Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. As Xconomy reported last week , third-quarter venture funding also slipped nationwide to $14.99

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Startup Report 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investment firm Moonshots Capital , which is led by Kelly Perdew, has seen a big exit via the acquisition of San Diego's Harvest.ai by Amazon Web Services. in Harvest.ai, which develops cybersecurity software aimed at data loss prevention.

San Diego 100

San Diego Web Acquisition Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2014

San Diego-based Tealium , the developer of enterprise tag management software which is led by Jeff Lunsford, said it saw 120 percent year-over-year sales growth. 500 reported the company''s 2013 revenues were $12.5M. Actual revenues were not released by the company. An earlier profile of Tealium in the Inc. READ MORE>>.

Sales 138

Sales LAMP San Diego Commerce 138

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

San Diego-based Websense , the developer of web security software, is announcing a partnership today with Facebook , where all of the external links on Facebook will be run against the Websense database of malicious sites, according to multiple reports. Details on the business deal have not been disclosed.

San Diego 150

San Diego Web Report Sites 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

San Diego-based Websense , a developer of web security products, said Wednesday that it is seeing strong demand for the firm's new Web Security Gateway and appliances, and is also benefiting from currency exchange rates, and upped its guidance range Wednesday. Tags: websense security software. READ MORE>>.

Demand 140

Demand Report San Diego Web 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2011

San Diego-based Websense , the developer of web security tools, reports today that it has been selected by Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union, to safeguard data for the credit union's 38 branches. Financial details of the win were not disclosed.

Customer 180

Customer Custom San Diego Tool 180

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

San Diego-based Active Network , which operates a network of sports and community registration sites and offers up other related software products, said today along with school photography firm Lifetouch National School Studios Inc. Tags: active network school yearbook sports registration lifetouch ecommerce software.

Activity 133

Activity Networking San Diego Sales 133

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

San Diego-based KidZui , the web browser startup aiming at the children's market, said Wendesday that it has upgraded its software, launching KidZui K2. The software also provides access and email reports on what kids are using online. KidZui is headed by Cliff Boro.

Mission Ventures 133

Mission Ventures Education San Diego Screening 133

Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

.Net 87

.Net Report Web Research 87

Xconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

San Francisco-based performance management startup 15Five , whose mission is to torpedo annual performance reviews for workers and replace them with supportive weekly coaching by managers, announced today it raised $8 million in a Series A funding round. Employees use the system to make a 15-minute check-in report to their bosses every week.

Coach 54

Coach Software Review Software Report 54

Xconomy

JULY 10, 2017

TP Therapeutics, which raised $45 million in May to advance its work on drug-resistant cancers, raised the most venture capital in San Diego County during the three months that ended June 30, according to regional data released today. Altogether, venture firms invested a total of $406.4 That was down slightly from the $411.2

San Diego 58

San Diego Invest Venture Capital Startup 58

Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

billion this year through sales of digital tokens—so-called initial coin offerings or ICOs—and this method of fundraising exceeded traditional early-stage tech startup investments in June and July, CNBC reported in August. Companies have raised more than $1.25 Lubin is a former. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Web Report Sales Invest 86

Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike, as an endpoint protection and response platform, uses next-generation antivirus software, scans for behavioral indicators of malicious activity, and deploys other threat detection measures to prevent cyberattacks and mitigate harms when they occur.

Report 49

Report Web Mobile Activity 49

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

San Diego-based VMIX , which provides white-label software for hosting and distributing digital video, said this morning that it has launched an effort to attract value added resellers. VMIX said it will provide market and sales support, training, tech support, and reporting to those partners as part of the program.

SaaS 100

SaaS San Diego Training Web 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

San Diego-based RoyaltyShare has signed a set of distribution deals for the firm's digital media management and royalty tracking software. RoyaltyShare develops web-based software used by music publishers to track and report on web-based sales. wireless carriers. wireless carriers.

Trident Capital 100

Trident Capital Bertelsmann San Diego Mobile 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

San Diego-based RoyaltyShare has inked a set of distribution deals for the firm's digital media management and royalty tracking software. RoyaltyShare develops web-based software used by music publishers to track and report on web-based sales. wireless carriers. wireless carriers.

Trident Capital 100

Trident Capital Bertelsmann San Diego Mobile 100

Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92

San Diego 64

San Diego Venture Capital Activity Funding 64

Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In February, the Canadian firm Element AI estimated that talent pool at no more than about 90,000, Bloomberg reported. powered fact-mining engine to comb the global Web and make its own census of skilled people in the field. “We Now, Silicon Valley company Diffbot has used its A.I.-powered

Artificial Inteligence 74

Artificial Inteligence Web Demand Research 74

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. The MoneyTree Report is prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. San Francisco. San Francisco.

Marina Del Rey 40

Marina Del Rey Invest Venture Capital San Diego 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

Develop 40

Develop Development San Diego Startup 40

Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages. Read more » Reprints | Share:

Social Media 58

Social Media News Web Report 58

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). The company recently reported record. OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity giant Symantec. Though it is one of the largest cybersecurity software providers, Symantec is.

Symantec 48

Symantec Report Acquisition Software 48

Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010. Financial terms were not disclosed in a statement issued Tuesday by GoFundMe. They departed in 2015, after selling a majority stake to an investor group led by Accel and Technology Crossover Ventures that reportedly valued GoFundMe at $600 million.

Funding 40

Funding San Diego Hollywood Platform 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence San Diego Framework Venture Capital 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

His San Leandro, CA-based company, TerrAvion , relies on a network of contract pilots to capture weekly shots of his customers’ vineyards, corn fields, and strawberry rows. Companies such as San Diego-based SlantRange are betting that drones, flying lower and slower, can deliver images at higher resolution than either planes or satellites.

San Diego 107

San Diego Outsource Development Startup Resource 107

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Tom tells us how he went from running Intuit's Tax Group--which is behind the popular TurboTax tax software--to his own startup, which allows non-technical, business users to create their own business forms and processes. So you ended up here in San Diego because of Intuit? How long has your software been available to customers?

Startup 150

Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

When it comes to disrupting an industry, Raken founder and CEO Kyle Slager says it would be hard to find a sector that is more resistant to spending money on new technologies than the construction business. As Slager puts it, even bankers and insurers spend more on technology as a percentage of revenue than building contractors.

Sites 79

Sites Mobile Report Invest 79

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

One of the largest and most consequential data breaches in 2017 afflicted credit reporting agency Equifax, and it was hardly the only victim.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Social Media News Software Review 71

Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

“More dollars, fewer deals” has been a prevailing trend in venture funding over the past couple of years, and it was evident again in the three months that ended September 30, according to the latest Venture Monitor report. Venture firms invested $21.5

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Funding Report Capital 66

Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Artificial Inteligence 105

Artificial Inteligence Company Companies Course 105

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Recycling Waste Platform. Problem She is Solving.

San Diego 55

San Diego Education Platform Web 55

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

But when the financial oversight council published its 2018 annual report, it concluded that volatility in the cryptocurrency. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Pricing 89

Pricing Report Invest Venture Capital 89

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Educational technology companies are augmenting the traditional educational system with their online coursework offerings, but they’re also creating a competing universe where students can find alternate learning experiences that may qualify them for a job, even if they don’t have an academic degree.

Education 45

Education Report Demand Research 45