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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. And covered we did.

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MARCH 20, 2013

Two, Southern California investment groups have backed a developer of treatments for infections in cystic fibrosis patients, Savara Pharmaceuticals , they announced today. According to the Tech Coast Angels , it contributed $3M to the funding, the largest single funding ever raised by the group.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

San Diego- and Baltimore-based private equity firm JMI Equity has invested in PointClickCare , a developer of electronic health records software for the long-term care industry. PointClickCare said the minority strategic investment will go towards organic and inorganic growth.

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APRIL 7, 2011

The San Diego Venture Group said this week that it has tapped David Titus , co-founder of venture capital firm Windward Ventures , as full time President of the organization. According to the SDVG, Titus will lead the group in a "new level of engagement" with the investment community.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's most active , organized angel investment group, has a goal: cut down the time it takes to fund a startup presenting to the organization.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

No one would argue that San Diego is overflowing with venture capitalists in the way, say, the San Francisco Bay Area is. But, at least once yearly, that changes, and the community gets to hear insights from prominent outside VCs firsthand. The idea was to get more local startups an.

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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. Think USV is only invested around Union Square in NYC? The key it to have “realistic capital.”

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

San Diego-based iboss , a cybersecurity software developer focused on large, distributed organizations, said it has raised $35M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Goldman Sachs' Private Capital Investing group. As part of the funding, Stephen Kerns of Goldman Sachs' joins the company's board.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals , which is developing weight loss and other drugs, said this morning that it has raised $33M in a financing. The publicly held firm said the Series D funding round came from Deerfield Management, a healthcare investment organization. $5M READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2019

I truly believe AI is going to be that big, if not bigger, because it is not only going to create new efficiencies and help solve a lot of problems (in fact, it is already), it’s going to shake the very foundations of how work itself – and businesses, the orchestrators of work – are organized. Already hundreds of.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ralph Mayer , most recently the chairman of angel group the Tech Coast Angels , has just been appointed to the Angel Capital Association 's board of directors, the group said Thursday. Mayer heads up the TCA's San Diego network, and also sits on the board of Airsis.

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MAY 14, 2010

Matthew Jenusaitis: Overall, I am real happy with the first year, both from a personal point of view, as well as for the organization. That was primarily driven by the economy; when the economy is down, investments are down, and it is increasingly difficult to d a startup. I have also been very happy with our organization.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. What has been the biggest challenge for you so far as a startup? Thanks, and good luck!

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MARCH 21, 2018

The firms include stalwarts like Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC ) , which has an incubator and accelerator program called Springboard , and relative newcomers like the Greek-style yogurt maker Chobani , which operates an incubator that makes $25,000 investments in startups with no equity stake. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The Pasadena, CA-based urban office real estate investment trust (REIT), founded in 1994, has grown into one of the country’s largest developers of world-class collaborative science and technology campuses. from San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle on the west coast to Boston, New York, and Research Triangle Park out east.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We’re aligned, but not overlapping, is the way I like to look at it.”.

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MAY 10, 2017

in a funding from Mucker Capital, Social Capital, Hone Capital (formerly CSC Venture Capital), E-Merge, and GAN Ventures. Organic referrals are the major driver of growth for us in the market. The company recently raised $1.1M What does Work Today do? I think we've proved that thesis to be correct.

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JULY 6, 2015

Many sales organizations or inexperienced startup CEOs spend their time with leads who either aren’t a good fit for their solution, aren’t decisions makers in their organization or don’t have budget and therefore they aren’t likely to buy. I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You look at a dog, and see his eyes, and think he’s cute,” says Tama Lundquist, co-president of Houston PetSet, an organization that works with about 70 animal shelters in the Houston area. Too many people treat pet adoption like a one-night stand. But if you’re a couch potato and he likes to run, that’s not going to work out.”

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JULY 11, 2016

About two years ago, I was asked to join a Babson College panel discussing the gender gap in venture capital. Having recently begun working with the National Venture Capital Association’s Diversity Task Force, I was eager to be part of the conversations that were taking place around this important issue.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

We take this data, and organize those into dimensions�your diabetes range, your cardiovascular system, optimal aging, nutrition, stress. For a number ofyears, as a venture capitalists, I looked and led Maveron's investments in health and wellness. The second thing I learned as a VC, is that data paralyzes people.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

The discussion came to a boil earlier this year after a small New York investment bank hired scantily-clad women to attend its cocktail party at the J.P. But not all costs: Attendees are on the hook for about $4,000, according to organizers.) percent of partners in traditional VC firms were women, Liftstream found.

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MARCH 26, 2018

A new organization called Ada-AI, which is based in. “Like a human, AI’s learning is only as good as the data it is fed,” said Manoj Saxena, former head of IBM Watson in Austin, TX, and a prominent investor in AI startups. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JULY 31, 2018

Athena Club plans to offer two lines, organic and. “We’re not sacrificing quality, but we are bringing the price [down] so that many more women can afford” to purchase the subscription, Markina says. We’re also giving women the ability to customize among multiple sizes and different frequencies.”

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JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles.

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JULY 5, 2016

In fact, Indiana University’s Bicentennial Strategic Plan calls for a $300 million investment program called Grand Challenges that focuses on large-scale problems facing humanity. These institutes of higher learning are encouraging innovators to develop work to impact the everyday lives of people around the world.

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