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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

in a Series C funding round, which it said partially go to expanding hiring at its San Diego offices, the company announced on Wednesday. The company has now raised $81M in total. Health IQ has positions in sales and account management listed from its San Diego offices. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Anzu Partners , a venture capital and private equity investors focused on industrial technology with offices in the San Diego area, has quietly raised $128.4M in its first venture capital fund. The company--which has offices in La Jolla, plus Massachusetts, Florida, and Washington, DC.--revealed READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

San Diego venture investor and entrepreneur Barbara Bry , who co-founded Proflowers.com and several other local technology companies, said on Wednesday that she is running for Mayor of San Diego , in a move to further extend her experience in the technology industry into politics.

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MARCH 30, 2020

San Diego has long been considered a second-tier primary biopharma hub in terms of number of companies and venture capital raised, falling behind the twin behemoths of Boston-Cambridge and the San Francisco Bay Area on those and other metrics.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

San Diego-based Seismic , a developer of sales and marketing software, has raised $100M more in a funding round, which values the company at $1 billion, the company said on Tuesday. The company's software is used to automate and personalize sales documents and marketing materials. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 5, 2019

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 -- San Diego FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in San Diego, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!

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APRIL 4, 2014

It hasn''t been a great few months for San Diego''s software and technology industry, as the city has seen three, big software companies move their operations, and thousands of jobs, to Texas. Others involved in the effort include investor Brant Cooper, and Cooley''s Eric Otterson.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Welcome back to Human Capital, where we explore some of the latest news in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. But GitHub is by no means the first company to consider and make these changes.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

A startup which is based on research conducted at the University of California, San Diego has scored $15M in a Series A funding. which was co-founded by Tom Driscoll, a former University of California at San Diego researcher. The company is based in the Seattle, Washington area. Echodyne Corp. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 5, 2019

Gene editing technology developer Inscripta , which has one of its offices in San Diego, saidt his week that has added another $20M in funding to its Series C round, bringing the round to a total of $105.5M. The company had originally announced its Series C in 2018, worth $85.5M. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

San Diego-based Dexcom, which develops equipment for continuous glucose monitoring for people with diabetes, has launched its own venture capital fund, Dexcom Ventures. The company said its venture capital arm will be led by Steve Pacelli.

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JUNE 5, 2018

Paycom Software , a publicly traded developer of cloud-based human capital management software, has opened up a new office in San Diego, the company said on Monday afternoon. The company said it will be hiring and recruiting sales staff in the new location. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 29, 2019

The nominees and finalists for the first-ever Xconomy Awards San Diego were an impressive bunch, making it tough for our judges and the editors to pick the winners. There were multiple deserving companies and people in each category. 2019 WINNERS Big Idea Gene Yeo, University of California, San Diego.

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AUGUST 24, 2012

A list of the top ten cities for startups was released by USA Today and the National Venture Capital Association today, naming both Los Angeles and San Diego among the best cities for startup companies. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Los Angeles and San Diego are among the metro areas with the highest startup activity, based on a new report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The index uses the rate of new entrepreneurs in the economy, "opportunity share" for new entrepreneurs, and startup density to rank companies in different metro areas for its rankings.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

San Diego-based DNA sequencing giant Illumina, and venture capital investor Sequoia Capital via its Sequoia Capital China arm--said they are partnering to launch a new, genomics incubator based in China. The two did not say how much they are investing in the Chinese incubator.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

San Francisco-based synthetic DNA developer Twist Bioscience Corporation is in a big expansion, saying it has opened up a new office in Carlsbad. Twist is venture backed by such investors as Biomatics Capital, plus Reinet Fund S.C.A.,

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APRIL 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Palisades Growth Capital announced this morning that it has sold off its ownership interest Los Angeles-based L Docupace , a developer of software for the wealth management industry. Palisades said it sold its interests in Docupace to another private equity investor, FTV Capital.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Matcherino , an online crowdfunding startup focused on funding eSports matches, has raised $1.25M in a funding round, the company said today. The startup--whose co-founder, Mario Gutierrez, is based in San Diego--said the funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Vulcan Capital and angels.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Even as all eyes were on the American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference in downtown San Diego this week, other biotech companies were staying busy. Let’s get caught up with the latest life sciences news in San Diego. The San Diego biotech is developing therapies for cancers related to the Epstein-Barr virus.

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JULY 28, 2020

San Diego-based venture capital investment firm Versant Ventures has launched a new biotechnology company, Bright Peak Therapeutics , in Basel, Switzerland, the company announced this morning. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 18, 2015

Lunch delivery service Peach , which provides office dwellers in San Diego and Seattle with an algorithm-driven, curated lunch service, is expanding beyond its two initial markets, into Boston and DC, thanks to a new $8M funding round. Peach said the funding round comes from Madrona Venture Group and Vulcan Capital.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Biotech venture capital investor Sofinnova , which has offices in San Diego, announced that it has raised $650M in its newest fund, Sofinnova Venture Partners X. Sofinnova says it invests in biotechnology companies that are developing drugs that address high unmet medical needs and improve the lives of patients.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Carlsbad-based Foundry Medical Innovations said today that it has launched a new, medical and diagnostic device incubator in San Diego County, which it says provides a shared workspace, access to technical engineering talent, business and marketing plan support, and connections to the venture capital community. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

San Diego-based Neurophth, a gene therapy company, has raised $60M in a Series C funding round, the company said today. The funding was co-led by CMG-SDIC Capital and Sequoia Capital China, and also included Sunshine Insurance and China Merchant Bank International Capital.

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APRIL 1, 2019

San Diego-based Reveal Biosciences , a startup applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to pathology, has received a round of funding from Intel Capital , the corporate venturing arm of microprocessor giant Intel. Size of the investment in Reveal Biosciences was not announced.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

San Diego-based Founders First Capital Partners , which says it provides "revenue-based" financing to businesses, has raised $100M in a debt financing commitment, the company said this week. The company said the financing comes from Community Investment Management.

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JUNE 14, 2021

San Diego-based ecoATM said on Monday that it has raised $75M in a growth equity round. According to the company, the funding will go to accelerate the company's global expansion and support product extensions. The funding came from existing investor Cowen Sustainable Advisors. ecoATM is led by CEO Dave Maquera.

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MARCH 4, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Highview Capital said on Tuesday that it has partnered with Toronto-based First light Media , to acquire AT&T's Quickplay unit, which had provided managed services for delivering "Over-The-Top" (OTT) video services. Quickplay has operations in San Diego, Toronto, and Chennai.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Illumina Ventures , the early-stage venture capital investor which was founded by San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina , says it has raised $230M for its first fund.

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JUNE 9, 2020

San Diego-based venture investor Versant Ventures has launched a brand new company out of its Inception Discovery Engine incubator in San Diego, saying this morning it has invested $50M in Lycia Therapeutics. professor of chemistry and HHMI investigator at Stanford University.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Venture capital investors sank $547.2 million into 37 startup companies throughout San Diego County during the first three months of 2018, maintaining roughly the same level of venture funding seen in recent quarters, according to the Venture Monitor Report. It was almost 4 percent higher than the $526.7

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MAY 11, 2017

San Diego-based Miva , the developer of e-commerce shopping cart software, has received a growth capital funding from private equity investor Bison Capital Partners, the companies said this week. Miva said that the investment is the first time in its history that it has accepted growth capital funding.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

David Titus , a venture capitalist at Windward Ventures , has joined the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation as Managing Director, Strategic Initiatives, the nonprofit said yesterday. Tags: economy diego capital venture titus david ventures windward. Windward has raised its last fund in 2000.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

San Diego-based Sommetrics , a developer of medical devices to treat sleep apnea, said today that it has hired investment advisor Key West Investments to help it raise additional capital. The company did not say how much money it is planning to raise in its funding round. Sommetrics is led by Richard Rose, M.D.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

It’s not too late to submit your nominations for the first-ever Xconomy Awards San Diego. This is your chance to tell our judges about the people, companies, and organizations that make the life science, healthtech, and medical device communities in San Diego so innovative. PST on Thursday, Feb.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

El Seguno-based SmartAction , which is developing artificial intelligence-driven, call center automation software, said today that it has raised funding in a management recapitalization by private equity investors Staley Capital and TVC Capital. Staley Capital is based in Boston, and TVC Capital is based in San Diego.

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