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

APRIL 28, 2017

To judge the first 100 days of a new administration is, as many pundits have pointed out, an odd vestige of history, more convenient than significant. Which is why we’ll start this week’s roundup with our 99-day evaluation of the Trump administration—at least when it comes to healthcare and the life sciences.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Aha makes a program that helps project managers develop new product roadmaps, which are used by others in the customer’s business, from sales. Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service.

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Xconomy

MAY 10, 2019

An April report from Evaluate Pharma predicted sales of orphan drugs to rise 12 percent a year between now and 2024, when they will account for an estimated 20 percent of worldwide prescription drug sales. The market for drugs for rare or “orphan” diseases continues to grow.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2019

It’s one big black hole with groceries, not knowing what is exactly on the retail shelf and available for sale,” says Richard Schwartz, president and CEO of Pensa Systems in Austin. Instead, inventory is typically tallied by employees by hand in a slow and laborious process. Inaccurate inventory costs retailers $1.1

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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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San Diego Seed Funding Guide Technology 40

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

A short week makes for a shorter roundup. As we’ve come to expect, however, there was no dearth of health and life-sciences news from Washington, D.C.

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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. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It billion.

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Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

Xconomy

MAY 9, 2017

There’s a lot of additional engineering and software development that needs to be done, and Edico also plans to expand its sales and marketing team, CEO Pieter. The new cash, which brings Edico’s total funding to $32 million, will be used to fuel expansion and further development of Edico’s Dragen technology.

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Web Services Software Development Sales 77

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Sales lagged. Six years ago, a biotech called Amarin won FDA approval of a prescription fish-oil pill, Vascepa, because it could lower triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood. But Amarin didn’t have the evidence that lowering triglycerides with fish oil would really help people. Amarin’s shares sank.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

billion this year through sales of digital tokens—so-called initial coin offerings or ICOs—and this method of fundraising exceeded traditional early-stage tech startup investments in June and July, CNBC reported in August. Companies have raised more than $1.25

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Web Report Sales Invest 86

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely ! Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2018

New York startup Zola also sees opportunity in connecting with—and making a sales pitch to—married couples years after they’ve tied the knot. Most wedding registries are focused on the lead-up to the day of the ceremony.

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Commerce Startup Sales Funding 61

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2019

Imagine the transportation future 20 years from now. Here’s one way things could roll on a weekday: Many of us get picked up at home by a sturdy, standardized, driverless car that will also scoop up a few of our neighbors who work at other businesses near ours.

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San Diego Platform Web Sales 84

Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—Warsaw, IN-based OrthoPediatrics filed for an IPO to help support sales expansion and new product development. The institutions will work on cancer drugs, and Celgene will get an option to license them. The company sells orthopedic devices used in surgeries on children.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Vedolizumab generated about $530 million in sales last year, and Takeda has projected that it may top out at north of $2 billion a year. “If “So as good as [Morphic’s plan] sounds, it is still a risky proposition.”. The integrin alpha 4 beta 7, the target of vedolizumab, is on Morphic’s list, which intrigues Ley.

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Startup Invest Journal Research 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were based in London. My family went without me.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities. link] Keep A Breast.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. Community Home Loans: FOR SALE. » More.

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