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AUGUST 28, 2015

According to Siemer & Associates, this year's conference, the Siemer Summit 2015, will be held from October 13th to 14th, and will feature Tim Draper as the keynote speaker. This time, the event is being held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, rather than Santa Monica, where the event had been held in prior years.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Over the last week or so, we've featured the reflections of our readers on 2015 and what it has meant for Southern California's technology industry. near term: closing a great hire, raising a new round of funding, consummating a new BD partnerships, closing a sale, etc or longer term: going public, selling the company, etc.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

Arteen Arabshahi: While Karlin Ventures has had an excellent first few years as a firm seeing over 6 exits and making 40+ investments within 3 years, what was most exciting in 2015 was the addition of our third team member, Erin Shipley. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Some companies turned to cutbacks over boosting financial reserves; others focused on reducing overhead and expenses. A healthy manufacturing sector, likely to gain even more strength in 2015, is creating an impetus to invest. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy' and is working its way back to pre-recession levels.

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DECEMBER 29, 2015

Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? However, as the mobile browser gets more and more powerful and as users hit "App Overload", companies will need to reassess their Mobile strategies heavily. We're watching IoT advancements in retail, medical and other B2B segments in particular.

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JUNE 24, 2016

San Diego-based Qualcomm has filed suit against a Chinese company, Meizu , saying that Meizu has refused to enter into a licensing deal for the company's technology. Qualcomm said that more than 100 other companies in China have agreed to the terms of that rectification plan it agreed to with the NDRC. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Santa Maria--on California's Central Coast--is hoping the availability of very high speed Internet will specifically attract new tech companies and employees, who require high speed internet service. According to Santa Maria and Wave Broadband, the city sees the project as "essential" to the community's economic expansion. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

Los Angeles-based J2 Global , the Internet services provider and publisher, has gobbled up four more companies, as it continues to have a ravenous appetite for acquisitions. J2 Global said the acquisition bring its total number of acquisition during its Fiscal 2015 to a total of 24. j2 is led by Hemi Zucker. j2 is led by Hemi Zucker.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based Internet services operator J2 Global has gobbled up nine more companies, the company announced this morning, across five different countries.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

Whether it's for a cross-country race or building an IT organization, if you don't pay attention to your journey, you may miss something meaningful about the company's success or an important opportunity. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? And mid-course corrections are not bad things.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Last year was a remarkable year for biotech companies going public. Not only did an unusually large number of biotech companies go public, but a significant number of early-stage biotech companies went public at premium valuations relative to their later-clinical stage peers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

We've attempted to do that for the last three years, trying to ferret out exactly who the people--not companies--are to watch in the region's technology industry. Here are this year's winners, along with the companies they are associated with: Brett Bouttier , AwesomenessTV. Joe Huff and Bridget Hilton , LSTN Sound Company.

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APRIL 6, 2015

Los Angeles-based j2 Global continues to have a ravenous appetite for acquiring companies, saying this morning that it has acquired nine companies in the first quarter of 2015. Financial details of the various acquisitions were not announced. j2 said it also added offices in Paris, France, and San Mateo during the quarter.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based zero-emissions heavy-duty vehicle company GreenPower Motor Company has delivered its first, all-electric school bus to a district in Santa Maria, according to the company. According to the company, its first BEAST school bus was just delivered to the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from March Capital, Greycroft, Machinima, Silicon Valley Bank and Amplify who will share their insights and forecast for start-ups in 2015. YouTube, Microsoft and SyFy.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals company Halozyme Therapeutics said on Wednesday afternoon that it has named Nicole LaBrosse as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Office. LaBrosse has been at Halozyme since 2015, and was most recently Vice President, Finance and Accounting.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

San Diego’s innovation clusters continued to grow in 2015, as local startups, funding deals, and job growth extended an economic growth spurt that began in 2013. Innovation Companies in San Diego (Courtesy Connect Innovation Report).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. So now our collective companies are worth less. How’s that advice holding up? The tide has gone out.

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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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AUGUST 17, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Sonos announced this morning that it has named a current Microsoft executive-- Panos Panay , the Chief Product Officer at Microsoft--to the company's board of directors.

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DECEMBER 31, 2015

The company says that its users have created over 250 million "Flips" on its platform in the last two years. Flipagram currently has deals with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music, Merlin and The Orchard, which lets users include the brief music clips as the soundtrack to their own, personal slideshows.

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MAY 18, 2016

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JULY 15, 2016

Southern California companies raised $2.49 billion raised in the region just a year ago in Q1 of 2015. 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.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Yardi announced this week that it has acquired CommissionTrac, a developer of revenue management software for commercial real estate companies. CommissionTrac was founded in 2015. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

If you'd like to nominate an individual (not company) for this award, we've just started collecting your nominations online. Nominations will close on Friday, October 30th. Interested in sponsoring the awards? Contact us for more details at sales@socaltech.com READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Los Angeles-based Metropolis, a new startup focused on parking, has raised a huge, $41M Series A funding, the company announced on Tuesday. The company says it has now raised $60M in total funding. The company says it has now raised $60M in total funding.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 14, 2021

A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company’s cloud storage buckets, hosted on Amazon’s cloud, was left open and unprotected. The company fixed the data spill, but has not yet alerted its customers.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

The company said its open source tools are designed for automating DevSecOps pipeline security and analysis. The company said the new tools, Syft and Grype, are available at toolbox.anchore.io. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Parabol, a company which is developing technology to enable "Agile" meetings, announced that it has raised $8M in its Series A funding. The company is led by CEO and Co-founder Jordan Husney. The company was founded in 2015, but apparently has seen pickup as a result of the pandemic and the move to remote work.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2015

Here is a look back on some of the biggest booths at CES 2015. New business solutions mirror and talking Android were do-not-miss highlights of CES 2015. The announcement of the new Broadwell processor at the CES 2015 press announcements showed off a few tiny computers called Next Unit of Computing (NUC). Pros: Underrated booth.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Santa Barbara-based WELL Health , a startup which offers up patient communications tools to healthcare providers, payers, and others, has raised $45M more in a SEries C funding round, the company said this week. According to the company, it has now raised $75M in total funding since it was founded in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2020

in a seed funding round, the company said late last week. The company is led by founder and CEO Travis Boatman. The company says its founders are from Zynga, Electronic Arts and Blizzard, and that it was founded in 2015. El Segundo-based Carbonated Games , a developer of mobile games, has raised $8.5M READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Both Poghosyan and Gudanis have long histories in identity and access management, back in 2009 Poghosyan founded Advancive Technology Solutions, which was acquired by Optiv in 2015 to bulk up its identity access management service. The company already has over a dozen customers using its technology after launching merely two years ago.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

If you'd like to nominate an individual (not company) for this award, we've just started collecting your nominations online. Nominations will close on Friday, October 10th. Interested in sponsoring the awards? Contact us for more details at sales@socaltech.com READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The new funding values the company at $1 billion. The company was founded in 2015. Based on the company's open positions, it appears its San Diego team includes a significant number of software engineers, as well as administrative functions. The funding came from Chinese investors SINA Corp. and Composite Capital.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

San Diego-based COI Pharmaceuticals , the life sciences incubator and support entity created by Avalon Ventures to support its portfolio companies, says that one of its companies, Calporta Therapeutics , has been acquired by Merck. Calporta Therapeutics was launched out of COI Pharmaceuticals in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2015

Here are some of the fun and the weird highlights found at CES 2015. Bitcoin had a few companies relating to anything Bitcoin, but what was great about the booth was the free swag. There is much more to see, but take some time off and explore some of the fun things companies have to offer at their booths. Creative Audio.

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