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MARCH 24, 2010

San Diego-based Kidzui , which develops a kid-friendly web browsers, has raised $4M in a funding, according to reports. The round was led by new investor Mission Ventures, and also included prior backers First Round Capital, Emergence Capital Partners and Maveron. Tags: kidzui browser venture capital.

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MARCH 25, 2013

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the cloud storage service operator, has snagged the current CIO of Zynga as its new CEO, according to the company Monday. Current CEO Dru Borden will become Senior Vice President Planning and Development, and will remain on the company's board of directors.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

San Diego-based KidZui , the developer of a service which provides kid-safe content via a search engine and browser, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M The new funding comes from existing investors Mission Ventures and Costella Kirsch.

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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 in funding raised; followed by Otonomy , a San Diego maker of treatments for hearing disorders, which raised $38.5M. in investments.

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MARCH 11, 2010

San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix has added a new customer of the firm's storage service, Nasuni , a Massachusetts startup providing virtual file server software. Nirvanix is backed by Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the European Founders Fund. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

San Diego-based Transaction Wireless , a developer of mobile gift card and other mobile marketing products, announced this morning that it has raised an additional $2M in funding. The funding came from its existing investors, Mission Ventures and Okapi Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

The biggest are for venture activity in the quarter was Biopharmaceuticals, which was $299.13M of the quarterly total. San Diego led investment activity in Q3, with a large number of the biggest VC deals all located in the area. last week.

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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. According to the firm, it is developing mobile infrastructure for relationship marketing, including mobile POS and mobile gift cards.

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MARCH 9, 2009

San Diego-based ID Analytics , a developer of identity and risk management software for the financial and other industries, said Monday that it has hired on Jim Pathman as the firm's new Chief Information Officer. Mission Ventures, and Trinity Ventures READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2009

San Diego-based ID Analytics , a developer of software used by financial institutions and other companies to detect identity fraud, said this morning that it has launched a new, public service called MyIDScore.com , to help consumers figure out their risk for identity fraud. READ MORE>>.

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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. Co-founder and EVP Terry Ash is now in charge of partner alliances, and the firm has hired on Dan Charleston as SVP of Business Development.

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