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MARCH 26, 2013

The startup accelerator will actually based based at USC's Information Sciences Institute in Marina Del Rey. The school said that applications for the first program will be accepted through Monday, April 22nd. The school said that applications for the first program will be accepted through Monday, April 22nd. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2010

USC Stevens Institute , the effort at the University of Southern California to spur innovation within the school, has tapped a number of venture capitalists to help guide a new mentorship and funding program, the institute said this morning. Amount of funding available to teams was not announced by the school.

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MARCH 25, 2015

Mark Stevens --who made his name as a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital --along with his wife Mary, have given $50M in a gift to the University of Southern California , to go towards an institute focused on brain rsearch. Stevens had previously funded the USC Stevens Center for Innovation. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2012

In a bid to spur more startups out of the University of Southern California, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation said Wednesday that it has awarded $498,700 to six research projects. USC's effort, the Ideas Empowered Program, is funded by James C. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. USC also reported that it owns equity in 32 startups, though none of those startups were identified.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

The University of Southern California and wealthy engineer Fariborz Maseeh , now a hedge fund manager in Newport Beach, is announcing this week a $1M endowment, which will fund an annual, $50,000 prize for a business plan competition for the school's engineering students.

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APRIL 18, 2012

2tor , the provider of online, graduate program and courses which has strong links to the University of Southern California , has scored a $10M revolving line of credit, the firm said today. According to 2tor, the credit line comes from Comerica Bank, and will be used to fund growth and its strategic initiatives.

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JUNE 22, 2009

A New York-based online learning firm with links to the University of Southern California has scored a round of funding, and added Redpoint's Greg Martin to its board, the firm said this morning. The firm currently only offers one online program, from the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education.

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APRIL 2, 2012

Online higher education startup 2tor , which has offices in Los Angeles and a prominent deal with the University of Southern California, said this morning that it has raised $26M in a Series D funding round. 2tor has an office up the street from USC near the Staples Center. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2014

The company--which runs online degree programs for the University of Southern California (USC) and many other schools--had been backed by Redpoint Ventures, which funded the company out of its Los Angeles office. 2U''s first, online degree program was with USC''s Rossier School of Education. percent at 13.95

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MARCH 15, 2011

New York-based 2tor , the online education startup which powers online degree programs from the University of Southern California (USC) and others, has raised $32.5M in a Series C funding. Greg Martin, of Los Angeles-based Archer Venture Capital, sits on 2tor's board. 2tor also has operations near USC.

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MAY 29, 2013

A local, clean energy business plan competition started by the California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has awarded $160,000 in prizes in its latest competition. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Scripted.com , the online marketplace for freelance writers which has a number of Southern California angel investors, said Wednesday that it has raised another $150,000 in funding.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Los Angeles-based Statis Labs , a developer of vital signs monitoring equipment, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company said last week. The funding was led by RTP-HC, and also included Wonder Ventures, Techstars Ventures, and others. Milena Adamian, MD, of RTP-HC has joined the company's board as part of the funding.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

2tor , a New York-based firm with strong links to the University of Southern California and a local Los Angeles office, has raised $20M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Highland Capital, and also included Redpoint Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and City Light Capital.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com).

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the effort of the University of Southern California to foster innovation within its campus and the community, has been turning an eye to how to more effectively spin out academic efforts into companies. Tags: technology university venture capital transfer education. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

A number of Southern California angel investors, including Jody Mulkey , the CIO of Shopzilla, have backed Scripted.com , a new online marketplace for freelance writers. Scripted.com, which is led by Sunil Rajaraman, also counts Break Media's Keith Richman as an advisor, along with actor/writer/director Edward Burns. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

in a funding round. Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. So, what is PeerStreet? Investors get access to deals and loans, and lenders get more access to capital, borrower get better rates, and it benefits everyone.

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APRIL 4, 2013

They were very small shcools--he went to Cate, which is inland from Ventura in the Santa Barbara area, and I went to The Thacher School, and we both ended up at the University of Southern California. When we arrived at USC, we began to talk about how we struggled during the recruiting process.

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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. In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. David Waxman.:

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Co-hosted by Harvard Business School Association of Orange County and the USC Marshall Alumni Association. You will learn: How to achieve sizable growth * How to gain access to capital * Information on funding strategies * Cuttingedge business practices that helped other businesses succeed. See [link] (more).

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APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. So, yeah, I would like LA to be LA. Think about venture capital. So many had names of partners (Kleiner Perkins) or local favorite identifiers like trees (Sequoia). But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What they do, is accelerate that team or company to get them to the next level, and then go through and put in some investment money, help them build out the management team, and help with vendor relationships, help with overall strategy, and then help those companies riase their next round of capital.

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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. So doing that R&D is challenging. We have had to innovate and invent that hardware.

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MAY 23, 2017

You can google him, and you can see he's now CEO of Lucid Sight, another Southern California company, which is in VR and AR. Our main two investors are Troy Capital Partners, based here in LA as our lead, and London Venture Partners, out of London. We've experience that with Troy Capital and London Venture Partners.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

It's been a good summer for Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures (www.okapivc.com), which recently saw its first portfolio firm exit last month in Carlsbad-based Helixis , which was acquired by Illumina for $105M. So what's going on with the fund nowadays? Interesting. Marc Averitt: We're just plugging away.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

If you look at the companies in the startup space both here in Southern California, as well as across the country--especially those that are expanding rapidly and hiring hundreds of people--we''re the go-to source for how they manage their customer care and back office. You''ve built quite a big business--how did you fund all of that?

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MAY 8, 2017

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. Los Angeles-based Science37 (www.science37.com)

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

YouTube is joined by the SoCal outpost for Facebook. Belkin is also here, as are digital entertainment firms Konami , ICANN , Rovi , as well as Cybercoders and USC Institute for Creative Technologies. And Playa Vista is the future headquarters of IMAX (now under construction), which recently exited Santa Monica for more room.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA.

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JULY 16, 2013

In the same way that the technology community is not the same when you''re talking San Francisco versus Palo Alto versus San Jose, Southern California''s technology communities have their own neighborhoods. We''re going to do more calls for programming, provide seed capital, and provide the back office for those events.

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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. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

The firm's technology--which creates a 3D, virtual avatar from digital photos--was originally developed at the University of Southern California for the CIA, and was spun out into a venture funded company targeting the consumer market. However, I've only spent 5 and a half years of the last thirty in venture capital.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you’re keeping track, FDA drug approvals have been on a tear in the past month with several decisions coming well ahead of their targeted dates. And then there’s Sarepta Therapeutics. Late Thursday, the FDA announced approval of the Cambridge, MA, biotech’s drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in patients who have a specific mutation.

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