socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Orange County-based KGrid , a cleantech startup working on electric car charging stations, said it has received an investment from German utility RWE , via RWE New Ventures LLC. The company apparently has a prototype, electric car charging system implemented at the University of California, San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

invested across 71 deals in Q2 of 2017 in LA and Orange County, and $202.37M invested in San Diego for the quarter across 32 deals. invested in Q4, with San Diego also up from $175.73M in Q4. The report tallied up $926.4M Investments in LA/OC were up slightly from the $898.3M

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

San Diego-based Tear Film Innovations , a developer of a medical device for treating "dry eye", has raised $9M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning. The funding round was led by Visionary Ventures Fund and Tigris Ventures. Tear Film Innovations is led by CEO and President Rob Thornhill.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2012

in funding during Q2 of 2012, down from Q1, and slightly below investments in Q2 of 2011. in funding, followed by San Diego, with $304.7M Orange County, with $203.6M in funding. Los Angeles most mostly flat quarter-to-quarter in terms of dollars invested, with both Orange. in investment, then.

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Southern California Orange County GRP Partners Funding 145

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

in healthcare software developer Welltok , which announced a big funding round this morning. Miramar and Okapi are in Orange County, and Qualcomm is in San Diego. The investment is the first out of IBM''s $100M "Watson Fund", which aims to invest in companies using its Watson artificial intelligence software.

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socalTECH

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 invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Culver City-based Clutter , which offers up "on-demand" self storage of your extra stuff, has raised $200M in a Series D funding, the company announced on Wednesday morning. According to Clutter, the Series D funding was led by SoftBank Vision Fund with participation from Sequoia, Atomico, GV, Fifth Wall and Four Rivers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Are you a startup looking to find funding in Southern California? It's often tough to figure exactly who the venture capital funds are who are funding startups in the area. However, for members of socaltech.com, it's a click away with our real time analysis of venture funding flows. Upfront Partners - 11 deals.

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JULY 17, 2014

invested in San Diego, and $66.53M invested in Orange County during the period. The biggest investments for the quarter were for Culver City-based NantHealth , the digital health venture of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, which raised $135M in a funding; El Segundo-based Prodege (aka Swagbucks), which raised $60.1M

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 20, 2019

Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Orange County, Calif. Earlier this year, Postmates raised an additional $100 million in equity funding at a $1.85 For now, the company’s party feature will only be offered in a handful of the nearly 3,000 U.S.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2015

Other large funding deals in the quarter included $186M invested in Lynda , $76.28M invested in San Diego''s aTyr Pharma , and $50.0M The Los Angeles area saw a total of $1.476 billion in Q1 deals--including that giant round for SpaceX--San Diego saw $270.1M invested in SmartDrive Systems. Image courtesy Bigstock.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2013

in investments; San Diego followed, with $205.2M in venture capital raised in Q3; Orange County had $155.96M in investments for the quarter. in funding for its location-based intelligence software. for San Diego-based Otonomy , and $39.7M The amount raised in the region was up from Q2, when $627.4M

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2012

In Southern California, San Diego County took the lead in investment totals, raising $262.1M in venture funding. Orange County--boosted in a large part by a funding for Fisker Automotive--racked up $242.45M in funding. The biggest Los Angeles deal was a funding for SolarReserve , for $27.0M.

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Southern California Orange County San Diego GRP Partners 157

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

The funding brings Southern California's total 2012 investments to $3.2 Los Angeles had a total of $311.25M in deals for the quarter, followed by Orange County with $197.8M, then San Diego, with $174.6M in funding. in funding. That total was less than the $859.6M billion in venture capital.

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Southern California Orange County GRP Partners San Diego 237

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2016

in funds invested, across 47 deals; Orange County had $158M invested across 15 deals; and San Diego had $253.5M funding round, and $60M in Ventura-based advertising technology developer TradeDesk. Southern California venture totals were down significantly from the $1.38 billion was raised in the region.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Ventura 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2012

in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M was invested across 48 deals; San Diego has $241.5M in 20 deals; and Orange County had $128.8M Finally, the third biggest area for funding was Retailing/Distribution, which had a total of $105.7M was raised. in investments.

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Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 210

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2016

in funding, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree report, based on data from Thomson Reuters. in funding in Q3, down from the much larger, $2.5 billion in funding received in the region in Q2. Q2 fundings in Southern California were much higher, due to a giant $1.27 READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Orange County Report Santa Barbara 100

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2011

According to the MoneyTree report, released last night, Orange County led fundraising, with $319.3M in funding, and San Diego $198.18M in investments. Investments were slightly down from Q2 of 2010, when the region saw $856M in funding. raised for the quarter. Los Angeles had $222.5M

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 167

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The accelerator said that it is aiming at helping entrepreneurs--particularly in the social and mobile technology space--in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County with pre-seed funding and mentoring.

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Orange County Southern California Seed Funding Mentor 208

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2012

in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M was invested across 48 deals; San Diego has $241.5M in 20 deals; and Orange County had $128.8M Finally, the third biggest area for funding was Retailing/Distribution, which had a total of $105.7M was raised. in investments.

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Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 180

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 in funding. in funding. Carlsbad-based Luxtera raised $37.38M in its funding round.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, San Diego and the Orange County with innovative ideas, particularly in the social, mobile, local media and Internet marketplaces, can apply for the opportunity to be a part of this emerging community.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The Orange County Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels is promoting a program to help jumpstart small companies, O.C. SeedTrack, building off of earlier efforts by the group's San Diego and other chapters. According to the O.C.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

Orange County was second, with $161.9M invested across 17 deals; San Diego was third, with $147.75M in 18 deals. The biggest deal for the quarter was for Venice-based photo messaging app developer Snapchat , which raised a huge, $60M funding round in the quarter. invested across 45 companies.

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Southern California Venture Capital Tech Coast Angels Capital 187

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2015

billion in investments in Los Angeles, near $125M in Orange County, and $106.6M in investments in San Diego. The numbers in Southern California were significantly helped by two, mega-funding deals in Los Angeles, including $485.6M San Diego''s largest deal was nearly $22M invested in BioNano Genomics.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2010

San Diego-based Illumina said today it has launched a new, real-time PCR system for the genetic analysis market, and also revealed that it acquired Carlsbad-based Helixis , a developer of those real-time PCR systems. The acquisition appears to be the first out of the portfolio of Orange County-based venture firm Okapi Venture Capital.

Orange County 145

Orange County San Diego Venture Capital Acquisition 145

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring. Tags: tech coast angels funding venture capital seed fund. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

The Three Enthralling Factors Of Venture Funding. Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks, details a variety of factors that influence your chances of raising venture funding in this informative interview. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, San Diego and the Orange County with innovative ideas, particularly in the social, mobile, local media and Internet marketplaces, can apply for the opportunity to be a part of this emerging community.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. Over time, TAE hopes to license the D-T technology while building up to its ultimate goal.

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Technology Artificial Inteligence Google Orange County 354

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).

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Southern California Orange County SpaceX Santa Barbara 133

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2010

in 45 deals, Orange County saw $279.5M in 21 deals, and San Diego saw $170.6M In Orange County, the biggest deals were for Tri Alpha Energy , which raised $50.0M, Fisker Automotive , which raised $43.0M, and AqueSys , which raised $35.0M. Nationally, venture deals in the U.S. totaled $6.5 in the quarter.

Southern California 174

Southern California Orange County Rustic Canyon SoCal 174

socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2012

In terms of dollars, San Diego led the region with $357.0M in 48 deals; Orange County had $249.3M The largest deal was Sapphire Energy's $139M funding, followed by Fisker Automotive , which raised $129.72M, and Sientra , which raised $65.0M The amount was also more than in Q4 of 2011, when $780.0M in 13 deals.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Avalon 221

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. Albert Ko: At DealPerk, we cater toward Orange County, here in Southern California. Is this more than just a local Orange County site, or do you have plans to expand the idea elsewhere? READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M

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Southern California Orange County Funding Report 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

Locally, San Diego led the region in terms of venture deals for the quarter, with $300M invested, followed by Los Angeles, with $239.1M Orange County saw $48.7M invested--the vast majority of that in the San Diego area. in investments. in investments for the quarter. in investments in the quarter.

Southern California 154

Southern California Venture Capital Invest Orange County 154

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

I think the big challenge, is to take advantage of the homogenization of the West Coast--the corridor between San Francisco and San Diego--and taking advantage of the fact that things are becoming more blended. If you were to tell investors about Orange County's strengths, what would you say?

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