socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The University of San Diego has received $1M from the incubator arm of Intellectual Ventures , the investment fund which was founded by recently deceased Microsoft co-founder Paul G.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2017

San Diego-based Comhear , a developer of immersive, 3D audio software, announced on Monday that it has raised $12M in a Series A funding. The company said its technology is based on research from the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Comhear develops audio enhancing software. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Tortuga Logic , a new startup focused on chip-level cybersecurity technology whose founders include professors from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Thursday. The seed funding came from Eclipse Ventures.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

A new, biotech startup focused on delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics, Solstice Biologics , said last week that it has licensed technology developed at UC San Diego, and received $18M in a Series A funding. The funding round was led by venBio, and also included Aeris Capital. and his colleagues at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2014

A startup which is based on research conducted at the University of California, San Diego has scored $15M in a Series A funding. The funding round was led by Bill Gates and Madrona Venture Group, and also included Vulcan Capital, Lux Capital, The Kresge Foundation, and others. Echodyne Corp. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. Google said that the firm is awarding a total of $5.7M

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Backed by $20 million in Series A funding from Versant Ventures, San Diego-based Jecure aims to develop a new class of drugs to treat an advanced form of fatty liver disease called. Feldstein has been studying the liver for nearly 20 years, and his research now forms the basis of a newly launched company called Jecure Therapeutics.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Meanwhile, UCSD in San Diego has a deep bench of biotechnology expertise stemming from its proximity to the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, the Salk Institute, and the Scripps Research Institute. Suster has also noted for years that the region produces more technology doctorates than any other geography in the United States.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

La Jolla-based Aira.IO , a developer of software tools which use Google Glass to help the blind and low-vision individuals, has raised $790,000 in a seed funding round, the company said this morning. The funding came from Lux Capital and ARCH Venture Partners,a long with futurist Ray Kurzweil and blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayor.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Christensen was previously executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and quadrupled its funding during the 10 years he led the Atlanta-based school.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Scientists gathered this week in San Diego at the annual Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease Congress are focused on ways to treat the neurodegenerative disease, a task that continues to vex those working to develop potential medicines. Others are working on an intimately related problem: early detection of the disease and related dementias.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. It was the midst of a recession and I was happy to have any job at all let alone what was considered one of the more prestigious business jobs at the time graduating from UCSD. That was fine with me – the market is the market.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Before that, I was a student researcher as San Diego Sate University and a UCSD student. Finally, how is the firm funded? Those are buddies of mine from UCSD, and the open source community. That company was eventually sold after I left. So what's the business model behind this? We're focused right now on the user experience.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? They got a continuing grant, a TTR grant from the NIH, which we are moving forward with, as well as self-funding. Marc Friedmann: It was founded by two U.C. That drove initial attention and traction, with content and uploads.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Now four San Diego, CA-based investors are debuting “VCs in a Van,” a vehicle (no pun intended) meant to spotlight local companies ripe for funding. First there was “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” The show tracks the financiers—Neil Senturia, Tom Tullie, Mark Bowles, and Taner Halicio?lu—as

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). And if it’s not I’m generally not that interested in funding it. I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system. It’s either part of the DNA or it’s not. So back to MBAs.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2020

Dave Johnson has known UC San Diego physician and cancer reseacher Thomas Kipps for nearly 20 years.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. For more on Tsien and the rest of the week’s news, let’s get to the roundup.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. He blogs here and tweets here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’ll spare you the math and point out that this means we funded 0.104% of the market. I am highly unlikely to fund your company strictly based on math and my only motive for publicly telling you what is going on privately is to help prepare you if in fact I’m right about the funding environment. Mostly, no.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’ve also talked about my favorite social entrepreneur, Charles Best, making a difference with Donor’s Choose – a program to increase donations to US public schools specifically allocated to supplies or projects you want to fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? VCs fund people all the time with no traction. They fund people with no customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I got into a great university (UCSD) and a great masters program (University of Chicago) and still did fine even though I could only sit through 50% of the classes. I’m sure all the doctors are cringing much like I would if I read your fund-raising advice. I think online education is going to crush it for people with ADD.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I recently spoke at the business school at UCSD. But seriously her book is spot on. Know your audience - I always try to find out something about the audience before I present. Before the event I wanted to find out what I could about the students. I found out that they were older than most typical MBA programs.

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