TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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Southern California Dollar Shave Club SoCal Develop 224

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I have been able to work closer with my entrepreneurs, as well as closer with other incubators and accelerators than would have been the case. Caltech and UCLA are now equidistant from CU Boulder and MIT, and that has been a surprising benefit. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Capital Technical Review Southern California CalTech 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

There's a tightness which is squeezing the lifeblood from the entrepreneurs, even as it remains an amazing place. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. The first step, is to attract more entrepreneurs. You want those investors to be local.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the one hand, an entrepreneur should not be overly paranoid and should know the ropes that VCs and other professional investors generally will not sign NDAs to see the concept or a prototype--and even if they did, it would not provide much protection.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

There are always the hard core entrepreneurs, who will do anything they have to do get it done, and they'll work in the basement, they'll literally use their car as their office, wherever. However, we have broad groups of entrepreneurs and types of technology, which makes it challenging to develop programming around that fits everyone.

Pasadena 100

Pasadena Orange County Idealab CalTech 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Founder Collective – If you were an early-stage startup and wanted to be funded by entrepreneurs who had walked in your shoes before, you wouldn’t have to stretch the imagination far to think of what “Founder Collective” is meant to stand for.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Santa Monica 304

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. The work he performs is a mixture of research and enterprise, with UCLA being a hotbed petri dish of industry.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Some entrepreneurs might be surprised you didn't want to sit on a beach in Bali for the rest of your life�talk more about that? I got super, super fortunate that early in my career, I was living with an entrepreneur, Randy Saaf, who was running a company called MediaDefender. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. What''s the best way for entrepreneurs to approach you? Any advice you would give entrepreneurs?

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that. What we do, is regional customer discovery for teams, typically academic.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

We sat down with Jamie�who has been part of LA's technology industry, either as an investor or advisor since its very early days--to get his perspective on where we are today, especially as it relates to all of the companies he's worked with over the years on a more global stage and in Silicon Valley, and his advice to entrepreneurs.

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Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The wide range of startups is great and creates more opportunities for new talent and entrepreneurs to join the Los Angeles area. A centralized startup community provides a stronger and talented group of individuals, entrepreneurs, and investors to communicate and build a healthier startup community. With Yahoo!

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Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. The company's CEO, Kos Galatsis , spoke to us a few years ago at the very beginning of their journey.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

We've been hiring from all of the top schools�Carnegie Mellon, Caltech, USC, Berkeley, UCLA ,and it has taken a combination of deep learning, machine learning, speech synthesis, linguistics, and psychology to come up with all of this. We have about 25 people in house, and around 15 outside whoh have worked on this.

Idealab 173

Idealab Artificial Inteligence Startup Ideas 173

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

When you think about it, working with the universities, it's not just talking with UCLA; it's talking with their engineering school, their medical school, their office of intellectual property. We've assigned each member of the group to monitor and maintain connectivity with the various constituents. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. Entrepreneurs in LA spend a lot of time commuting up to the Valley. My biggest message is that for most this fear is overrated.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

To solve that issue, Mike, as well as a number of other entrepreneurs here in Southern California, is in the midst of organizing Students4Startups (www.students4startups.com), a group which hopes to connect graduating students in the area to local startup companies. Mike tells us about the group: Mike, thanks for the time today.

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Startup Technical Review Outsource Yahoo 206

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. Materials is as well, and I spend lots of time at UCLA, and Caltech looking at interesting materials. That's part one.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

That kind of vote isn’t exactly encouraging to companies and entrepreneurs with new and potentially disruptive business models looking to plant roots here. Another idea was to tap into the talent pool at CalTech, UCLA and USC early using accessible internship programs through a public-private partnership with the City.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Southern California 98

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I was then brought into a fund as an EIR, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Epic Ventures. If you look at just Caltech, UCLA, and USC, and you look at our population base, we''re pouring out more engineers than pretty much anywhere. Entrepreneurs should seek those people out.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

Southern California 96

Southern California San Diego Startup Google 96

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313