socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. That''s the reason we developed our own positioning there. Explain what kinds of investments TenOneTen makes or hopes to make? There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 31, 2016

Two, Southern California investors-- Qualcomm Ventures and Greylock Partners --have backed San Jose-based Innovium , on its efforts to develop semiconductors for the next generation, data center market, Innovium revealed this morning. Specific breakdown of the two investments was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 5, 2011

The CalTech Enterprise Forum presents Renewable Energy & The Smarter Grid: Opportunities for the Entrepreneur this Saturday May 7th. As aggressive policies and vigorous investments take hold, newer and smarter technology is rolling out. Caltech students can now register online. Vice President, Strategic Development.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

After about a year of research, the company launched with an initial investment of $1.2 At the time, Barnehama had taken time off from DAQRI and had begun thinking about how to use the technologies he’d developed around computer vision and visualization to have more of an impact on human lives. .

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Azusa-based Contour Energy Systems , the developer of battery technology based on research from Caltech, said today that it has raised a Series C funding round. The firm said the new funding came from Singapore investment fund EDBI, CMEA Capital, Harris & Harris, Schlumberger, and U.S. Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2012

Azusa-based Contour Energy Systems , which is developing next generation battery systems, is announcing today that it has scored a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel , the investment arm of the CIA and other U.S. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. The firm is a spinout of Caltech. intelligence agencies.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

Steve Poizner , the former California gubernatorial candidate and former founder of SnapTrack (which he sold to San Diego's Qualcomm), says he has created a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation , which will focus on further developing Southern California's entrepreneurial ecosystem. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Azusa-based CFX Battery , a developer of advanced battery technology, said today at Los Angeles Technology Week that the firm has just closed a $15M, Series B funding round. CFX, a spinout of Caltech, is developing both primary and secondary batteries.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

Asuza-based Contour Energy Systems , which develops advanced battery technology looks to be targeting $20M for its Series C round, with at least $9.0M Contour said last week that it had raised a Series C funding round from Singapore Investment fund EDBI, CMEA Capital, Harris & Harris, Schlumberger, and U.S. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2011

Virgin Galactic's current headquarters are in Pasadena, near Caltech, but the firm is in the midst of building a headquarters at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic is backed by Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS, and is developing its spacecraft based on the designs of Mojave based Scaled Composites.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

Okapi said that the first exit represented a return of more than six times the invseted capital in the firm, which it first invested in less than three years ago. Helixis is a developer of real time, DNA analysis hardware, which was originally developed with technology licensed from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 8, 2012

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. This forum will address questions such as where the markets are developing, how entrepreneurs and corporate investors play a role in this space, what impact the recession has had on deal size and investors appetite for risk, and how investment activity varies according to technology type and fuel produced.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- "Building a Virtually Integrated Life Sciences Company" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. How, and when, does the fledgling company develop relationships with other companies with complementary strengths? Even more important, who invests in these virtual companies and what criteria are they using?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Neil Malhotra: I'm a Caltech engineering graduate, and started with the Internet with eCompanies with Sky Dayton, leading technology for Icebox. We're currently looking for seed level investment to fund the full development of the product for actual implementation. That takes a lot of resources to manage and develop.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Synthetic biology is the term that has come to mean the development of fundamental building blocks that can be used to create biological elements with predictable characteristics, but which do not exist in nature.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Financial impact of the new joint development and marketing agreement were not disclosed. Elevance was spun out of Materia in March in a partnership with Cargill Corporation; TPG invested $40M alongside Materia in Elevance. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. In our first phase, there is no outside investment in companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. Nikhil told us a bit about the startup,which was spawned out of Idealab, and recently raised a round of funding from CrestValue Capital, Cybernaut Westlake Partners, Leaguer Venture Investment Co.,

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. Investors were really excited, and in the weeks following we took investment meeting after investment meeting. I spent almost two years there.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Los Angeles has long been in San Francisco’s shadow when it comes to life sciences investment. The Los Angeles-based firm is led by managing directors Beth Seidenberg, a former general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, and Sean Harper, the outgoing executive vice president of research and development at Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN ).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

It was about three years from investment to exit, which we were really thrilled about. Helixis really has developed an instrument which really has exceeded the current standards, at a fraction of the cost, and we're really excited about it. What kinds of investments are you particularly interested in right now?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. And I feel the same about investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies. Event Details.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. During our past two years, we created our first product, which are Carbon on Silicon wafers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. We talked about patents.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Monrovia-based Ondax , a developer of optical filters and laser sources based on research out of the California Institute of Technology, has raised $2M in a Series E investment. According to the Pasadena Angels, one of the investors in the firm, the round also included the Tech Coast Angels and un-named venture capital firms.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Tom Soto – Managing Director/Investment Committee Member, TCW/Craton. Tom comments on the state of affairs as someone in the trenches, investing real dollars. He sees that with Cleantech and sustainability, they’re really in the 3rd or 4th generation in an investment sense. Government Funding and Cleantech.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

Take, for example, the recent City Council vote to end ride-sharing services and effectively shut down an entire sector of emerging tech startups – putting both their app developers and their enterprising users stranded in no man’s land.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech. What was the most valuable thing about TechStars for you? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. But we do have great technology developers. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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