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Elementary Robotics raises cash to expand in Los Angeles’ growing robotics hub

TechCrunch LA

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. “Los Angeles is a great place for this, because we have a close relationship with Caltech and JPL,” according to Gross.

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Interview with Neil Malhotra, Sandalbay Life

socalTECH

Southern California has seen a surge in accelerators and incubators looking to spawn new startups in the region. The challenge for those manufacturers is providing a software platform for those devices to run on for the consumers. We provide the white labeled, consumer software for the manufacturer to utilize. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics

socalTECH

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. Our employees come from Caltech, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and we've employed people as far away as the University of Michigan. So those resources have been fantastic.

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REACH Connected Future | Cleantech Recap

Tech Zulu Event

Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Ian Harris - VP of Partnerships, LA Cleantech Incubator. Ian Harris, VP of local Cleantech incubator believes ‘Cleantech’ is now more a political term than a technological definition.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. It's a casual setupÂťit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. How did you and Charlotte get into software? Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company?

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I have also attended Thursday Lunch ( thursdaylunch.com ), Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum , and Digital LA.

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