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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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JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. It’s a new year – 2016. We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle.

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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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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M The startup said it is developing AI agents which will learn users' travel preferences via their calendars, emails, and photos, as well as their social media and in-app interactions.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

San Diego-based TurboTax , the software division of Intuit which makes the popular tax filing software, says on Wednesday that it has opened up for the season, and has begun allowing its users to start working on their taxes. Is it tax time already?

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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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Xconomy

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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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. The company is part of Adigica Health, Inc.

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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. To augment and overcome physical distance, we are starting to use drones, virtual reality, and driverless cars. The Continued Growth of Cloud.

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Xconomy

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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APRIL 12, 2017

The report tallied up $926.4M 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. Investments in LA/OC were up slightly from the $898.3M invested in Q4, with San Diego also up from $175.73M in Q4.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 9, 2016

Friday, July 15, 2016 -- Office Hours @ CONNECT with Stradling. As a service to San Diego startup companies, CONNECT is partnering with Stradling, a full-service business law firm with broad resources to support the specific needs of emerging growth companies.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The San Diego, CA-based Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM), a subsidiary of Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center, said today it has teamed up with a metagenomics startup headquartered in San Francisco, IDbyDNA, to evaluate the company’s platform as a diagnostic tool for children with such symptoms.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2019

The San Diego-based company is part of Adigica Health, an e-commerce company founded in 2016 to develop and market direct-to-consumer healthcare products. Louis, MO, and Newark, NJ, backs health and wellness startups. The skincare startup says it will use the money for marketing and product development.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Connect, the longstanding nonprofit organization that runs one of San Diego’s best-known startup accelerator programs, said Thursday that Tega Therapeutics CEO Tim Scott will become chairman of its board of directors on Dec. Scott went on to found Pharmatek Laboratories, which was acquired in 2016 by.

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Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2018

qster, founded in 2016 to develop technology that enables individuals to aggregate and manage all of their own personal health information, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The final numbers on 2016 fintech funding deals are in from New York-based research firm and investment database CB Insights, and venture capitalists seem to be cooling on the industry. The numbers are in rough agreement with the slowdown or “normalization” in overall venture funding activity in 2016 , according to several reports.

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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. That said, overall dollars invested in startups was down 12 percent year-to-year, and 22 percent down in terms of deals. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Helen Torley, who was highlighted in 2016 as the only female CEO of a public life sciences company in San Diego , was recognized last week for her operational excellence at Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO ).

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JANUARY 11, 2017

billion (across 138 deals) in 2016. While we’re looking at venture deal numbers from the past year , let’s consider the education technology industry, which isn’t broken out by sector in the general reports I’ve seen. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

But robotics is moving slower than expected in some key areas, such as the development of dexterous gripper technology, intuitive user interfaces, and in integrating software and hardware through the full chain of systems engineering, according to Henrik Christensen, director of UC San Diego’s new Institute for Contextual Robotics.

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JULY 18, 2017

The list of technology startups in Southern California who are "unicorns"--valued at more than $1 billion--surprisingly, might not be who you think, and in the sectors you might expect. Razer, the maker of gaming accessories, has recently filed for an IPO, which values the company at up to $5 billion. Razer (www.razerzone.com).

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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. All of the company’s funding so far has come from Sofinnova Ventures, and Mike Powell, a Sofinnova general partner in San Francisco, is board chairman.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

San Diego-based aTyr Pharma (NASDAQ: LIFE ) said John Mendlein is stepping down as president and CEO, effective today. Shukla, who has served as aTyr’s chief medical officer since March 2016, is succeeding Mendlein, who plans to continue to serve on aTyr’s board as a non-executive board member.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In May of 2016, rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission went into effect that will democratize the process even further. That means startups need to do their homework to avoid potential problems that range from complicated filing requirements to future barriers to financing.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Like Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM ), which is shifting its attention from traditional auto manufacturing to projects like its self-driving car unit Cruise—a San Francisco startup GM bought in 2016—Volvo Cars is one of the flock of established carmakers drawn to the Bay Area to take part in its thriving mobility innovation cluster.

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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. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup was founded in 2016 with the goal of reducing food waste, especially the $20 billion in “ugly and surplus” produce that Full Harvest, citing U.S. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. One of the leading contenders in the A.I.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment. Industrial networking is a new category for me, personally, and I only started here two years ago. As they did that, they were not only increasingly connected internally, but people started to have remote access to those same systems.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

According to data released in January by Strategic Cyber Ventures, a cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm, global funding for security companies nearly doubled between 2016 and last year, to $5.3

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. That expanded into a 10-city tour in 2015, and a world tour in Europe and Asia in 2016, Pinnell says. Its first mission was to launch a Bay Area VR festival to showcase works in the new immersive art forms.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

Marcus Filipovich: I joined as Chief Executive Officer in January of 2016, however, our founders are really the pioneers in the area of using eye signs for drug enforcement. They set aside what they were working on, and started working on bringing this technology to law enforcement. How did the company and its technology come about?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

So in February of 2016, he decided to refocus his San Francisco startup on the small, but unexpectedly profitable aspect of his service that could operate in the black. Like many tech entrepreneurs, Sean Behr had a young business that was popular with consumers, but was also losing money.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2017

The deceleration followed a strong start to venture activity during the first half of 2016, but was chalked up as a “return to normalization” in the Venture Monitor report released by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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