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MAY 3, 2012

San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix announced this morning that it has raised over $25M in a Series C funding round, which it says will go to "significantly expand" its engineering organization. It appears that the funding comes after a sudden surge in revenue and adoption of the firm's services.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , a provider of distribution services for specialty lodging and vacation rentals, announced today that it has raised $9M in a Series C funding round. The round came from current investors, including Clearstone Venture Partners, Mission Ventures, and Wyndham Exchange & Rentals.

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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 in new funding, and will start creating its own, original video content. The new funding comes from existing investors Mission Ventures and Costella Kirsch.

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APRIL 18, 2012

San Diego-based streaming radio and music service Slacker has linked its service with MIcrosoft's Bing Bar , the company said Tuesday. Slacker is venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , which operates an online marketplace and service for vacation rental booking, has raised $3.5M in a funding round. Details on the funding have not been announced by the firm. Tags: leisurelink vacation rental travel venture capital. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

San Diego-based Internet radio firm Slacker has now raised its latest funding round to $12.1M, and appears to have expanded the target size of the round to $14.2M. No new investors were listed in the funding, and the firm has not announced any details on its fund raising efforts. READ MORE>>.

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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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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

San Diego-based Slacker , which operates a personalized Internet radio service, said Thursday that it has shipped a version of the firm's application for the Palm webOS. Slacker's online personalized radio service allows users to stream music to their PC, smart phone, or Slacker's own personal radio players. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

San Diego-based Internet radio service Slacker has integrated its service with micro-blogging service Twitter, the firm said this morning. Slacker is a provider of a personal Internet radio service, which allows users to stream music to their PC, Slacker's own player, as well as phones like the iPhone and BlackBerry.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

San Diego-based Slacker , the online personalized radio service backed by Mission Ventures, Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds, said Thursday that it is adding ABC News to its Slacker personal radio service.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the provider of cloud storage services, said today that it has raised another $10M in a funding, and appointed a new CEO. The firm said the new round is a Series B, and comes from investors Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partnes, and Windward Ventures.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Slacker provides a customized music streaming service, and is venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds. Apple just released its newest OS, which supports multitasking and minimizing of applications as background tasks.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

San Diego-based VMIX , which provides software-as-a-service for video hosting, has raised $2.0M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. The funding brings the company's total raised to around $23.50M. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2010

San Diego-based personalized Internet radio service Slacker announced yesterday that it has linked with The Source Magazine, to launch an online, Hip-Hop radio station. Slacker is venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Slacker is venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds. The firm has raised around $70M in funding. Mudd was co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of MusicMatch before Slacker.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

San Diego-based personalized radio service Slacker has inked a deal with T-Mobile, where T-Mobile will include the application directly on a smart phone. Slacker operates a personalized Internet radio service, accessible via PC, Slacker's own media players, as well as Blackberry and other smart phones. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

According to the firms, CommVault has connected its Simpana backup and recovery and archiving software to Nirvanix, allowing CommVault's users to use the Nirvanix online storage service for backup and offsite storage. Nirvanix provides storage-as-a-service through an online network. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 10, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix , a provider of Internet-based storage services, has raised $5M out of a $6M venture capital funding round, according to a regulatory filing. The filing, which was filed Friday, said that the funding came April 3rd. Details of the funding were not disclosed.

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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 funding. in funding.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

San Diego-based Slacker , which operates an Internet radio service, along with selling a music player linked to it service, has reportedly scored a $5M bridge financing round, according to industry publication VentureWire. in funding. in funding. Tags: personal radio slacker venture capital. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2009

in a first tranche of additional funding for the travel firm, the company disclosed today. LeisureLink, which provides a distribution and booking service for specialty lodging, said the round was led by Mission Ventures and Clearstone Venture Partners, and also included participation from its other insiders.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

San Diego-based Nirvanix, a provider of storage-as-a-service, said Tuesday that the firm's technology is being used by video delivery firm Ooyala. The firm charges by bandwidth and amount of storage, and competes against Amazon's S3 service. Financial impact of the partnership was not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 1, 2009

San Diego-based Slacker , a venture-backed, personalized online radio service, told its users this morning that it has launched a new feature which adds complete lyrics to the firm's services. According to Slacker, its premium Slacker Radio Plus service now includes access to the exact words to users' favorite songs.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

San Diego-based digital music service Slacker released a new, iPhone version of the firm's Internet radio service this morning through Apple's App Store this morning, making the firm's Internet radio service available through the iPhone and iPod touch. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix , which operates a cloud-based storage service used for storing data over the Internet, said today that it has partnered with Ocarina, a provider of data reduction software. Nirvanix is backed by Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the European Founders Fund.

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MAY 19, 2009

San Diego-based cloud storage services provider Nirvanix reported Tuesday that it has hired Chris Russell as vice president of engineering. Nirvanix is a privately held company backed by more than $23 million in venture funding. Nirvanix said Russell hails from NextEngine, where he was vice president of technology. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

The firm said its new "Radio Plus" service will allow for ad-free, unlimited song skipping for $3.99 The new service is a significant cut from $7.50 Slacker runs a personal Internet radio service which automatically downloads playlists to a Wi-Fi enabled hardware device, or which can be listened to via PC. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

San Diego-based Internet radio firm Slacker has shipped a BlackBerry Storm version of the company's Internet radio services, the firm said today. The new application--which the firm said is available for free--comes just a few weeks after the company rolled out an iPhone version of its services. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix, which operates an online, storage-as-a-service which competes against Amazon's S3 storage service, has shuffled its CEOs, the firm said today, replacing CEO Patrick Harr with Jim Zierick. Nirvanix said that Harr is leaving to "pursue a new opportunity."

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APRIL 21, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix , a venture-backed provider of storage-as-a-service, announced Tuesday that the firm has bolstered its staff with three storage experts focused on the enterprise and IT business. Nirvanix is backed by Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the European Founders Fund.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

San Diego-based Slacker, which operates an online personalized music service and music players, has rolled out a new radio player, the firm said Tuesday. The new device is cheaper than prior models from the firm, and now includes automatic updates to playlists on the device.

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JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. Our clients are similarly distributed across industries ranging from banking to online services, to devices. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Australia, and Italy.

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MARCH 26, 2009

funding round for the firm's travel booking service. We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. For those who haven't seen LeisureLink before, explain how your service works? What will the funding be used for?

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Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. It’s really cool.”. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

I spotted my fellow VC Leo Spiegel (from Mission Ventures) who had spoken previously to the same group and asked about his experiences. They had more advanced degrees. 50% of them were interested in life sciences, 50% in tech (e.g. much more focused on life sciences than most audiences where I present).

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