socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

It looks like the peer-to-peer marketplace for rides in Los Angeles is about to get a lot hotter, as one of the companies competing in the market-- Sidecar said this morning that it has raised $15M more in funding. Avalon Ventures is also based in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

But whether Uber, Toyota, GM, Honda, or Google end up at the very top of this mobility industry, it’ll be good news for the companies that are developing services to support future high-tech car fleets, says Anthony Rodio. Rodio is the CEO of YourMechanic , a six-year-old company that dispatches auto mechanics to carry out repairs where.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Mobile gifting service.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced this morning that it has created a new, wholly owned subsidiary called Qualcomm Life , which will focus on wireless solutions for the medical devices market.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2009

San Diego-based Transaction Wireless , a developer of mobile gift card and other mobile marketing products, announced this morning that it has raised an additional $2M in funding. The funding came from its existing investors, Mission Ventures and Okapi Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

San Diego-based Tealium , which develops tag management software used data integration, has raised $55M more in a Series F funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Silver Lake Waterman, and also included ABN AMRO Digital Impact Fund, Declaration Partners, Parkwood and existing investors.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

San Diego-based Qualcomm has backed a developer of remote, healthcare monitoring devices. The funding was via the Qualcomm Life Fund, which invests in emerging technologies and business models that further accelerate the wireless market. Qualcomm Life Fund is managed by Qualcomm Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 3, 2018

On-demand, car wash startup Washe , which lets users connect with professional mobile car washers, said this week that it has raised $3.5M in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2017

San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems has received an investment from Michelin North America , the company said on Sunday, in a preferred-stock round of investment. SmartDrive said it will use the new funding for expansion of its strategy for fleet telematics and mobility services. Size of the investment was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

San Diego-based Qualcomm said Tuesday that it is launching its second annual venture investment competition, the Qualcomm Ventures QPrize competition. According to the firm, this year's competition will provide up to $750,000 in seed funding to entrepreneurs working on mobile ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2019

Just as surprising is the tale of how Cavanah and co-founders Ken Tsui and Aaron Bannister built the San Diego, CA-based company, called PetDesk. This month, PetDesk raised $12 million from New York- and Silicon Valley-based PeakSpan Capital to expand its offerings beyond.

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San Diego Startup Tool Mobile 78

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2019

San Diego-based last mile transportation startup Wheels , which offers up on-demand bicycles, has raised $50M in a new round of funding, the company said today. The funding was led by DBL Partners.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

billion in new capital late Thursday as it priced an initial public offering that set its market capitalization at $82.4 Ride-hailing giant Uber secured $8.1 billion , according to calculations by The New York Times and other news outlets.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

San Diego-based NextWave Wireless , a developer of embedded multimedia software for the mobile market, said this morning that DOCOMO has acquired 35 percent of the firm's PacketVideo subsidiary, for $45.5M. PacketVideo develops mobile software for displaying video and other media on cell phones. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

How do you come up with a compelling, mobile videogame title? We thought it would be interesting to hear the story behind Jonathan's startup efforts and where he hopes his mobile gaming startup will go. Right now, we have developers in Belgium, Texas, New York, San Diego, Florida, and in the Bahamas. What is Playzon?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2010

San Diego-based MeLLmo , maker of the Roambi mobile business application for the iPhone, said this morning that it has raised an additional $10M in funding. MeLLmo said the new round will go towards product innovation and go-to-market strategy. Names of the investors were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Call them tech hubs or startup capitals, they are drawing in our nation’s venture capital dollars. But when it comes to new investments, venture capitalists can’t be so short-sighted. The opportunities beyond these markets may be richer than many realize. We liked the market opportunity.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

San Diego-based E-Band Communications , a developer of 80 GHz wireless backhaul products for the 4G and LTE telecommunications network market, said this morning that it has raised a new round of funding.Size of the funding, and source were not disclosed. E_Band is headed by Sam Smookler. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of March 2019, continues San Diego-based ResMed’s (NYSE: RMD ) “connected healthcare” push that began about five years ago, as Xconomy chronicled last year.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

San Diego-based Entropic Communications has led a strategic investment in a developer of media encoding and decoding chips, Zenverge. The round also included CID Group, Woodside Fund, DCM, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Motorola Mobility Ventures, and Battery Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Media Mobile Invest 145

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

According to Clutter, it plans to expand into Philadelphia, Portland and Sacramento, among other markets, in 2019, and also will "double down" on its efforts in its current service areas of New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Orange County and northern New Jersey.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm reports today that it is extending the deadline for the firm's wireless business plan competition, its Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Business Plan Competition, to August 21st. Qualcom also said it will now award its grand prize winner a trip to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2018

For most patients—and for many drug developers—healthcare reimbursement policies can present a daunting maze of restrictions and uncertainties. But for some tech companies, those policies can be accelerants that boost the chances that new products will be adopted. That’s the case for Reflexion Health , which benefits from U.S.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. When you’re researching a market you can spend a year putting your hypotheses on paper but you somehow never really have a handle on the minute details of the industry until you’ve lived in it.

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socalTECH

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. Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond. Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We really believe in the market.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2011

Last month, San Diego-based venture capital firm Mission Ventures (www.missionventures.com) sold its portfolio firm, Carlsbad-based 3E , just the latest in a string of exits for the firm, which also included an IPO in Maxlinear earlier in the year. That was a very good exit. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

It's been a good summer for Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures (www.okapivc.com), which recently saw its first portfolio firm exit last month in Carlsbad-based Helixis , which was acquired by Illumina for $105M. Is there a market? So you weren't actually looking for the firm to be acquired at the time?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Not just because meeting Clayton was influential in shaping my thinking about markets but also because Derek Andersen (who founded Startup Grind) is such an awesome host and runs a very informative events. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. Last month they turned the tables on me.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But the suspense is heightened in the case of San Francisco-based companies Uber and Lyft , which pioneered the huge ride-hailing industry but have yet to come close to turning a profit.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? So mobile is a huge part of it. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2019

The company believed it had a chance to become one of the first to earn market clearance from the agency for a software product, says Propeller co-founder and CEO David Van Sickle. It was the early part of this decade, and Propeller was navigating the FDA’s regulatory process for medical devices.

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Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2019

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike delivered the kind of market debut this week that was an unfulfilled dream for the much-anticipated IPOs of Uber and Lyft earlier this year. That close pegged CrowdStrike’s market capitalization at $11.4 Trading began at $63.50 Trading began at $63.50

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