Caltech Scientists's Kickstarter Project: Nanoart
socalTECH
MARCH 19, 2012
Here's an interesting Kickstarter project looking for some (crowd) funding: a Caltech scientist is looking to raise $50,000 to create "nanoart".
Caltech Team Wins Top Prize, $100K In Bill Gates' Toilet Tech Effort
socalTECH
AUGUST 15, 2012
A team for the California Institute of Technology has scored the top prize, and $100,000, in a major technology effort--funded by Bill Gates--to reinvent the toilet. The Caltech team won the top prize for its solar-powered toilet that generates hydrogen and electricity. in advancing toilet projects, as part of an overall $6.5
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Beyond Limits Snags Former VC, Investor As COO
socalTECH
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Sharp most recently led BP Ventures/Americas investment in Beyond Limits in 2017, leading the company's $25M Series B funding round and joining its board. Sharp had been at BP's venture arm for the last nine years; the company said Sharp helped BP's investment portfolio of over $600 million with investments into more than 50 companies.
Contour Energy Scores Funding From In-Q-Tel
socalTECH
JANUARY 17, 2012
In-Q-Tel is known for investing in technology which helps support the missions of the U.S. The firm is a spinout of Caltech. intelligence community. Contour Energy is a developer of battery technology, including carbon-flouride batteries, which are expected to provide higher energy density, power, and reliability.
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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 30, 2012
Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, February 2, at Caltech. Where: Baxter Hall | CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. The time has finally arrived!
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Sofie Biosciences Lands $5M In Series A
socalTECH
OCTOBER 15, 2013
Culver City-based molecular imaging products maker Sofie Biosciences said Tuesday that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Tata Industries, and also included MRM Capital and the Cycad Group. The new funding comes on top of a SBIR grant the company announced earlier this month. READ MORE>>.
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Rexter Gets $1.5M To Put Contact Management On Steroids
socalTECH
MARCH 19, 2013
in a seed funding round, which included local high profile technology executives Ted Meisel, Gil Elbaz, Sean Moriarty, Jarl Mohn, along with Siemer Ventures. Rexter , a brand new, Pasadena startup looking to put business contact management on steroids, said today that it has raised $1.5M READ MORE>>.
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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Presenting Companies at CalTech
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. The Caltech Entrepreneurship Club is the hub for innovators in the Caltech community who want to learn how to make their idea a reality. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.
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University Students Get $200K For Clean Technology Startups
socalTECH
MAY 11, 2012
The Western Regional winners at Caltech were determined by a panel of judges from Mohr Davidow, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sierra Ventures, CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund, the Angeleno Group and the Pasadena and Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.
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Angel Funding Advice
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 14, 2009
Very few people fund individuals. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. Don’t worry if they can’t help in your daily business. There are other ways you can get help. Team: You need a team.
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The Design Accelerator Launches Incubator At Idealab
socalTECH
JUNE 26, 2013
According to The Design Accelerator , it will help startups by selecting promising early stage, design-driven technology companies from the Art Center and Caltech communities for an intensive three-month program. >. The new incubator is headed by Mark Breitenberg and Erik Hovanec. READ MORE>>.
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Catalyzing Innovation In Pasadena, with Innovate Pasadena
socalTECH
JULY 16, 2013
One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. Because of that, I formally reached out to Caltech, Idealab, the Art Center College of Design, and all the CEOs I knew running tech companies out here.
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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage
socalTECH
APRIL 13, 2021
Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that. 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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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 22, 2018
Caltech generates more patents than any other university while UCLA boasts more startups founded by its graduate than any other school in the nation. Suster has also noted for years that the region produces more technology doctorates than any other geography in the United States.
Cisco to Pay $660M for Luxtera, Maker of Advanced Data Center Chips
Xconomy
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Cisco has agreed to pay $660 million for Luxtera, a Caltech spinout that makes optical chips for data centers. Cisco, the San Jose, CA-based tech giant (NASDAQ: CSCO ), said Tuesday that Luxtera’s advanced chips will help it offer its customers faster and better network service performance.
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Interview with Joe Fisher, Contour Energy
socalTECH
MARCH 16, 2010
Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. How did Contour Energy spin out of Caltech? Our strategy is then to take the funds and positive cash flow, to further our research on advanced rechargables.
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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2011
He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5
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284 Making The Pasadena Angels Relevant To Today's Startups, With Terry Kay
socalTECH
MARCH 21, 2014
For Friday''s interview, we spoke with Terry Kay ithe new Chairman of the Pasadena Angels (www.pasadenaangels.com) on the group, and its relevance in the technology funding world today. Terry Kay: We have always been about helping the entrepreneurs succeed, first, and then, we figure out how we get our fair share from that success.
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162 New Group Looks To Bridge Gap Between Research, Companies
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
The new group, The Tech CEO Network , said it is looking to help bridge between the technology present at local schools like Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, and other universities, and actual, viable companies. The founders of the group, Richard Koffler and John Morris , are two well known investors in the Los Angeles area.
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164 Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. ReachLocal, founded by Zorik Gordon, publicly traded company helping small businesses across America use the Internet for marketing [Woodland Hills. North of the 101]. And do so in real life, too.
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Submissions Now Open For Spotlight: LA Tech Winter
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 20, 2011
TechZulu and The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are pleased to announce Spotlight: LA Tech Winter. The Caltech Entrepreneurship Club is the hub for innovators in the Caltech community who want to learn how to make their idea a reality. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.
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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). I was then brought into a fund as an EIR, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Epic Ventures.
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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. 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. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.
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350 How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future
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. How did the new fund come about? There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. Do you have institutional LPs in your fund, or is this your personal capital? READ MORE>>.
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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
A lot of people don't know it, but we also have an early growth fund, Redpoint Omega, which also gives us the flexibility to invest as little as $50,000 in a company, which we do quite often. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. That's one area investors can usually help. That's part one.
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154 Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We scaled that to almost $1.4
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Interview with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson, Okapi Ventures
socalTECH
AUGUST 24, 2010
In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. So what's going on with the fund nowadays? Nice chatting with you today! Let's talk about the exit. Interesting. Is there a market?
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185 Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 20, 2012
Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Take the next left on Holliston Avenue, into Caltech campus. Bill received his B.S.
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84 How Rexter Is Turning Connections Into Business, with Andy Wilson
socalTECH
APRIL 1, 2013
That's the idea behind Rexter (www.rexter.com), which recently raised seed funding to ramp up its software to put "LinkedIn on steroids". We spoke with CEO and founder Andy Wilson about how Rexter is looking to help business professionals further develop their relationships. What exactly is Rexter?
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178 Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.
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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics
socalTECH
JANUARY 11, 2017
We think we are a company that will help ring in the 5G era, with high efficiency and high performance electronics. Kos Galatsis: A lot of startups funded these days are software companies, and they do not have to do real hardware like they used to ten years ago. level technicians there to help. Thanks, and good luck!
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100 The Talent Tourniquet | Making Los Angeles Startup Friendly
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 5, 2013
The presence of Google and Microsoft’s outposts have helped to a certain extent, but Southern California can certainly do better when it comes to retaining — and attracting — talent. The idea with the most momentum was an effort to change the tax code to offer greater incentives for startups and venture funds to headquarter in L.A.
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98 Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard
socalTECH
MAY 23, 2017
After lots of success himself, he basically says that most of the success you have in your life has to do with the people you come across in your life, who help you out. LA's ecosystem was not like it was today, and it now has a rich history, lots of smart people who have exited, and who now run funds and get the ecosystem.
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LA Startup Report 2013 | A Rising Forecast
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 25, 2013
94 new startups have launched since January 2013 to June 2013 and the startup ecosystem has raised $500 million in funding in 2013 so far. LA brings forth a lot of talent from USC, UCLA, and Caltech. Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley. Los Angeles has a diverse area of startups.
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104 Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook.
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REACH Connected Future | Cleantech Recap
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 4, 2014
She hints at closing a major $6M round (details left out) in capital intensive technology, but also notes a major difficulty she’s experienced in getting meat and potatoes technologies adequately funded because of their capital intensive nature. Government Funding and Cleantech. 2050 full utilization of local water.
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99 Seth Sternberg – Meebo
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Over time we’ll continue to build out the applications – helping make the entire web more social.&#. It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. What I’ve learned about Sequoia is that when you’re straightforward about the facts they just try to help. They look at data.
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286 Interview with Mike Gammarino, Students4Startups
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Despite the excitement and lure of startups to those in the tech industry, not everyone wants to join a startup after college--according to Mike Gammarino , who is helping to organize a new effort here to recruit students to startups. Does that mean job listings on your site, or more? That's you, as an individual.
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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 17, 2011
To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. He received a B.S. Dinesh earned his B.S. Event Details.
5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 28, 2012
MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. Cloud storage.
Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
However, on the other hand, some ideas are more sensitive than others especially in the development phase, and an entrepreneur should be careful to disclose the idea only to those in whom he/she has a reasonable level of trust and who are genuinely in a position to help the company. How did it help you? It sounds interesting.
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CEO meeting in westside Los Angeles (Santa Monica), March 13th [Updated]
CEO Flow
MARCH 2, 2009
Bio summary: Aaron Ross is the founder of CEOFlow , which helps CEOs understand how to create predictable revenue, through guidance, groups and consulting.
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40 CEO meeting in westside Los Angeles (Santa Monica), March 13th [Updated]
CEO Flow
MARCH 2, 2009
Bio summary: Aaron Ross is the founder of CEOFlow , which helps CEOs understand how to create predictable revenue, through guidance, groups and consulting.
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40 CEO meeting in westside Los Angeles (Santa Monica), March 13th [Updated]
CEO Flow
MARCH 2, 2009
Bio summary: Aaron Ross is the founder of CEOFlow , which helps CEOs understand how to create predictable revenue, through guidance, groups and consulting.
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