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.

Technology 184

Technology CalTech Tech Coast Angels Startup 184

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2013

Cool Planet Biofuels said it will be opening up its first manufacturing plant in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The move is at least the second, biofuels company pulled out of Southern California by Colorado, which--along with states like Texas--has been very aggressive in courting high tech startups from Southern California.

Southern California 153

Southern California CalTech UCLA High Tech 153

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Three local universities, plus a Pasadena-based startup, have received a $360,000 grant to promote student entrepreneurship in clean technology. The new effort, led by Caltech's Resnick Institute, is hoping to tap into OnGreen's network to find mentors to guide student groups and clean energy projects.

CalTech 165

CalTech UCLA Southern California Pasadena 165

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). We sat down with David and Allen to learn more about how the company wants to change how startups are created.

Startup 231

Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2017

Over 40 presentations from our region's most prominent research institutions: CalTech, UCS, UCLA, UCSB, UCI, Childrens Hospital LA, Cedars Sinai, University of Hawaii, Arizona State University, LA BioMed, City of Hope, CalState LA and more!

LAVA 100

LAVA UCI CalTech UCLA 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. This is the list I would start with.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Santa Monica 304

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Gevo , the biofuels technology startup spawned out of technology at Caltech and UCLA, has raised $107M in an IPO this morning. The firm, which is now based in Colorado, debuted on the Nasdaq Global Market Wednesday morning as GEVO, debuting at $15.00. The stock was trading as high as $17.50 in morning trading.

CalTech 174

CalTech UCLA Pasadena Pricing 174

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

Westlake Village 145

Westlake Village CalTech UCLA Southern California 145

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator was created by the Los Angeles Cleantech Alliance, a group created by the Mayor's Office, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Community Redevelopment Agency for Los Angeles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UCLA, USC, CalTech, and Arts Center College of Design. READ MORE>>.

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Incubator CalTech USC UCLA 222

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

Southern California 200

Southern California Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 200

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

What's the latest craze in startups in Southern Califonia? It looks to be startup accelerators. In just the last few weeks, at least five different incubation/acceleration efforts have booted up in the region. The group is a member of the TechStars Network, and boasts a who's who of successful local CEOs and investors.

Southern California 216

Southern California Orange County Incubator Tech Coast Angels 216

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

The thesis is that before investing in an early-stage startup it is close to impossible to know which of the deals you did will break out to the upside. to start their next company. You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc.

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Funding UCSD CalTech Netflix 301

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)

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Incubator Angel CalTech 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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., Tell us a bit about what your startup is working on? How did you come up with the idea for the company? That was how it started out.

Idealab 173

Idealab Artificial Inteligence Startup Ideas 173

socalTECH

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.

Southern California 170

Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

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. The post The Talent Tourniquet | Making Los Angeles Startup Friendly appeared first on TechZulu.

Los Angeles 98

Los Angeles Startup Angel Southern California 98

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

While the pandemic has destroyed our ability to personally interact, it has opened up a whole new set of possibilities for virtual meetings - which has been of tremendous value to Thin Line. Caltech and UCLA are now equidistant from CU Boulder and MIT, and that has been a surprising benefit. We have a lot of rebuilding to do.

Capital 113

Capital Technical Review Southern California CalTech 113

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. 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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Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. They put on great events. VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council.

Southern California 243

Southern California Los Angeles Technology Council Stirrers and Shakers 243

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.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

socalTECH

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

MAY 23, 2017

Jonathan, who was Founding CEO and President of AdColony (which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June of 2014), also told us why he got back in the startup game, even though he could be just sitting on a beach in Bali after his prior success. Why launch into a new startup now? What is AppOnboard? It's been a resounding success.

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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. Tags: startups university research mentoring network tech.

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Research Tech Coast Angels Company Companies 164

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. Mike tells us about the group: Mike, thanks for the time today.

Startup 206

Startup Technical Review Outsource Yahoo 206

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. Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. The floor opens up to Sandy Itkoff. Let’s Talk Money. Protect local biodiversity.

UCLA 99

UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

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. A lot of the time, all the startup and inventor can get their head around is the technology, much less trying to deal with business issues.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

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?

Invest 159

Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

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

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

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. In the last couple ofyears, we've seen more enterprise technology and software locally here, and software is starting to grow up.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

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. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu. What’s keeping you up at night? What are you working on now?

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? 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.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Can you talk about how Redpoint splits up investment -- do certain partners handle certain industries, or is it more geographic? Materials is as well, and I spend lots of time at UCLA, and Caltech looking at interesting materials. Fouad ElNaggar: If you want to come in for a face to face, I'm the point of the sphere.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will consist of a fixed group of up to 12 CEOs which will meet in person and support each other in navigating through the economic turmoil, generating revenue and working with investors and customers in the new climate. The theme of CEOFlow is to explore what it takes to create predictable revenue & sustainable growth.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will consist of a fixed group of up to 12 CEOs which will meet in person and support each other in navigating through the economic turmoil, generating revenue and working with investors and customers in the new climate. The theme of CEOFlow is to explore what it takes to create predictable revenue & sustainable growth.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will consist of a fixed group of up to 12 CEOs which will meet in person and support each other in navigating through the economic turmoil, generating revenue and working with investors and customers in the new climate. The theme of CEOFlow is to explore what it takes to create predictable revenue & sustainable growth.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40