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. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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APRIL 8, 2019

San Diego-based Lawn Love , which provides on-demand, lawn mowing and care services, says it has launched its services in Orange County, as part of an expansion effort. The company's CEO and founder is Jeremy Yamaguchi. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based on-demand, storage service Clutter is expanding into the moving business, saying on Wednesday that it will start offering up in-city moving services. Clutter currently offers up its moving services in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, , and New Jersey.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Less than a month after rebranding as Canoo , the startup electric vehicle company formerly known as Evelozcity is on the hunt for $200 million in new capital. Porsche launches on-demand subscription for its sports cars and SUVs. and China, according to one person with knowledge of the company’s plans.

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Outsource Development Startup Outsource San Diego 191

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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

APRIL 6, 2020

I have started to publish a version of the newsletter on TechCrunch. I will repeat my appeal from last week: Maybe you’re a startup founder, a safety driver at an autonomous vehicle developer, a venture capitalist, engineer or gig economy worker. metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. A novel rewards program.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Opendoor has opened the door, so to speak, for startups to apply their technical expertise in search, marketplaces and audience segmentation to rethink the very antiquated and analogue world of property. The funding is being led by QED Investors; Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, Navitas Capital, and Prudence Holdings also participated.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In a proof that it's not all social media and e-commerce here in Southern California, number two ranking startup in The Wall Street Journal's ranking of the "Top 50 Startups" is none other than wireless hardware provider Xirrus , based in Thousand Oaks. That list included Laguna Hills-based Glaukos at number 7; Donuts Inc. ,

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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. The new machine was first fired up in the summer of 2017.

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MARCH 15, 2016

Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking marketplace Wag! The startup says that Austin is the eighth city it has launched in so far. Wag currently also serves Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Chicago, Orange County and San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. Investors: August Capital (David Hornik) (lead) with existing investors Charles River Ventures. Read more: TechCrunch. ShoeDazzle.

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socalTECH

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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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. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. How did you start the company? So, we quit our jobs and started working full time on the company.

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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 started watching dogs in her spare time through DogVacay and was able make ends meet during a tough period.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review San Diego 344

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

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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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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. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. How did you start the company? So, we quit our jobs and started working full time on the company. but internationally.

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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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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. For the startup CEO, it can be their most important job. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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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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Commerce Pricing Startup Demand 84

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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Technical Review Product Venture Capital Software Review 65

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment. Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment. Thanks for the time today.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

That was primarily driven by the economy; when the economy is down, investments are down, and it is increasingly difficult to d a startup. The demand for our products and services is really high, unemployment is high, the need for new technology is high, as is the need to increase efficiency from businesses. It's been kind of lean.

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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. When you started, we were in a completely different kind of world, in terms of the economy.

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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. Han Chen: As you know,we are facing a lot of climate issues today.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. We talked to the six dominant meter manufacturers, to really understand what they wanted, and came up with the first generation of our parts in 2004, almost concurrently to when we bought the business.

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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. Can you explain?

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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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Mobile High Tech News Marketing 83

Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

What is the ideal age to start a company? Twenty-somethings also tend to have few external commitments, like a spouse, kids, or a mortgage, which makes startup life easier to manage. Today’s teens have grown up with the Internet. But in fact the average amount of money needed to start a new business is much lower.

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Entrepreneur Startup Education Course 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. An example might be Demand Media, which as a ton of corporate portals and content sites, and would be an ideal target to target customers in global markets. How did you start NativeTung? The last place I worked was at Yahoo.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

The deal underscores the growing demand for software coding and other digital skills—and employers’ increased willingness to turn to non-traditional sources to find talent. General Assembly (GA) launched in early 2011 with an incubator in New York City that was a cross between a co-working space and a startup university.

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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

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

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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Product Journal Venture Capital Demand 40

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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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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