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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. What kinds of areas does the fund make investments in? It looks like there's some link to MIT with the fund?

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AUGUST 19, 2010

San Diego-based venture capital firm Enterprise Partners is one of the firms in a $39M, Series E funding round for Mountain View-based Complete Genomics , Complete Genomics said today. Illumina and Solexa, the firm Illumina acquired on August 3rd, have sued Complete Genomics on patent infringement of three patents.

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JUNE 4, 2012

San Diego-based Awarepoint , which develops real-time, location systems used for tracking patents and assets in a healthcare environment, said today that it has raised $14M in an additional financing round. of the new investment round, which the company said will go to expand its services, client management, and manufacturing capabilities.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has made another investment in femtocell and picocell technology developer ip.access , as part of a new round of funding. Ip.access is using Qualcomm's technology, including its Femtocell Station Modem (FSM) chipsets and femtocell patents. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Middle Market Investment Banking. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Middle Market Investment Banking. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology).

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JUNE 13, 2012

How do you go about getting a company product--and company--funded through crowdsourcing? Olloclip managed to fund and start the company based on crowdfunding, and is one of the most popular projects that has been funded through Kickstarter. Is it even possible, and what are the pitfalls involved? Patrick O'Neill: Not really.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. They are looking for early-stage companies, which have an advantage with IP, or some sort of patent, or sensibility from the technical perspective. percent of funds going to female founded businesses. How long have you been active in Los Angeles?

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MARCH 4, 2009

Carlsbad-based Regulus Therapeutics , a biopharmaceuticals firm focused on microRNA-based therapeutics, announced this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series A funding round. The investment came from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Isis Pharmaceuticals, which created Regulus in a joint venture in September of 2007.

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JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. The firm recently raised a $15M series C funding, and we caught up with Kevin to learn more about why its customers, and investors, are interested in its technology.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Nikhil told us a bit about the startup,which was spawned out of Idealab, and recently raised a round of funding from CrestValue Capital, Cybernaut Westlake Partners, Leaguer Venture Investment Co., That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain.

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JUNE 23, 2009

Semiconductor startups seem to be quite rare in today's environment, with few companies being funded or launched, due both to the difficulty of bringing products to market, lack of investment capital, as well as lots of established, large companies in the industry. We're now funded by a bunch of angels.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. We have a business plan and private placement on that site, and recently started searching for investors to raise the funds we needed to go into production, and start marketing and sales.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I was sitting on the board at LiveOffice, which was funded by Summit Partnres, and was just sold to Symantec two weeks ago. He called me and said--this is a company you might be interested in, maybe taking a board seat, or co-investing in, or helping them get funded. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Language Weaver is backed by Palisades Ventures, the Tech Coast Angels, and The Athenaeum Fund. We've also had great advances in engaging the trust of the commercial community, with patented advances like automatic scoring of our algorithms, which predicts the quality of translations based on a one-through-five scale.

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MAY 14, 2010

That was primarily driven by the economy; when the economy is down, investments are down, and it is increasingly difficult to d a startup. Matthew Jenusaitis: In the year going forward, clearly the biggest issues is investment dollars. Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. If I've seen companies that are similar to them--or half a dozen companies--even if the area might be big and exciting, it will be hard to make an investment. We're really excited about 2009.

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APRIL 30, 2010

It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. C can you talk about how you ended up at Confident Technologies?

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MARCH 9, 2015

Since then, we''ve been very busy staffing up the company, finishing our product, and getting it into production, and also have raised a Series A funding. What''s unique about the MOD-t, is we have a patent pending motion system for two of our 3 axis of motion. We launched on Indiegogo for about sixty days.

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JUNE 25, 2009

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. We've got patents on technology that helps save bandwidth utilized for VoIP calls and particularly for video.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Late last year, we had the chance to talk with Velocity Interactive's Ross Levinsohn about their investment in Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com). We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. Finally, was there any particular decision which made you decide to go out for a round of funding?

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AUGUST 18, 2009

In the recent surge in interest in the clean technology and energy investment area, we're constantly surprised by the number of startups in the area focused on some aspect of the industry. We have a long relationship with them, and have been funding research in their labs, and have a continuing relationship.

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