a deep software type town (a few successes, but not an industry),” Lichter added. “Most of the technology has spun out of the military contractors and has not been focused on new Web sciences.”
So how did San Diego’s venture capital get deployed? To provide a fuller picture, I’ve listed San Diego’s top 20 deals during the third quarter, according to the Money Tree data:
Otonomy, San Diego, $45.9 million
3D Robotics, San Diego, $30 million
On-Ramp Wireless, San Diego, $15 million
ViaCyte, San Diego, $12 million
Tragara Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, CA, $11.4, million
Suneva Medical, San Diego, $10 million
Intersection Medical, Carlsbad, $9 million
Auspex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, $8.9 million
MicroPower Technologies, San Diego, $7.5 million
Acutus Medical, San Diego, $7.4 million
Freedom Meditech, San Diego, $7 million
PatientSafe Solutions, San Diego, $7 million
Lithera, San Diego, $6.7 million
DermTech International, San Diego, $5.8 million
Seragon Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, $4.6 million
KFx Medical, Carlsbad, $4.6 million
Seismic, Encinitas, CA, $4.5 million
SG Biofuels, San Diego, $4.3
BUMP Network, San Diego, $3 million
Applied Proteomics, San Diego, $2.9 million
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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