Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2017

Soci, a San Diego startup that created a Web platform for managing social media, has closed on $8.5 The five-year-old startup, which had 35 employees five months ago when it was named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego company to watch , now has 50 employees. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2018

Rackspace paid an undisclosed amount for RelationEdge, a San Diego-based software-as-a-service provider focused on aiding Salesforce users. San Antonio-based Rackspace is building out its portfolio of software-focused customer service offerings, which the company notes are becoming a bigger part of everyday business operations.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

When Xconomy convened a dinner discussion earlier this year that included prominent San Diego cybersecurity innovators, startup founders, and system administrators, I was stunned to learn that Gary Hayslip oversees an IT network that blocks an average of 800,000 cyber attacks a day. Gary Hayslip.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. Nevertheless, Gilbert said most customers still want to talk to a loan officer and have a consultative discussion. We know what’s it’s like to be in an economic downturn,” he said.

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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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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

GreatCall, the maker of the Jitterbug cellphone and other products and services for older adults, has extended its partnership with the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company Lyft to offer GreatCall customers the ability to schedule rides without a smartphone app. No financial terms were disclosed.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The company’s 500 customers include American Express (NYSE: AXP ), PayPal, (NASDAQ: PYPL ), and Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX ). San Diego native John McCauley was part. Last month, Seismic recently told Xconomy, the company hired its first chief financial officer. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

Best Buy is paying $800 million in cash for GreatCall, a San Diego-based healthtech company which private equity firm GTCR bought early last year. GreatCall operates a virtual mobile telecommunications network for a customers base of more than 900,000 elderly consumers. Minnesota-based Best Buy (NYSE: BBY.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Delivery services such as Shipt and Instacart deliver groceries to customers’ doorsteps daily. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT ) also offer the service, albeit only for their own stores. Large-scale chain stores are the focus of most grocery delivery services.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2018

In the eight years since it was founded, Seismic has become a leader in the market for Web-based software used by corporations and other big customers to manage the online marketing materials created to support sales reps in the field.

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Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2017

Beginning today, San Diego-based Human Longevity plans to offer its whole genome sequencing service to customers, employees, and affiliated financial professionals of the Springfield, MA-based insurer formally known as the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

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Xconomy

JULY 11, 2017

The company, which has some roots in San Diego, sells analytics software that combines weather-monitoring services with risk-assessment data analysis to give customers an idea of whether their truck or. That’s a problem that Austin-based Riskpulse says its data service can help resolve.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The semiconductor company, founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, CA, a San Diego suburb. Cisco, the San Jose, CA-based tech giant (NASDAQ: CSCO ), said Tuesday that Luxtera’s advanced chips will help it offer its customers faster and better network service performance.

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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.

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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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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

San Francisco-based Webpass has spent the past 13 years working to bring ultra-fast wireless Internet access to homes (primarily large apartment complexes) and businesses around the country. Barr wrote in a blog post announcing the tie-up. Six-year-old Google Fiber has had its own set of challenges.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

to San Diego. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. your business on the map with national news coverage and blog buzz for only $999 a. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. tech economy, with interview with the movers and shakers in the industry, coverage of.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Software AG, a German software giant with 4,300 employees, has acquired San Diego-based Zementis, a specialist in machine learning and data science. Zementis CEO Michael Zeller co-founded the company in 2004 to help customers glean new insights from big data by using predictive analytics.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

His San Leandro, CA-based company, TerrAvion , relies on a network of contract pilots to capture weekly shots of his customers’ vineyards, corn fields, and strawberry rows. Morris says his hundreds of customers grapple with the same problems as the battlefield commanders he observed in Afghanistan.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— 5D Robotics , founded in 2009 in Carlsbad, CA, (about 30 miles north of San Diego), has developed a device that integrates GPS, inertial guidance, optical positioning, and other technologies. SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A San Diego civil engineer who has developed an alternative technology for automating the measurement of water flow gave the best presentation at EvoNexus Fall Demo Day, an event that drew nearly 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters late Thursday to Qualcomm’s corporate headquarters.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. Who would be the typical customer for this service?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The event series’ custom. The 11-part Meet the Finalists webcast series provides an opportunity to get to know each of the 44 individuals and companies and better understand why they have earned the right to be named a finalist. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Recycling Waste Platform. Problem She is Solving.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 21, 2019

Palo Alto, CA-based Autonomic signed up Ayro , an electric vehicle startup, as a paying customer of its Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), in Autonomic’s first partnership with a vehicle manufacturer other than Dearborn, MI-based Ford (NYSE: F ).

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology. healthcare systems, CEO Joe Smith said late Monday. I want to ground that story in data.”.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. The differentiator is going to be customer experience.”. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

A center led by the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego will work on ways for those individuals to participate. Randy Scott, the CEO of San Francisco genetic testing firm Invitae (NASDAQ: NVTA ), told Xconomy last year he also wants to repackage and sell customer data.

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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 Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

Sears has] amazing brands and the marketing from that, but this shows that it’s possible to lose traction with customers,” says Pano Anthos , managing director of XRC Labs in New York. The key question is. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s why startups are turning to new technologies like 3D scanning and machine learning software to produce customized clothing that can be made for the masses. People want to buy a size,” says Patrick Donnelly, director of marketing at Fit3D, a San Mateo, CA-based maker of e-commerce software.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Today the synthetic biology company announced an expansion of its headquarters in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood, including a second, larger lab space for designing and making custom yeast and other microbes. Today Ginkgo announced another partnership, with San Diego-based Genomatica. More on that collaboration in a minute.).

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