socalTECH

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. According to Nukona, the funding came from the Startup Accelerator program at Citrix Systems, as well as angel investors. Size of the round was not announced.

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socalTECH

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.

Web 150

Web Technology Tool San Diego 150

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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Google San Diego SaaS Capital 49

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’s security approach is twofold, Kijewski said.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. His latest startup, Row 44, is providing hardware to Southwest Airlines and other airlines for wireless access, and has a number of announced wins.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

Xconomy

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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Chief Technology Officer Research Design Technology 77

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Jeff Curie: I''ve been a startup guy here in Orange County for a long time. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. I then spent a few years at IBM as their Chief Strategy Officer in their identity management area.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then). 1:20 and they turned up like clockwork.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. How did Revolution Prep start? We started in 2000. We started that in 2002, and it's actually our eight year anniversary, on the 20th of September. We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The healthcare tools of the future often start as research projects in academic medical centers, but they may not break out into widespread clinical practice until some sort of logjam gives way to make them workable and affordable. Up until now, these scans have been used only at Stanford and nine other medical research centers.

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Cloud Computing Startup Web Chief Technology Officer 40

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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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

She leads a startup called Openwater , which is developing a new kind of wearable imaging device that might one day enable communication by thoughts alone. 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.

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Google Course Entrepreneur Startup 56

Xconomy

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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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Product San Diego 69

socalTECH

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. We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company. We may end up raising money pretty soon.

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UCSD Social Network Content Sites 145

SoCal CTO

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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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

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 started with Wi-Fi based technology, using 802.11. We found out that just doesn't work, and our competitors are starting to find out too, for a number of reasons.

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Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Thank you @eminutes. . Life’s too short not to.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78