San Diego-based Grid2Home, which was founded last year to develop specialized software for two-way data communications in “Smart Grid” applications, has raised $400,000 of a targeted $500,000 round of securities, according to a recent regulatory filing. Grid2Home announced in September that it had completed an undisclosed round of seed funding led by Granite Ventures. The company also named Rick Kornfeld as CEO at that time. Kornfeld was previously an executive vice president and chief strategy officer at San Diego’s NextWave Wireless and NextWave Broadband. Before that, he headed San Diego’s Staccato Communications from 2004 to 2006. Kornfeld did not return a call inquiring about the funding yesterday.
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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