Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Despite the slowdown in venture dollars and deal flow, 2016 is still on pace—with roughly $56 billion invested in 5,997 deals so far this year—to end the year with more than $70 billion invested nationwide. PitchBook data also shows a nearly 29 percent decline in year-over-year funding, from the $21.1 181 million (Series C).

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016. Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2018

When Cathy Polinsky became chief technology officer of Stitch Fix in late 2016, she knew one of the San Francisco-based company’s key challenges was continually refining its core software algorithm to make sure customers received the right tailored suggestions in their monthly wardrobe boxes. So, she made it into a game.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Like Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM ), which is shifting its attention from traditional auto manufacturing to projects like its self-driving car unit Cruise—a San Francisco startup GM bought in 2016—Volvo Cars is one of the flock of established carmakers drawn to the Bay Area to take part in its thriving mobility innovation cluster.

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Xconomy

MAY 25, 2018

A few years before the presidential election of 2016, with all its Wikileaks, Russian disinformation campaigns, and phony Facebook links, San Diego’s Mitek Systems (NASDAQ: MITK made a strategic decision to expand into identity verification technology. Funny how things work out. After paying $10.6

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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup was founded in 2016 with the goal of reducing food waste, especially the $20 billion in “ugly and surplus” produce that Full Harvest, citing U.S. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year. Environmental Protection Agency data, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That expanded into a 10-city tour in 2015, and a world tour in Europe and Asia in 2016, Pinnell says. Its first mission was to launch a Bay Area VR festival to showcase works in the new immersive art forms. It was a pivotal year when. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

So in February of 2016, he decided to refocus his San Francisco startup on the small, but unexpectedly profitable aspect of his service that could operate in the black. Like many tech entrepreneurs, Sean Behr had a young business that was popular with consumers, but was also losing money.

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Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2018

qster, founded in 2016 to develop technology that enables individuals to aggregate and manage all of their own personal health information, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

The annual total was slightly ahead of venture activity in 2016, when VCs put slightly less than $1.9 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92 billion in 215 deals last year.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

million that VCs invested in San Diego startups in the same quarter in 2016, and off nearly 17 percent from the $420.3 That was down 39 percent from the $574.5 million invested in the prior quarter, according to PitchBook data. Nationally, VC investments continued to decelerate in the first quarter , with some $16.5 billion invested.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

billion that VCs invested during the same quarter of 2016, and a 24 percent drop from. According to the latest Venture Monitor report, VCs invested slightly more than $16.5 billion in 1,797 startups in the first three months of the year. That’s down almost 12 percent from the $18.7

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

That’s a sharp contrast to 2016, when uncertainty and doubt about the economy and presidential election clouded U.S. Improving economic fundamentals are stoking the IPO pipeline in the United States and elsewhere, according to a report issued Tuesday by the global consultant and accounting firm EY. billion in the United States.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Year-to-date annualized investment activity suggests that 2016 will see approximately $74 billion invested in just under 8,000 companies, which would still make it the second-most active year in the past decade, although with a marked deceleration. “Funding gap” with projected 2016 activity. The projected $43.2

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it’s becoming clearer that the fight against the spread of fake news won’t be won by humans alone. research.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to a 2016 CompTIA poll of 400 IT and business professionals, 46 percent of companies who used manage service providers for any portion of their IT needs experienced a reduction in their annual IT budgets by 25 percent or more. By partnering with an MNSP, organizations can receive four main benefits: Cost Savings.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

billion into the agriculture sector across 580 deals in 2016, the report shows. While the total dollars invested in 2016 decreased by nearly 30 percent year over year, the total number of deals increased by 10 percent. Investors pumped $3.23 Furthermore, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2016

Award winners from San Diego and other regions are now eligible for consideration for the national Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 program. San Diego’s Renovate America specializes in software and financing for residential PACE (property assessed clean energy) programs that improve residential energy and water efficiency.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again. Financial terms were not disclosed. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Nick Denton (@nicknotned) March 1, 2016. However, as of today, Instant Articles become available to anybody with a Facebook page and a blog. This is a key opportunity for small blogs and publications to get ahead of the game and really understand how best to use the new product. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2017

The deceleration followed a strong start to venture activity during the first half of 2016, but was chalked up as a “return to normalization” in the Venture Monitor report released by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The report found that venture firms invested $12.7 billion in 1,736 U.S.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

A lot of money went into software, mostly because of some big, expansion-stage deals.”. However, the first half of 2016 has been been substantially lower, with a six-month total of just over $28.9 It is the 27 th straight quarter in which software raked in the most funding. based companies raised almost $15.8 San Francisco.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

For the cybersecurity industry, 2016 is shaping up to be the year of alliances. Such credentials enable access to an organization’s software systems for tasks like implementing updates or managing devices on the network. The C³ Alliance is led by CyberArk, and SecureAuth and SailPoint are also members of that group.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

So, going by the traditional schedule, the 2016 iPhone would have been a major refresh, perhaps helping to reverse this year’s slowdown in sales of iOS devices. Planes have evolved on the inside through the addition of features like all-glass cockpits and fly-by-wire software. So, what’s going on inside Apple? Let me explain.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Here we are at the midpoint of 2016 already. No PhD, “No Fear”: Alice Zhang, 27, Aims Software at Neuro Diseases. Time to look back on the past six months—and some of the top stories of the year so far. Alex Lash profiles an unusual rising star in the hypercompetitive world of brain diseases and biotech.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The purpose of the U.K.’s

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

In 2016, the State Education Directors Association (SETDA) set school network standards at 10Gbps per 1000 users for internal WAN connections. Updated technology, including hardware such as tablets and software with AI algorithms, is essential. High-Speed Fiber Networks. Connected Classrooms Require Ongoing Investment.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016. In an e-mail to Xconomy, Zingle’s Blakely said he plans to use the venture funding to “invest further in product to make sure we are providing the most current, forward-thinking customer messaging platform for all our customers.”. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely !

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium said its business grew by 60 percent in the first half of 2016, but the company did not disclose specifics about its revenue. “We We help our customers weave together all the data across all of their data streams,” Lunsford said.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Against that backdrop, National Funding said today that through the first half of 2016, it has provided over $1.5 There is more integrity to the process,” Gilbert said, because National Funding uses traditional loan analysts as well as software to analyze and process its loan applications.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Against that backdrop, National Funding said today that through the first half of 2016, it has provided over $1.5 There is more integrity to the process,” Gilbert said, because National Funding uses traditional loan analysts as well as software to analyze and process its loan applications.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. App development agency NN4M writes in its blog that customer conversion rates are 1.75 As much of the world has shifted to mobile, smartphones are an important way to reach consumers.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) shares gained nearly 3 percent Tuesday, and ticked up further in after-hours trading following the release of a third quarter earnings report that showed some strengths as well as shortfalls. election campaigns.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. One of the leading contenders in the A.I.

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