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DECEMBER 19, 2017

San Diego-based Luna DNA , a new genomic information startup based on the Blockchain protocol, and led by veterans of Illumina, sas it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. According to Luna DNA, the funding came from individual investors and former executives from DNA sequencing equipment developer Illumina. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Pasadena-based Embodied , a startup which says it is developing "life-like robots to revolutionize care and wellness for humans", announced Monday morning that it has raised $22M in a Series A funding round. Jason Schoettler from Calibrate Ventures and Andrew Firlik from JAZZ Venture Partners both join the company's board with the funding.

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JULY 28, 2017

The company specifically said it has launched a new, malware search component within the tool, CrowdStrike Falcon MalQuery, which it says gives its customers access to more than 560TB of malware for use in malware research. CrowdStrike is led by security veteran and former McAfee CTO George Kurtz. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

The funding, a Series C, will be used to continue expanding Boulevard’s product and engineering teams and to build out more tools targeting an ever-wider set of users in the bigger wellness and beauty sector (those product additions are typically big — it most recently added a whole new payments feature). Focusing on the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The financiers funding the company’s plans are a mix of Silicon Valley venture capital firms and members of Hollywood’s elite, which is only fitting for a company whose headquarters are in Los Angeles, but whose business takes it to the far flung research centers and launch facilities which support the U.S. space industry.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There''s lots of research out there which shows that when kids can really find a passion they can love, and can get behind it and which they can pursue with all their energy, it transforms the experience of childhood and relieves a lot of the challenges that come with childhood. What''s the funding status of your company--how are you funded?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund. I asked him if he would consider raising $3m in stead and we would put up most of the funds. We like to be able to see the concept.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

They did some research, and found that around 88 percent of seats were empty and about 95 percent of seats were empty after opening weekend. Zachary Cancio (CTO, co-founder) Duke ECE/CS 2009. Stock Trader/Researcher at E-Trade, Zecco Trading, and William O’neil. Any funding yet? Tell us more about yourself ?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

PrecisionHawk has operated drones under a FAA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement since last year, and sees business opportunities for beyond-line-of-sight flights in aerial mapping of large agribusiness fields, forests, mining operations, public utilities, and other rural operations.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The healthcare tools of the future often start as research projects in academic medical centers, but they may not break out into widespread clinical practice until some sort of logjam gives way to make them workable and affordable. Up until now, these scans have been used only at Stanford and nine other medical research centers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Fund raising is hard for everybody. Fund raising is like a funnel where you need a bunch of potential leads in the top end and only a few will reach the bottom. Start Early The single biggest mistake founders make is waiting until they have too little cash in the bank before fund raising. It sounds like a lot of work, I know!

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media. Mike Kijewski. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

based startup CoFoundersLab has addressed this issue by taking the guesswork out of matchmaking by introducing scientific methods, deep research and algorithms that have proven to lead to successful matches. s first accelerator called The Fort and raised VC funding. Soon after CoFoundersLab was accepted into D.C.’s

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Aaron Crayford: Before Rippol, I was the CEO and CTO of Vusion, a company that provided HD video streaming. Before that, I was a student researcher as San Diego Sate University and a UCSD student. Finally, how is the firm funded? Talk about your background and how you got into this? That company was eventually sold after I left.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. does make it seem like it's a lot of work.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I’m now a VC that funds entrepreneurs. The paper even goes as far as saying, “our research cannot be generalized to the entire population of entrepreneurs in the United States, it is meant to be illustrative of the backgrounds of entrepreneurs.&#. I’m an ex entrepreneur. My views are formed from those experiences.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. As an undergradudate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights. Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

It took a while to do market research, but we ended up starting an app for law. It occurred to us that a startup company with limited funding is not going to pay $5000 upfront, and that we would have loved to know the prices up front and not have to go through the same eight conversations eight times.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Research in Motion (RIM). Venture Bonsai enters the increasingly active market of enabling new methods to fund startups. But I don’t think so.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We spoke with Mike Outmesguine , CEO and Alan DeRossett , CTO of the company, and how their roots in do-it-yourself, "Maker" projects is key to their entry into the prize competition. So, very early on was our project-Voxel Research, how our name got created and mashed up to Voxearch. How are you funding this project?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. The sensing technology, too, is unique to our solution. We need to sit less, and move more.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My resume includes things like videogames, online worlds, online web, from everything as an engineer to a producer to technical director, to CTO. Given your experience in the fast moving technology industry, were you nervous about joining the government--which is not exactly known for adopting technology very rapidly?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon found that groups have a high collective intelligence when members of a group are good at reading each others’ emotions — when they take turns speaking, when the inputs from each member are managed fluidly. VCs fund people all the time with no traction. They fund people with no customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

It is an LA-based company that was recently acquired by Amazon, which you can read more about in this incredibly well-researched article. We funded the seed round, the A round, the B round, C round, D round and E round. But why did Ring succeed when the entire market kept saying that Nest was going to be the winner?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Pure excitement isn’t either.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. Dan Gould is the another founder of Chill and leads the technology team. Dan previously was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health and at the Brown University Computer Graphics Group and has won a number of Computer Science awards.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

We raised a bunch of money, and funded training programs for underserved communities for entry level jobs, which would lead to careers in the entertainment industry. My partner and I started working on this two years ago, and had researched the situation. Our CTO is from the USC Insitute of Creative Technologies.

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