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AUGUST 10, 2020

San Diego-based GoSite , which develops an online platform to help small businesses put up online and mobile websites, has raised $16M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Longley Capital, and also included Stage 2 Capital, Ankona Capital, Serra Ventures and SaaS Ventures, and angels.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

San Diego-based Yidio , an online site for finding television shows and movies online, disclosed Thursday that it has raised around $500,000 in angel funding from angel investors, including Adam Warms. Tags: yidio television movie angel venture capital. The round announced at the NewTeeVee Live conference.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

San Diego-based Yidio , an online site for finding television shows and movies online, disclosed Thursday that it has raised around $500,000 in angel funding from angel investors, including Adam Warms. Tags: capital venture angel movie television yidio. The round announced at the NewTeeVee Live conference.

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MARCH 28, 2014

If you''re a chef of a hot new restaurant in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, where do you go online to network? Sites like LinkedIn are far more business focused, and Facebook is more friends and family. A new, San Diego startup-- Chef''s Roll , thinks it has the answer--a social network specifically aimed at chefs.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based OnBoat said on Thursday that it has launched its online marketplace to connect people with a fleet of private boats and captains in Los Angeles. The service, led by Marc Andelman, already offers its services in San Francisco, San Diego, Miami, and other locations, including a number of international destinations.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Open Listings , a venture-backed startup which helps people find, tour, and buy homes, which has offices in both San Diego and San Francisco, said Wednesday that it had launched its service in Seattle. The move is aimed directly at competing with online real estate brokerage site Redfin, which is based in Seattle.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

Los Angeles-based online e-retailer Newegg is setting its sights on the growing "Maker" market, the large group of technology enthusiasts who are into building and creating their own electronic projects. According to Newegg, it has launched a new "Maker" category on its site, which it says is dedicated to builders and DIY tech enthusiasts.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

San Diego-based BrightQube, an angel-backed stock photo search site, has updated its web services to make it easier for photo buyers to find images. BrightQube rolled out its new web site earlier this week, adding such features as pop-up search tips, new navigation options, filtering, and other features.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

San Diego-based professional networking site Connequity says it has raised $550,000 in an angel round, and has opened up a new Series A funding, after renaming the company from its former name, GROWconnections. The startup--which is still in private beta of its service--said the angel funding came in June.

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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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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Online real estate site Zillow is expanding its home buying service, Zillow Offers , to the Los Angeles and Orange County markets, saying this morning that it will now let homeowners sell their homes directly to the company, to avoid the hassles of selling their home.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2014

San Diego-based TaxJar , a developer of online software which helps manage sales tax payments for online retailers, said this morning that it has raised $600,000 from angel investors. software saas compliance government state online ecommerce sales funding angel capital venture taxjar' READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

They join the 23 cities that were already supported: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington, D.C.

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JULY 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based entertainment fan site Moviepilot and Entertainment Weekly said this week that they will be presenting videos from the San Diego Comic-Con, as part of a new content partnership. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed. Moviepilot is led by Tobi Bauckhage.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Santa Monica-based LifeCrowd , the social activity discovery site headed by Bong Koh, said Friday that it has expanded into three new regions, and launched officially out of Los Angeles accelerator MucherLab. LifeCrowd operates an online site which makes it easier for users to find group activities, such as classes and activities.

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MARCH 6, 2017

The Nashville-based company said it now serves more than 150 cities in Southern California, ranking from Orange County, to Los Angeles, and into Ventura County. Takl is led by serial entrepeneur Willis Johnson, who also founded online auto auction site Copart; the company launched in Nashville in July of 2016. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The two were not the only, Southern California companies with links to the high tech community here with ads, however -- among the most memorable of spots was a mini Seinfeld episode from Culver City-based Crackle , the online movie and TV streaming site owned by Sony. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Howard Lindzon , the CEO of San Diego-based StockTwits , has made another angel investment, this time in Embed.ly , a developer of tools that make it easier for web sites to embed content from other web sites.

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MARCH 6, 2013

Howard Lindzon , the San Diego angel investors who also heads up stock micro-messaging site StockTwits , has invested in another private company-- Discoverly. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Santa Monica-based OpenHouse has launched a new site which helps home buyers get personalized, real estate recommendations and information on neighborhoods, the company said today.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The newly launched, online home improvement project site and community Porch , which is split between San Diego and Seattle, is in the midst of raising $27.7M Porch''s prior backers include SV Angel, Jeff Skoll, Chamath Palihapitiya, and many others. According to the filing, the company has so far raised $8.2M

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Entering an already crowded market for daily deals in Los Angeles, Google Offers , the daily deals site run by the Internet giant Google, launched today in the city, offering up a $14.00 Google Offers has been slowly expanding its territory, adding today Atlanta, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Houston, in addition to Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

San Diego-based StockTwits , the stock-focused micro messaging and discussion startup headed by Howard Lindzon, announced today that it has inked a distribution partnership with Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. StockTwits said that the newspaper will use its Ticker Streams on a number of its pages across the site.

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APRIL 30, 2013

In a move to better integrate the company''s search results with third party sites, Google announced today that it will be integrating app activites into Google Search. Other services with direct links into Google include Deezer, Flixster, Songza, SoundCloud, and TuneIn.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

San Diego-based StockTwits , the online, real-time stock discussion site run by Howard Lindzon, said today that it has seen a spike in its usage on its site. The firm said it has seen an increase in message volume on the site grwo by 227 percent over the last 12 months.

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JUNE 12, 2012

San Diego-based online, personalized Internet radio service Slacker said Monday that it has launched a new set of ESPN stations on its service. According to the two, six new national, regional, and Spanish language ESPN stations have launched on Slacker Radio, on Slacker's web site and smartphone applications. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

San Diego-based Tealium , a startup developing software which automatically loads tags onto web pages, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.1M The round came from angels Jeff Lunsford (Limelight Networks), Jim MacIntyre (Visual Sciences/WebSideStory), Joe Apprendi (Collective), John Vincent (EyeWonder), and Thomas Falk (eValue Group).

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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.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

San Diego- and Los Angeles-based video sharing site veoh Networks has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to web site Mashable.

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JULY 22, 2010

The San Diego News Network (SDNN), the local media venture run by Barbara Bry and Neil Senturia, appears to have ceased its publishing efforts, according to a note posted by the staff Wednesday. According to the note, the site is "exploring our options". SDNN was backed by angel investors.

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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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APRIL 13, 2010

San Diego-based TweetPhoto , an online site which allows users to share photos through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, FourSquare, and other social networking sites, said today that it has raised $2.6M The round was led by Canaan Partners and also included Anthem Venture Partners and un-named angels.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

San Diego-based StockTwits , the stock-focused, micro-messaging service run by Howard Lindzon, has launched a new feature today, focused on activity streams. The stream is very similar to features on Facebook, Google Plus, and other social sites. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 11, 2009

Los Angeles-based Loudvine.com , a new, Web 2.0-style, style, online community site focused on music fans, said today that it is now live in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, and San Diego.

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MAY 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based NantBiosciences , one of the group of companies created by billionaire entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong, has raised $100M in San Diego-based Tealium , the developer of enterprise "tag" management software led by Jeff Lunsford, said today that it has connected its software into IBM Commerce.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Dmitry Shapiro , in a post on his personal web site, confirmed the Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing of San Diego- and Los Angeles-based Veoh Networks Thursday afternoon. Veoh had raised over $70M in funding.

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