socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? Jeb Spencer is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of TVC Capital, a growth equity firm focused on the investment in and acquisition of mission critical software companies. Then treat these customers well and great things will happen.maybe maybe even 10x.

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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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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

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

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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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

What do you get when you combine a charitable pub crawl, the movie Anchorman, and a software developer randomly hired off Craigslist? 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. How did you start the company?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 Where security concerns may have previously put companies off cloud, the tide may now be turning.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. Brett Crosby: We have been in invitation-only mode for all of 2015, and that's been growing and growing. in a funding round.

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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

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

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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Tech Zulu Event

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. 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

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

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 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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. In 2015, issues of online security and data privacy consumed headlines. Data Security Concerns Dominate.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Herzliya, IL, October 12, 2015 — MUV Interactive, a developer of innovative technologies for active human sensing, today announced the official launch of BIRD™. BIRD is an intuitive wearable device worn on the tip of the finger that transforms any surface into a multi-touch interface with 3D interactive capabilities.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Jim Armstrong: It's broadly technology, from consumer Internet, to marketplaces, from Internet infrastructure to enterprise software. You'll see we have several enterprise software companies already in the March portfolio. Jim Armstrong: Things are definitely down, and valuations are down at the late stage fifty percent from 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

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

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

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

MAY 4, 2016

StreamSpread helps publishers create portals on their web pages that can then be used to publish tailored digital advertisements. In June 2015, the platform managed to raise some $20 million in Venture Capital (VC) funding. Nativo works with 350 web-publishers, including the likes of Time Inc. StreamSpread.

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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

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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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

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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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2015

Now finally, in 2015, the budget is estimated at $5.1 The expenditures reported by the Pentagon have seen continual increases in budgets to protect against cyber warfare attacks. In 2013, the Pentagon had a budget of $3.9 In 2014, the budget grew to $4.7

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

Software terminology is stubbornly not following a similar evolution. It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

While there is already software capable of achieving some of these tasks— head to Nuance for more information on theirs—one company is hoping to be the leader when it comes to bringing this home. And in seeing that, one financial advisor said he expects the two to join forces in February 2015. We’ll have to wait and see.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications.

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