Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010.

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Funding San Diego Hollywood Platform 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Orange County Seed Funding Santa Barbara 157

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Over the last four years, I watched numerous entrepreneurs raise equity. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs (..)

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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2019

Looking back over the past two years, it seems that public perceptions of tech companies have shifted, compared with the eager acceptance that often prevailed as innovations from these businesses transformed social interactions, transportation, and other aspects of life.

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Web Product Artificial Inteligence Company 73

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. How big was the team in San Diego? Quinn, thanks for the time. What's the story behind the acquisition?

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San Diego IP Acquisition Web 145

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

“Our focus is on priming the pump,” Steve Poizner said Friday, after providing an update on the Alliance for Southern California Innovation for board members of EvoNexus, an industry nonprofit group that operates pro bono tech incubators in San Diego and Irvine, CA. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Southern California San Diego SoCal Incubator 61

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. Otherwise, good luck!

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Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Some entrepreneurs, though, are acting as if Prop 64, known officially as the California Marijuana Legalization Initiative, has already passed. Co-founder and CEO Eric Gomez said Canopy San Diego won’t enroll startups or entrepreneurs who are directly engaged in the cultivation or sale of marijuana or its derivatives.

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San Diego Startup Southern California Invest 40

Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. [ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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Artificial Inteligence Tool Invest Entrepreneur 106

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. to San Diego. It's the source for keeping a pulse on the dynamic world of technology, reaching venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, social media. Funding great entrepreneurs. Need office or Tech Space?

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SoCalTech Advertising Rustic Canyon Glendale 127

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. They didn't buy it because of the financial content, they did it for the web video expertise.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. So you ended up here in San Diego because of Intuit?

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Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon. We're excited about launching and getting funding, and trying to get traction in Los Angeles.

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. Finally, what are you using your recent funding round for?

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Incubator Class Artificial Inteligence Startup 108

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. So what's going on with the fund nowadays? Nice chatting with you today! Let's talk about the exit. Interesting.

Startup 185

Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests. I''ve both been an entrepreneur, as well as the head of the division of a public company. Phil Kelly: That''s an interesting one.

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Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

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MAY 7, 2010

The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media. They got an NSF grant, and basically started up the original web site, as a video web site. Tags: video youtube scientific scivee friedmann marc interview entrepreneur startup. READ MORE>>.

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Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. We're going to be expanding south into San Diego, into the Inland Empire, and also to Los Angeles, where we have a home edge, rather than to towns outside of California, where we don't understand the demographics and landscape yet. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The recent funding deals that Intel Capital laid out in San Diego Monday, on the first day of its 17th annual global summit, also reflect the strategic thinking of Wendell Brooks, who took the helm at Intel Capital about a year ago as longtime president Arvind Sodhani retired.

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Capital San Diego Invest USC 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. Or, as always, summary notes available below. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

These days, Thrun seems just as excited by another imprint he’s made on the still-forming AV industry—not as a researcher, but as an entrepreneur in online education.

Education 87

Education Software Engineering Training Research 87

Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2019

First, entrepreneurs vying to invent self-driving vehicles, virtual assistants, and intelligent industrial machines created a hunger for more powerful semiconductors that could enable scattered devices to take over sophisticated calculations powered by artificial intelligence software.

Artificial Inteligence 62

Artificial Inteligence Demand Software Development Software 62

Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Last week, San Diego-based Kidzui --the kid's website and kid-friendly browser developer, announced another round of funding, and also launched Zui Studios, a new effort to create original content for the portal. Give us an overview on KidZui. Will the content you create just go on Zui.com, or will it also be on YouTube?

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Content Startup Web Technical Review 165

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). So for anybody who has been through the funding process before I hope that this will resonate and for those that haven’t I hope it will be interesting. Tempus Fugit. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M We caught up with co-founder and CEO Darrius Thompson--who was also a co-founder at DivX--to learn more about the startup, the saga behind how the company started, and the funding. Talk a little bit about your funding?

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Software Review Software Startup Examples 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. Scott Chisolm: Actually, the organization started as a charitable pub crawl, for the cancer society here in San Diego. How did you start the company?

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Help San Diego Organization Startup 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: It's interesting.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

They shared their thoughts via e-mail with me, Xconomy’s national correspondent David Holley, and Sarah de Crescenzo, editor of Xconomy San Diego. Xconomy: Has the Trump era been good or bad for your company? Manoj Saxena , CognitiveScale chairman. Read more » Reprints | Share:

.Net 102

.Net San Diego Startup Develop 102

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. and Facebook beef up their presence and more Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs establish footholds in.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44