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MARCH 20, 2019

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 -- San Diego Fundingpost VC and Angel Investor Conference. Exhibitor passes include: - 3 tickets - Table top to display product / service - 4-minute speaking slot at the end of the normal 60- second pitches. Register for the FundingPost event on Tuesday, March 26th, 2019. See [link] (more)

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

San Diego-based GoSite , which operates an online platform to help small businesses bring their business online, has raised $40M in a Series B funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Left Lane Capital, and also included Longley Capital, Cove Fund, Stage 2, Ankona Capital and Serra Ventures.

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AUGUST 18, 2015

Lunch delivery service Peach , which provides office dwellers in San Diego and Seattle with an algorithm-driven, curated lunch service, is expanding beyond its two initial markets, into Boston and DC, thanks to a new $8M funding round. Peach said the funding round comes from Madrona Venture Group and Vulcan Capital.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Mountain View-based Wrike , a developer of enterprise work management software, said on Monday that it has opened up a new office in San Diego, and plans to hire 150 people in the location. Wrike said the new jobs in the location will be in sales and customer service.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

San Diego-based Founders First Capital Partners , which says it provides "revenue-based" financing to businesses, has raised $100M in a debt financing commitment, the company said this week. The company said the financing comes from Community Investment Management.

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APRIL 24, 2019

San Diego-based Perspectium , which develops software for service management integration, has raised $8M in its Series B funding round, according to the firm. The investment came from TVC Capital. The company says its customers include Fortune 500 companies, software-as-a-service vendors, and global service providers.

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MARCH 4, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Highview Capital said on Tuesday that it has partnered with Toronto-based First light Media , to acquire AT&T's Quickplay unit, which had provided managed services for delivering "Over-The-Top" (OTT) video services. Quickplay has operations in San Diego, Toronto, and Chennai.

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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. The new service will be priced per move per hour, allowing users to move a room or an entire home across the cities Clutter offers its service.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Wiliot , an Israel- and San Diego-based RFID technology developer, has received $30M more in a funding round, the company said on Monday. The funding, a Series B, came from Amazon Web Services, Samsung Venture Investment Corp., and Avery Dennison Corp. The company's tags are aimed at use in such products as clothing.

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JUNE 9, 2016

San Diego-based growth and private equity investor TVC Capital is the lead backer of cloud services company BitTitan , which announced a $15M, Series A financing this morning. Steve Hamerslag of TVC Capital will join BitTitan's board as part of the funding. BitTitan is based in Kirkland, Washington. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 30, 2019

San Diego-based Quality Built , a provider of third-party, quality-assurance services to the residential and commercial construction industry, has received a private equity investment from Los Angeles-based Gallant Capital Partners. Size of the investment was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

El Seguno-based SmartAction , which is developing artificial intelligence-driven, call center automation software, said today that it has raised funding in a management recapitalization by private equity investors Staley Capital and TVC Capital. Staley Capital is based in Boston, and TVC Capital is based in San Diego.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

San Diego's TVC Capital has made another investment in a growing software firm, this time in Washington State. Limeade , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to manage employee wellness programs, said today that it has raised $5M in a funding round from TVC, which it will use for innovation and servicing its customers.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Open Listings , a venture-backed startup which helps people find, tour, and buy homes, which has offices in both San Diego and San Francisco, said Wednesday that it had launched its service in Seattle. The move is aimed directly at competing with online real estate brokerage site Redfin, which is based in Seattle.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Neustar , a provider of marketing data, risk management, DNS and DDoS protection services, and more--which has offices in Los Angeles and San Diego--has been acquired by Golden Gate Capital for approximately $2.9 Neustar said Wednesday that Golden Gate Capital will pay $33.50 Neustar is based in Sterling, Virginia.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

San Diego-based Aquam Corporation , which provides technology for addressing deteriorating pipes used in water and other utility infrastructure, has raised $26M in a private equity funding, the company said this morning. The funding came from NewWorld Capital Group, and also included an un-nnamed, Credit Suisse advised fund.

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JULY 23, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm , via its venture capital arm, Qualcomm Ventures, has invested in a Korean "instant delivery" startup Naldo , in a Series A funding. Naldo offers up a service for Korean consumers and businesses, letting them order products and receive them in only a few hours using local couriers. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 3, 2021

San Diego-based startup accelerator operator Nex Cubed says it has launched a virtual, summer startup acceleration program, focused on founders from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Nex Cubed, led by CEO Marlon Evans. Twelve different founders are part of the program.

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JUNE 10, 2016

Startup Week San Diego, like a lot of other places that host similar events, has been billed as a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship. But while Startup Week San Diego has always collaborated with UP Global, San Diego entrepreneur and Startup Week organizer Austin Neudecker said, “We’ve always been an independent entity.”.

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MAY 17, 2017

San Diego-based TealTech Capital , a new, $60M venture investment fund backed by Torrey Pines Investment, has launched its new investment fund, and made its first investment. Size of the investment in TealNet MMO was not announced.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Prolific San Diego angel investor Howard Lindzon , the CEO and founder of Stocktwits , has re-upped in Ticketfly , a social event ticketing service.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

San Diego-based connected vehicle platform developer Platform Science said it has scored a win with truckload carrier and brokerages services provider Paper Transport. Platform Science is venture backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Chimera, 8VC, Daimler, Prologis, NextPlay, and Four More Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

San Diego-based HouseCall , which develops mobile software to let consumers book home services appointments, along with offering up home services contractors with scheduling and related tools, has raised $6M in a funding round. The company disclosed the funding on Tuesday, saying that August Capital led the funding.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

San Diego-based Younity is announcing this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding, for its cloud-based media storage service. The funding was led by Marker LLC, and also including Draper Associates and PROfounders Capital. Younity said it has now raised $11.25M in total. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

San Diego-based Workiz, which provides software used by home services companies to manage their teams and things like payment requests and back office operations, has raised $40M in a Series C funding.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

San Diego-based MindTouch , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to help companies create self-service, customer support sites, has raised $12M in a Series A funding. The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

San Diego-based mobile form and data capture app developer GoFormz said this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series A funding. The round was led by Shasta Ventures, and also included existing investors Cloud Apps Capital Partners and Glynn Capital. The company is led by CEO Rob Brewster.

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MARCH 22, 2017

San Diego-based Lightpost Digital , a digital agency which provides online marketing services to local businesses, has raised a round of funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding came from Canal Partners and DWP Investments. The company is a spinout of Deal Current, and was founded in 2015.

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APRIL 10, 2017

Soci, a San Diego startup that created a Web platform for managing social media, has closed on $8.5 The five-year-old startup, which had 35 employees five months ago when it was named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego company to watch , now has 50 employees. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

San Diego-based Truepic, a startup that provides photo verification technology, said today that it has raised $26M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by M12, and also included Adobe, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV1, Heart Ventures, and individuals from Stone Point Capital. Jeffrey McGregor is CEO of Truepic.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

San Diego-based private equity firm TVC Capital , which is led by Jeb Spencer and Steven Hamerslag, has closed on a new, $75M growth equity and buyout fund, the firms said today. The new fund, TVC Capital II came from private equity fund of funds, institutional asset managers and family offices.

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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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JANUARY 25, 2012

San Diego-based StockTwits , the finance and stock-focused micro-messaging service headed by Howard Lindzon, reported that S&P Capital IQ , a provider of market research and financial information, is using its StockTwits Pro service.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion invested in 780 venture capital deals for Q3. provider of celebrity endorsement services, with $21.6M

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

San Diego-based American Internet Services, a Internet data center co-location provider, said Tuesday that the firm has been acquired by an investor group lead by private equity firm Seaport Capital. According to AIS, the firm's day to day operations will continue to be run by its current senior management team.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

billion in venture capital in Q4 of 2018, according to data from Dow Jones VentureSource , released on Friday. billion in San Diego and $0.42 The region had a total of 124 deals logged by Dow Jones VentureSource, split between 75 in Los Angeles, 29 in San Diego, and 20 in Orange County. billion in Orange County.

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