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$100M Round Turns San Diego’s Seismic into Region’s Newest Unicorn

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The venture investment, which the San Diego startup announced Tuesday, is one of only a few so-called mega-rounds—$100 million or more—recorded this year in the region. (In In Southern California, rounds that large are more often raised by life sciences companies.)

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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parent company of IDrive (www.idrive.com), to learn about his company''s online backup and sync products--plus how he wants to challenge companies like Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft with a bigger and better cloud backup and sync service, and by building that here in Southern California. IDrive/Pro SoftNet is based in Calabasas.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). I was actually introduced to the Telesign founders through Summit Partners.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Competition: McAfee , Symantec. If you watch the show you’ll hear a great story about how this team got their start by hijacking data from stars on the red carpet at the Oscars. If you want the easy version you can read that story here ! Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Founded in 2007. Employees: 27. Total raised: $16.5mm.