socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has put its funding behind MapR , the company behind the big data software framework called Hadoop. MapR said today that it has raised $110M in a giant funding round, which was led by Google Capital, and also included Qualcomm Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. . Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area – GeekWire. The latest in the battle over Prop 22 and AB 5.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. In the 2-1/2 years since it was founded, Nervana raised roughly $25 million.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

For San Diego-based Mob Science (www.mobscience.com), an injection of cash, some key advisors--and a deal with Zynga. Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. We have several openings in our team in Carlsbad.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M We caught up with co-founder and CEO Darrius Thompson--who was also a co-founder at DivX--to learn more about the startup, the saga behind how the company started, and the funding. Talk a little bit about your funding?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Simplistic as this framework is, it goes a long way to describing how we should think about drug pricing. In these cases, the government can help by funding basic research through the NIH, and the FDA must release the brakes on drug development. If I can answer “yes” to both questions, I will be happy.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

What are some examples of government-funded research in AI and robotics that is happening today that will set the stage for tomorrow’s products? Rob McHenry : Public-funded research has always pushed the state-of-the-art in advanced autonomy, which then drives commercial AI. rules of engagement without an operator in the loop.

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