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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

San Diego-based machine learning software developer Point Predictive has raised a new, Series B growth financing round, the company announced this morning. As part of the funding, the company has named Michael Housman as Chief Technology Officer and promoted Eric Werab to Chief Revenue Officer.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

San Diego-based Encodia, a biotech company which is focused on proteomics research, has raised $75M in a Series C funding round, the company said this week. As part of the funding, Sharon Kedar of Northpond and Dr. Andrew ElBardissi of Deerfield Management have joined the company's board of directors.

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MARCH 6, 2017

San Diego-based Raken has raised $2M in a funding round, for the company's construction reporting and compliance software. The funding was led by Rincon Venture Partners , and also included Eniac Ventures and Spider Capital. Raken is led and was co-founded by CEO Kyle Slager and CTO/CPO Dr. Sergey Sundukovskiy.

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JUNE 24, 2020

San Diego-based Carlsmed , a developer of medical devices to improve complex spin surgery, has raised $2.5M The seed funding was led by Cove Fund II, and also included Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health and Device of Tomorrow Capital, as well as un-named angels. in a funding round, the company said on Tuesday. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Not long after ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT ) acquired San Diego-based LonoCloud in 2013 , former LonoCloud executives Tom Caldwell and Hossein Eslambolchi met for coffee at the Specialty’s Café and Bakery in University City. Webroot also plans to expand in San Diego, and Caldwell said he plans to stay on.

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JUNE 16, 2011

San Diego-based Achates Power , the developer of improved internal combustion engine technology, said today that it has named John Koszewnik as Chief Technical Officer. Koszewnik was previously at FEV, and also served at Ford Motor for roughly 30 years. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

San Diego-based Certona , a developer of personalization software which uses machine learning and predictive algorithms, has raised $30M in a combined growth investment and minority recapitalization. The funding came from private equity investor Primus Capital. Certona was founded in 2004. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A search for “CTO books,” on the other hand, yields about 540 titles. But to Etienne de Bruin, a disproportionate amount of attention has focused on the tech founder as CEO, and what it takes for a CEO to build a tech business. As a software engineer and self-described “tech guy,” de Bruin says he is more interested in.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The newly launched, online home improvement project site and community Porch , which is split between San Diego and Seattle, is in the midst of raising $27.7M The company''s co-founders are CEO Matt Ehrlichman and CTO Eric Schleicher. capital venture market repair maintenance improvement marketplace services home porch'

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MAY 16, 2018

CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. Apuzzo shifted to his preferred role as CTO.) After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

La Jolla-based Singlera Genomics , a developer of non-invasive genetic testing technology, has raised $20M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The funding was led by Lilly Asia Ventures, and also included Green Pine Capital Partners, CDBI Partners, and others. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

San Diego-based Luna DNA , a new genomic information startup based on the Blockchain protocol, and led by veterans of Illumina, sas it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. According to Luna DNA, the funding came from individual investors and former executives from DNA sequencing equipment developer Illumina. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Blippy (and their competitor Swipely – which was founded by Angus Davis , who has a great track record from both Netscape and TellMe, both aim to capitalize on the era of consumers living more openly ala Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla. 15mm in Series A. OpenCandy.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

a publisher of yield management software for the semiconductor industry, reported Wednesday that it has promoted Steven Griffith to president and chief executive officer. Griffith, the San Diego-based company noted, had previously served as its chief operating officer and chief technology officer.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality.

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MAY 19, 2009

San Diego-based cloud storage services provider Nirvanix reported Tuesday that it has hired Chris Russell as vice president of engineering. Nirvanix described Russell as a longtime technology executive with more than 20 years of hands-on experience.

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APRIL 1, 2013

San Diego-based Proximal Data , which develops serve-side caching software for accelerating I/O access to virtualized machines, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series B round of funding. Bolt was most recently at Avamar Technologies, where he was CTO of the firm before its acquisition by EMC in 2006.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

San Diego-based Nukona , a developer of mobile application management software for the enterprise, said Tuesday that it has closed a funding round. The firm's CTO, Jeff Enderwick, was co-founder of Allegro Systems, which was acquired by Cisco. Size of the round was not announced.

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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.

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JULY 7, 2010

Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm. His new site, Mahalo, is focused on people-based, online search, with backing from Seuqoia Capital and Elon Musk, among others.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

San Diego-based VMIX, a provider of video publishing tools for web publishers, said today that the firm has shuffled its executive staff and delivered a new version of its VMIX Player. VMIX said that it has appointed Mike Glickenhaus as President and CEO, and appointed co-founder and former CEO Greg Kostello as CTO.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media. A San Francisco investment firm, Muddy Waters Capital, announced on Sept.

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MAY 21, 2018

billion acquisition of the Israeli specialist in autonomous navigation technology. In a recent update, Mobileye co-founder and CTO Amnon Shashua said the company has almost doubled its workforce since the buyout. It plans to begin testing its self-driving technology in California next month.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Transaction Wireless announced this morning that it has raised $2.25M in a Series A funding. Transaction Wireless said the funding will go towards sales and marketing expansion, technology development, and customer deployment. The funding came from Mission Ventures and Okapi Ventures. READ MORE>>

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs (..)

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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

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JUNE 4, 2018

And as hard as it may be to believe, retailers “don’t really know what’s on the shelves,” says Sarjoun Skaff, founder and CTO of Bossa Nova Robotics. Inventory management is crucial to operating a successful retail operation.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon. Another guy who is helping is Richard Yen, who is at Saban Capital, and has joined as an advisor.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit.

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MARCH 31, 2014

I got involved with talking to CTOs at large, Fortune 500 companies, introducing them to what this system could provide, and figuring out if they have this capability. One of the folks was the CTO of an investment bank in New York, who immediately saw what we did, and said he had a problem he wanted us to approach.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

We never took a dollar of outside capital, from the founding until this round a couple of months ago. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. Now, despite bootstrapping, you actually have some connections to the venture capital world, don't you?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. We've also hired another VP of Sales, brought on a new CTO, who started ZigBee, Matt Perkins, and we are going to get some headcount growth--though we're planning to keep that under 50.

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MAY 6, 2012

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.

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