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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

San Diego-based Plantible Foods, a startup developing a system to use Lemna--otherwise known as duckweed--as a protein source for humans, has raised $21.5M in a Series A funding. The company says it has now raised $27M for its efforts.

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APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

San Diego-based venture investor Section 32--the venture investment firm founded by Bill Maris--says it is expanding its investing and operations teams in Silicon Valley. Tilu was most recently an investor at In-Q-Tel, and also worked at Google and GIC, among other companies.

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MARCH 7, 2014

San Diego-based Emotient has raised $6M in a funding round, to go towards the company''s technology for facial expression recognition, the company said Thursday. The funding was led by new venture capital fund Handbag, which is led by Seth Neiman, and also included Intel Capital. 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 Section 32 is the venture capital fund led by former Google Ventures CEO and founder Bill Maris, which is also based in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has scored an exit this morning, at bring-your-own-device (BYOD) software developer Divide. Divide said this morning that it has been acquired by Google, and will go to work on Google''s Android operating system. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has put its funding behind MapR , the company behind the big data software framework called Hadoop. MapR said today that it has raised $110M in a giant funding round, which was led by Google Capital, and also included Qualcomm Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The small venture capital firm was started in San Diego about two years ago by Bill Maris , who, during his time at Google, founded and led its corporate venture capital arm, now part of parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL ).

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MAY 22, 2019

San Diego-based Locana , a developer of RNA-targeting gene therapy technology, announced Wednesday morning that it has raised $55M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by ARCH Venture Partners, and also included Temasek and Lightstone Ventures, along with new investors UCB Ventures and GV (formerly Google Ventures).

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Stealthy San Diego alternative energy vehicle firm V Vehicles , which just raised $62.25M in a funding round, apparently has added Google Ventures as an investor in the company. Google's involvement was first spotted by Xconomy , which said it has confirmed the involvement of Google with V Vehicles.

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MAY 18, 2021

For today's interview, we sat down and chatted with >Zeb Evans, the founder and CEO of San Diego-based ClickUp (www.clickup.com), the developer of a workplace productivity software platform which is based by such companies as Google, Airbnb, and Nike. ClickUp has raised $135M in venture capital so far.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Section 32, a venture capital firm headquartered near San Diego that launched in 2017 with a $151 million fund, has had a big month.

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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. They sponsor TWiVC.

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JUNE 12, 2019

San Diego-based gene therapy startup Locana has just received $550,000 in a grant, from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), according to the MDA. The award will go to advance Locana's development program for treating mytonic dystrophy (DM). READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Section 32, the venture capital fund based in San Diego’s Cardiff-by-the-Sea community, has raised nearly $200 million for its second fund. A document filed with securities regulators Friday shed light on comments made the previous week to Xconomy by Section 32 founder Bill Maris, who started the firm in 2017.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

In his first public appearance since leaving Google Ventures, Bill Maris said Wednesday his new venture fund, Section 32, is nearly fully invested—less than four months after he officially unveiled its existence in the San Diego area.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

The Palo Alto, CA-based program, a spinoff of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, has been a gateway into the venture capital industry for women and other under-represented groups for nearly two decades.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. Six-year-old Google Fiber has had its own set of challenges.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Cloudflare a provider of Internet caching and security services whih is backed by San Diego-based Qualcomm, said on Tuesday that it has raised $150M in a new round of funding, bringing its total raised to $330M.

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APRIL 21, 2010

San Diego-based OpenCandy , a developer of products which software publishers can include to recommend other software products and services to their users and which earns those software publishers advertising revenue, has raised $5M in a Series B funding round. OpenCandy is headed by Darrius Thompson, one of the founders of DivX.

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APRIL 14, 2011

The latest venture capital numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters, was released tonight, showing that Southern California had $493.2M Nationally, venture capital investment up slightly, at $5.9 in San Diego.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

San Diego-based Anametrix , a developer of cloud-based business analytics software, said today that it has received new funding and added a slate of well known advisors. Bourgeois is currently head of "Team FREDNET", which is developing a robotic Lunar Lander for the Google Lunar X Prize. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 23, 2019

We’ll tackle big trends, challenges, and opportunities in areas like venture capital, software, genomics, digital medicine, education, and diversity. We’ll tackle big trends, challenges, and opportunities in areas like venture capital, software, genomics, digital medicine, education, and diversity.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina says that its cancer detection spinout, GRAIL , is now expecting to raise approximately $1 billion in its Series B funding. GRAIL, which was founded by Illumina, is developing blood tests for early stage cancer detection. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm is joining Google and Microsoft in a big, $110M funding round for Cloudflare , the provider of web site security and caching services. CloudFlare said the $110M round was led by Fidelity, and also included Google Capital, Microsoft, Baidu, and Qualcomm Incorporated.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio. I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. As you know, Silicon Valley has a locker grip on the venture capital community.

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APRIL 4, 2018

The advent of big fundraising rounds for startup chip innovators—a class shunned by most venture capital firms only a few years ago—seems to mark a turnaround in recent VC attitudes about semiconductor investments.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

Telcentris , the San Diego-based developer of unified communications app VoxOx, has raised $5.3M The consumer version of the company's service offers up voice, text, chat, faxing, connections into Google Talk, Facebook, Twitter, and more. in a funding round, the firm announced Thursday evening. READ MORE>>.

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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. Crowdstrike (www.crowdstrike.com).

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

San Diego-based DNA sequencing equipment maker Illumina has joined in a new venture funding round for high profile, genetic testing startup 23andMe. San Diego-based DNA sequencing equipment maker Illumina has joined in a new venture funding round for high profile, genetic testing startup 23andMe.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

San Diego-based SOCi , a developer of social media management and marketing software, has raised $2.25M in funding, the company said Wednesday. The funding came from angels Taner Halicioglu (Facebook), Doug Hecht (Digitaria), and venture company GrowthX, along with Trevor and David Klein (AutoAnything) and Asaf Benhaim (iMatrix).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Top venture capital firms continue to pour money into software robotics companies that promise to automate monotonous business operations, like processing mortgage applications, that are often performed by humans. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them.

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JULY 7, 2010

Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google in 2003, for pre-IPO stock, reaping first round investors more than a 100x return on their investment.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The round include Sequoia Capital, Greylock Discovery Fund, Battery Ventures, Formation 8, Advance/Newhouse Investment Partnership an affiliate of Conde Nast, along with Google Ventures, Founders Fund Angel, Menlo Ventures, SV Angel, i/o Ventures and other angels.

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