socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

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. Along with Foundry, both Madrona Ventures and San Diego's Avalon Ventures were investors in the round. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

Softbank Vision Fund of Japan led the Series B funding round for South San Francisco, CA-based Plenty. The round included investments from affiliates of Louis Bacon, the founder of Moore Capital Management, as well earlier investors Innovation Endeavors, Bezos Expeditions, DCM, Data Collective, and Finistere Ventures.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

But Slager says that’s starting to change as construction companies realize that technology isn’t just an expense; it can represent an investment in money-saving efficiencies. As Slager puts it, even bankers and insurers spend more on technology as a percentage of revenue than building contractors.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Austin —Apple expects to make thousands of new hires around the country from Seattle to New York, the company announced Thursday, with its biggest growth planned for Austin, TX. The computer and smartphone manufacturer plans to hire 5,000 new employees in Austin and to spend $1 billion building a new campus on the north end of Austin.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Radicle, which takes its name from the botany term for the part of a plant embryo that develops into the primary root, was founded by a mix of agricultural investment and industry heavyweights. Before making an investment, Radicle says it screens technologies and can quickly vet and validate technologies through its farm connections.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. There are so many social networking sites, how do you define what's relevant? Meebo is another powerful site. In late 2007, Chi.mp What Chi.mp

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. LibreDigital.

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Xconomy

MARCH 27, 2020

Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY ) said that many healthcare systems are devoting their resources to treating COVID-19 patients, which makes it difficult for these sites to also start new clinical trials. Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) is delaying new patient recruitment for three weeks. Bluebird Bio (NASDAQ: BLUE ) said the pandemic could.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2017

Versant Ventures now has $400 million in its coffers to fuel its pursuit of early-stage healthcare technologies and startups, and it has a particular goal of expanding its investment approach in Europe. Versant takes. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The company currently operates R&D centers at its Cambridge, UK, headquarters as well as at sites in Maryland and Sweden. The move – which was announced at the China International Import Expo this week – will see the AstraZeneca found a global R&D center in Shanghai’s central Jing’an district.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. We call it storytelling media.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2018

Request your invitation today to connect with top leaders by visiting our event site or emailing napa18@xconomy.com with your name, job title, company affiliation, and link to your bio. Come join us in the heart of wine country on June 14 and 15 to listen to visionary speakers and connect with fellow innovators.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The Pharmaceutical Industry Association of Puerto Rico lists 22 manufacturing sites on the island, operated by companies such as Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN ), Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY ), and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ ). Companies have avoided sounding alarms; Amgen, for one, Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2018

For an invitation, visit our event site, or e-mail us at napa18@xconomy.com with your name, job title, company, and link to your bio. There are only a few tickets left—so request your invitation today to join fellow exemplary executives, innovators, investors, technologists, and entrepreneurs.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2018

To request your invitation, visit our event site or e-mail us at napa18@xconomy.com with your name, job title, company, and link to your. You will be joining an incredible group of fellow attendees–executives, innovators, investors, technologists, and entrepreneurs. The event takes place June 14-15 in Yountville, CA.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Shares have since eroded significantly, but Biogen has restructured and cut a number of jobs to support its risk-heavy investments, halting preclinical work in immunology and fibrosis. Biogen was in a long-running battle with Carl Icahn about its strategic direction and hadn’t produced any FDA approved drugs in six years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

Startup 337

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. MSN Money Investing. Downtown San Diego Condos. Investment Land For Sale. Investing Tools. Loading… Real Estate. » More. Real Estate. » More. Loading… Careers. » More. » More. Loading… Mansion. House of the Day. Commercial. MSN Money Homepage.

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