Startup San Diego

MARCH 15, 2019

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JUNE 15, 2020

According to the group's Los Angeles chapter, the Tech Coast Angeles-Los Angeles (TCA-LA), it is launching a new annual fund which will provide "new and diverse opportunities for investors and an additional source of startup capital for entrepreneurs."

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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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JANUARY 19, 2021

San Diego-based Mosaic, a fintech startup developing software to help CFOs make financial decisions, said last week that it has raised $18.5M The startup said the new funding brings its total raised to $21M. The company was founded in April of 2019. in its Series A funding.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The co-founder of San Diego-based startup MemComputing , UC San Diego professor Max Di Ventra, has received a $500,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to advance the research behind MemComputing's computing technology. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2021

San Diego-based Drata, a startup working on security and compliance automation software, said it has raised $25M in its Series A funding. The startup says it helps companies achieve and maintain continuous compliance through automated security control monitoring and evidence collection.

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Xconomy

APRIL 8, 2019

If you’ve been following venture capital trends, what you expected to happen in the first quarter of 2019 did: More money is being invested in fewer deals, and women founders still are getting less of it than men. Venture firms sent $32.6

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The startup had announced $2M in an earlier funding in January of 2019. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

San Diego-based Plexium, a biotech startup focused on discovering and developing protein degrading therapeutics directed towards historically challenging drug targets, announced this morning that it has raised $35M in a financing round. The funding is an extension of the company's October 2019 Series A round.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 2, 2019

Friday, March 8, 2019 -- Office Hours With Stradling. As a service to San Diego startup companies, CONNECT is partnering with select strategic advisor and professional services companies to provide entrepreneurs with an opportunity to meet privately and pro bono for professional advice. Schedule a meeting today!

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APRIL 3, 2019

San Diego- and Irvine-based startup incubator EvoNexus announced today that it has started accepting applications to a new startup incubation effort it is running with high tech material company EMD Performance Materials. The deadline for applications is May 4th, 2019, and the two said the program begins in June.

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MAY 15, 2019

They’re startups that are developing products in a wide range of sectors, including life sciences, agriculture, and artificial intelligence. A majority of the startups are from Texas, although some come from elsewhere in the US and world, including California, Virginia, Mexico, and Israel. Starting in June, the companies that have.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2018

software startups to reflect on the trends that defined the sector in 2018—and where things might be headed in 2019. Meanwhile, A.I. developers continued to grapple with issues around transparency, trust, and ethics. As part of Xconomy’s series of year-end posts , we asked a pair of CEOs of Boston-area A.I.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. ” I don’t doubt that he means it. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Gossamer Bio, the San Diego-based biotech founded by former Receptos executives, has raised $276 million in its initial public offering, a total that puts it in a rare class among biotechs that have gone public in recent years. The amount raised surpassed expectations.

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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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MARCH 19, 2019

San Diego-based TuSimple , a startup which is developing camera and vision systems for the self-driving truck market, announced on Tuesday that it has launched a new vision system which it hopes to deploy into self-driving truck fleets.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

All this is done while they guide startups through other external challenges such as fundraising droughts and overall market downturns. Palo Alto, CA-based Norwest weathers the uncertainties of technology and the economy with an investing strategy.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

You can sign up here. Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” Let’s start with Prop 22. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. GitHub to sunset master/slave terminology .

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JANUARY 30, 2019

But a 2019 that started with stock market losses, a recently ended (but longest-ever) government shutdown, and other headwinds might now force consumers to pull back on spending. The big question is what’s going to happen with the economy,” says Michelle Bacharach, founder and CEO of FindMin e.

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Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

[ Editor’s note: Alex Lash co-authored this report ] The American Association for Cancer Research’s annual meeting is wrapping up in Atlanta today. In case you missed the flow of stories that started last weekend—or you just want to refresh your memory—we’ve rounded up some of the highlights here and put them.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of March 2019, continues San Diego-based ResMed’s (NYSE: RMD ) “connected healthcare” push that began about five years ago, as Xconomy chronicled last year. [ Updated 12/3/18, 3:30 pm, with CEO comments.

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JUNE 25, 2019

Even as Uber, Lyft, and other high-profile initial public offerings underperformed out of the gate, the average share price of companies that have gone public in the US this year is up by almost 33 percent. On average, those companies’ shares are up 32.6 percent compared to their offer price at IPO.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2019

Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. At this OC Event, we will be showcasing some of the newest early-stage venture funds and angel groups in the San Diego area! We're doing it again!

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APRIL 23, 2019

After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Andy is a leader in the Southern Californian innovation ecosystem and has started, led or invested in more than two dozen tech start-ups.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Opendoor has opened the door, so to speak, for startups to apply their technical expertise in search, marketplaces and audience segmentation to rethink the very antiquated and analogue world of property. All are previous investors from the startup’s last round, a $16.55 million Series A also led by QED.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Kaye’s new startup, Bedford, MA-based Stoke Therapeutics, has just raised another $90 million in funding, meaning the company has bankrolled $130 million this year alone. But his hiatus from a publicly traded biotech could be short-lived.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. For the startup CEO, it can be their most important job. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

So, you might imagine that his outlook on data protection for 2019 would be more optimistic than in past years, because businesses now take advantage of a broad choice of security services to protect themselves.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2019

Today, technology and data science have combined to create artificial intelligence—data-driven algorithms that seemingly provide us with options for a fully personalized life. Gone are the days of Henry Ford’s “You can have any color so long as it’s black.” There are way more than three major network TV channels.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2018

With the density of colleges and universities in the Boston area, we don’t often recognize how inaccessible higher education has become for the majority of the country. In fact, seven out of 10 college graduates today have outstanding student loans.

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JULY 17, 2020

This week they released their quarterly analysis of dealmaking, which shows that the tally of big biotech transactions tops the second quarter of 2019 when biotech and pharmaceutical investments accounted for just 10 of the top 25 deals. The figures come from the National Venture Capital Association and financial research firm Pitchbook.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The total for the first three quarters of 2019 was about $8 billion shy of. Collectively these businesses raised about $44 billion in their debuts, topping the $34 billion, $21 billion, and $40 billion raised in 2015, 2016, and 2017, respectively. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion. Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Earlier this month, GM CEO Mary Barra told the crowd at a financial conference that her company was on track to unveil a ridesharing service in 2019 that would be powered by autonomous vehicles.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from technology leaders about 2018 trends and 2019 forecasts. Today’s artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated they’re capable of handling specific tasks, such as identifying pictures of cats or spotting cancer in CT scans.

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