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AUGUST 30, 2019

San Diego-based Housecall Pro , the startup which provides a number of different software products for home services contractors, announced on Friday that it has launched a new set of finance tools for its customers.

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MAY 29, 2019

San Diego-based eSub Construction Software , a startup developing construction project management tools, has raised $12M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Catalyst Investors, and also included Revolution Ventures.

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AUGUST 25, 2012

On August 9th, Startup Weekend San Diego and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University partnered with Google to host the very first Startup Weekend focused on helping Veterans, Service Members and Military Families turn their visions into reality in creating a startup company.

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MAY 21, 2019

San Diego-based Inhibrx , a biopharmaceuticals startup working in the area of protein engineering, has raised $40M in an investment from Viking Global Investors, the company announced this mroning. Inhibrx said it has now raised approximately $205M in total, including $135M in equity and debt and $70M in licensing and grants.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

San Diego-based CRISPR QC, a startup developing data and analytics tools for the gene editing market, announced on Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Serra Ventures, and also included CaerusX Ventures, the investment company of George Bonaros.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Exact Sciences has gone from being a customer of Biomatrica, a San Diego-based vendor of equipment for storing and preserving blood and saliva samples, to now being the company’s owner. Biomatrica manufactures and sells tools for preserving biological samples.

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APRIL 23, 2019

ServiceNow, one of the most valuable software companies ever founded in San Diego, launched in 2003, before enterprise software-as-a-service became a topic of mainstream discussion. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Biproxi , a new startup developing a commercial real estate data platform, has raised $10M in a seed funding, the company announced on Tuesday morning. According to Biproxi, the funding was led by Greycroft, and also included Newmark Knight Frank, RPM Ventures, and the National Association of Realtors.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which operates an online software tool to help people create their own estate plans, has raised $2M in a funding round, the company disclosed this week. Thec ompany was also part of the Techstars Anywhere startup accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

The San Diego, CA-based Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM), a subsidiary of Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center, said today it has teamed up with a metagenomics startup headquartered in San Francisco, IDbyDNA, to evaluate the company’s platform as a diagnostic tool for children with such symptoms.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

San Diego-based GoMeta , a new, augmented reality startup being led by serial entrepreneur Dmitry Shapiro, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, and launched its app out of beta. The funding came from Mike Jones (Science Inc., MySpace) as well as Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

San Diego-based Portfolium , a startup developing tools to allow students to showcase their achievements, projects, and other portfolio of academic work to potential employers, has been acquired by educational software provider Instructure , the two announced late Tuesday. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2019

Carlsmed, a San Diego-based medical technology company that’s developing personalized spinal implants, has merged with Precisive Surgical, a spine imaging system startup in Seattle. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Many facets of the finance industry, a highly regulated sector of the economy, are still reworking the tools used to move around money so that they fit a digital world. One such lender, Better.com, raised a $160 million Series C financing round Monday. One such lender, Better.com, raised a $160 million Series C financing round Monday.

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MAY 14, 2010

San Diego-based Confident Technologies , the new startup which is using image authentication technology originally developed by Vidoop, has rolled out its image-based CAPTCHA tools, the firm said this week. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 29, 2019

San Diego-based AttackIQ , a startup developing continuous security validation tools, has raised $17.6M The company's tools provide automatic assessment of a company's systems to help teams with cyber readiness. in its Series B funding, the company said this morning. AttackIQ is led by CEO Brett Galloway.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

San Diego-based Arima Genomics , a startup working on research tools for understanding genome sequence and structure, said this morning that it has raised a Series A funding round. Size of the funding was not announced.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2019

Taylor Cavanah, whose background is in physics, once caused a fellow scientist to do a spit take after learning Cavanah runs a software startup focused on pet care. Just as surprising is the tale of how Cavanah and co-founders Ken Tsui and Aaron Bannister built the San Diego, CA-based company, called PetDesk.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

You took the risk to start your company. All of a sudden you know you’re going to be judged. ” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future. A tool to better help you find bars & restaurants?

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

San Diego-based TurboTax , the software division of Intuit which makes the popular tax filing software, says on Wednesday that it has opened up for the season, and has begun allowing its users to start working on their taxes. Is it tax time already? READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

When Xconomy convened a dinner discussion earlier this year that included prominent San Diego cybersecurity innovators, startup founders, and system administrators, I was stunned to learn that Gary Hayslip oversees an IT network that blocks an average of 800,000 cyber attacks a day. It’s not a tool to replace everything.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Empirico, a biotech that has developed tools to analyze genomics data and use those insights to identify potential therapeutic targets, has signed a collaboration deal with antisense drug developer Ionis Pharmaceuticals that includes a $10 million equity investment. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Now, some founders are seeking to use tech tools such as chatbots, artificial intelligence, analytics, and mobile to help clients remedy those deficiencies. As the last year has shown, the tech industry has a significant problem with sexual harassment and ensuring that women are treated equitably in the workplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity , a startup working on data analytics for direct-to-consumer retailers, has raised $2.3M The startup--led by CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc--says its product is used in particular for the Shopify Plus e-commerce area, with such customers as Kopari, BioClarity, MVMT Watches, Parachute Home, and Rothy's.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Joel Milne , the CEO of Los Angeles-based RepairSmith (www.repairsmith.com), a startup offering up mobile automobile repair. We are rebuilding car repair from the ground up, in a modern an convenient way. Theres a quality of experience, equipment, and tools necessary.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

San Diego-based AlphaTrAI , a fintech startup backed by Analytics Ventures, says it has connected with QuantConnect, the developer of an open trading engine, to run its AI software. AlphaTrAI says it has developed artificial intelligence software which can pick, trade, and manage stocks better than humans.

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Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

A 25-person startup developing advanced computing tools to speed up pathology work has raised its first institutional financing from a group of investors led by Intel Capital, the corporate investment arm of the chipmaker.

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OCTOBER 11, 2013

San Diego-based TakeLessons , which has been operating an online marketplace to connect students with music instructors, has made a major expansion this week, saying that it will now make its tools available to any private instructor, in any field. takelessons peer marketplace startup tutoring teacher instructor' READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2013

Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of San Diego-based communications chip maker Qualcomm, has made an investment in a developer of 3D scanning tools. Matterport said today that it has raised $5.6M

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APRIL 26, 2019

San Diego-based GraphPad , which develops data analysis and visualization software for the life sciences industry, announced on Thursday that it has acquired Biomatters , a provider of DNA data analysis software. GraphPad--which is backed by private equity investor Insight Partners--is led by startup veteran Thomas Swalla.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2019

Now a former director from the company is leading a startup that has raised $15 million to develop new genome sequencing tools. Most of the genetic analysis done today is performed on machines made by Illumina, the DNA sequencing giant.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. What does your startup do? founded in summer of 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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APRIL 21, 2010

San Diego-based Confident Technologies , a new startup led by former Websense President Curtis Staker, said today that it has launched a firm focused on developing image-based authentication and verification technology for web applications.

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