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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

San Diego-based Arkeia Software announced today that it has acquired Kadena Systems , a developer of data deduplication technology. According to Arkeia, it will integrate Kadena's deduplicaton technology into its Arkeia Network Backup product. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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APRIL 10, 2012

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , which develops mobile publishing and advertising tools, reported today that it has hired Chris Nicotra, the former Chief Technology Officer of comScore, as its new Executive Vice President of Product and Technology. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 1, 2013

San Diego-based Proximal Data , which develops serve-side caching software for accelerating I/O access to virtualized machines, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series B round of funding. The firm's software works with virtualized servers to optimize access to storage to eliminate bottlenecks. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2019

San Diego-based Trovata.io , a developer of software used for automating cash management and for open banking, has named two new executives, the company said on Tuesday. The company said it has named Joseph Drambarean as Chief Technology Officer and Dave McCutcheon as Vice President Sales.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

San Diego-based machine learning software developer Point Predictive has raised a new, Series B growth financing round, the company announced this morning. As part of the funding, the company has named Michael Housman as Chief Technology Officer and promoted Eric Werab to Chief Revenue Officer.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

San Diego-based Nukona , a developer of mobile application management software for the enterprise, said Tuesday that it has closed a funding round. The firm's CTO, Jeff Enderwick, was co-founder of Allegro Systems, which was acquired by Cisco. Size of the round was not announced.

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APRIL 21, 2010

San Diego-based Confident Technologies , a new startup led by former Websense President Curtis Staker, said today that it has launched a firm focused on developing image-based authentication and verification technology for web applications. Staker was most recently CEO at GFI Software, a firm located in Malta.

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JULY 16, 2018

San Diego-based Human Longevity , which is developing genomics-powered, health intelligence software, said on Friday that it has named David Karow, M.D., Karow was previously Human Longevity's Chief of Radiogenomics. Karow has previously been a researcher at UC San Diego, UCLA, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

A San Diego survey on professional women working in tech and life sciences offers some insights on the recurring debate over gender diversity in venture-backed startups and big companies, as well as a related incident that boiled over this week at Google. When asked, “What do you aspire to be, professionally?”

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JULY 7, 2010

Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm. Blackline / Therese Tucker - Tucker was CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and knows her customers--finance folks at enterprise firms--well.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

a publisher of yield management software for the semiconductor industry, reported Wednesday that it has promoted Steven Griffith to president and chief executive officer. Griffith, the San Diego-based company noted, had previously served as its chief operating officer and chief technology officer.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

San Diego-based Certona , a developer of personalization software which uses machine learning and predictive algorithms, has raised $30M in a combined growth investment and minority recapitalization. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Meyar Sheik; the company's co-founder and CTO is Geoffrey Hueter. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2018

But the McAfee chief technology officer seems surprisingly upbeat about the prospects of meeting these cybersecurity challenges—or at least putting up a good fight. Election hacking. Information warfare. Adversarial artificial intelligence. All worrisome topics racing through Steve Grobman’s head these days.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

San Diego-based cybersecurity software developer PacketSled announced on Tuesday that it has accepted the resignation of its President and CEO, Matt Harrigan, and has named CTO Fred Wilmot as interim CEO of the company. Those threats--involving comments on using a sniper rifle--were reported to the Secret Service.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

San Diego-based Koji, which develops an app store for helping creators earn money, said late Tuesday that it has raised $20M in its Series B fundraising. Shapiro previously founded the video sharing site Veoh, and also was the CTO of MySpace, in addition to serving at Google. The company says it has now raised a total of $36M.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2018

When Cathy Polinsky became chief technology officer of Stitch Fix in late 2016, she knew one of the San Francisco-based company’s key challenges was continually refining its core software algorithm to make sure customers received the right tailored suggestions in their monthly wardrobe boxes.

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JULY 21, 2009

Privately held, San Diego firm Service-now.com , a developer of IT service automation software-as-a-service, has released its yearly financial results, in an unusual move. Service-now is headed by former Peregrine Systems and Remedy CTO Fred Luddy. READ MORE>>.

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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 24, 2008

San Diego-based VMIX, a provider of video publishing tools for web publishers, said today that the firm has shuffled its executive staff and delivered a new version of its VMIX Player. VMIX said that it has appointed Mike Glickenhaus as President and CEO, and appointed co-founder and former CEO Greg Kostello as CTO.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A search for “CTO books,” on the other hand, yields about 540 titles. As a software engineer and self-described “tech guy,” de Bruin says he is more interested in. Search for “CEO books” on Amazon, and the search results from the world’s largest Internet-based retailer return just over 8,000 titles.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. We use a lot of open source software, and finding tech guys who can read English to keep up with all of the forums is actually more of a challenge than us speaking Chinese. Grow, grow, grow.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. We took the recent round, because Jake and I feel very passionately about our social missions, and, about four years ago, we started developing the software to create software. But, that's also why we are in software.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Our software sorts video content relative to its importance to you, based on your social graph and social impact.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

There are some very cool new features being released all the time as part of the software that powers this system. The bottom line is that Los Angeles Tech is trying to help find and navigate that content. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Nxt Robotics , a San Diego startup developing robots for private security, has named San Diego CyberHive and CyberTech founder Darin Anderson as CEO. Jeff Debrosse, the San Diego cybersecurity expert who founded Nxt Robotics in 2014, will continue as CTO, according to a statement from the company.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The former Microsoft chief technology officer is now vice chairman of TerraPower , a Bellevue, WA-based spinout of Intellectual Ventures that aims to revive commercial nuclear energy.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. My understanding is that OpenCandy is a software download where the service gets to better understand you as a consumer. 15mm in Series A.

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MARCH 31, 2014

There''s a fair amount of software and computer science involved in this area. Where did all of that technology come from? Jeff Curie: It is a very advanced piece of technology. One of the folks was the CTO of an investment bank in New York, who immediately saw what we did, and said he had a problem he wanted us to approach.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. Apuzzo shifted to his preferred role as CTO.) After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

After operating in the shadows for the past 11 years, a San Diego neural technology company founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin is stepping into the light to introduce two commercial products intended to advance the frontier of human-machine interaction.

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JUNE 4, 2018

And as hard as it may be to believe, retailers “don’t really know what’s on the shelves,” says Sarjoun Skaff, founder and CTO of Bossa Nova Robotics. Inventory management is crucial to operating a successful retail operation.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media. MedCrypt is focused on preventing the sort of thing that happened to St.

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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. They have much more important things that putting in an RTLS system--they've got electronic medical records, infection control, and other software that are more important.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Xconomy has followed Jepsen’s work over the years —from her role as CTO of One Laptop Per Child, to senior executive positions at Google X and Facebook/Oculus. Of course, there are nearer-term goals as well, such as supplementing (and even replacing) bulky, expensive MRI machines. In this recent conversation, we focused.

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. Certona uses the data to offer shoppers personalized options based on “real-time profiling.”.

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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.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

To solve that problem, Arterys tapped into technologies used to develop three-dimensional video games like “Super Mario 3D World.” Less than five years ago, those GPUs weren’t available from commercial cloud services, says Arterys co-founder and chief technology officer John Axerio-Cilies. “In

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