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San Diego Social Media Startup Soci Adds Austin Office, Raises $8.5M

Xconomy

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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San Diego Meets the Xconomists: When Social Media is Not Enough

Xconomy

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

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Best Friday Reads: Social Media Rules Us All, and Mints Billionaires

Xconomy

While the evolution from hunched primates to homo sapiens took tens of millions of years, we needed only about a decade to develop an arched neck that is perennially looking down at a smartphone—presumably one with a social media app open.

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Poshmark Picks Up $87.5M to Power the Social, Digital Wardrobe

Xconomy

Poshmark , a social media e-retail company, has raised $87.5 Other investors in the firm include Mayfield , Menlo Ventures , GGV Capital , Inventus Capital , SoftTech VC , Union Grove Venture Partners , and Cross Creek Advisors.

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socalTECH

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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StockTwits Acquires Mobile App SparkFin to Add Fintech Services

Xconomy

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ian Rosen, a former MarketWatch general manager.

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Bio Roundup: Michael Becker, Suzanne Eaton, Gene Therapy Moves & More

Xconomy

It seems at times we’re never far removed from any one person, through their published papers, social media connections, friends, colleagues, or people they’ve mentored. We often talk about impact in terms of millions of patients and billions of dollars. But these worlds can be small, too.