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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Taking notice of the gap between the amount and depth of research and technology at local universities, and new company formation, a new group has quietly formed in Los Angeles to tackle the issue. Tags: startups university research mentoring network tech. Wedbush Morgan Securities and NewCap Partners, among other firms.

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Research Tech Coast Angels Company Companies 164

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AUGUST 26, 2019

For this morning's interview with an entrepreneur, we spoke with Thomas Russell , the Ceo and co-founder of ETC Solar (www.etc-solar.com), a Los Angeles startup developing technology to improve the efficiency and cost of solar cells. Thomas Russell: We're a spinout of Caltech, out of the labs of Professor Harry Atwater.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

The National Science Foundation is planning to create a new, innovation center in Los Angeles, in conjunction with the University of Southern California , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) , and the University of California Los Angeles , the NSF said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2013

The company will continue to work on research and development in Camarillo, according to the company. Cool Planet Biofuels said it will be opening up its first manufacturing plant in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

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Southern California CalTech UCLA High Tech 153

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2017

Join us at Cal State Los Angeles for a full day of innovations and technologies presented by the region's finest researchers and inventors! This technology preview is geared for Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Venture Capital Investors. See [link] (more)

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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. We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity. Compared to the Westside, we''re more in the research domain.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

It's already a great technology center for lots of different areas, but when compared with Silicon Valley, the activity level needs to go way up in order for Southern California to be on par with Silicon Valley. I spent my professional career starting and running tech companies in Silicon Valley, and have been really successful at it.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Indi Molecular''s technology is based on research out of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). lifescience capital venture startup biology synthetic molecular indi indidx' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

Pasadena-based Protabit , a brand new startup based on research from Caltech, and chemical giant Monsanto disclosed this morning that the two firms have entered into a two-year collaboration, to develop new tools for protein design and optimization. Tags: protabit monsanto lifescience protein software startup.

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CalTech Startup Pasadena Tool 100

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

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. After about a year of research, the company launched with an initial investment of $1.2

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Los Angeles Angel Artificial Inteligence CalTech 207

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Azusa-based Contour Energy Systems , the Caltech battery technology startup headed by Joe Fisher, said today that it has been awarded a new, U.S. Rachid Yazami and Andre Hamwi are the inventors on the patent; Yazami is a researcher at Caltech, and Hamwi is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research.

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Patents Azusa CalTech Research 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. If an existing company is not interested in licensing, and a researcher is not an entrepreneurial spirit, those projects go no where.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2011

Gevo , the biofuels startup spawned out of technology from the University of California, Los Angeles and Caltech, has set an offering range for its IPO. Gevo, which started in Pasadena but is now located in Englewood, Colorado, said it is looking to sell 7,150,000 shares of its common stock at between $13.00 and $15.00

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Westlake Village CalTech UCLA Southern California 145

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2013

Lumbard of CalTech. The first step is to pick one idea (idea people find it hard to focus on only one), and go to work along the following lines: Do some specific market research. It’s not hard to come up with the idea that a cure for cancer would make a great business, but some things are harder than they look.

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Ideas Startup Summary CalTech 106

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The City of Los Angeles is launching its new cleantech business incubator to accelerate the development of cleantech start-ups and to help build a stronger green economy in LA. See [link] (more)

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AUGUST 4, 2010

It turns out that the firm--a spinout of Caltech--came out of the exact same lab as Helixis, the molecular diagnostics firm acquired for a healthy $105M by Illumina last week. We caught up with Paul Gloger, the firm's CEO, to learn more about the technology and company. It came out of a lab at Caltech, operated by Axel Scherer.

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CalTech Startup Pasadena Angels Pasadena 149

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Getting research out of the university lab and into a growing business poses a unique set of challenges - especially when the scientist is assumed to be the entrepreneur. Not only are the founders deeply invested in the research, but their chosen profession is academia rather than the business world. LAVA Breakfast Meeting.

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Pepperdine LAVA Mission Ventures CalTech 100

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. Kos Galatsis: When we last talked, we had just gotten the company going and started to employ our team.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We thought we'd catch up on what's happening today, and in particular, how Innovate Pasadena (www.innovatepasadena.org) is looking to spur even more startups and technology in Pasadena�and why that's important for the rest of Southern California. They've filled up pretty quickly. For example, Orange County with medical devices.

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Pasadena Orange County Idealab CalTech 100

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. So, we came up with a name that was broader, and more than about CFX chemistry. We came up with Contour Energy, with a tag line of Reshaping Portable Power.

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CalTech Technical Review Azusa Venture Capital 168

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

What people don't know is how First Round got started and often people know less about the amazing background of one of its co-founders, Howard Morgan (everyone tends to know Josh Kopelman as one of the highest profile players in our industry overall). Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968.

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Capital Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 284

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Sharon Stevenson: That's correct. Is there a market?

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

However, the newest venture capital fund in the area TenOneTen Ventures (tenoneten.net), headed up by David Waxman and Gil Elbaz, is hoping to change that, by focusing its efforts on technology-focused startups here. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. How did the new fund come about? David Waxman.:

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- "Building a Virtually Integrated Life Sciences Company" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The traditional business model dominating the pharmaceutical industry for over 100 years is rapidly eroding under new drivers for innovation and increasing financial pressures.

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Enterprise Forum Company Companies CalTech 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). Go research it. And a great product starts with the founder. Their name alone is enough to get meetings set up. I’ll make my next posting shorter. Jarl Mohn says he hates seeing PowerPoint.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2012

Lumbard of CalTech. The first step is to pick one idea (that seems to be the hard part for idea people), and go to work along the following lines: Do some specific market research. It’s not hard to come up with the idea that a cure for cancer would make a great business, but some things are harder than they look.

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Ideas Summary Startup CalTech 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2011

Lumbard of CalTech. The first step is to pick one idea (that seems to be the hard part for idea people), and go to work along the following lines: Do some specific market research. It’s not hard to come up with the idea that a cure for cancer would make a great business, but some things are harder than they look.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Summary Startup 104

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. The floor opens up to Sandy Itkoff. It’s no longer speculative.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

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 also started looking at how statistics apply and how to evolve our model to learn over time, which is why we have people like Yaser Abu-Mostafa from the Learning Systems Group at Caltech.

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Networking Startup Software eHarmony 178

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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 ). Harper will start with Westlake in January after retiring from Amgen.

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Westlake Village Los Angeles Angel Venture Capital 73

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Start-up on top of pen computing - Go Corp - pen point.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). LawPivot is a legal Q&A website enabling companies, especially startups, to confidentially receive crowdsourced legal answers from highly qualified lawyers for a fraction of the cost. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

There are already hundreds of cultured Angelenos signed up and ready to converge on downtown LA’s Arts district to experience the mind-meld of Mindshare 50. Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA’s Department of Neurosurgery, and NYUMoran is interested in attention, emotions regulations, and dreams. Don’t worry TechZulu has your back.

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Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, Investors are no longer compelled to stick to their own backyard, and Southern California is changing the startup landscape, consistently ranking in the top three along with Silicon Valley and the Boston area. 11 hrs ago.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57