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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based Saucey , a provider of an on-demand, alcohol delivery app said it has raised $4.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Blumberg Capital, Structure Capital, Altpoint Ventures, T5 Capital, HashtagOne, as well as individual angels. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

San Diego-based Lawn Love, an on-demand lawn and outdoor care company which is led by Jeremy Yamaguchi, has been acquired by Austin-based Lawn Starter, according to the companies this week. Lawn Love was backed by Bullpen Capital, Y Combinator, Alexis Ohanian, Joe Montana and Barbara Corcoran, and had raised $6.7M

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

San Diego-based wireless video surveillance developer MicroPower Technologies --which was part of the EvoNexus business incubator--said this week that it has started up a financing program, to spur demand for its surveillance systems. MicroPower is backed by Karmel Capital, Motorola, and the Tech Coast Angels.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2016

San Diego-based GoShare , the developer of an on-demand, moving and delivery app, has raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company said on Friday. The company said it will use the funding to improve its product and expand into new cities. The startup is led by Shaun Savage. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 3, 2018

On-demand, car wash startup Washe , which lets users connect with professional mobile car washers, said this week that it has raised $3.5M in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2015

On-demand pickup service Curbside , which develops a mobile, on-demand app and associated service that lets users buy products from retailers such as Target and Best Buy, and pick them up later that day, is planning to expand to Southern California. Qualcomm Ventures is the venture arm of San Diego's Qualcomm.

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MAY 18, 2021

For today's interview, we sat down and chatted with >Zeb Evans, the founder and CEO of San Diego-based ClickUp (www.clickup.com), the developer of a workplace productivity software platform which is based by such companies as Google, Airbnb, and Nike. ClickUp has raised $135M in venture capital so far. What is ClickUp?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Today, a startup that is doing this in the specific area of distressed property is announcing a round of growth funding to ramp up its team and expand its business. The funding is being led by QED Investors; Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, Navitas Capital, and Prudence Holdings also participated.

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JULY 22, 2010

San Diego-based Huntington Capital , a provider of mezzanine capital provider to lower middle market companies, is backing a Seattle manufacturer of custom photo books and other printed products. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Tags: huntington capital venture automated photo books.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

San Diego-based last mile transportation startup Wheels , which offers up on-demand bicycles, has raised $50M in a new round of funding, the company said today. The funding was led by DBL Partners. According to the company, it has now raised $87M in total funding.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. Source tell us it is now between $400 million and $500 million.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

in funding, in an interesting indication of the growing ecosystem around San Diego-based ServiceNow. Fruition--based in Chicago--said the Series A funding for the firm was led by Trident Capital, and specifically comes due to "rapid expansion and market demand" for ServiceNow's product. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. Over time, TAE hopes to license the D-T technology while building up to its ultimate goal.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Spin, which began offering this on April 1, is making this available in Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington, D.C. This week, we’ll highlight Via’s Series E funding round that was led by Exor. Deal of the week.

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APRIL 15, 2019

San Diego-based Wheels (www.takewheels.com) was co-founded by Jon and Josh Viner, who were the co-founders of Wag, where they raised nearly $400M in venture capital. Wheels currently operates in Los Angeles and San Diego. Josh Viner: Wheels is live in Los Angeles and San Diego. What is Wheels?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers. Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Now, as demand for engineered DNA rises, a handful of startups are vying to become the go-to provider for researchers looking for improved versions of the DNA sequences. On Tuesday, the San Diego biotech said it had raised $12.2 million in Series A financing that will help it continue its journey toward commercialization.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving. Panic ensued as we couldn’t bring the dogs to San Diego and my brother’s three kids look forward to this great trip all year. ” She arrived late that night in San Diego. The Background. “Oh s**t.” Thank you.

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Xconomy

APRIL 29, 2019

Successful management of any new enterprise, regardless of industry, is a process demanding of concerted effort to realize opportunity with a finite set of resources.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies.

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socalTECH

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. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., So we had to raise capital to meet orders. but internationally.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. to San Diego. Venture capital for innovators. Funding great entrepreneurs. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Every month, there’s news of another partnership among carmakers like GM and tech companies such as Uber, as they vie for dominant roles in a transportation future where individual car ownership may largely give way to rides-on-demand from fleets of autonomous and tech-enabled vehicles.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

One of the companies that has taken advantage of that is OneRoof Energy (www.oneroofenergy.com), a San Diego company headed by David Field. OneRoof--which is backed by Black Coral Capital and others--has been supplying solar leases, financing and installing solar panels to residences to the market.

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socalTECH

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. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., So we had to raise capital to meet orders. but internationally.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've made over 30 investments in Southern California, and that's just in Redpoint, and doesn't include all of the investment we made as Brentwood Venture Capital since the late 70's.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

An obvious place to look for help is the venture community—Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures pointed out in a recent blog that venture capital is doing well, and is positioned to do even better in the future. Losses in over-capitalized “vintage years” over the last two decades have left institutional investors (e.g.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2019

The on-demand delivery war in retail is on. In its quarterly earnings call Thursday, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) announced it would switch to one-day shipping for Prime members, halving the time the 100 million-plus people who subscribe to the service must wait before receiving their purchases.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

San Diego-based ZeaKal (www.zeakal.com) recently announced a $15M, Series C funding round for its efforts to develop plant traits which increase the efficiency of photosynthesis. The company is backed by Canopy Rivers, Finistere Ventures, and Middleland Capital.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Chipmakers and software developers leapt to fill that demand , and in turn they helped spur a sea change in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

If all goes well, the day will come when just one small thing will stand between you and funding for your startup: your signature on a term sheet. Because signing a term sheet demands a similar commitment (though without the reception and bridesmaids). What comes next isn’t easy, but it’s essential.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

It's been a good summer for Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures (www.okapivc.com), which recently saw its first portfolio firm exit last month in Carlsbad-based Helixis , which was acquired by Illumina for $105M. So what's going on with the fund nowadays? Interesting. Marc Averitt: We're just plugging away.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

Puls Technologies , whose on-demand technicians repair broken smartphones and install connected home devices, announced today it has raised $50 million to expand its reach as a unified source of device maintenance and consumer support.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. However, in the last ten years-- especially with the power grid--regulatory agencies have started to demand that those systems be able to be monitored for compliance. We raised money from Frost Data Capital.

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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 ! Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ.

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