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Profitability Helps San Diego Lender Step Out from Industry Cloud

Xconomy

With a cloud lingering over the peer-to-peer lending industry, privately held National Funding is disclosing new details today about its operations, in a bid to step into the light and differentiate itself as a fintech company and alternative lender. The lender said it has provided capital to about 25,000 businesses nationwide.

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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

TechCrunch LA

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a great one about entrepreneurship, friendship and the collaborative economy that is helping families in need across the world. Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving. I had known about DogVacay since its inception. That’s a fact. And I’m not an investor. The Background.

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How PointPredictive Is Using Machine Learning To Uncover Fraud, With Tim Grace

socalTECH

Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. We talked with Tim about how they're now applying this to a new market. What is PointPredictive?

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Smarr, Others Talk Healthtech, AI at Xconomy’s Impact of Innovation

Xconomy

This is the direction we’re headed, according to Larry Smarr, founding director of the California Institute of Telecommunications & Information Technology at UC San Diego. In 2011, Smarr diagnosed his own Crohn’s disease long before. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Three Factors Which Intoxicate Venture Capitalists - Why Your Startup Will (Probably) Not Raise Venture Capital Funding

InfoChachkie

This concentration is partly due to natural causes – successful startups spawn other successful startups. Partners at large venture firms generally believe that Orange County is the ideal geography for medical devices, San Diego for telecom and life sciences (along with Boston) and Silicon Valley for everything else.

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If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace

Both Sides of the Table

A few months ago I wrote about an entrepreneur, Sam Rosen, whom we brought on as an EIR at Upfront Ventures. I would have liked to have been even more Upfront with you back then about our intentions with Sam but out of respect to him we held back on our broader thesis until now. They built the software. Here’s the deal.

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