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AUGUST 8, 2019

The company says that so far, it is offering up its scooter service in Los Angeles and San Diego. SUN is led by CEO Kevin Ellyson, and the company says it is advised by Brandon Maier, Founder of WestWave Ventures, and Founding Partner of Quake Capital.

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JUNE 4, 2013

The San Diego startup, which is headed by Ethan Senturia and was co-founded by Russel McLoughlin, said it is aiming at businesses seeking expansion capital, and helping them connect with accredited investors. in lending capital from individual accredited investors. The company said it has already raised $1.5M READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 14, 2013

San Diego-based Qualcomm has named the winner of its annual, Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Venture Investment Competition, the company said this morning. iOnRoad had previously won $100,000 from Qualcomm for winning the Israeli region competition of Qualcomm's QPrize competition. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

San Diego-based Radicle Growth, which focuses on incubating early stage agriculture and food technology, and agriculture giant UPL said today that the two are in a new partnership, which will invest $1.25M in two startups that can "positively impact and reduce the carbon footprint and improve soil health of the food value chain."

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Sirigen was venture backed by Great Pacific Capital, Seraphim Capital, and Oxford Capital Partners. Sirigen is now based in the United Kingdom, and also has operations in San Diego. Dietzen, after placing first prize in a business plan competition at the UCSB New Venture Competition. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

One of the companies recognized in Qualcomm's QPrize annual business plan competition has scored a series A funding, four years after being named a finalist in the Qualcomm effort. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital, and also included Qualcomm Ventures, an existing investor in the company. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 13, 2012

Engage with San Diego's spiciest up-and-coming tech companies through a collaborative competition. The MIT Enterprise Forum Tech Fiesta brings together the best and brightest entrepreneurs, tech experts and industry leaders San Diego has to offer. Moderator: Dave Titus - President and CEO, San Diego Venture Group.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. How was it you ended up in San Diego?

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

” Both Vaughn and his Saucey co-founder Daniel Leeb will take management positions at PCH, and Blumberg Capital and Bullpen will have a large equity stake in the newly formed holding company, Vaughn said. We’ve spent the past decade in bev-alc at the forefront of providing solutions to changing consumer shopping behaviors.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

What's the best way to share competitive intelligence and company announcements with your employees? Flud firm said its tool is aimed at bringing private news and intelligence sharing to businesses, letting co-workers share news articles and other information within an organization. and Europe for the enterprise product.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

MightyText , a Silicon Valley startup which develops Android applications to let users send SMS messages from their computer via the cloud, and syncs those messages between an Android phone and computer, has scored $100,000 from San Diego's Qualcomm.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

San Diego-based Givit , which develops social video sharing applications and services, announced this morning that it has raised $2.5M The new round came from ATA Ventures and JK&B Capital. The new app is direct competition for video sharing apps like Viddy and SocialCam. in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm is putting its money behind one of the winners of its second annual QPrize Venture Investment Competition, New York-based Enterproid , Enterproid revealed Thursday.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Car sharing startups have become immensely popular in areas such as Boston and San Francisco, with heavy competition between Zipcar, Relayrides, and Getaround. Zipcar is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, Boston Community Ventures, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital, and Pinnacle Ventures.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The funding is being led by QED Investors; Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, Navitas Capital, and Prudence Holdings also participated. ” That’s not to say that selling on a marketplace will remove that self-interest but it creates the option for more balanced dynamics where a seller might at least have more competition to consider.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

San Diego-based MOGL , which operates a customer loyalty program for restaurants focused on game mechanics, said today that it has raised $10M in a round of funding. MOGL offers incentives and competitions to spur visits to restaurants. The second round came from Sigma Partners, Austin Ventures, and Avalon Ventures.

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MARCH 12, 2019

The group, which included at least 33 parents, have been charged with bribing coachings, admission counselors, and others in order to guarantee their children spots into a number of schools, including UT Austin, Yale, the University of Southern California (USC), the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), UC San Diego, Wake Forest, and others.

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JULY 31, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm reports today that it is extending the deadline for the firm's wireless business plan competition, its Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Business Plan Competition, to August 21st. The deadline for the business plan competition was originally today, July 31st. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. Do we want to raise capital? That was the initial, hardest challenge.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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OCTOBER 24, 2008

San Diego-based FrameMax has raised $10M in a round of venture capital, for the firm's light gauge steel framing technology for the construction industry. Ventures, Cross Creek Capital, and NVestech. According to FrameMax, its turnkey solutions offers faster construction at competitive or below normal construction costs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . We raised $280 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. If you don’t live in a major VC zone, I have some tips for how to make it easier to raise Venture Capital. For starters I’d try to raise my initial capital locally.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. Eugene Cho: We had a seed round for less than $3M, and we did a note round with the Tech Coast Angels for $2M after we won their Quick Pitch competition, over about 150 other companies.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This is the reason many businesses wisely place a huge value on human capital and prioritize their focus on retention though recruitment techniques like competitive benefits and incentives. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. That's where the original concept came from--so we wrote up the plan, and it won the competition.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. Eugene Cho: We had a seed round for less than $3M, and we did a note round with the Tech Coast Angels for $2M after we won their Quick Pitch competition, over about 150 other companies. but internationally.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ).

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JULY 31, 2013

One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell. This last round is a significant amount of capital, why the new funding? Kevin Hell: Hardware companies do require more capital. For hardware, it''s even more challenging.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

to San Diego. Venture capital for innovators. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. tech economy, with interview with the movers and shakers in the industry, coverage of. Funding great entrepreneurs.

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JUNE 3, 2016

The only remaining daptomycin patent will expire in June, clearing the way for generic competition years earlier than expected. billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year. Supreme Court this week refused to reinstate four disputed patents related to daptomycin, according to Reuters.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2020

French firm Genfit reported a trial failure in an intensely competitive indication, and New York-based Bristol Myers Squibb encountered a delay when the FDA declined to review its experimental multiple myeloma treatment. This was a disappointing week for at least two major drug makers.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2019

A lawsuit is now claiming that many top generic drug makers routinely conspired to avoid competition. During his tenure as FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb often spoke about generics as a market force that could help tame climbing drug prices. But such tools only work when companies play fair.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Who are your core customers? Number six are publishers.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 14, 2018

to offer competitive pricing pressure. But the university also allowed them to patent the improvements they made, which enabled them to slap higher prices on each new version. In the nearly 100 years since insulin’s discovery, no generic version has become available in the U.S. FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb is trying to change that.

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MARCH 13, 2020

After talking with Constantine and the team, I was amazed at the market dynamics, and how well we are positioned to capitalize on it. Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage. We now have two loactions in San Diego, one location in Newport Beach, and one in Rodeo Drive, in Beverly Hills.

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