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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

San Diego-based Stemson Therapeutics , a startup working on therapies to cure hair loss, has raised $7.5M The funding came from Allergan Aethetics and Fortunis Capital. The funding from Fortunis Capital came out of its Impact Fund. The funding from Fortunis Capital came out of its Impact Fund.

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MAY 21, 2020

San Diego-based venture capital fund Sectoin 32 says it has made a number of key appointments, as it expands its human resources, staffing, and communications efforts.

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego has formed a partnership with Downtown Works, a new co-working space in downtown San Diego, which will give the local Plug and Play program a place to call home. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”.

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San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

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JANUARY 17, 2019

San Diego-based renewable energy developer EDF Renewables North America said Thursday that it has acquired another wind project, this time in the state of Nebraska. The company purchased the wind development from a partnership owned by Aksamit Resource Management, LLC and York Capital Management.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

San Diego-based OneRof Energy , the provider of solar lease financing and solar installation services for the residential market, has raised $2M in a debt financing. The company said the funding came from New Resource Bank. oneroof energy solar financing loan lease fund cleantech photovoltaic rooftop venture capital'

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Aquam, a San Diego company with technology for cleaning out and re-lining aging utility pipelines, has raised $26 million in a growth capital round led by NewWorld Capital Group , a New York private equity firm that makes investments in sustainable energy and natural-resources related deals.

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Services San Diego Resource Equity 55

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based Kazuhm , a startup developing a distributed computing workload platform, has received a funding round from Analytics Ventures, Analytics said this week. Size of the investment was not announced.

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Software Cloud Computing Funding San Diego 113

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MARCH 12, 2012

San Diego-based Allylix , developer of chemicals used for the flavor and fragrance, food, cosmetics, and other markets, has raised $18.2M in a funding round, according to lead investor BASF Venture Capital GmbH. According to BASF, it invested $13.5M READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

San Diego-based SkinIt , the maker of protective "skins" for electronic devices, said today that it has expanded its leadership team. The firm--which is backed by ABS Capital Partners, said that Laura Christine is its EVP Consumer Group; Jennifer Jordan its VP of Finance; John P.

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MAY 9, 2012

EdenIQ , the spinout of San Diego-based Altra Biofuels , the developer of biofuels processing technology, has scored $30M in new venture capital funding, the company said today. Both KPCB and Angeleno Group are also investors in Altra Biofuels.

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Draper San Diego Equity Venture Capital 133

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

EvoNexus , the San Diego-based startup incubator, has opened up application for its next program, with a deadline of January 23rd. The QualcommLabs@EvoNexus initiative invests up to $250,000 in companies, in addition to providing access to Qualcomm's resources for startups. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firms Ligand Pharmaceuticals and Metabasis Therapeutics announced this morning that Ligand is acquiring Metabasis, in a deal worth $3.2M Erion, the sale was made due to the firm's "limited financial and operational resources." According to Metabasis CEO Mark D.

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San Diego Venture Capital Resource Acquisition 140

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JUNE 16, 2016

In San Diego, the complaints often focus on the relative scarcity of venture capital and hometown VC firms. So when the San Diego Venture Group recruited Mark Suster of Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures to give the keynote talk Tuesday night for Startup Week San Diego, more than 800 people filled a downtown auditorium.

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Venture Capital San Diego Truecar Web 49

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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

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

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JANUARY 17, 2012

San Diego-based SG Biofuels , a developer of hybrid seeds of Jatropha for the biofuels and specialty chemicals business, said that it has raised $17M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Thomas, McNerney & Partners, and also included Finistere Ventures, Flint Hills Resources, and Life Technologies Corporation.

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San Diego Resource Research Content 145

Xconomy

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Venture capital is, by nature, an optimistic industry, and venture capitalists have historically gone about their work comfortable that they were making positive societal contributions. But that sunny view of venture capital has been called into question over the past two years. In 2017, the focus was on.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Similarly, the firm is using a Y-Combinator/TechStars model to startups, and covers Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. Specifically targeted at clean techonlogy firms, the group has more of a traditional incubator program, offering up office space for 6-8 companies, along with support, resources, and mentorship.

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Southern California Orange County Incubator Tech Coast Angels 216

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JUNE 17, 2009

San Diego-based Maxwell Technologies and Poway-based ISE Corporation reported this morning that the two companies are in a strategic alliance around development of energy storage systems for hybrid buses and trucks. The two companies have been working together since 2002.

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Technology San Diego Venture Capital Resource 100

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

Companies such as San Diego-based SlantRange are betting that drones, flying lower and slower, can deliver images at higher resolution than either planes or satellites. TerrAvion’s investors include Y Combinator, Funders Club, Initialized Capital, Promus Ventures, and Grey Corp.

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San Diego Outsource Development Startup Resource 107

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Andersen created the program under the auspices of CyberTech , a membership organization he created to provide networking, resources, and programs focused on cybersecurity, Internet of Things, and related technologies. Our goal is to get them on their feet from a sustainability standpoint,” Andersen said.

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Entrepreneur San Diego Training Resource 40

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. The deal also reflects Petco’s expanding interests in technology following the company’s $4.6-billion

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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.

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Startup Mobile Venture Capital Resource 217

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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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Entrepreneur Startup Demand Resource 103

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JUNE 23, 2016

San Francisco-based Webpass has spent the past 13 years working to bring ultra-fast wireless Internet access to homes (primarily large apartment complexes) and businesses around the country. Google Fiber’s resources will enable Webpass to grow faster and reach many more customers than we could as a standalone company.”.

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Google San Diego Resource Blogging 45

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The aim, according to the private college’s press release, is to provide “mentoring, advising and access to resources for up to 15 student- and community-run companies with a philanthropic twist.” Salt Lake City, Utah’s Westminster College debuted it’s Social Impact Incubator on August 30 of this year.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

to San Diego. Venture capital for innovators. PRTechConnect leverages the resources of a full-service LA-based PR firm to distribute your news directly to a customized, targeted list of reporters and editors in print, broadcast and online media. experts, developers, and many, many others. Funding great entrepreneurs.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Degreed , which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 million to grow the service and expand internationally.

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Training Education Platform Course 82

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. In the 2-1/2 years since it was founded, Nervana raised roughly $25 million. (In

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Artificial Inteligence San Diego Framework Blogging 40

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JULY 22, 2016

—Boston-based Zafgen (NASDAQ: ZFGN ) abandoned its lead drug, beloranib —an obesity treatment beset by safety problems—and will instead put its resources behind a follow-on preclinical obesity drug that it believes to be much safer.

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Startup San Diego News Thousand Oaks 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 6, 2018

As much as 40 percent of food in this country is never eaten, yet 41 million people don’t have enough to eat, including 13 million children, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Technical Review Resource Startup Technology 55

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JUNE 28, 2016

The company is targeting what Forgacs says is a $100 billion leather products industry, saying it has an innovative solution that could address global resource challenges by reducing the materials and processes that conventional leather products require. Our process makes cow collagen, without touching a cow. There’s no cow involved.”.

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San Diego Product Design Funding 59

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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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Her search for solutions spurred her to move from her native Bulgaria to find greater resources in Vienna, where she began developing what is now a tablet computer that can display the text from any online source in a full page of Braille.

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Competition Screening Resource Startup 78

Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2018

Diffbot , a tech startup that continuously scours the Web to assemble a “knowledge graph” of billions of facts in context, announced today that it’s opening up the searchable resource to the public—with starter rates as low as a cable TV bill.

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Web Google Blogging Resource 75

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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. Ken Rutkowski is the man making happen here. As President of the L.A.

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Mentor Class Entertainment Technical Review 185

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Carmen says Material Mix is a Capital Innovators and Arch Grants partner, and Clean Tech Open Semifinalist. Born in Oregon, she worked in sustainable resource management in California’s public sector and was in the tough Construction and Demolition recovery. But her success did not come to her in a dream.

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San Diego Education Platform Web 55