Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Startup Week San Diego, like a lot of other places that host similar events, has been billed as a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship. But while Startup Week San Diego has always collaborated with UP Global, San Diego entrepreneur and Startup Week organizer Austin Neudecker said, “We’ve always been an independent entity.”.

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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 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), CareFusion ($14.4

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2016

After the national MoneyTree Report was released last week, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Ryan Spencer said he spent time on a call with Thomson Reuters, which provides the raw data, trying to figure out a change in the numbers for venture capital activity in San Diego. But the San Diego data was off. So the $350.5

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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

View the Slideshow The technology for online social networks arrived practically hand-in-hand with the Internet. In San Diego, this higher order of social networking becomes apparent. and chat rooms on Bulletin Board Systems to Yahoo message boards, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Logistics startup Airspace Technologies says its “next-generation” technology, developed specifically for time-sensitive shipments—donated organs slated for transplant and replacement parts for tarmac-bound airplanes, for example—can process shipments faster and cheaper than other third-party logistics providers.

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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. That’s according to a report being released today by Connect, the local nonprofit group focused on technology and entrepreneurship.

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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 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

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Louis, MO-based venture capital firm with additional offices in San Diego, CA, and Cleveland, OH, has raised $184.4 million for its fourth fund dedicated to investing in healthcare companies. RiverVest Venture Partners, a St.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Elliott Management, a New York-based activist hedge fund, has had San Diego-based Mitek Systems in its crosshairs for months. The prospective. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Arama Kukutai believes that in coming years, Ireland will send the United States and the rest of the world something different: innovative agricultural technologies that help make farms more productive and profitable. Though Finistere splits its operations between San Diego and Palo Alto, CA, the firm has been expanding its reach globally.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Section 32, a venture capital firm headquartered near San Diego that launched in 2017 with a $151 million fund, has had a big month. In an interview with Xconomy last year , the former Googler said his firm planned to focus most of its attention on investments at the juncture of life sciences and information technology.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. million, according to a recent regulatory filing.

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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 moved to Santa Barbara, CA, where he established what he calls “a little subsidiary” of the SBP institute, and joined the faculty of UC Santa Barbara.

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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2018

In the Boston office of GE Ventures, managing director Alex de Winter is overseeing investments in companies like Veracyte, which is applying machine learning to genomic sequencing technology to help doctors distinguish benign growths from cancer.

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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

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

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. Some even use telemedicine technology so patients don’t have to drive long distances to rehab centers.

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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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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

The San Diego company describes the financing as its first institutional round, and said it brings total funding for the five-year-old startup to $20 million.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2020

The 14-person startup, founded in 2017, has developed technology that it says uses big data sets, human genetic data, and advanced algorithms to find potential targets for drugs. Empirico, which is headquartered in San Diego, also has laboratories in Madison, WI.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service. The company, which now has nine full-time.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Radicle, a new accelerator fund focused on agricultural ventures, is launching today with plans to seed and nurture the next generation of agtech companies addressing global farming problems. Before making an investment, Radicle says it screens technologies and can quickly vet and validate technologies through its farm connections.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Magnolia Medical Technologies , a Seattle-based manufacturer of devices for collecting blood and bodily fluids, announced this week it has raised $20 million in equity funding to ramp up sales of its flagship product. The funding comes as Magnolia and San Diego-based competitor Kurin battle each other in court.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 22, 2018

A San Diego startup says it has adapted the blockchain technology that underpins digital currencies like Bitcoin for use as a distributed database for genomic information. Kain said part of the appeal. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. Microsoft aims to get in front of technology trends earlier with the new investment vehicle. With a formalized venture fund, Microsoft now has a seat at the table.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2018

With the Bio-IT World Conference opening today in Boston, San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ILMN) said it has acquired Edico Genome, a five-year-old startup with technology to accelerate the readout of next-generation sequencing data. Illumina withheld terms of the deal in a statement released this morning.

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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

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

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Organovo, a company developing technology to 3D print human tissue, announced two months ago that its dwindling cash is leading it to explore options that include merging with another firm. The San Diego biotech now has an offer from a familiar face close to home.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2017

San Diego-based Arcturus Therapeutics said today Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics has agreed to provide $3 million to fund research and development of a new messenger RNA drug that could be broadly used to treat cystic fibrosis patients. Arcturus says its technology can be used to make.

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