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VCs Making Smaller Investments, V-Vehicle Restarting Under New CEO, Qualcomm Buys iSkoot, & More San Diego BizTech News
Bruce V. Bigelow 10/18/10
A common theme in last week’s technology news is how companies and entire industries continually remake their businesses, whether it’s the venture capital community, startup carmakers, or a San Diego company that specializes in data storage technology. Read on to see what I mean.
—As the venture capital survey data comes in from the three months that ended September 30, we’re seeing a nationwide rebound in first-time financings for startups. Data from CB Insights, the New York financial information firm, shows seed-stage deals increasing from 1 percent of the deals in the third quarter of 2009 to 11 percent of all deals during the third quarter.
—Venture capital surveys from CB Insights and the MoneyTree Report both show an increasing deal count, but a decline in the total amount of invested. In a year-over-year comparison, the MoneyTree Report showed a 7 percent decline in capital invested with a 9 percent increase in deal count during the third quarter, when venture firms invested $4.8 billion in 780 deals nationwide.
—V-Vehicle, the San Diego startup automaker, changed its name to Next Autoworks. The company, which has raised $87 million from investors that include Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, and T. Boone Pickens, also hired industry veteran Kathleen Ligocki as CEO.
—Overland Storage (NASDAQ: OVRL), the San Diego data storage technology specialist, acquired Sunnyvale, CA-based MaxiScale, which provides data protection and data management technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.
—San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) acquired San Francisco-based mobile social networks software developer iSkoot Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.
—Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder and the San Francisco-based company’s creative director, told The San Diego Union-Tribune last week that a new-and-improved version of the micro-blogging service should improve service worldwide. “It was re-architected to actually be snappier, faster – to deal with information faster,” said Stone, who was in San Diego to speak at the 2010 Tijuana Innovadora conference on innovation across the border.
—Predixion Software, based just across the Orange County line in Aliso Viejo, CA, said it had closed on $5 million in Series A financing, led by DFJ Frontier. Predixion, which specializes in low-cost, self-service in the cloud predictive analytics software, said it will use the funds to expand product development,increase sales and marketing initiatives, and expand its sales channel programs and strategic partnership activities.
Bruce V. Bigelow is the editor of Xconomy San Diego. You can e-mail him at bbigelow@xconomy.com or call 858-202-0492
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7 comments:
Barry A. Martin
Sure hope this is being backed up by a digital strategy.
Looking to places a step behind us for inspiration instead of learning from examples by those a step ahead seems more than a little counter-intuitive.
I feel like someone needs to let the newsmakers in on what’s going on.
Les Wilder
This longtime Chronicle subscriber is not surprised. Going to calendered stock seemed from the beginning like rearranging the deck chairs ….
It would seem that the money could be better spent beefing up Editorial, now clearly reduced a flickering candle. Most of the Chron’s news hole is filled with regurgitated press releases, wire service material and real estate ads masquerading as editorial content. Not a mix that will attract the numbers advertisers really want to see.
Each time I renew – at about $1 per day – I ask myself if it’s time to join the subscriber slippage. Could happen soon.
mattymatt
Wait wait wait.
Do you mean to tell me that news does not automatically become more valuable when it is printed on shiny paper?
I’d say “stop the presses,” but they’ll probably be doing that soon anyway.
FXDWG69
I suppose the MSM’s atrocious ratings (except Fox)have nothing to do with their liberal leanings. They are cutting their own throats by continuing to slant the news instead of reporting it. It’s amusing to watch, really. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing again and again, expecting a different result each time. I suppose after they’ve “liberealed” themselves out of a job and start enjoying their unemployment checks/food stamps, they’ll head back for that PHD. They are so much smarter than we rabble, after all.
SF Native
The problem with the Chron is not the paper stock but the content. They might actually gain readership if they invested in hard news instead of surface gloss – and by hard news I don’t mean lazy pickups from the wire. It would be pleasant indeed to find a newspaper that did not merely regurgitate the perceived wisdom of the pack. Shoe leather, anyone?
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VCs Making Smaller Investments, V-Vehicle Restarting Under New CEO, Qualcomm Buys iSkoot, & More San Diego BizTech News
Bruce V. Bigelow 10/18/10
A common theme in last week’s technology news is how companies and entire industries continually remake their businesses, whether it’s the venture capital community, startup carmakers, or a San Diego company that specializes in data storage technology. Read on to see what I mean.
—As the venture capital survey data comes in from the three months that ended September 30, we’re seeing a nationwide rebound in first-time financings for startups. Data from CB Insights, the New York financial information firm, shows seed-stage deals increasing from 1 percent of the deals in the third quarter of 2009 to 11 percent of all deals during the third quarter.
—Venture capital surveys from CB Insights and the MoneyTree Report both show an increasing deal count, but a decline in the total amount of invested. In a year-over-year comparison, the MoneyTree Report showed a 7 percent decline in capital invested with a 9 percent increase in deal count during the third quarter, when venture firms invested $4.8 billion in 780 deals nationwide.
—V-Vehicle, the San Diego startup automaker, changed its name to Next Autoworks. The company, which has raised $87 million from investors that include Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, and T. Boone Pickens, also hired industry veteran Kathleen Ligocki as CEO.
—Overland Storage (NASDAQ: OVRL), the San Diego data storage technology specialist, acquired Sunnyvale, CA-based MaxiScale, which provides data protection and data management technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.
—San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) acquired San Francisco-based mobile social networks software developer iSkoot Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.
—Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder and the San Francisco-based company’s creative director, told The San Diego Union-Tribune last week that a new-and-improved version of the micro-blogging service should improve service worldwide. “It was re-architected to actually be snappier, faster – to deal with information faster,” said Stone, who was in San Diego to speak at the 2010 Tijuana Innovadora conference on innovation across the border.
—Predixion Software, based just across the Orange County line in Aliso Viejo, CA, said it had closed on $5 million in Series A financing, led by DFJ Frontier. Predixion, which specializes in low-cost, self-service in the cloud predictive analytics software, said it will use the funds to expand product development,increase sales and marketing initiatives, and expand its sales channel programs and strategic partnership activities.
Bruce V. Bigelow is the editor of Xconomy San Diego. You can e-mail him at bbigelow@xconomy.com or call 858-202-0492
autosport.com - F1 <b>News</b>: Tweaks to be made to Korean track
Korean Grand Prix organisers are making minor modifications to the new Formula 1 track on Friday night following complaints from drivers about potential trouble spots on the new Yeongam circuit.
The Fox <b>News</b> “Lawn Jockey” and The Tolerant Left | RedState
Juan Williams' firing did not happen in a vacuum. It happened in the context of him having been the official Fox News lawn jockey stooge for years.
BREAKING <b>NEWS</b>: No Jail For Lindsay Lohan - Judge Orders Her To <b>...</b>
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid16157557001/bctid645210306001 Lindsay Lohan caught a major break on Friday when Judge Elden Fox chose not to send her to jail and ordered her to stay in rehab at the Betty Ford Center.
eric seiger eric seiger
Barry A. Martin
at 3:27 pm, October 13, 2010
Sure hope this is being backed up by a digital strategy.
Looking to places a step behind us for inspiration instead of learning from examples by those a step ahead seems more than a little counter-intuitive.
I feel like someone needs to let the newsmakers in on what’s going on.
Les Wilder
at 6:05 pm, October 13, 2010
This longtime Chronicle subscriber is not surprised. Going to calendered stock seemed from the beginning like rearranging the deck chairs ….
It would seem that the money could be better spent beefing up Editorial, now clearly reduced a flickering candle. Most of the Chron’s news hole is filled with regurgitated press releases, wire service material and real estate ads masquerading as editorial content. Not a mix that will attract the numbers advertisers really want to see.
Each time I renew – at about $1 per day – I ask myself if it’s time to join the subscriber slippage. Could happen soon.
mattymatt
at 10:28 pm, October 13, 2010
Wait wait wait.
Do you mean to tell me that news does not automatically become more valuable when it is printed on shiny paper?
I’d say “stop the presses,” but they’ll probably be doing that soon anyway.
FXDWG69
at 12:57 pm, October 14, 2010
I suppose the MSM’s atrocious ratings (except Fox)have nothing to do with their liberal leanings. They are cutting their own throats by continuing to slant the news instead of reporting it. It’s amusing to watch, really. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing again and again, expecting a different result each time. I suppose after they’ve “liberealed” themselves out of a job and start enjoying their unemployment checks/food stamps, they’ll head back for that PHD. They are so much smarter than we rabble, after all.
SF Native
at 2:20 pm, October 19, 2010
The problem with the Chron is not the paper stock but the content. They might actually gain readership if they invested in hard news instead of surface gloss – and by hard news I don’t mean lazy pickups from the wire. It would be pleasant indeed to find a newspaper that did not merely regurgitate the perceived wisdom of the pack. Shoe leather, anyone?