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APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

San Diego-based 9am.health, a startup that offers up a virtual diabetes clinic, to provide care to those living with diabetes, has raised $3.7M in a seed funding, the company announced this morning. The funding came from Founders Fund, Define Ventures, Speedinvest and iSeed Ventures.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The startup had announced $2M in an earlier funding in January of 2019. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

San Diego-based Independa , a startup developing products to help senior citizens live independently longer via technology, said this week that it has received a second round of seed funding, and launched its products. Amount and source of the funding was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

San Diego-based Deckard Technologies , a new startup founded by serial entrepreneur Neil Senturia, said on Monday that it has raised $4M in funding and launched a new company focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify property tax scofflaws. The company said its latest funding was worth $500,000.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

San Diego-based LoanHero , a startup which helps merchants easily offer up financing to their end customers, has raised $2.5M in seed funding, the company said Wednesday. The funding was led by Alsop Louie Partners and Mucker Capital. in equity funding for the company. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

San Diego-based Launch Factory a new "venture studio" which is looking to recruit entrepeneurs to help it launch vetted business concepts, recently raised $2.5M in funding, according to the group. The funding came from a number of angels, including Broadway Angels, San Diego Venture Partners, and TI Platform Management.

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MAY 2, 2019

San Diego-based fintech startup Trovata.io , which is developing software to automate cash management, has raised $5.5M in a seed funding round, the company said this week. The funding was co-lead by FINTOP Capital and JPMorgan Chase. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

A new, local startup, Porch , has just launched to let you peek over the fence at your neighbor''s home improvement projects--and also let you see what they spent, who they used, and before and after pictures. Ever wish you could get a look at what your neighbor is doing with that expensive home remodeling product? 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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

San Diego-based Portfolium , which develops a cloud-based service to help students showcase their student projects to prospective employers, has raised $1.2M in a seed funding round. The funding came from University Ventures, Seed San Diego, and Vertical Venture Partners. in funding.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

San Diego-based GoShare , the developer of an on-demand, moving and delivery app, has raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company said on Friday. The company said it will use the funding to improve its product and expand into new cities. The startup is led by Shaun Savage.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

San Diego-based Sightly said this morning that it has raised $1.7M in a seed funding, to go towards its video advertising technology. The funding was led by Mack Capital, and also included Tomorrow Ventures and 500 Startups.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. What is Tradesparq?

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Irvine-based K5Launch , a new venture accelerator started by angel investors Amir Banafatemi, Ray Chan, David Cheng, and Kai Tao, is looking to spawn the growth of startups in Southern California, saying today that it has launched its efforts in the area. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

San Diego-based Independa , the developer of technology to help senior citizens live independently longer, has been selected for San Diego's EvoNexus incubator. According to Independa, the acceptance will help the firm accelerate the launch of its products. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2015

San Diego-based Harvest.ai , a startup which says it was created by former, NSA field operation team members, has raised $2.3M in a seed funding. said it is developing artificial intelligence-based, data loss prevention software, which helps prevent data breaches from organizations.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

The funding was led by Spark Capital and includes investors such as Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, Rent the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss, and John Scherr, head of strategic partnerships at CircleUp. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories. We designed K5Launch to fill the void left behind by local angel and VC investors.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories. We designed K5Launch to fill the void left behind by local angel and VC investors.

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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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OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then). Anyway, the starting point for this blog entry is a cartoon I remember reading in the New Yorker.

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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. Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago.

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JUNE 3, 2016

It was fitting this week that, in the lead-up to two of biomedicine’s biggest self-celebrations, we were served ample reminder of the industry’s expensive decisions gone wrong. Thousands of others will head to San Francisco for BIO, which has a distinct international flavor. Teva nabbed deutetrabenazine in its $3.2

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Think “innovation” and you might picture some scrappy entrepreneurs toiling away in a kitchen or garage, hoping the landlord doesn’t notice what they’re up to. Alexandria has put up buildings in virtually every key life science cluster in the U.S., Lately, Alexandria is aggressively expanding its reach.

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APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program.

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