The company isn’t disclosing the source of the 2018 financing round.īut Biasini says the company is trying to make it on its own at this point. (Read more about how the region’s tech reputation is changing here.)Ĭomma has raised outside funding of about $8 million in two rounds: $3 million in a round led by VC stalwart Andreesen Horowitz in 2016 and a new infusion of $5 million last year.
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Software startups have been gaining traction of late, though. Most of that money has traditionally gone to the life sciences, rather than high-tech companies. (The report identified the San Francisco Bay Area, Beijing, Boston, London, Los Angeles, and New York as the world’s top tier regions for entrepreneurial activity, together accounting for more than half of all VC funding in that time.) Together, the second tier of cities accounted for 18 percent of global venture capital investment from 2005 to 2017. Its authors looked at more than 100,000 venture capital deals made in about 300 places across the world between 20 to make the determination. AOL co-founder Steve Case launched a $150 million “Rise of the Rest” seed fund to invest outside of places like Silicon Valley and Boston in late 2017.Ī report published in October by the Center for American Entrepreneurship, a research organization in Washington, D.C., placed San Diego in the second tier of startup cities globally, a group of 13 that includes Austin, Chicago, and Seattle in the U.S. The broader notion of increasing investment outside of the U.S.’s traditional tech hubs has been a topic of discussion in entrepreneurial circles for some time. Gazdecki sold the company for an undisclosed amount to Austin-based private equity firm Think3 last year. The thought process behind the move, which he detailed in an article on TechCrunch, caused another entrepreneur to post a response critical of San Diego as a startup scene, which was then, in turn, the subject of a missive by Ashok Kamal, now executive director of the region’s Tech Coast Angels chapter.
Talk in town of Silicon Valley eyes turning toward San Diego isn’t new: About two years ago, Bizness Apps’s founder Andrew Gazdecki followed the path Comma is now traversing. Plus, every relocation of a VC-backed company to San Diego means another investor is gaining increased familiarity with the region, he adds. In Krenn’s eyes, it’s part of a growing body of evidence that San Diego has joined the list of locations, such Austin, Denver, and Seattle, that are obvious landing spots for Silicon Valley companies looking to leave. While Krenn readily admits Comma’s move isn’t part of any sort of mass exodus from Northern California to its sunnier counterpart in the south, he also believes it isn’t a one-off instance of a Bay Area startup seeing the benefits of San Diego’s ecosystem. (Think: “Enjoying traffic?” and “Did you check the surf report this morning?”) 101 in Palo Alto that posed cheeky questions to the engineers driving by. It also put up an ad on a digital billboard along U.S. In 2017, SDVG set up an office in one of the WeWork co-working spaces in San Francisco for use by traveling San Diego startups.
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