Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 million into 61 companies during the last three months of 2017, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday. billion into 231 startups in the greater San Diego region, according to Venture.

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JUNE 17, 2020

San Diego-based startup Trust & Will , which offers up online estate planning, says it has hit 100,000 members to its service. The company was founded in 2017, but only raised its Series A in December of 2019, when it raised $6M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Cybersecurity startup AttackIQ has appointed veteran tech executive Brett Galloway as its new CEO. Wright was hired as chief revenue officer in August 2017. 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.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

San Diego-based Qualcomm has negotiated a settlement in Taiwan, which will reverse most of a giant $774M fine levied against the company in 2017, reducing that fine to just $93M. READ MORE>>.

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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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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2020

The 14-person startup, founded in 2017, has developed technology that it says uses big data sets, human genetic data, and advanced algorithms to find potential targets for drugs. Empirico, which is headquartered in San Diego, also has laboratories in Madison, WI.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

San Diego-based antenna developer Airgain has named a trio of new executives, saying last week that it has named a new President, Senior Vice President of Engineering, and Vice President of Global Human Resources. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Less than a month after rebranding as Canoo , the startup electric vehicle company formerly known as Evelozcity is on the hunt for $200 million in new capital. Canoo began life as EVelozcity back in 2017. and China, according to one person with knowledge of the company’s plans.

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JUNE 5, 2018

San Diego-based Raken , a startup developing mobile software to manage construction projects, has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. Raken has now raised $12M, including its earlier $2M seed funding announced in March of 2017. The funding was led by U.S. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems is hoping that consumers will help its clients spread the word out about their products through a new platform it launched today, Wildlink. The startup is backed by Mucker Capital, which led a $2M seed funding round in the company in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. The new machine was first fired up in the summer of 2017.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Or perhaps in the case of 2017, with its litany of data security breaches, social media manipulations, and allegations of sexual harassment, to just wring out the old.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The buyout comes almost two years after Carlsbad, CA-based Genoptix was bought from Novartis (NYSE: NVS ) by a pair of private investment firms, Ampersand Capital Partners and 1315 Capital, and a management group for an undisclosed sum in January 2017. Joseph Limber became the CEO of the company. Genoptix specializes in hematology.

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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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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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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Guengerich moved to North Texas in 2017 after years in the Austin tech community, where he co-founded Appconomy, a China-focused e-commerce startup, among other initiatives. Here’s an edited transcript. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 11, 2018

In the battle royal to become the last dock-less scooter startup standing ( and un-besmirched by poop ), Bird has inked what it is characterizing as exclusive deals with Ninebot (the parent company of Segway ) and Xiaomi ( yes, that Xiaomi ), for rights to their supply of scooters for ride-sharing in the U.S.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

The team at Trust & Will, a San Diego-based startup founded in October of 2017, is betting that a good chunk of those people would shell out some money to outline an estate plan if the process were cheaper and easier. [ Updated 9:30 a.m.,

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. What does your startup do? founded in summer of 2017.

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Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Diego-based company says it will use the money to accelerate its antibody programs, including asking the FDA for the green light to move its lead drug candidate into the clinic sometime next year. Lassen—a name inspired by a 10,000-foot peak in Northern California, the southernmost major volcano in.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2018

In China, 2017 was the year of the rooster. billion in 8,035 companies (through 8,076 deals) in 2017, according to Venture Monitor data. billion in 8,035 companies (through 8,076 deals) in 2017, according to Venture Monitor data. venture funding to a total of $84.2 venture funding to a total of $84.2

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2016

This shift will continue in 2017, alongside these other shifts in the landscape: 1. We are already seeing attackers moving beyond the desktop and starting to exploit vulnerable. Users are often unaware and uneducated about the potential risks, yet have huge access to data and resources, presenting a huge area of risk.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

In this case, it’s mostly just the SF Bay Area, plus others scattered between Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego and one ( Magic Leap ) in the unfortunately named Plantation, Florida. The San Francisco Bay Area is perhaps one of the best-known tech and startup hubs in the world. 2018 in perspective.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2017

That being said, here’s what I’ll be keeping an eye on in Washington in 2017. Thanks to bipartisan support, passage of the 21st Century Cures Act has put our industry in the starting gate for success as the Trump Administration takes office. Overall, the bill will. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

One of the largest and most consequential data breaches in 2017 afflicted credit reporting agency Equifax, and it was hardly the only victim.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Big Idea Bridge Project Newcomer Amy Schulman Innovation at the Intersection Sangeeta Bhatia CEO Katrine Bosley Ed Kaye Commitment to Diversity Biogen & Women in Bio Joan Reede Young Innovator Armon Sharei Patient Partnership Nikhil Wagle Startup Spero Therapeutics Contrarian Tillman Gerngross X of the Year Rob Perez – Community Contribution (..)

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2017

View the Slideshow The finalists in the Young Innovator category of the 2017 Xconomy Awards show that it’s never too early in life to start a company or invent a new technology. Three knew early on that, despite spending time in academic labs, they wanted to hatch a startup and use it to help make that difference.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

John is also very involved in providing advice to young startups and entrepreneurs. 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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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

exchanges during the first half of 2017, according to the report EY Global IPO Trends. The strong start in IPO. Eighty companies raised a total of $22 billion on U.S. That’s a sharp contrast to 2016, when uncertainty and doubt about the economy and presidential election clouded U.S. billion in the United States.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2017

Some of my biggest worries are as follows: 1) More restrictive immigration laws will make it even harder for startups (as well as more established companies) to attract and retain the highly skilled workers that they need to be competitive. 3) The re-emphasizing of traditional fossil fuels will be accompanied by new policies.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017. Apuzzo shifted to his preferred role as CTO.) Zesty also added $1.5

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2017

The holiday period is a great time for reflection and then behavior modification – often referred to as resolutions. While a bit artificial to the logical engineer, this opportunity can be helpful. This year, my favorite insight came from a former student and employee, Elliot Cohen, co-founder of PillPack.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. Tim O'Neal: Kazhm was founded in 2017. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2019

startups collectively took in more than $100 billion. billion compared to 2017, continuing a trend of bigger checks going to fewer deals. Venture capital investments rose in 2018 to levels not seen since the heady days of 2000, the last year U.S. billion into companies. billion into companies. See below for lists of the top.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

As we gear up for Robo Madness 2017: A.I. In just the past day or two: —Uber has started testing self-driving cars in Tempe, AZ , after having its tests banned in San Francisco in December. Of course, Uber has got bigger problems at the moment.) —UPS tested a rudimentary form of drone delivery in Lithia, FL.

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