socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

The $30M funding deal for Seattle's Cheezburger , the web publisher best known for its LOLcats-themed I Can Has Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog web sites, apparently was spawned out of an introduction at last year's Twiistup technology conference, according to investor the Foundry Group. READ MORE>>.

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Twiistup Avalon San Diego Conference 145

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

For Southern California as a region, funding totaled $485M in 74 deals for the quarter, a significant drop from both Q4 of last year, which had $829M and 102 deals; and also from the prior quarter, when there was $779M invested in 84 deals. in funding, driven in a large part by a $32M round for Solarflare Communications.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Alex Roudi, the San Diego investor backing the Plug and Play program here, has described the local effort as a bridge to Silicon Valley, by enabling the San Diego companies to make connections and raise funding in the Bay Area. It’s really cool.”. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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