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JANUARY 28, 2014

San Diego-based Sightly said this morning that it has raised $1.7M in a seed funding, to go towards its video advertising technology. The funding was led by Mack Capital, and also included Tomorrow Ventures and 500 Startups. mobile targeting local technology advertising video sightly' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

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MARCH 20, 2014

Phunware , a developer of mobile advertising, application, analytics, and other tools for brands which has operations in both Newport Beach and San Diego, said this week that it has raised $26.25M in a Series E funding. phunware venture capital mobile advertising analytics software' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2014

invested in San Diego, and $66.53M invested in Orange County during the period. The biggest investments for the quarter were for Culver City-based NantHealth , the digital health venture of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, which raised $135M in a funding; El Segundo-based Prodege (aka Swagbucks), which raised $60.1M

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JUNE 21, 2016

Verve , a provider of location-based advertising technology which has operations in San Diego, said this week that it has acquired wireless beacon startup Roximity , and raised $30M in a debt funding. The debt funding came from Silicon Valley Bank. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

San Diego-based Vionic , a developer of technology for helping companies create social media deals and promotions, said Wednesday that it has raised $900,000 in a funding round. The funding came from angel investors. vionic social offers venture capital angel media software advertising' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

San Diego-based Ezoic announced this morning that it has raised $5.6M in a funding round, for the company''s software for automatically improving site layout and advertising revenue. The Series A funding was led by Balderton Capital, and also included New Amsterdam Capital, Silicon Valley Bank and angels.

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JULY 7, 2014

San Diego-based Adtile Technologies , a mobile ad technology company led by Nils Forsblom, has raised $4.5M in a Series A funding. fruugo finland investment capital venture advertising mobile tenfarms technologies adtile' The company did not announce the names of investors in the round. founded by Forsblom. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has backed a developer of video advertising products, Selectable Media , to the tune of $2M. Selectable Media, which is based in New York, lets users opt into branded video advertising in exchange for free access to content on web and mobile apps. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2017

After the adhesive products maker Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY ) recently made a $3 million investment in San Diego-based Wrapify , we tracked down Wrapify CEO James Heller, and stuck him with a few questions about the deal.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Selectable Media , a digital advertising firm which lets users unlock digital content in exchange for interacting with brand advertising, said today that it has expanded to Los Angeles, as part of a growth in its footprint. The expansion came alongside the opening of a new office in Chicago. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2014

San Diego-based Liquid Grids , a developer of digital advertising software aimed at the healthcare industry, said this morning that it has raised a Series A funding round. According to Liquid Grids, the funding was led by Miramar Ditial Ventures. Size of the round was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm said late Wednesday that it is spinning out its Qualcomm Retail Solutions (QRS) unit as a new company, Gimbal, Inc. , Qualcomm said that the new business is being funded from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Qualcomm said that the new business is being funded from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.,

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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. Who is providing the funding and backing for the company? We're taking a different approach.

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MAY 5, 2015

San Diego-based software developer Tealium , which develops software used to manage enterprise "tags", those snippets of codes used for tracking advertising, marketing, analytics, and other efforts, said today that it had 100% growth in the first quarter of 2015. The company did not disclose any actual revenue numbers.

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APRIL 14, 2016

in funds invested, across 47 deals; Orange County had $158M invested across 15 deals; and San Diego had $253.5M funding round, and $60M in Ventura-based advertising technology developer TradeDesk. Southern California venture totals were down significantly from the $1.38 billion was raised in the region.

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MARCH 26, 2020

Paul, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, the ProPublica Local Reporting Network funds and jointly publishes year-long investigative projects with 23 local news organizations across the U.S.

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APRIL 21, 2010

San Diego-based OpenCandy , a developer of products which software publishers can include to recommend other software products and services to their users and which earns those software publishers advertising revenue, has raised $5M in a Series B funding round. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing tools for the Associated Press, McClatchy, Belo Interactive, and other publishers, said this morning that it has raised $7M more in additional funding. According to Verve, the new funding will go towards further development and expansion of products.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the company headed by Darrius Thompson, and which runs both the OpenCandy advertising network and the desktop Pokki app platform, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series C funding round. Pokki allows developers to create desktop apps using web technologylike HTML5. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 20, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which helps small and local businesses place Internet advertising, was up 15.2 The firm, which is headed by Zorik Gordon, was venture backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, Galleon Group, European Founders Fund, and others. percent after its IPO Thursday, closing at $14.98, up $1.98.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , which provides online marketing campaigns for brands, has raised another $3.0M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm last week. OCA's James Dugan and Rincon's Jim Andelman have joined the firm's board along with the funding, according to the filing. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2013

Peter Csathy , the CEO of San Diego''s Sorenson Media , and digital media veteran, has departed the company, and will head up a new legal and investment group formed by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. The new digital media venture from Manatt was created by Los Angeles partner T. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

San Diego-based private equity firm JMI Equity has backed Internet advertising firm Adknowledge , as lead on a $200M debt and equity financing round for that firm. Adknowledge, which is based in Kansas City, MO, said today that it raised $200M in debt and equity to fuel its growth and for future acquisitions, led by JMI Equity.

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. Talk about this recent funding round, how did that come about? Do we want to raise capital?

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APRIL 1, 2009

San Diego-based Slacker , a venture-backed, personalized online radio service, told its users this morning that it has launched a new feature which adds complete lyrics to the firm's services. The firm's premium service provides unlimited skipping of songs, no advertising, unlimited requests for specific tracks, and more.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. I also have a hedge fund and am a partner in fund called Social Leverage making early stage investments. I think the financial vertical offers lots of native ideas, that aren't just display advertised based, because of all of our information and data.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

According to a recent ScoreStream statement , San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, a longtime ScoreStream investor, led the round, and was joined by Sinclair Broadcasting, Verizon Ventures, and R/GA Ventures, the investment arm of the advertising agency R/GA. Including the latest round, ScoreStream has raised a total of $6.8

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors. Tell us about your backers?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M We caught up with co-founder and CEO Darrius Thompson--who was also a co-founder at DivX--to learn more about the startup, the saga behind how the company started, and the funding. Talk a little bit about your funding?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

In this interview, we catch up with an amazing TechZulu Spotlight alumnus, Joey Flores, CEO of Earbits , a hand-curated music discovery engine that allows its bands and artists to advertise and promote their own material, events, announcements, contests, whatever. What was the original inspiration behind Earbits? But sell them to who?

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. I found the process incredibly great.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Last week, San Diego-based Kidzui --the kid's website and kid-friendly browser developer, announced another round of funding, and also launched Zui Studios, a new effort to create original content for the portal. Give us an overview on KidZui. We've also just worked with Matty B to create two television spots.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I entered Pepcom’s Mobile Focus event with heightened excitement after driving through the busy intersections of Downtown San Diego’s rickshaw littered streets. And if you’ve never had the Mexican food in San Diego… stop what you’re doing and go. Frustrating isn’t it?)

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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