socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Jitterbug , which operates a wireless service aimed at seniors and others, said today that it has acquired MobiWatch , a developer of mobile, personal emergency response services. Jitterbug is backed by Court Square Ventures, Steelpoint Capital, Charles River Ventures, Nauta Capital, and others.

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Xconomy

JULY 25, 2019

Castle Biosciences is joining the public markets through a $64 million IPO that will support cancer tests that help doctors make treatment decisions. On Wednesday evening, Castle priced its offering of 4 million shares at $16 apiece, which was the high end of its targeted price range. million shares in the range of $14 to $16 each.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Earlier this month, the City of San Diego awarded a $40,000 grant to Nest , the 16,000-square-foot co-working space that Andersen founded, to help foster the creation of more startups and jobs in the region. — Sympathetic Innovations: 3D-printed, counter-IED training devices. — Secured Universe: Secure Android OS.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter. Razi, Bussel, and Dull are also on the board of Ingenu, the San Diego wireless technology company known previously as On-Ramp Wireless.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

The Adecco Group, the global staffing and worker training giant, has inked a $412.5 million agreement to acquire General Assembly, a tech training and career development company that offers courses online and at 20 campuses worldwide.

Training 59

Training Incubator Demand Course 59

Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. So we had to raise capital to meet orders. but internationally.

Tech Coast Angels 124

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 124

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 first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. So we had to raise capital to meet orders. but internationally.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 100

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

After talking with Constantine and the team, I was amazed at the market dynamics, and how well we are positioned to capitalize on it. We now have two loactions in San Diego, one location in Newport Beach, and one in Rodeo Drive, in Beverly Hills. Do users buy or rent these? READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2018

Instead, 3D printing startups have trained their eyes. Arevo’s technology mix—which combines automated printing equipment with Web-based software and customized raw materials—exemplifies the changes in 3D printing since the days when it served as a mere tool for crafting prototypes and as a consumer novelty.

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Web Training Tool Software 68

Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists.

Content 71

Content Training Design Startup 71

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. Ken Rutkowski is the man making happen here.

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Mentor Class Entertainment Technical Review 185

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Four new companies have been created through the incubator, which offers training, mentorship and guidance in addition to individual and shared workspaces: Nuhubit Software Studios LLC, 3D-SensIR. Outlyer Technologies, and Your Village. The California Spirits Company. The Travel Experience Incubator.

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Incubator Santa Clarita Technical Advisors FAQ 70

Xconomy

MAY 4, 2018

Now, in the wake of one failed trial, the IDO train has skidded off the tracks. Major drug makers were dealing, too. Through acquisitions and alliances, they rolled out a spate of large-scale combination trials.

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Case Study Study Training Acquisition 52

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

President Trump’s opioid commission released its final report this week, calling for expansion of drug courts, better physician training, and penalties for insurers that don’t cover treatment. The rising death toll from opioids has prompted policymakers to try various ways to take on the problem.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Investing in affordable education and training at all levels of society would prepare people for meaningful work, and provide compensation that could help reduce social inequities and divisiveness. In Sweden, citizens and entrepreneurs gladly pay taxes because of all the personal and social benefits those taxes produce. Need more convincing?

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Entrepreneur Education Training Invest 40

Xconomy

JUNE 2, 2016

As a startup CEO, I also went wondering whether and when Spare5 might engage Cuba and Cubans—as suppliers of the human insights we source, and customers who need high-quality data to train artificial intelligence engines. The short answer: not any time in the foreseeable future. People don’t seem to own very much.

Startup 63

Startup Artificial Inteligence .Net Guide 63

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We never took a dollar of outside capital, from the founding until this round a couple of months ago. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. Now, despite bootstrapping, you actually have some connections to the venture capital world, don't you?

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

I entered into this study, and thought�since I'd been training for the Ironman�I'd be the healthiest person in the study. So, to answer the question of why I'd leave full time venture capital and become a CEO, it's because I saw that we can take people, and in the scope of a year, really help them how to optimize their health.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Officials at Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX ), who were planning a move from Cambridge, MA, into a new $800 million headquarters with views of Boston Harbor, should have seen something much different in those Pharmasset data: An oncoming freight train.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. We do lots of training, integration, and comarketing, and they're our number one customer--we want to make sure their 155 people are absolutely successful, to help us drive market growth.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital. I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. We were based in London.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

—In one of the largest data breaches ever , a hacker broke into a Capital One server with a misconfigured firewall and gained access to more than 100 million customer accounts.

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Demand Capital Customer Custom 104

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

And finally, we have a story by Sarah Schmid Stevenson looking at Lessonly, an Indianapolis-based corporate training and education startup. In the near future, we will have a feature piece looking at some of the San Francisco area’s biggest edtech startups, and how things have been going with them.

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Education Newsletter Training High Tech 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. Shivani Siroya – CEO and Founder of InVenture. link] Keep A Breast.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

Better edtech, perhaps in the form of next-generation MOOCs and other online training, might help people beset by the skills gap enter the high-tech workforce, which might help to slow rising inequality. But in the short term, videos and social media can also foment even more violence, as we saw in Dallas.

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Social Media High Tech Media Organization 40

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Maybe innovation goes faster when wealthy investors are allowed to keep more of their income and capital gains and reinvest the money. To that end, Democrats say they will invest in “high-quality STEAM classes” (STEM plus Arts) and computer science training, among other priorities. On that matter, there’s far more room for debate.

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Education Platform Training High Tech 40