socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2011

San Diego-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has boosted an Internet web site publisher known for its humorous, captioned pictures of cats and use of Internet memes, Cheezburger. which features "LOLcats", funny pictures of cats with humorous captions, and FAIL Blog , a site which highlights "fails".

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

After signaling that it plans to operate drones via cellular technologies, San Diego-based Qualcomm says today it is working with AT&T to use commercial wireless networks for test flights beyond an operator’s visual line of sight. Qualcomm is hardly flying solo into this realm.

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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

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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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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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

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. Fiber networks are expensive to build. Barr wrote in a blog post announcing the tie-up. Now, Webpass will tap into those deep pockets. “By

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. to San Diego. It's the source for keeping a pulse on the dynamic world of technology, reaching venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, social media. Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com).

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Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

Houston —Men have long leveraged their networks to succeed in business, and the tech industry has been no exception. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now creating their own networks to do the same.

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Help Startup Networking Ideas 111

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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San Diego Conference Funding Networking 40

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

San Diego-based AttackIQ, a cybersecurity startup providing a Web-based platform for assessing network defenses, has finally closed its Series A round of founding, after raising a total of $8.8 Institutional investors included San Francisco-based Index Ventures , Qualcomm Ventures , and Telstra Ventures.

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Tool San Diego Web Platform 40

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

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. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In the meantime, here are 10 notable reactions from around the Xconomy network, mostly via Twitter. New England Venture Capital Association’s Jody Rose : “I respect the office of the president and always will. That’s my plan.” Founder Collective’s Parul Singh : “Elections have consequences.

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Venture Capital Google Capital Ideas 101

Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2018

Thousands of these mostly small Internet providers connect customers’ homes through wireless networks that eventually link up to fiber-optic cables or other main Internet conduits further up the line. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Networking Services Customer Custom 79

Xconomy

APRIL 1, 2020

Aspen Neuroscience, a biotech working to develop a therapy that would reprogram those patients’ own living cells in ways that would allow the cells to reconstruct their damaged neural networks, has raised $70 million in a Series A financing round.

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Conference Report Networking Funding 96

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.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

San Diego’s Scientist.com set out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations (CROs). Founding CEO Kevin Lustig said Scientist.com will use the additional cash to expand its operations.

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Outsource Marketing Research Web 79

Xconomy

JULY 2, 2018

The San Jose, CA-based company, begun in 2003 by four co-founders who bootstrapped its funding, has built a customer base of 1,100 firms including Google, GM, Siemens, Cisco Systems, LinkedIn, Comcast, and Juniper Networks. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Google Startup Networking Funding 68

Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

You’ll find a few of our favorite stories in this review of some of the year’s best from across the Xconomy network. In 2018, my Exome colleagues and I published hundreds of stories about health, medicine, the biopharma industry, government policy, and more.

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Pricing Email Networking Silver Lake 69

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

With its new funding, Seattle-based Convoy plans to continue expanding its network of customers and truckers to more U.S. With the online network covering more ground, it can offer more options. regions, CEO Dan Lewis says. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Equity Networking Funding Artificial Inteligence 54

Xconomy

MAY 14, 2019

CrowdStrike , the cybersecurity company that identified the two Russian government-linked hacker groups that invaded the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s network during the 2016 presidential campaign, filed publicly for an initial public offering on Tuesday.

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Company Companies Networking Software 46

Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

CrowdStrike , a Silicon Valley cybersecurity company that fends off hackers by patrolling the edge devices connected to a network, announced today it raised $200 million in a financing round that sets the company’s valuation at more than $3 billion. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General.

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Report Web Mobile Activity 49

Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

As 2017 comes to a close, we’re surveying business and technology leaders from around our network to get their perspectives on the year in tech—and what’s next.

Equity 87

Equity Software Networking Entrepreneur 87

Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2016

Forgacs and his father, Gabor Forgacs, a University of Missouri professor of biological physics, are also co-founders of San Diego-based Organovo (NYSE: ONVO ), which uses 3D printing technology to create functional, 3D human tissues for use in medical research and therapeutic applications.

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San Diego Product Design Funding 59

Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Xconomy recently reached out to business and technology leaders from around our network to put 2017 in perspective and look ahead. There was a new controversy seemingly every week, whether it was Uber’s myriad scandals ; more personal data breaches ; Russia’s use of social media and other online platforms to try and influence U.S.

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Social Media Media Platform Networking 68

Xconomy

OCTOBER 31, 2017

People are building mentoring networks. To close the healthcare and life sciences gender gap, there have been programs to move women into the boardroom. And there have been public pledges to do better.

Equity 49

Equity Mentor Report Mobile 49

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Proficio, founded in Irvine, CA, in 2010, specializes in network monitoring, intruder detection, and cyber-attack response services—saving companies the cost of acquiring sophisticated cybersecurity software and running their own cybersecurity operations center.

Equity 40

Equity Los Angeles Invest Networking 40

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. Social networking. The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. Featured stories.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2017

With the closing of its sixth fund announced Tuesday, San Francisco-based Versant now aims to invest in as many as 25 companies in both North America and Europe—half of those investments in “companies we create from scratch,” says Brad Bolzon, Versant’s managing director. Versant takes.

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Funding Incubator Invest Networking 52

Xconomy

JANUARY 20, 2017

Here are responses from four business leaders in different cities across Xconomy’s network. Alex Lash, our national biotech editor, traded e-mails with Bob Nelsen , co-founder and managing director at Arch Venture Partners. Nelsen is based in Seattle).

Pricing 40

Pricing Networking Venture Capital San Diego 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

Participants will also be paired with coaches and will network for board seats after the course is over. The situation is exacerbated in small private companies because traditional venture firms, whose partners sit on the boards of their portfolio companies, are male-dominated.

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Training Class Organization Course 40

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

This channel of our website, with its own home page, will feature all articles about these subjects and related topics from across our 11-market network. Xconomy editors around our network will be contributing to the new channel. and Cybersecurity. Today we have three articles to kick off our coverage.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This dedicated portion of our website, featuring its own home page, will bring together all articles about education and edtech from across our 11-market network. to find all articles on this vital subject from across our network. Agtech and Food, and Cybersecurity. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Education Newsletter Training High Tech 40

Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2019

When Novartis dissolved its gene and cell therapy unit a few years ago, a bunch of projects the Swiss pharma giant had incubated were tossed aside. One of them was the work of surgeon Suzanne Ildstad, who has spent decades trying to develop a new way to improve the health outcomes of patients who need organ transplants.

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Organization Incubator Startup Help 102

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. And then the world changed.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2018

Fridays can be the most productive work day, as you look to shore up everything before the weekend starts. Or, maybe instead, it’s a day filled with long lunches and listless Internet surfing, as you seek out all the interesting articles you missed during the week.

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