socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2016

The exit activity has been far and wide across the region, ranging from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and providing stunning returns for a large list of venture and angel investors in those companies.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Google, as it develops its smart home systems, is turning to a company that already knows how to navigate the terrain of a household—corridors, kitchens, cat beds, cast-off shoes, and chair legs included.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

San Diego-based cloud storage company Nirvanix has officially shut down its service, saying in a posting on its website that it is actively winding down its business, and is scrambling to transfer data on the cloud storage service to other providers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the app distribution platform for Windows and Android, led by former DivX founder Darrius Thompson, said Tuesday that it has surpassed 1 billion app installs on its platform. billion daily active users of Windows. READ MORE>>. sweetlabs installation microsoft'

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? 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.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

San Diego startup Cuida Health, a recent graduate of the Connect Springboard accelerator program, this week launched its first product: a voice-activated “social wellness” app for seniors. She doesn’t mind long pauses between responses. And she has a sense of humor. Oh – and, she’s virtual.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2012

In terms of dollars, San Diego led the region with $357.0M The most active investors investing specifically in Southern California companies--as opposed to being based here--were Siemer Ventures again, with five investments, followed by Versant Ventures (4), then Venrock Associates , Domain Associates , First Round Capital , U.S.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2011

in San Diego, and $141.4M In San Diego, the top deals were for oneRoof Energy , with $50M raise, MeLLmo , which recently raised $30M, and AwarePoint , with $27.42M raised in venture capital in Q3. The latest MoneyTree report from the three find that $603.2M was invested in the region. Los Angeles received $260.0M

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

in San Diego. The most active investors for Q1 in Southern California were DFJ. Locally, the report totaled $201.28M in deals in the Los Angeles area, $191.89M in the Orange County area, and $100.0M Biotechnology was second, with $98.14M in investments, followed by Meidcal Devices, with $61.02M in investment dollars.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It's already a great technology center for lots of different areas, but when compared with Silicon Valley, the activity level needs to go way up in order for Southern California to be on par with Silicon Valley. There are many gaps to fill, and ways we can make a difference by encouraging more entrepreneurial activity in Southern California.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media communications platform for Wall Street traders and active retail investors. Rosen (pictured above).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). Google might not be a purely Southern California company, but the company now has thousands of employees spread across the region, including a location in the iconic Binoculars building in Venice, designed by Frank Gehry.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. One of our clients, a San Diego newspaper, asked us to build a daily deal platform for them.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

Telcentris is based in San Diego. More of than not, your contacts might have Skype or Twitter, some might have Facebook or MSN messenger, some Google Talk or Skype. Speaking of Skype and Googl, are they big competitors? Google is trying to get as much of you to themselves as they can, and it's the same with Facebook.

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Social Network Platform Networking Google 259

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2020

Biotech activity. Now in the hands of Novartis (NYSE: NVS ), the potential blockbuster seller awaits an FDA decision. This week, Alnylam swung a deal for half of its inclisiran royalty rights, positioning itself to gain up to $2 billion total. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2018

CEO Tony Xu told Axios’ Dan Primack that the company hadn’t been actively seeking new financing. It’s been an active year for the delivery. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. That said, we still need investors here.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Burlington, MA-based Cerence will continue Nuance’s development of digital dashboard features for vehicles, including voice-activated controls. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. which are super actively traded, those stocks that we all trade. million municipal bonds, which is a huge number, and they are not actively traded. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. It''s designed for business people.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2019

The voice tsunami is upon us, with demand for voice-activated systems, voice-enabled devices, and voice-driven virtual assistants set to increase exponentially. And I believe the central controller of that everything will be voice, the ultimate human-machine interface. But for that to happen, voice interfaces need to catch up.

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Demand Activity Technology Artificial Inteligence 52

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. Investors: Google Ventures. My own view on these services is nuanced.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2017

Saturday’s activities might shore up support from Trump’s core constituencies, but they also seem emblematic of a continuing tension between the new president’s worldview and the interests of the technology industry.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. To break that down, in terms of what that means, is we handle the managing and executing translation content, including the actual operational activity of translating that content. Idris Manley: We see ourselves as the third generation.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks.

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News Advertising Press Sites 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. A substantial portion of Venices real-estate boom is attributable to Google. Like Googles other locations, it offers amenities like a climbing wall and an outdoor movie theater, as well as bicycles and surfboards that can be rented during the workday.

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