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You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted. John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Six San Diego business risk-takers have been inducted into the pantheon of EY Entrepreneurs of the Year, joining over 10,000 people around the world who have been honored over the last 30 years by the multinational professional services firm. The winners are: — Life Sciences: BioLegend CEO Gene Lay.

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APRIL 27, 2020

San Diego-based Lead Inclusively , a consulting firm which provides technology-enabled services around diversity, equity, and inclusion, said last week that it has raised $1.5M Denise Hummel is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lead Inclusively, which was founded in 2016. in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina announced this morning that it has acquired Menlo Park-based GRAIL , a developer of cancer early detection technology. GRAIL was spun out of Illumina in 2016 as a standalone company. According to Illumina, it will acquire GRAIL for cash and stock worth $8 billion.

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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. Tim Rueth, a UC San Diego entrepreneur in residence and member of the EvoNexus selection committee, also screened the list, and offered his perspective.

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APRIL 29, 2020

Docupace is led by CEO Mark Tapling; the company also is backed by San Diego-based TVC Capital. funding round for Docupace in 2016. Palisades said it sold its interests in Docupace to another private equity investor, FTV Capital. Both Palisades Growth Capital and TVC Capital were part of the investors in the $16.5M

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MAY 18, 2017

Preliminary findings from an economic impact study show that genomics is emerging as a distinct innovation cluster in San Diego. The San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. began collecting data for the report earlier this year in a bid to assess how genomics fits into San Diego’s innovation economy.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

San Diego-based Netradyne , a developer of artificial intelligence and "deep learning" software used for vision recognition--particularly in autonomous vehicles--has raised $21M more in a funding round. percent of the startup; Reliance had invested $16M in Netradyne in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2019

FTD also agreed to sell both its North American and Latin American businesses to private equity investor Nexus Capital Management , in a move that includes San Diego-based Proflowers. FTD acquired San Diego's ProFlowers in 2014, paying $430M for the online flower and gift delivery service. United Online was acquired by B.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

San Diego-based ID Analytics has named a new CEO, saying on Wednesday that it has named Ajay Nigam to the position. ID Analytics became part of Symantec, when Symantec acquired Lifelock in 2016. ID Analytics became part of Symantec, when Symantec acquired Lifelock in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

ServiceNow , the developer of information technology service management software which has major operatinos in San Diego, has acquired Mountain View-based Passage AI , a developer of conversational AI tools. Passage AI was founded in 2016 and had received funding from Blumberg Capital, Storm Ventures, Engineering Capital, 11.2

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JULY 16, 2018

San Diego-based Human Longevity , which is developing genomics-powered, health intelligence software, said on Friday that it has named David Karow, M.D., Karow has previously been a researcher at UC San Diego, UCLA, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. as its Interim CEO. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

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JULY 17, 2017

San Diego-based diagnostic testing systems developer Quidel announced this morning that it is acquiring a number of assets from Alere Inc. According to Quidel, it will pay $400M plus another $40M in contingent consideration for the Triage business, including its San Diego facilities. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2016

Friday, October 28, 2016 -- Contextual Robotics Forum. World leaders developing robotics for the benefit of society will connect with San Diego's growing robotics community at the Forum on Oct. Invited speakers will explore the theme of “Shared Autonomy: New Directions in Human-Machine Interaction”. See [link] (more)

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JANUARY 1, 2016

It’s a new year – 2016. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. 2016 is going to be a tough year. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

San Diego-based Impact Biomedicines , a biopharmaceuticals startup targeting treatments for patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms and other cancers, has raised $22M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The Series A funding came from Medcxi.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M Nervana Systems was acquired in 2016 by Intel. Section 32 is the venture capital fund led by former Google Ventures CEO and founder Bill Maris, which is also based in San Diego.

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APRIL 2, 2018

San Diego-based ResMed said Monday morning that it has named Bobby Ghoshal as the company's first Chief Technology Officer. Ghoshal was previously Vice President of Information Technology at Resmed from 2012 to 2016. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Illumina Ventures , the early-stage venture capital investor which was founded by San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina , says it has raised $230M for its first fund. The fund launched in summer of 2016 with $100M from Illumina. The venture investment fund was founded by Nicholas Naclerio, Ph.D., READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2017

invested across 71 deals in Q2 of 2017 in LA and Orange County, and $202.37M invested in San Diego for the quarter across 32 deals. invested in Q4, with San Diego also up from $175.73M in Q4. The report tallied up $926.4M Investments in LA/OC were up slightly from the $898.3M Nationally, investors invested $13.9

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MAY 16, 2019

San Diego-based bioClarity , a skincare brand which markets itself to millennial and Gen-Z consumers, has raised $13M in a funding round, the company said thsi week. The company was founded in 2016. The funding was led by Prolog Ventures. The company is part of Adigica Health, Inc. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2017

San Diego-based aTyr Pharma announced this morning that it is expanding its board of directors, adding independent director Jeffrey S. Hatfield served in that position from March 2004 until October 2016, when Vitae was acquired by Allergan for $639M. Hatfield to its board.

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MAY 11, 2017

Qualcomm Ventures , the venture arm of San Diego-based Qualcomm , has scored a quick exit out of its venture portfolio. Financial details of the buy were not announced, but Owlchemy Labs had only raised $5M, in a funding in August of 2016. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 31, 2017

San Diego-based gaming accessory maker Mad Catz Interactive has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, with PricewaterhouseCoopers being assigned the trustee of the company. Mad Catz had said in 2016 that it was considering "strategic alternatives" for the company. READ MORE>>.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

However, the San Diego-based company, which emerged from stealth mode in 2016, was guided through its early years by president and CEO Stephan Chenette. AttackIQ said Galloway is taking over the role from Carl Wright, who has been named chief commercial officer. Wright was hired as chief revenue officer in August 2017.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

GreatCall, the maker of the Jitterbug cellphone and other products and services for older adults, has extended its partnership with the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company Lyft to offer GreatCall customers the ability to schedule rides without a smartphone app. No financial terms were disclosed.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As we draw closer to the end of 2016, it is important that we take a moment to look back and reflect on all of the ways technology has inspired us, and transformed the way we live and do work.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2020

San Diego-based MEI (NASDAQ: MEIP ), licensed the compound, pracinostat, from a Singaporean biotech company in 2013.

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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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JULY 21, 2020

Acadia Pharmaceuticals received the FDA’s OK for pimavanserin (Nuplazid), the first drug approved to treat hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease , in 2016. Since then, the San Diego company has looked to expand its use into other indications, with mixed results.

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MAY 3, 2018

Washe has been in Southern California since at least July of 2016, when it started offering its services in San Diego and Los Angeles. Washe currently offers up its services in South Florida, Southern California, Georgia and New Jersey. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 14, 2018

The company--based in San Francisco--said it will focus on growing its business solely in San Francisco. Munchery apparently had withdrawn its business already in San Diego, where it had launched in 2016 ; it had been running in Los Angeles since 2012.

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JULY 5, 2016

San Diego-based residential solar installer OneRoof Energy announced on Monday that it has sold 19.8MW of its solar project assets, in a deal worth approximately $61M. OneRoof Energy said it will initially received $19M, with an additional $42M being paid in additional tranches through September 2016.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina says that its cancer detection spinout, GRAIL , is now expecting to raise approximately $1 billion in its Series B funding. GRAIL, which was founded by Illumina, is developing blood tests for early stage cancer detection. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 10, 2017

San Diego-based antenna technology developer Airgain announced late Sunday that it has acquired substantially all of the assets and certain liabilities of Antenna Plus , a developer of antenna products for the mobile and automotive fleet market. in 2016, and that it expects the acquisition to be accretive to the firm within 2017.

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