SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 -- OCTANe Capital Connections - Inside Fjord Ventures.Get an inside look at Fjord Ventures, meet the team, and hear from the portfolio companies at this unique Orange County firm.

Orange County 100

Orange County OCTANE Entrepreneur Capital 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

According to OVP's site, it was approached in 2005 by the CFO of a former portfolio company, who had made money for the firm twice before, begging the firm to invest. Networks In Motion's CFO is Gregg Marston, who was also CFO of Foundstone and Intek Global; he also is a board member of the Orange County Venture Group.

Networking 133

Networking Orange County Redpoint Mission Ventures 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2009

Southern California's venture capital numbers for Q4 slipped, as did numbers nationally, according to numbers released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2 billion in deals.

Southern California 100

Southern California SoCal Orange County Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 24, 2011

I am currently at the annual VC in the OC program held in Irvine CA by OCTANe , an organization that connects people and ideas to resources and capital in Orange County. In 2003, Vizio launched in Costco and then in Sams Club in 2005.

Orange County 104

Orange County OCTANE Technical Review Outsource Development 104

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

Southern California 242

Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242