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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

San Diego-based Trust & Will , which operates an online estate planning service, has raised $15M in a Series B funding round, the company said on Tuesday. According to the company, it has now raised $23M in total funding. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2019

San Diego-based Atlazo , a startup developing systems-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductors aimed at used in healthcare and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, has raised $3.4M in a seed funding round. The funding round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and the TCA's San Diego chapter. in the round.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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APRIL 20, 2016

San Diego-based SkySafe , a developer of technology to disable--and take over--rogue consumer drones, has raised $3M in a seed funding, the company disclosed today. The funding was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Founder Collective and SV Angel.

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MARCH 21, 2019

San Diego-based Bitmo , a startup developing a mobile gifting and payment app, has raised $3M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday afternoon. Michael Smallwood is the founder and CEO of Bitmo. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round, and emerged from stealth mode, the company said today. Nervana Systems was acquired in 2016 by Intel. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Biproxi , a new startup developing a commercial real estate data platform, has raised $10M in a seed funding, the company announced on Tuesday morning. According to Biproxi, the funding was led by Greycroft, and also included Newmark Knight Frank, RPM Ventures, and the National Association of Realtors.

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MAY 3, 2018

in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. Washe has been in Southern California since at least July of 2016, when it started offering its services in San Diego and Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems is hoping that consumers will help its clients spread the word out about their products through a new platform it launched today, Wildlink. The startup is backed by Mucker Capital, which led a $2M seed funding round in the company in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2013

San Diego-based Yapert said this morning that it has raised $1.2M in a seed funding round, for its interactive mobile magazine. According to the firm, the funding was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and also included the Desert Angels, Pasadena Angels, and other independent angel investors.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

San Diego-based Independa , which operates a service to help family and professional caregivers monitor loved ones, has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round, the firm said today. The funding came from Miramar Venture Partners and CityHill Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

San Diego-based Qualcomm said Tuesday that it is launching its second annual venture investment competition, the Qualcomm Ventures QPrize competition. According to the firm, this year's competition will provide up to $750,000 in seed funding to entrepreneurs working on mobile ventures.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

Full Harvest, an online market for imperfect produce that previously would have been thrown out, announced it has raised $8.5 million in a Series A round of funding. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year.

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MAY 7, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm disclosed today that it has launched a new, entrepreneurship prize which will provide $550,000 in seed funding to entrepreneurs in North America, Europe, China, and India. The company will award one semi-finalists $100,000 each in each of its four markets--North America, Europe, China, and India.

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JULY 31, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm reports today that it is extending the deadline for the firm's wireless business plan competition, its Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Business Plan Competition, to August 21st. Qualcom also said it will now award its grand prize winner a trip to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2020

There were, of course, those who used the opportunity to make a marketing push or pitch a story. metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Spin, which began offering this on April 1, is making this available in Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington, D.C. Deal of the week.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors. We opened up an office in Shanghai, and we have marketing in Hangzhou. We started our company in China, however, for two reasons.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). So for anybody who has been through the funding process before I hope that this will resonate and for those that haven’t I hope it will be interesting. Page 1: Market Size. $3 Tempus Fugit.

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