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APRIL 13, 2015

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies. Technology pilots.

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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. Parabol says it has developing a platform focused on enabling remote and hybrid teams to conduct structured meetings, using the "Agile" methodology.

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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. That’s according to a report being released today by Connect, the local nonprofit group focused on technology and entrepreneurship.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

San Diego-based Kneron , a developer of artificial intelligence software, has raised $40M more in Series A funding, from investor Horizons Ventures. The company also has raised funding from Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, CDIB, Himax Technologies, Qualcomm, Thundersoft, and Sequoia Capital. Kneron was founded in 2015.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Calporta had been developing treatments for various lysosomal storage and neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Calporta Therapeutics was launched out of COI Pharmaceuticals in 2015. The deal is worth up to $576M, including upfront payments and contingent milestone payments. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Burbank-based Causecast , which developed an online platform to help employers increase employee engagement with charitable causes, has been acquired by America's Charities , a nonprofit focused on getting employees to support causes they care about. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The Chief Marketing Officer of high flying, Los Angeles-based job recruiting technology developer ZipRecruiter has resigned from the company, after a story was published last week by BuzzFeed, detailing alleged sexual misconduct at his prior employer, Uber. Eyal Gutentag reportedly resigned on Friday.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Santa Monica-based ad technology developer GumGum --which injects contextually relevant ads into images on publishers' websites, said today that it has signed a renewed partnership with Wenner Media, the publisher of Rolling Stone , Us Weekly and Men's Journal. The two have been working together since August of 2015.

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JULY 11, 2018

AdvancedMD , a portfolio company of Los Angeles-based private equity investor Marlin Equity , said this week that it has completed the acquisition of Marietta, Georgia-based Nuesoft Technologies. South Jordan, Utah-based AdvancedMD develops cloud-based software for physicians and medical billing services. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2019

The Techstars Foundation , the nonprofit arm of startup accelerator operator Techstars which is focused on increasing the number of under-represented entrepreneurs in the technology industry, is looking to give $10,000 to $50,000 to nonprofits working in the area, Techstars said Friday. Applications are open through April 8th.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Skyview Capital has sold off portfolio company Syncplicity , a developer of enterprise file sharing and synchronization software, to Axway. Skyview Capital had acquired Syncplicity from EMC back in July of 2015. Financial details of the sale were not announced. Axway is based Paris, France.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I received a press pass to DeveloperWeek 2015 last week in order to attend the “Advice to Live by from Women Developers” career panel moderated by the lead of Dice’s engineering team, Jennifer Petersen. Now you’d think we’d be a bit farther along today in 2015, right?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Anaheim-based videogame developer Blizzard announced plans for its next big videogame late Friday, saying its new title, Overwatch , will be a first person shooter revolving around a team of heroes set in an technologically advanced, stylized future earth. Blizzard said it intends to begin beta testing of the game in 2015.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

Los Angeles-based enterprise software developer Chrome River , which develops cloud-based expense management and supplier invoicing software, says it grew its user base by 82 percent, year over year. The company said it had record growth in 2015, and now has over 430 enterprise customers and more than 1 million users.

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MAY 18, 2017

Los Angeles-based advertising software developer SteelHouse announced on Thursday that it has named Ross Levinsohn, the former CEO of Yahoo!, Levinsohn, who is a well known advisor and investor in the digital media and technology market, has previously served as CEO of Yahoo!, to its board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 29, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising automation technology developer Rubicon Project reported some healthy growth in its second quarter. in Q3 of 2015, with full 2015 revenues of between $246M to $250M. Rubicon said Tuesday afternoon that it had $53.0M Rubicon predicted revenues of between $63.0M and $65.0M

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Goleta-based Transphorm , which develops highly efficient, power conversion technology, said today that it is in a partnership with Tata Power Solar , a solar power products manufacturer in India. According to Transphorm, they will introduce India''s most efficient solar inverter, using its technology. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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JULY 10, 2015

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. The ten companies in this year’s program represent a diverse cross-section of technologies, and are inspired by their visions for the applicability of these technologies in the media space. 2 3D-Printing Companies. 2 AI Companies. Video Engagement Platform.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , which provides technology and payroll and production management services to the entertainment industry, said it has named Alex Godelman as its new Chief Technology Officer. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 16, 2017

San Diego- and Beijing-based TuSimple , a startup developing autonomous driving technology, says it has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test autonomous driving vehicles on the road. The company says it has been developing its systems since 2015. The company's co-founder is Xiaodi Hou.

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MAY 9, 2016

Carlsbad-based radio frequency and mixed signal integrated circuits developer MaxLinear said Monday afternoon that it has acquired the Wireless Infrastrcute Backhaul Business of Irvine-based Broadcom. in revenues in calendar year 2015, according to MaxLinear. MaxLinear said it woud pay $80.0M MaxLinear said it woud pay $80.0M

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MARCH 15, 2019

A global pharmaceutical company based in France has licensed software developed by San Diego digital health startup CureMatch that aims to help cancer doctors customize the combination of drugs they prescribe to patients based on mutations in cancer DNA. The company, which CEO Bob Manning says has raised about $2.5

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MARCH 28, 2019

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

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

Heal, Desai says, also works with the digital technologies to provide more remote and persistent patient monitoring, so that doctors can have a better sense of a patient’s health over time, rather than at an acute moment of care. “You want to talk to the doctor and get continuity of care,” said Desai.

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APRIL 14, 2016

billion raised in Q4, and even lower than Q1 of 2015, when $2.01 funding round, and $60M in Ventura-based advertising technology developer TradeDesk. Southern California startups raised $810.5M Southern California venture totals were down significantly from the $1.38 billion was raised in the region. Los Angeles had $399.1M

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APRIL 6, 2016

Santa Barbara-based container software technology developer Anchore , which was founded by veterans of Ansible, has raised $2.5M Ansible was acquired by Red Hat for $150M in October of 2015. Ansible was acquired by Red Hat for $150M in October of 2015. in a funding round, the company disclosed today. READ MORE>>.

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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 The company reported $27.793M in sales for its year ended December 31, 2015. in a public offering on the NASDAQ Capital Market. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2021

“Taiwan’s water shortage and its effect on semis is a wake up call for every technology investor, every founder and the entire venture ecosystem. Intel alone used 9 billion gallons of water in 2015). These are businesses like Blue Boson out of the UK, which purports to have developed a quantum-based water treatment technology.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , which runs a series of multi-million dollar challenges aimed at helping to advance technology innovation, said yesterday that it has extended the deadline for the Google Lunar XPRIZE to the end of 2016. READ MORE>>. competition prize aerospace nasa exploration robotic robot moon launch lunar google xprize'

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DECEMBER 7, 2015

DNAe , a UK-based developer of semiconductor-based DNA sequencing technology, said Friday that it has moved its U.S. The company cited San Diego's position as a global hub for life sciences and technology, and access to a local workforce. operations to San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 8, 2013

Newbury Park, California-based CAP Wireless , a developer of RF amplifiers based on Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology, has been acquired by TriQUint Semiconductor. CAP Wireless develops RF amplifiers which replace traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) in communications and defense systems. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Silicon Valley-based payment technology provider Yapstone has big hiring plans in Los Angeles, with plans to double the size of the company''s office from 35 to 70 people in the next year. According to the company, it is hiring across marketing, sales, engineering, and product. YapStone was founded in Santa Monica in 1999.

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MAY 9, 2016

Edeniq , a cellulosic biofuels technology developer which had spun out of now defunct, Los Angeles-based Altra Biofuels, has been acquired by Silicon Valley biofuels developer Aemetis , the two said late last week. Aemetis said Edeniq had approximately $20M in revenues in 2015, and 30 employees. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based MarketShare Partners , the marketing analytics technology developer led by Wes Nichols and Jon Vein, has been acquired by Neustar , in a deal worth $450M. According to Neustar, Marketshare generated $57M in revenues for the twelve months ended September 30, 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. With Things Going So Well for Seed Funds the Winds Shifted in 2015 Seed investors had a good run and all seemed rosy and then in 2015 the momentum seemed to shift. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing).

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer Rubicon Project > has just passed the $100M mark, reporting yesterday that its 2014 year end revenues were $125.3M. The company said it is expecting 40 percent year-over-year revenue growth in 2015. on revenues of $41.8M for the quarter.

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