socalTECH

MAY 19, 2014

The firm''s founder, Nicholas Woodman, is a graduate of UC San Diego, and came up with the idea for the company while surfing off of San Diego; the company''s investors also include Steamboat Ventures--the venture arm of Walt Disney--which looks to own something around 3 percent of the company. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Steamboat Ventures SoCal San Diego 196

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2019

San Diego-based pet supply retailer Petco has named Darren MacDonald as the company's new Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, according to the company, to head up its e-commerce, app, prescription fulfillment, as well as employer wellness benefits offerings. MacDonald also has served at Avery Dennison.

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Commerce San Diego Incubator Entertainment 113

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5 aims to create a network of support and mentorship along with access to capital where people can build on creative ideas with the help of successful business people, and connect with investors to get their concepts off the ground. K5Launch will turn this intimidating prospect into an exciting three-month adventure.”.

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San Diego Southern California Orange County SoCal 66

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Today, Apple News offers local news coverage in 11 markets, including San Francisco, the Bay Area, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Miami, Charlotte, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.,” ” my colleague Aisha notes. Crypto startups are making it easier to build crypto clubs.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

Xconomy

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The San Diego Venture Group has established a beachhead in San Francisco, and it’s opening for business Tuesday. The idea is to provide a home away from home for San Diego startups looking to do deals in the Bay Area. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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San Diego Venture Capital Ideas Startup 61

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5 aims to create a network of support and mentorship along with access to capital where people can build on creative ideas with the help of successful business people, and connect with investors to get their concepts off the ground. K5Launch will turn this intimidating prospect into an exciting three-month adventure.”.

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San Diego Southern California Orange County Seed Funding 56

socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2010

San Diego-based ecoATM , a developer of automated kiosks for recycling cell phones and other electronics, has scored a strategic investment from kiosk maker COinstar. ecoATM was the winner of a contest run by Coinstar in 2009 focused on finding innovative ideas for kiosks. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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Funding San Diego Venture Capital Invest 150

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. ShoeDazzle was already profitable and growing and had already taken capital from Polaris Ventures and Crosscut Ventures. 7mm in Series B.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Xconomy

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. We need to be on a path-finding mission to find tangential investments,” he told reporters.

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Capital San Diego USC Invest 40

Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. He founded MaxIT Healthcare in 2001.

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San Diego Incubator CIO Startup 67

Xconomy

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The idea in 2011 was to create a space at what was then Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical research and development facility in San Diego for an “innovation center,” a place where 18 to 20 life sciences startups could incubate, replete with lab space and equipment.

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San Diego Incubator Screening Research 75

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The funding is being led by QED Investors; Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, Navitas Capital, and Prudence Holdings also participated. “The idea has become glamorized, and they make a ridiculous amount of money. All are previous investors from the startup’s last round, a $16.55 million Series A also led by QED.

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Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

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?

San Diego 113

San Diego Startup Study Los Angeles 113

Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2017

In the venture capital business, a rising tide lifts all boats. That’s the idea, at least. venture firms have plenty of capital to invest in new companies, after 328 venture funds raised a total of $51.6 A new report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook shows that U.S. million in 2016.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Report 40

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

It's unclear if or how any of Southern California's crop of alternative vehicle firms will be able to capitalize on the interest in electric vehicles, however, it's clear that Silicon Valley does not have a monopoly on firms looking to address the emerging electric and alternative car market.

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Southern California Rustic Canyon Marketing San Diego 176

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Local Capital – I do believe that you’ll struggle to get a community started without some local capital.

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Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2012

Modern Meadow , a firm whose founders were previously co-founders of San Diego's Organovo , has scored funding to make manufactured, 3D printed meat a reality. The funding came from Breakout Labs and The Thiel Foundation, Breakout Labs said Thursday.

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Funding San Diego Ideas Technology 220

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. I absolutely loved the idea from day one and told Aaron so.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review San Diego 344

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio. I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. As you know, Silicon Valley has a locker grip on the venture capital community.

Southern California 170

Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Mobile 40

Mobile San Diego Social Media Services 40

socalTECH

MAY 13, 2009

Having just returned from a three year stint serving the venture capital market in Shanghai, Bill Molloie --new head of PricewaterhouseCooper 's San Diego emerging life sciences practice--has a unique view of the venture capital market. How did his experience compare with what he's seeing now in San Diego?

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Invest San Diego Venture Capital Southern California 100

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. These times have sparked a host of new ideas. A novel rewards program. Here’s one. Other deals: Qcraft.ai

Layoffs 136

Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, twelve companies moved into the new downtown San Diego, EvoNexus incubator--which is run by CommNexus. Running that effort is Kevin Hell , the founder of DivX, who we caught up with to learn more about EvoNexus and how the group is trying to help grow technology startups in San Dieog.

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Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service? Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. It's fun, I guess. Only a dummy would do it again.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

He later became a chapter president of the Drone Industry Association, and explored the idea of setting up a business providing drone surveillance of farmland. Morris did go on to co-found an aerial imagery company for agriculture in 2013, but he scrapped the idea of using drones.

San Diego 107

San Diego Outsource Development Startup Resource 107

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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Venture Capital Marketing Santa Barbara Startup 365

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

The San Diego firm is headed by Ethan Senturia , who sat down with us to tell us how Dealstruck is trying to help build small businesses and jobs--and also tells us a bit about what it''s like to come from a family full of very successful, and high profile entrepreneurs, and how that has influenced his experience as an entrepreneur himself.

Startup 247

Startup Software Review Entrepreneur Equity 247

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. The boxes Mythic wants to break customers out of are their big.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

in a funding from Mucker Capital, Social Capital, Hone Capital (formerly CSC Venture Capital), E-Merge, and GAN Ventures. That led to my experience and the idea, wondering if I could create the same kind of native experience people are used to with an app, except bring that through SMS. What does Work Today do?

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Startup Orange County Platform Capital 100

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Agtech investment firm Finistere Ventures; private equity firm Cloud Break Advisors; and Israeli venture capital firm OurCrowd contributed to the new accelerator. Radicle representatives plan to discuss their plans for the accelerator during AgTech Week 2016 , an ag investment conference being held in San Francisco this week.

Funding 68

Funding Research San Diego Incubator 68

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Like any entrepreneur, we had the idea that there should be local capital, supporting the local ecosystem.

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Rustic Canyon Palomar 153

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. For example, there's an idea for an events company we're considering.

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Mentor Class Entertainment Technical Review 185

socalTECH

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. Kanaan Jemili: Garry Winnick had the idea a few years ago, when he saw the shift happening from traditional video to digital video.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Media 113

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. Our whole model from beginning was to run ourselves, and run the fund in a capital efficient manner.

Startup 185

Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Right now, we have developers in Belgium, Texas, New York, San Diego, Florida, and in the Bahamas. I thought I would be an investment banker, and I decided I was probably going to move to San Francisco to enter private equity, venture capital, or a startup. The natural progression from venture capital is into startups.

Startup 217

Startup Mobile Venture Capital Resource 217

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The idea is to diagnose cancer well before symptoms show, giving clinicians a better chance to treat the disease. This week, the gene sequencing giant announced it is acquiring Grail in an $8 billion cash and stock deal.

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Acquisition Ideas Startup Product 85