Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Venture capital firms invest in potentially disruptive technologies with the hope of profit, then keep watch for further advances that could overtake their existing portfolio companies. All this is done while they guide startups through other external challenges such as fundraising droughts and overall market downturns.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2018

As the Xconomy Forum on Big Data Meets Big Biology draws near, one of the best arguments for understanding the significance of the convergence of data science and the life sciences may lie in what came out of the 2013 sale of San Diego’s EcoATM.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2012

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has backed a developer of video advertising products, Selectable Media , to the tune of $2M. Selectable Media, which is based in New York, lets users opt into branded video advertising in exchange for free access to content on web and mobile apps.

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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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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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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

San Diego-based Confident Technologies , the developer of CAPTCHA security software headed by Curtis Staker, the former President of WebSense, has raised $3.9M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. The filing indicates the funding is part of a $4.9M funding round in progress. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fieldwire , whose mobile app helps builders and construction crews coordinate their work, announced today it has lined up a total of $33.5 The San Francisco-based construction tech company says it raised $8.5 The San Francisco-based construction tech company says it raised $8.5

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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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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a tech culture that looks toward self-driving cars as the pinnacle of mobility innovation, we’re still debating whether fully autonomous vehicles are an imminent reality for our roads or an ever-receding Shangri-La.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

Ackerman (pictured) is founder and managing director of San Francisco-based VC firm AllegisCyber , and co-founder of Fulton, MD-based DataTribe , which helps launch startups grounded in the expertise of former federal cybersecurity experts at the National Security Agency and other government units.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Intel sealed its commitment to become a player in the burgeoning autonomous vehicle industry when it bought computer vision company Mobileye for more than $15 billion in 2017.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

They shared their thoughts via e-mail with me, Xconomy’s national correspondent David Holley, and Sarah de Crescenzo, editor of Xconomy San Diego. Xconomy: Has the Trump era been good or bad for your company? Manoj Saxena , CognitiveScale chairman. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

The Web-based system monitors the laptops, smartphones, and other mobile devices connected to its clients’ networks. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

“Our focus is on priming the pump,” Steve Poizner said Friday, after providing an update on the Alliance for Southern California Innovation for board members of EvoNexus, an industry nonprofit group that operates pro bono tech incubators in San Diego and Irvine, CA. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Other investors in the firm include Mayfield , Menlo Ventures , GGV Capital , Inventus Capital , SoftTech VC , Union Grove Venture Partners , and Cross Creek Advisors. That brings the total funding raised by the Redwood City, CA-based company to $160 million.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Like Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM ), which is shifting its attention from traditional auto manufacturing to projects like its self-driving car unit Cruise—a San Francisco startup GM bought in 2016—Volvo Cars is one of the flock of established carmakers drawn to the Bay Area to take part in its thriving mobility innovation cluster.

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Mobile Startup Venture Capital San Diego 79

Xconomy

MAY 17, 2018

Arevo’s technology mix—which combines automated printing equipment with Web-based software and customized raw materials—exemplifies the changes in 3D printing since the days when it served as a mere tool for crafting prototypes and as a consumer novelty. million in a Series B financing round.

Training 68

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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. The next two deals were companies in a company in San Diego, Verve Wireless, and a local company here called GumGum.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

When businesses and consumers use a cloud service provider like Amazon Web Services or Apple’s iCloud, their data, photos, and music don’t get processed in the misty skies above us, as a poet friend of mine once assumed.

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Cloud Computing Web Course Services 56

Xconomy

APRIL 24, 2018

Savari , whose technology is designed to create a shared communications web among cars, personal devices, and roadway signals, announced today it has raised $12 million in a Series B fundraising round.

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2019

When a much-watched tech company such as Lyft, Uber, or Pinterest files for an initial public stock offering, people eagerly scour the sudden trove of information that such a private business must finally disclose when it begins to offer shares to the general public, rather than only to sophisticated inside investors such as venture capital firms.

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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. Marc Averitt: We're focused on a lot of areas in technology, including mobile applications.

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Xconomy

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.

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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. There are big companies being build around the mobile phone. Fouad ElNaggar: If you want to come in for a face to face, I'm the point of the sphere.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? So mobile is a huge part of it. You aren’t going to make a mobile-centric app right now? Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that. What’s your take on the mobile ecosystem in the future?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer. Venture capital. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago. Cloud storage.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

Pricing 89

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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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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

Training 82

Training Education Platform Course 82

Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2018

If you’re a city dweller, and unhappy with the big company that provides your Internet connection, chances are good there’s a scrappy little outfit that thinks it can do better for you.

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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. The IPO of any private company comes as the resolution of a mystery, as closely-held details about its financial performance and strategies are revealed.

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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.

Marketing 82

Marketing Product Venture Capital Develop 82

Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2019

When we have a chance to view it from a distance, the year 2018 may be seen as a period when innovations in a number of technological fields came together to transform not only the future of computing, but also the very structure of the Internet.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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