Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. million into 61 local companies. billion in 1,810 funding deals in 1,796 companies.

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Xconomy

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. Companies that participated in the program include Airbitz, Rock My Run, TipNetwork, Vioozer, Raynforest, Stretchr, and Ahorro Libre.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!).

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

San Diego’s innovation clusters continued to grow in 2015, as local startups, funding deals, and job growth extended an economic growth spurt that began in 2013. The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County.

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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. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

San Diego-based Zesty.io , a startup developing web content management systems, said on Wednesday that it has raised $1.5M The funding came from ClearVision Equity Partners, a local San Diego investors. in a new funding. Zesty.io's CEO is Gerry Widmer. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2018

The company developed automated kiosks that would scan a device and use analytic software to calculate what it was worth and how much of a rebate to offer for it. Founded by several veterans of the wireless semiconductor industry , EcoATM created a business where there wasn’t one for recycling smartphones and other electronic devices.

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San Diego Startup Sales Software 79

Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The World Wide Web is at a crossroads. In order to use “free” apps and Web services from the likes of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), people are required to share personal data that gets used by brands and companies to try and sell them stuff. That online contract.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

DAR.fm , the San Diego radio recording startup founded by MP3.com''s com''s Michael Robertson, told its users over the holidays that it would start restricting automatic downloads on the radio recording service to Pro level users, as a part of a push to get more users to sign up for its subscriptions.

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Xconomy

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. Caldwell said they soon raised $600,000 from angel investors to start what would become CyberFlow Analytics.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Southern California is once again the target expansion market for a Bay Area startup offering cleaning services via the web this morning, as EXEC said it is expanding beyond the San Francisco Bay Area, and launching its cleaning service in San Diego. The service parallels, almost exactly, the steps at Pathjoy.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

When Xconomy convened a dinner discussion earlier this year that included prominent San Diego cybersecurity innovators, startup founders, and system administrators, I was stunned to learn that Gary Hayslip oversees an IT network that blocks an average of 800,000 cyber attacks a day. I don’t believe there is going to be a winner.

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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. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2018

Comparing itself to the personal finance platform Mint.com, the San Diego startup says its platform integrates personal health information from a variety of sources, including electronic medical records (EMR), wearable devices, and genomics data. The data are integrated in a comprehensive display for each user (see below).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

San Diego-based software developer Tealium , which develops software used to manage Internet "tags" for web developers, said today that it has named Jeff Lunsford as its new CEO. Lunsford, who was already on the company's board, was previously President, CEO, and Chairman of Limelight Networks. READ MORE>>.

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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. Just a few months earlier, Hinshaw had sold his private healthcare IT consulting company, MaxIT Healthcare, to government contractor SAIC for $473 million.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2015

San Diego-based startup incubator EvoNexus said Friday that the deadline for its Fall startup class is Monday. The technology incubator's aim is to help increase the success rate of startups in the area--and increase jobs and employment in the industry. through the incubator. through the incubator. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

San Diego-based MP3Tunes , the cloud music storage service startup headed by Michael Robertson, has some stiff new competition today. Amazon.com said last night that it has launched its own, cloud music and storage service called Amazon Cloud Drive , along with corresponding web and Android music players. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 7, 2017

CureMatch, a San Diego-based healthtech startup, says today it has created a Web-based platform that uses analytic software to help doctors sort through what can be a bewildering array of cancer treatment options. Such companies typically provide cancer doctors with some guidance, but Barrelet said the recommended.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2017

TP Therapeutics, which raised $45 million in May to advance its work on drug-resistant cancers, raised the most venture capital in San Diego County during the three months that ended June 30, according to regional data released today. Altogether, venture firms invested a total of $406.4 That was down slightly from the $411.2

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2016

San Diego-based KnuEdge , a startup which was founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin, said this morning that it has unveiled its voice recognition and authentication technology--which it has developed with $100M in funding.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2018

A healthtech startup founded by two doctors who set out in 2013 to improve the overall management of their respective medical practices is emerging from beta mode Wednesday to offer fellow physicians an office software suite. [ Updated 3/28/18 12:15 am. See below. ] In a statement, Reachify says its technology.

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Xconomy

JUNE 16, 2016

What does it take to build a startup in today’s market? Put a half-dozen entry-level tech entrepreneurs together anywhere outside of the Bay Area, and it won’t take long before they start listing the local market deficiencies. In San Diego, the complaints often focus on the relative scarcity of venture capital and hometown VC firms.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the startup formerly known as OpenCandy, said today that it has launched a $50,000 contest which will reward web developers for creating desktop applications for its Pokki desktop app environment. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

When it comes to developing and promoting innovation, external factors beyond the control of company founders, investors, and other business leaders can also determine whether a startup succeeds or fails. Xconomy: Has the Trump era been good or bad for your company? Manoj Saxena , CognitiveScale chairman.

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.Net San Diego Startup Develop 102

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A San Diego civil engineer who has developed an alternative technology for automating the measurement of water flow gave the best presentation at EvoNexus Fall Demo Day, an event that drew nearly 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters late Thursday to Qualcomm’s corporate headquarters. was founded as Catalyst eClinical.).

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2018

The debut Wednesday of Dynam.AI, a San Diego startup offering its expertise in artificial intelligence, also marks a shift that has been underway for the past year or so at Analytics Ventures, a local fund that invests in tech deals. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2018

In the eight years since it was founded, Seismic has become a leader in the market for Web-based software used by corporations and other big customers to manage the online marketing materials created to support sales reps in the field. Financial terms of the deal are being withheld, according to Seismic CEO Doug Winter.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 million into 61 companies during the last three months of 2017, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday. billion into 231 startups in the greater San Diego region, according to Venture.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

ServiceNow, one of the most valuable software companies ever founded in San Diego, launched in 2003, before enterprise software-as-a-service became a topic of mainstream discussion. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2017

We are a little over a week away from the Xconomy Forum on the Human Impact of Innovation and we’re excited to announce that thanks to a generous sponsor we have a block of 25 complimentary tickets to give to bootstrapped entrepreneurs in San Diego. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Companies have raised more than $1.25 billion this year through sales of digital tokens—so-called initial coin offerings or ICOs—and this method of fundraising exceeded traditional early-stage tech startup investments in June and July, CNBC reported in August. Lubin is a former.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. Three companies from each cohort also will get $50,000 in follow-on funding.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

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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. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

How do you keep up with everything that''s happening with your favorite interests, brands, and personalities on your mobile phone? We caught up with CEO Phil Kelly to better understand what the company is working on. How did the company start? Phil Kelly: I started the company early last year.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. Scott Chisolm: Classy started as a fundraising application for nonprofit organization. How did you start the company? What is Classy?

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