Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Not long after ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT ) acquired San Diego-based LonoCloud in 2013 , former LonoCloud executives Tom Caldwell and Hossein Eslambolchi met for coffee at the Specialty’s Café and Bakery in University City. Caldwell said they soon raised $600,000 from angel investors to start what would become CyberFlow Analytics.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Molecular Assemblies , a San Diego startup developing a new enzymatic method for synthesizing DNA, said today it has raised $2.3 million in a seed financing round. Molecular Assemblies says its enzymatic approach for making DNA was inspired by the way nature makes DNA. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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MARCH 19, 2019

San Diego’s startup community has rejoiced in recent months as massive companies that employ thousands of engineers—including Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ), and the tech arm of Walmart (NYSE: WMT )—have announced expansions in the region.

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego has formed a partnership with Downtown Works, a new co-working space in downtown San Diego, which will give the local Plug and Play program a place to call home. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”. billion under management.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list. Tim Rueth, a UC San Diego entrepreneur in residence and member of the EvoNexus selection committee, also screened the list, and offered his perspective.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

No one would argue that San Diego is overflowing with venture capitalists in the way, say, the San Francisco Bay Area is. In fact, the region’s relative dearth of investors is often bemoaned by local entrepreneurs. The idea was to get more local startups an. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Mission Edge, a nonprofit organization backed by the San Diego Foundation and three corporations, has chosen 10 companies and organizations to participate in a 12-week program intended to improve each entity’s financial performance, and thereby long-term sustainability. Ken Davenport, CEO of San Diego-based Mission.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The firm said the updated app helps users record and share those trips with friends via Facebook, Twitter, email, text, or within a blog or other web page. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The winner of the largest-ever startup pitch contest in San Diego is aiming to solve a problem that is weighing heavily on the national consciousness. The same day President Trump signed a bipartisan package of measures to address the opioid epidemic, San Diego startup NeuraLace Medical won $50,000 on Wednesday at the annual John G.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Now four San Diego, CA-based investors are debuting “VCs in a Van,” a vehicle (no pun intended) meant to spotlight local companies ripe for funding. lu—as they visit a handful of San Diego-based early-stage businesses seeking financing. First there was “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 All three are San Diego angel investors, and together provided most of the seed financing round, Apuzzo said. The company, which now has nine full-time. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Hundreds of red, “dockless” electronic bikes appeared on the streets of San Diego and Seattle on Monday, the latest cities in which Uber introduced its e-bike program, Jump. The expansion comes days after Uber began rolling out the bike-sharing service across Los Angeles.

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Xconomy

APRIL 30, 2018

In Dallas , Los Angeles , and Washington, D.C. , In San Francisco , grousing about the widely available scooters has spurred a social media backlash over “scooter-gedden,” with hashtags like #scootersbehavingbadly. The furor has erupted in San Diego as well, where the coastal community of Coronado has declared.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Los Angeles has long been in San Francisco’s shadow when it comes to life sciences investment. But a new venture capital firm led by industry veterans is trying to cast the City of Angels in a new light. Westlake Village BioPartners is launching today with $350 million in committed capital.

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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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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

San Diego-based Metaplace , the online virtual world startup headed by Raph Koster, disclosed today that the firm is now allowing users to easily embed virtual worlds into any web page. Metaplace said that web users can now embed the firm's Flash-based virtual worlds into blogs or webpages. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, Galen Buckwalter, the former Chief Scientist of eHarmony, and San Diego angel investor Robert Bingham. HipGeo debuted its app in September of 2011; the firm is backed by Morado Venture Partners, a seed-stage fund run by former Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 16, 2016

In San Diego, the complaints often focus on the relative scarcity of venture capital and hometown VC firms. So when the San Diego Venture Group recruited Mark Suster of Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures to give the keynote talk Tuesday night for Startup Week San Diego, more than 800 people filled a downtown auditorium.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope. million in nine months.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ), a San Diego-based company that was a pioneer in gene sequencing technology, founded the accelerator in 2014, along with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.

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Xconomy

MARCH 30, 2017

Echo , a San Diego startup that has developed a digital, all-in-one microscope, says today it has closed on $7.5 million in a Series A round led by San Francisco-based Dolby Family Ventures and Southern California’s Tech Coast Angels.

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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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

PacketSled, a cybersecurity startup based in suburban San Diego, has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Keshif Ventures, a local angel investment fund that has put money into dozens of tech startups in the San Diego area. Two other small funds, Blu Ventures and JHS Ventures joined in the round.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits.

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APRIL 5, 2010

This Wednesday April 7, 2010 the #InfluenceSD awards will be taking place at the Anthology Fine Dining and Music Hall located in San Diego. InfluenceSD will recognize and celebrate the most influential members of the San Diego social media community. And you guessed it! What is the #InfluenceSD Awards?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. The startup does its R&D and design in Los Angeles.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Some Angel groups endorse it. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

The Series A funding round is led by Boston-based HLM Venture Partners and the Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles. Censinet, a Boston startup helping hospitals and other healthcare providers manage the cyber risk of their hundreds of third-party vendors, has launched its system and announced $7.8

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At the same time, managing partner Arlan Hamilton said the Los Angeles-based firm would run accelerators in four cities: London, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and a fourth city that would be determined by a public vote. Earlier this month, from the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, Hamilton announced the winning city: Detroit.

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