences maker Illumina has participated in another investment round for San Francisco-based DNA synthesis startup Twist Bioscience , in a new Series D funding for that company. Nick and Joby Pritzker (via Tao Invest), Paladin Capital Group, Yuri Milner, Boris Nikolic, plus others. 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. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015. million in loans to small and medium businesses, up about 45 percent from the first half of 2015.

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MAY 5, 2015

San Diego-based software developer Tealium , which develops software used to manage enterprise "tags", those snippets of codes used for tracking advertising, marketing, analytics, and other efforts, said today that it had 100% growth in the first quarter of 2015. The company did not disclose any actual revenue numbers.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Biotech IPO valuation trends have been strong year-over-year since 2015, and significantly more so among. There were approximately 58 biotech IPOs in 2018 (excluding offerings with under $25 million of proceeds) for total gross proceeds of $6.3 Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Clutter has now raised nearly $300M in total funding since 2015. According to Clutter, the Series D funding was led by SoftBank Vision Fund with participation from Sequoia, Atomico, GV, Fifth Wall and Four Rivers. Clutter says it will use the new funding to accelerate expansion, grow its workforce, and other efforts.

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JULY 3, 2018

San Diego-based Tour Engine , a startup developing a new, more efficient engine that it says delivers a 20 percent gain in efficiency ove the internal combustion engine, has raised $4.84M in funding, the company said on Tuesday. The new funding comes on top of an earlier, $1M it received in a Phase I ARPA-E GENSETS grant in 2015.

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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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JULY 15, 2016

billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. billion raised in the region just a year ago in Q1 of 2015. Southern California companies raised $2.49

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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 Southern California saw a staggering $1.9

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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

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

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, 2,034 deals) and the third quarter of 2015 ($21.1 Source: National Venture Capital Association. The projected $43.2

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Xconomy

JANUARY 12, 2018

The investment in the Ann Arbor, MI-based company was co-led by Germany’s Statkraft Ventures , the Capital Midwest Fund , and UL Ventures , and also included contributions from returning investors such as Huron River Ventures and Venture Investors.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. And in fact, California surpassed France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, based on 2015 economic data.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

million Series C round from a large group of investors, among them founding backers Flagship Pioneering and Arch Venture Partners, and new participants EcoR1 Capital and Casdin Capital. million since its inception in 2015. The Cambridge, MA, company has closed a $76.5 The raise brings Codiak’s total to $168.5

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

Yet Frenkel, a participant in the summer 2015 class at Y Combinator , an influential Silicon Valley accelerator program, raised $120,000 from investors by August that year. Early this year, she sold her company, This is L. , to Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ).

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

First came Inception Sciences , a holding company for spinning out biotech startups established by Versant Ventures and Peppi Prasit, the veteran San Diego drug developer. Dauntless says its simplified business structure is more capital-efficient, and there are important tax advantages for investors and other stakeholders.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. venture capital market leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. billion that was invested in 2,559 deals (2,545 companies) in the third quarter of 2015. VC firms invested $14.99 billion in 1,810 U.S.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

billion in venture capital across 836 investments last year. 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

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MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. Scott Chisolm: Actually, the organization started as a charitable pub crawl, for the cancer society here in San Diego. How did you start the company?

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