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

JUNE 22, 2017

In a keynote talk Tuesday night that was a headliner event for Startup Week San Diego, Calacanis observed that it doesn’t feel like the millennial generation is doing as well financially as their parents’ generation.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

Thirty-seven venture-backed companies in the San Diego area collected almost $350 million in new funding during the first three months of 2017, according to data released this week as part of the latest Venture Monitor report from the National Venture Capital Association and Seattle-based PitchBook.

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Xconomy

APRIL 11, 2019

Locally based biotech companies receive fresh funding from investors. A software startup launches games that it says may help children with disorders that cause attention difficulties.

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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.

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Xconomy

JUNE 16, 2017

Nuvve , a San Diego cleantech startup, has begun a pilot project with UC San Diego that is intended to demonstrate the feasibility of using electric vehicles as a kind of collective energy storage reservoir for the power grid. After securing a $4.2 After securing a $4.2 Nuvve and its partners, which.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Molecular Assemblies , a San Diego startup developing a new enzymatic method for synthesizing DNA, said today it has raised $2.3 The funding will be used to hire more scientists and to advance the company’s development of enzymatic DNA synthesis technology, CEO Michael Kamdar said in an interview Friday.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The San Diego artificial intelligence company Brain Corp. topped the chart for raising the most venture capital in San Diego during the third quarter that ended September 30, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday. raised $114 million in a Series C funding round led by Softbank’s new $100 billion Vision Fund.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. As Xconomy reported last week , third-quarter venture funding also slipped nationwide to $14.99

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Xconomy

APRIL 5, 2019

—Mobile app startup Bitmo announced it had raised more than $3 million in seed funding from investors including Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, and several Southern California-based family fund offices.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Nevertheless, Xconomy recently brought together some of San Diego’s most prominent life sciences leaders to offer their vision for what the regional biotech cluster will be like in five years. They broadly agreed that San Diego has proven itself as a great seedbed for life sciences startups. billion).

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2016

Six San Diego business risk-takers have been inducted into the pantheon of EY Entrepreneurs of the Year, joining over 10,000 people around the world who have been honored over the last 30 years by the multinational professional services firm. billion worth of funding for home improvements through its HERO program.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2018

While Escalier Biosciences BV is based in the Netherlands, the company is managed by its subsidiary, Escalier Biosciences, based near San Diego in coastal Encinitas, CA, according to Chris Krueger, Escalier’s chief business officer. The Dutch biotech and its Encinitas subsidiary were both founded in 2016, but the.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

San Diego’s innovation clusters continued to grow in 2015, as local startups, funding deals, and job growth extended an economic growth spurt that began in 2013. The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County.

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Xconomy

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. Among other things, they get an opportunity to pitch to investors and industry representatives at Plug and Play’s quarterly “expo” event.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. He founded MaxIT Healthcare in 2001.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To that end, Kukutai’s venture capital firm, Finistere Ventures, is joining with the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to launch a new 20 million euro ($24 million) fund that will invest in emerging agtech startups in Ireland. In addition to deals. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In San Diego, this higher order of social networking becomes apparent. Nowadays, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world , with more than 2 billion monthly active users. Yet somehow, the connections are richer and more meaningful when people come together offline and in-person.

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Xconomy

MAY 3, 2017

Now 77, Ruoslahti (pictured above) is back in San Diego as a founder and CEO of DrugCendR , a startup developing new ways to improve the uptake of anti-cancer drugs in solid tumors. He continued his research on tumor vasculature and cancer metastasis. The company spun out of the SBP.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2017

In his first public appearance since leaving Google Ventures, Bill Maris said Wednesday his new venture fund, Section 32, is nearly fully invested—less than four months after he officially unveiled its existence in the San Diego area.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2018

CureMatch , a San Diego startup with technology to help doctors choose the best combination of anti-cancer treatments based on an analysis of each patient’s tumor, took home a $35,000 grant intended to help companies expand overseas. CureMatch was the top vote-getter among four finalists that.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The software of Portfolium, a San Diego startup that hosts online portfolios for students trying to showcase their achievements to potential employers, is set to join the portfolio of Utah educational software company Instructure. Instructure (NYSE: INST ) has agreed to acquire privately held Portfolium.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Call him an optimist if you must, but San Diego Venture Group president Mike Krenn says venture financings for San Diego’s early stage tech startups are on a tear. “I A breakout of regional deal flow so far this year indicates that venture activity in San Diego. That is an insane data point.”

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

VelosBio, a biotech startup researching new cancer drugs, has raised $58 million in financing. VelosBio joined Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS @ San Diego incubator in January. The new VelosBio cash, a Series A round of financing, was led by Arix Bioscience (LSE: ARIX ) and Sofinnova Ventures.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2019

San Diego has had plenty of businesses go public in recent years, but most have been life sciences companies. Now software startup Tealium, which has about 215 employees at its San Diego headquarters, announced Wednesday it has added $55 million in a Series F financing.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2019

Taylor Cavanah, whose background is in physics, once caused a fellow scientist to do a spit take after learning Cavanah runs a software startup focused on pet care. Just as surprising is the tale of how Cavanah and co-founders Ken Tsui and Aaron Bannister built the San Diego, CA-based company, called PetDesk.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Genomics startups are increasing in number and quality, so much so that three-year-old Illumina Accelerator has expanded with its latest class to accommodate five of them. Xconomy got an early look at the specialty accelerator’s sixth cohort, which includes a company named for a butterfly and the accelerator’s first digital health startup.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2019

A new venture capital firm, which in November marked its launch by raising a $53 million-plus fund to invest in startups, has made its first investment.

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2019

Connect, a 34-year-old nonprofit which runs the well-known Springboard Accelerator Program for startups, announced Monday that it had tapped Silvia Mah, a San Diego investor and entrepreneur, as its new president. Mah is executive director of Hera Labs, an accelerator program for women-owned businesses.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The National Stem Cell Foundation (NSCF) is funding the study, which is the result of a bi-coastal collaboration between the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute and Aspen Neuroscience, a San Diego startup developing personalized cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2017

TP Therapeutics, which raised $45 million in May to advance its work on drug-resistant cancers, raised the most venture capital in San Diego County during the three months that ended June 30, according to regional data released today. Altogether, venture firms invested a total of $406.4 That was down slightly from the $411.2

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Now, the San Diego-based startup is looking to Wall Street for additional funds. Gossamer Bio, headed by former Receptos executives, made its public debut in January with $100 million in financing. Seven months later, it tacked on another $230 million.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2018

The debut Wednesday of Dynam.AI, a San Diego startup offering its expertise in artificial intelligence, also marks a shift that has been underway for the past year or so at Analytics Ventures, a local fund that invests in tech deals. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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