socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2013

San Diego-based Tealium , the developer of tag management software headed by Ali Behnam, has raised $15.6M in a new, Series C funding, the company said this morning. According to Tealium, the new funding comes from Tenaya Capital, Battery Ventures and Presidio Ventures.

Funding 164

Funding San Diego Commerce Entertainment 164

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

San Diego-based Websense is taking aim at all of those time-wasting, viral videos your employees have been forwarding around, with its security software.

Social Network 154

Social Network Entertainment San Diego Content 154

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2014

in funding, followed by San Diego with $242.98M in investments, and $209.97M in investments in Orange County. The biggest deals of the quarter came from San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , which raised $50.0M Industry wise, the most active sector was Software, which had a commanding $253.5M in funding.

Southern California 165

Southern California Orange County San Diego Avalon 165

socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2011

San Diego-based Sorenson Media , the developer of video encoding and decoding software, announced this morning that it has opened up a new office in Los Angeles. Sorenson said the new office will service its clients in the media and entertainment industry. READ MORE>>.

Media 140

Media San Diego Entertainment Los Angeles 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

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 funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M

Southern California 195

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 195

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

San Diego-based Metaplace , the virtual worlds software firm started by Raph Koster and John Donham, has been acquired by social gaming firm Playdom , Playdom said Thursday afternoon. Koster and Donham were behind Sony Online Entertainment's Everquest II and Star Wars Galaxies titles.

San Diego 145

San Diego Entertainment Content Acquisition 145

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

San Diego-based Mad Catz Interactive , which makes videogame and other entertainment accessories, said today that it has acquired the assets of V Max Simulation Corporation , a developer of flight simulation equipment and software.

San Diego 140

San Diego Entertainment Software Develop 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

San Diego-based Entropic Communications , a developer of home entertainment networking semiconductors, said Wednesday that it has linked with BroadLight , a manufacturer of GPON semiconductors and software.

San Diego 124

San Diego Entertainment Networking Software 124

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2017

A look at the companies who are private, backed by venture capital, and are valued at more than $1 billion across Southern California -- from San Diego to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara -- is an interesting contrast in the wide range of types of technology companies across the region. Cylance (www.cylance.com).

Southern California 133

Southern California Orange County SpaceX Santa Barbara 133

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Southern California 96

Southern California San Diego Startup Google 96

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.

Artificial Inteligence 62

Artificial Inteligence San Diego CTO Hire Outsource Development 62

Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2018

Ford—one of the automakers competing in China’s huge car market—is now making a bid to provide China’s leading software infrastructure hub dedicated to streamlining transportation by connecting cars and riders with mobility services. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Mobile 75

Mobile Cloud Computing Commerce Entertainment 75

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original and largest startup tech entertainment festival, celebrating the burgeoning tech scene in Los Angeles. Silicon Beach uniquely features startup and Hollywood entertainment speakers at panels, parties, hackathon, demo day, startup showcase, and more events, June 19-22, 2013 in Los Angeles.

Santa Monica 89

Santa Monica Startup Entertainment Los Angeles 89

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start? We all have likes and interests.

Mobile 159

Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Walmart’s tech incubator in Silicon Valley, Store No 8, has acquired Spatialand , a virtual reality software firm, as its third portfolio company.

Venice 64

Venice Incubator Blogging Commerce 64

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Today's interview is with Peter Csathy, President and CEO of Sorenson Media (www.sorensonmedia.com), which recently relocated its executive offices to San Diego. Csathy told us about the firm's move of its exec offices from Salt Lake City, Utah, to San Diego, as well as its hiring and expansion plans.

Media 100

Media San Diego Southern California Class 100

Xconomy

JULY 6, 2017

As modern vehicles are upgraded to include Internet-enabled technologies designed to access, store, and transmit data for entertainment and safety purposes, consumers are presented with a double-edged sword.

Entertainment 70

Entertainment Design Marketing Technology 70

Xconomy

JULY 20, 2018

Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. You’ve made it to Friday. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

Entertainment 49

Entertainment Buzzfeed Venture Capital Journal 49

Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2019

The company believed it had a chance to become one of the first to earn market clearance from the agency for a software product, says Propeller co-founder and CEO David Van Sickle. It was the early part of this decade, and Propeller was navigating the FDA’s regulatory process for medical devices.

Startup 79

Startup Ideas Software Product 79

Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The new Blue Star Accelerator, aimed at nurturing young tech companies in sports and entertainment, is expected to open up shop after the start of the new year. Now an accelerator tailored to sports technology startups might be giving those founders a connection to the ultimate in sports and marketing royalty: the Dallas Cowboys.

Startup 40

Startup Entertainment Capital Marketing 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Cojoin offers business intelligence software to collect and analyze data easily and quickly. Instead of having multiple departments to handle this function, Cojoin expects companies to easily get rid of communication problems with their business intelligence software. Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

No PhD, “No Fear”: Alice Zhang, 27, Aims Software at Neuro Diseases. Bernadette Tansey dives into the world of virtual reality from a consumer and entertainment perspective. Alex Lash profiles an unusual rising star in the hypercompetitive world of brain diseases and biotech. A Front Row 5,000 Rows Deep in AltspaceVR’s Virtual Theater.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Layoffs Report Startup 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. They're centrally managed, big iron, big servers, and dedicated client software.

Web 100

Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. My own view on these services is nuanced. I get why people from 22-35 would find this service fun and attractive.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Xconomy

OCTOBER 15, 2018

More days than not, Michael Colaneri’s home is a hotel room. So innovations like “geolocation” sensors that automatically unlock his room door and adjust the thermostat when he’s nearby make the constant change easier—sometimes. “My My experience has been exceptionally inconsistent,” he says.

Services 99

Services Technology San Diego Netflix 99

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2019

Imagine the transportation future 20 years from now. Here’s one way things could roll on a weekday: Many of us get picked up at home by a sturdy, standardized, driverless car that will also scoop up a few of our neighbors who work at other businesses near ours.

San Diego 84

San Diego Platform Web Sales 84

Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you’re thinking about breaking away from the cable monopolies and getting your data, music, and video in other ways, congratulations, I’m with you. I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year.

Help 79

Help Services San Diego Netflix 79

Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Investors eager to bet on the mobility industry’s future handed ride-hailing company Lyft $2.2 billion in new capital Thursday as the company completed an IPO that set its market capitalization at $24.3 billion, The New York Times reported. Lyft sold 30.8

Mobile 57

Mobile Capital Report Marketing 57

Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists.

Content 71

Content Training Design Startup 71

Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a tech culture that looks toward self-driving cars as the pinnacle of mobility innovation, we’re still debating whether fully autonomous vehicles are an imminent reality for our roads or an ever-receding Shangri-La.

Mobile 48

Mobile Outsource Development Artificial Inteligence Venture Capital 48

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

[ This post is about the movie “ Arrival ,” opening everywhere Friday; there are no movie spoilers here. ]. It’s an interesting script,” said someone on our PR team. It’s pretty common for us to get requests from movie-makers about showing our graphics or posters or books in movies.

Hollywood 81

Hollywood Startup Screening Writing 81

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. And then the world changed.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com. Isaac Garcia – CEO and Co-founder of Central Desktop. Magnanimous.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78