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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

According to Slacker, T-Mobile USA customers using BlackBerry Curve 8520 smart phones will now see an icon for the application on their phones which will trigger a download of its application. Previously, customers had to go to T-Mobile or Slacker's web site to download the application. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Mission Ventures San Diego Web 133

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Transaction Wireless announced this morning that it has raised $2.25M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Mission Ventures and Okapi Ventures. Transaction Wireless said the funding will go towards sales and marketing expansion, technology development, and customer deployment.

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Mission Ventures San Diego Mobile Sales 100

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

San Diego-based cloud storage firm Nirvanix is further bolstering its focus on enterprise customers, saying today that it has partnered with enterprise storage software provider CommVault. Nirvanix said CommVault customers can select the firm's Storage Delivery Network (SDN) product via a drop-down selection within the Simpana software.

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Windward Mission Ventures San Diego Networking 140

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M The biggest investments in Southern California for the quarter were for San Diego's SkinIt , a maker of customized "skins" for electronic devices, with $60.0M

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 195

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

According to Nirvanix, Ooyala is using Nirvanix to help its customers store and manage HD-quality video. Nirvanix is backed by European Founders Fund, Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and Windward Ventures. Financial impact of the partnership was not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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Windward S3 Mission Ventures San Diego 124

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. total funding $1.7

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

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JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. All of those three vary by customer, but we're seeing that we're headed towards a mix of service offerings and a mix of licenses between commercial and open source. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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MARCH 26, 2009

funding round for the firm's travel booking service. We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. What will the funding be used for? There's content loading, customer service, and account management--the basic guts of the operation. So we jumped.

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Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

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JANUARY 31, 2010

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. They had more advanced degrees.

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