Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Students and shoppers will soon be using technology developed by Aira, a San Diego startup that links vision-impaired people with “visual interpreters” via smartphone and smart glasses, to help them navigate their environments.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

San Diego-based MemComputing , a startup working on high performance computing technology, says it has been selected to join the Air Force Research Laboratory's Catalyst Space Accelerator , being held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Beane, formerly an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UCSD.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Tortuga Logic , a new startup focused on chip-level cybersecurity technology whose founders include professors from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Thursday. The seed funding came from Eclipse Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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socalTECH

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. Echodyne said it is developing radar products developed on metamaterials technology invented through a collaboration with Intellectual Ventures, Duke University and the University of California at San Diego.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2015

San Diego-based GrollTex , a new startup spinning out of the University of California, San Diego, has scored a seed funding round. According to The Triton Fund, GrollTex will use the funding to accelerate commercialization of the company's technology. The funding came from The Triton Fund and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2016

Los Angeles-based HelloTech , the on-demand, in-home technical services company founded by serial entrepreneur and tech investor Richard Wolpert, said it is expanding into San Diego, and has begun offering up its services in the city. The company now offers up its services in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. My starting salary was $27,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

The thesis is that before investing in an early-stage startup it is close to impossible to know which of the deals you did will break out to the upside. to start their next company. You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc. Focus a lot on the denominator.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Mark is a UCSD graduate and writes one of the best startup blogs on the Internet. Come hear him talk about about SoCal startups, entrepreneurship and the investment scene. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. in 2012, Hylton led a team that developed BrainOS, software technology designed to enable robotic systems to adapt to their environments and learn from humans.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2019

Welcome to socaltech interviews, where we talk to the startup entrepreneurs, investors, and others in Southern California's technology industry. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. They put on great events. CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2011

Like a startup we took a very “version 0.9” If you’re in LA and looking for somebody to do project-based marketing jobs – Jacqui’s your lady (not to mention a fellow UCSD alum!). Right now it’s a bit light but I’m sure it will fill up. scrolling top banner - I'll start by slowing it down. What text resonates?

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? professors, who saw these changes coming, and the need to evolve and adapt that emerging technology into the scientific publishing area. They got an NSF grant, and basically started up the original web site, as a video web site. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Biosensor startup Biolinq said Thursday it has raised $4.75 Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme. Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2016

Tsien died on August 24 while bike-riding in Eugene, Oregon, a UCSD Health spokesman confirmed late Wednesday. The technology, which has advanced into early clinical trials for breast cancer, is meant to make it easier for surgeons to identify and remove tumors and metastatic tissue.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company. We've come up with a pretty unique solution, which looks at social depth--you, your friends, and the people you follow, your demographics, and people you impact--and learns about these people and makes intelligent decisions based on that. Aaron, thanks for the interview.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. ” “ end quote (some people on mobile devices having a hard time seeing where quote starts / ends so I want to be sure I’m not attributed with Mr. Perkins letter).

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

First there was “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Now four San Diego, CA-based investors are debuting “VCs in a Van,” a vehicle (no pun intended) meant to spotlight local companies ripe for funding. The show tracks the financiers—Neil Senturia, Tom Tullie, Mark Bowles, and Taner Halicio?lu—as

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2018

The countdown clock is running for Big Data Meets Big Biology , and time is almost up to grab a seat for Xconomy’s half-day forum that will convene technology and life science innovators and influencers. Our program includes leading innovators, startup. Register today and save with our Procrastinator’s Special while it lasts.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. I’ll put up the video when they post it on their website. Stories have starts, middles and ends.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. —Healthcare giant Novartis (NYSE: NOV ) is breaking up its cell and gene therapy R&D group , laying off roughly 30 percent of staff.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

But Ryan’s vision is much broader, which is what perked up my ears. No, not all of these people will get jobs at hot starts like Facebook, Google or Twitter. They will save tens of thousands of dollars in fees and start earning at a younger age. We’ll see if Ryan takes me up on that. Again, not for everybody.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Glenn Beck holds court at the Upfront Summit with legendary VC Vinod Khosla and UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla (not related) If you asked me a year ago when we were hosting the 2016 Upfront Summit the odds of Glenn Beck speaking at the next Summit I would have emphatically said ZERO. He knew this of course before he came.

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