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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Illumina Ventures , the early-stage venture capital investor which was founded by San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina , says it has raised $230M for its first fund.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

ServiceNow, the digital workflow and service management software developer which has operations in San Diego, said today that it has launched a new $100M investment fund, part of which will look at investments in San Diego.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

San Diego venture investor and entrepreneur Barbara Bry , who co-founded Proflowers.com and several other local technology companies, said on Wednesday that she is running for Mayor of San Diego , in a move to further extend her experience in the technology industry into politics.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

The Tech Coast Angels San Diego (TCA-SD) angel investment network, the San Diego arm of the Tech Coast Angels, has seen a big growth in the number of angel investors who are members of the group this year, the group said this week. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Total venture capital investment dollars in 2017 are on their way to a decade high, according to a new report issued today, with $21.5 The 3Q 2017 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report said the latest quarter worths of investment brings 2017's total to $61.4 billion invested in the third quarter in more than 1,699 companies.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

A startup which is based on research conducted at the University of California, San Diego has scored $15M in a Series A funding. which was co-founded by Tom Driscoll, a former University of California at San Diego researcher. echodyne metamaterials spinout ucsd duke venture capital radar bill gates materials'

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APRIL 4, 2014

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.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

in a Series C funding round, which it said partially go to expanding hiring at its San Diego offices, the company announced on Wednesday. Health IQ plans to use the funding to fuel hiring in its Mountain View and San Diego offices, continue product development and accelerate customer growth, according to the company.

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AUGUST 24, 2012

A list of the top ten cities for startups was released by USA Today and the National Venture Capital Association today, naming both Los Angeles and San Diego among the best cities for startup companies. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 -- Venture Capital in Southern California: Catching Up and Going Beyond. Northern California gets all the attention when it comes to venture capital investment. But Southern California does VC, too, just not at quite the same scale as Silicon Valley. See [link] (more)

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Startups related to the many University of California campuses in Southern California may soon have a new source of funding: The University of California itself, via a new, $250M venture capital. The fund would come from the UC endowment, and no tuition or state funding will be used, according to the UC system.

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APRIL 2, 2018

San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals said on Friday that it has entered into a deal with venture capital investor venBio Partners , which will allow venBio's portfolio companies to enter into a pre-agreed worldwide OmniAb platform license agreement.

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APRIL 12, 2017

billion in venture capital dollars were invested in the Southern California region in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report , issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and CB Insights. invested across 71 deals in Q2 of 2017 in LA and Orange County, and $202.37M invested in San Diego for the quarter across 32 deals.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Los Angeles and San Diego are among the metro areas with the highest startup activity, based on a new report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Nimble Pharmacy , a pharmacy delivery startup which currently offers up service in just San Diego and the Bay Area, has raised $28M in new funding. The funding was led by Sequoia Capital, and also included Y Combinator, First Round Capital, DAG Ventures and Khosla Ventures.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

billion in venture capital in Q4 of 2018, according to data from Dow Jones VentureSource , released on Friday. billion in San Diego and $0.42 The region had a total of 124 deals logged by Dow Jones VentureSource, split between 75 in Los Angeles, 29 in San Diego, and 20 in Orange County.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Biotech venture capital investor Sofinnova , which has offices in San Diego, announced that it has raised $650M in its newest fund, Sofinnova Venture Partners X. The firm said it closed the fund at its hard cap of $650M, after exceeding its initial funding target of $550M.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Carlsbad-based Foundry Medical Innovations said today that it has launched a new, medical and diagnostic device incubator in San Diego County, which it says provides a shared workspace, access to technical engineering talent, business and marketing plan support, and connections to the venture capital community.

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JULY 18, 2013

in venture capital investments in Q2 2013 across Southern California, spread across 80 deals. However, venture dollars invested were above Q1, when Southern California saw $569.1M invested across 17 deals; San Diego was third, with $147.75M in 18 deals. in investments across 90 deals. invested across 45 companies.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Venture capital investments in Southern California for Q3 of 2011 are up from last year, but down from last quarter, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. in San Diego, and $141.4M

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion invested in 780 venture capital deals for Q3. Nationwide, there was $4.8 in investments.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A new report, published this morning by Fortune, says that a "new" venture capital fund--announced last week in officially looking press releases-- appears to be linked to a convicted inmate, currently imprisoned in Lompoc. Fortune says it does not know who has been sending out press releases from the company.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

office in San Diego. REGEN, which develops wireless demand management and demand response products for the utility industry, said the funding came from NGEN Partners and BDC Venture Capital, and will go towards rapidly expanding its marketing activities across North America. in a funding round, and set up a U.S.

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JANUARY 17, 2014

Southern California''s venture capital investments totaled a little more than $598.4M in the fourth quarter, according to the latest number from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, in its MoneyTree report. There were 84 venture capital deals for the quarter. For Q4, $8.4

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APRIL 5, 2019

Gene editing technology developer Inscripta , which has one of its offices in San Diego, saidt his week that has added another $20M in funding to its Series C round, bringing the round to a total of $105.5M.

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APRIL 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, The National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters have tallied up just under a billion dollars in venture capital investments in the Southern California region in Q1 of this year, a very significant uptick from Q2 of 2011. in 13 deals.

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JULY 19, 2011

Southern California companies raised $739M in venture capital in Q2 of 2011, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) based on data from Thomson Reuters. in funding, and San Diego $198.18M in investments. raised for the quarter.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

SOMARK Innovations , a firm which is developing chipless, RFID tattoo technology used for animal identification, is setting up shop in San Diego, the firm disclosed earlier this month. Finestere is based in San Diego, and also has ties to Missouri through the management of the Missouri Venture Partners (MVP) Fund.

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MARCH 13, 2009

What's going on in venture capital in San Diego? And how will the changing venture economy affect angel investors? Mission Ventures' Dave Ryan talks with Frank Peters, and offers advice for angel investors.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

The startup--whose co-founder, Mario Gutierrez, is based in San Diego--said the funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Vulcan Capital and angels. Gutierrez is a computer science graduate from San Diego State University.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Southern California venture capital investments total $497.8M, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, which were released this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Nationally, venture capital investors invested $21.8

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APRIL 14, 2016

in venture capital in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Southern California venture totals were down significantly from the $1.38 Southern California startups raised $810.5M was invested.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

The San Diego chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the largest angel investment group in Southern California, as well as the United States, said today that it has established a new, memorial fund, the John G. Watson Foundation , which will support entrepreneurism in the San Diego region. He also served at Vestar Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The National Venture Capital Association today released a new report detailing the impact of venture capital on the U.S. The report , compiled for the NVCA by IHS Global Insight, found that venture backed companies accounted for 11 percent of private company employment in 2008, or 12.1 in San Diego.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. The biggest are for venture activity in the quarter was Biopharmaceuticals, which was $299.13M of the quarterly total.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

San Diego-based virtual reality startup Nanome, which is developing technology to help researchers explore the interaction of molecules and molecular compounds using VR, has raised $3M in a funding round, the company disclosed today.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

San Diego-based venture capital investment firm Section 32, led by former Google Ventures founder Bill Maris, has raised $740M in its fourth venture capital fund, the company said this morning.

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