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The top 10 cities for $100M VC rounds in 2018 so far

TechCrunch LA

Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US. Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar. The San Francisco Bay Area is perhaps one of the best-known tech and startup hubs in the world.

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Swarm Aims To Rejuvenate San Diego's Software Industry

socalTECH

It hasn''t been a great few months for San Diego''s software and technology industry, as the city has seen three, big software companies move their operations, and thousands of jobs, to Texas. growth investment industry software diego swarm' READ MORE>>.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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On Ramp Wireless: Connecting The Smart Grid

socalTECH

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. We have a huge reference customer with SDG&E, and a world class partner with GE in the channel. They''re North America''s largest transporter of natural gas and oil.

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Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: How Does This Dress Look in Green?

Xconomy

While mirrors are typically static pieces of glass, they are now being converted into high-tech portals that can make suggestions to complete an outfit, transport the reflected image into a beach scene or cityscape, and save a shopper’s personal makeup tutorials for future reference. This is a really interesting moment in a land.

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How Work Today Is Connecting Blue Collar Workers With Jobs, with Joe Nigro

socalTECH

in a funding from Mucker Capital, Social Capital, Hone Capital (formerly CSC Venture Capital), E-Merge, and GAN Ventures. Joe Nigro: The amazing thing, is the workforce, the workers who use our platform, love using our service so much, that they are the ones referring businesses and workers to us.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

socalTECH

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.