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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We''re proud to announce the Socaltech 50 , our list of the 50, up-and-coming people in Southern California''s technology ecosystem. Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Ophir Tanz , GumGum (Los Angeles, advertising).

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APRIL 8, 2013

A few weeks ago, the University of Southern California announced a new startup incubator, the Viterbi Startup Garage ([link] backed by such notable investors as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the United Talent Agency. What''s the mission behind the new startup incubator? How did the incubator come about?

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Incubator USC Startup Artificial Inteligence 233

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 22, 2012

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 -- Business Incubation Panel. Panel includes Stan Tomsic, Business Incubation Network of Southern California; Mark Lieberman, Business Technology Center of LA County; Joey Briglio, Ventura Ventures Technology Center; moderated by John Peate, Principle of Peate Ventures. See [link] (more)

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Today, we have Aaron Fyke , Founder and Managing Partner of Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). Thin Line Capital successfully reached the final close of its first fund.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In a move which adds some additional capital to the Los Angeles clean technology market, utility company Southern California Gas Company said Thursday that it has created a new, $1M innovation fund to help companies develop clean technology. socalgas company utility investment fund cleantech incubator accelerator laci'

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MARCH 26, 2013

Add another startup accelerator to the growing list of Southern California startup accelerators: this time, from the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering. Southern California--and Los Angeles, in particular--appears to become the hub of startup accelerators lately.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

As the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area, boasting an over $1 trillion economy, decisions made in the city can have broad economic and social implications that ripple far beyond the Southern California region. “Startups and small businesses are the engine of every local and regional economy,” writes Peterson.

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 29, 2013

Over the past several years there have been a plethora of incubators and accelerators springing up all over southern California and particularly on the west side of Los Angeles. SoCal Tech. Here is a list of useful resources to help you in your search: News & Resources. Angel List. Networking, Events & Community.

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MARCH 8, 2013

he's been spinning out of his incubator. What's the idea behind the incubator? So, I set out a little bit in an ad-hoc way starting companies as ideas came to me. Now, we're turning into a formal incubator. However, we're very different than most incubators, in that we only do big data.

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Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

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JULY 16, 2014

Recently, the team behind MuckerLab has made a subtle shift--becoming Mucker Capital (www.muckercapital.com)--focusing on seed stage investments. We caught up with Erik Rannala , co-founder of both, to understand the move and why Mucker Capital felt like it needed to put more capital to work in local, seed stage startups.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2018

Los Angeles is becoming one of the more interesting destinations for startups and the investors that provide money for venture capital firms to place bets on young companies are increasingly starting to take notice. New funds are launching in Los Angeles at a pretty feverish clip, and the latest to plant its flag in the […].

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

In all of the recent rush to create internet accelerators in the region, William talks about, Bill Gross, the person behind the "original" tech incubator, Idealab. Bill was like a Willy Wonka who didnt want to confine himself to the chocolate bar, and in my work for Idealab Capital Partners, I felt a bit like Charlie. Continued.).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 18, 2012

Managing Director, Incubic Management (a venture capital fund in Mountain View, CA). Tuesday, January 24, 2012 -- Milton Chang, Ph.D., Entrepreneurship Course, 2012 Guest Speaker Lectures, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine. Free and open to the public.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Virtual reality hardware and software developer Jaunt --which is backed by The Walt Disney Company, Evolution Media Partners, China Media Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Axel Springer, ProSiebenSat.1 READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2018

Los Angeles is becoming one of the more interesting destinations for startups and the investors that provide money for venture capital firms to place bets on young companies are increasingly starting to take notice.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. For California investments in general, the funding has kicked up pretty remarkaably. The problem is diseconomy of scale.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Lawrence Ng , the former founder of Oversee.net--who is now running an asset management company called LNG Management--has linked up with New York City-based venture capital firm Metamorphic Ventures. LNG said that Ng is incubating a number of startups and selectively invests in early stage startups and funds. READ MORE>>.

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Oversee.net Southern California Incubator Venture Capital 100

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AUGUST 15, 2012

As part of the deal information, the Tech Coast Angels said it specifically is looking to support th enew accelerators and incubators in Southern California with investments. The group said that investments were fairly consistent compared with the same period in 2011, when it invested $4.4M in 17 companies. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 27, 2012

Thursday, May 3, 2012 -- How to Raise Capital for Your Startup. An intensive 3-hour course on how to think about, plan for, prepare and execute a capital raise for your startup. Includes a detailed review of local incubators, vc's and angels. Taught by Jon Funk, a 25-year LA vc veteran. See [link] (more)

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Capital Startup Venture Capital Incubator 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

The USC Viterbi Startup Garage , the startup accelerator that is part of the University of Southern California, has scored backing from the Amazon Alexa Fund , the venture investment arm of Amazon that invests in startups using Amazon Alexa. Financial details of the investment by the Amazon Alexa Fund were not announced.

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Marina Del Rey USC Southern California Funding 124

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MARCH 26, 2013

The school said it started the accelerator because entry-level and accelerator opportunities in Southern California have "always been sparse", complaining that most graduates that ultimately spin-out and launch their own startups do so for the most part in regions other than Southern California. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Biggest new for CommNexus / EvoNexus: EvoNexus incubator companies reached the $95M in capital raised and two companies were acquired. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2012

But, how are those accelerators doing so far in terms of attracting capital and attention to Southern California startups? For our first measure, we tabulated the venture capital raised by accelerator firms --that is, companies that are tied to local accelerator/incubators. Of that, $97.47

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Los Angeles Angel Report Startup 234

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MAY 20, 2011

Winebaum has a long history as an entrepreneur in Southern California, having previously founded and sold Business.com; run business incubator eCompanies, which was the seed investor in LowerMyBills; was a major investor in Boingo Wireless; was involved in BizRate.com, and was chairman of Walt Disney Internet Group.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Second, this was a great year for the broader Southern California tech ecosystem. Ive been building technology companies in Southern California for 22 years and at the end of the day, the quality of the management team has the highest correlation to the eventual outcome of the business.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

How is this different than accelerator or incubator? David Carter: There is a lot of misunderstanding on what an incubator is, and what an accelerator is. When I was at Amplify, we had a lot of people wondering what an accelerator was, and how we differentiated from an incubator. Personally, I think that''s better for me.

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JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Thursday, December 11, 2008 -- Venture Ventura Capital Connections. The City of Ventura and the Ventura Chamber of Commerce invite you to mingle with movers and shakers of the growing local Ventura Venture Capital scene! Come meet our venture capital partners and local business leaders.

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Ventura Capital Venture Capital Incubator 100

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Amir Banifatemi: K5Launch supports our larger vision, the K5 initiative, which was promoted last year to provide a more stable and vibrant community of entrepreneurship in Southern California, but mostly Orange County. We are in Orange County, but we're also focused more largely on Southern California.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. So far, we have launched a handful of blockchain companies and are looking forward to more partnerships in 2018.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 I think the model works well,” said McCann.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Exciting times in the Southern California tech community. K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Over the last few years, there''s been an explosion in startup accelerators in Southern California, and in particular along "Silicon Beach" on the Los Angeles westside. incubator incubate accelerate interview entrepreneur capital venture startup accelerator muckerlab rannala erik' READ MORE>>.

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Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). What is TAU Ventures?

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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The accelerator is one of nearly a dozen startup accelerators in some stage of formation in the Southern California region to emerge in recent months. On the venture side, Greg Martin of Archer Venture Capital and Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures are among the investors associated with Start Engine. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Southern California Activision Mentor 219

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. I’d hate to frame Nate’s answer into a key phrase so it’s better to watch that section of the video.

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279