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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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JANUARY 2, 2020

Today, we share the thoughts of Peter Cowen , Managing Director of Sutton Capital Partners (www.suttoncapitalpartners.com). Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars. So I suggest if you are fundraising, raise more now and give yourself a longer runway (i.e

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two people associated with Southern California's high tech investment and startup industry have been named as part of the far reaching investigation into a college admissions scandal , which named Hollywood actresses, CEOs, coaches at USC, UCLA, and UCSD, as well as many others. According to a complaint filed by the U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Comcast Ventures , the venture capital arm of Comcast Corporation , announced this morning that it has opened up an office in Santa Monica, and hired on Dinesh Moorjani as Managing Director in the new office. Moorjani was previously Executive-in-Residence at Warburg Pincus, and also was founder and CEO of Hatch Labs.

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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 9, 2011

Zipcar is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, Boston Community Ventures, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital, and Pinnacle Ventures. GetAround, another venture backed peer-to-peer car rental service, already has a Southern California beachhead in San Diego.

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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 9, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Advertisers.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Gevo is venture backed by Khosla Ventures, Virgin Green Fund, Total Energy Ventures, Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund, Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund, and LANXESS, among others. The firm's technology is based on research form UCLA focused on producing next-generation biofuels through genetically modified Escherichia coli (E.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Gevo is one of the SoCal-linked firms currently in IPO registration. Gevo was co-founded by Dr. Frances Arnold, the Dickinson Professor of chemical engineering and biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. Tags: gevo biofuels clean energy fuel alternative cleantech caltech ucla technology transfer. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, October 27, at UCLA. InVenture is next stage microfinance – focusing on providing expansion capital.

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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. Brett received a B.A.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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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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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.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. How is this related to the work you were doing at UCLA?

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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.

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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 those resources have been fantastic. So doing that R&D is challenging.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. What do your apps do?

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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. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Launchpad LA SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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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. Healthcare is a really obvious vertical, where there is data inefficiency and a tremendous amount of opportunity, but there''s also education, human capital and talent.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 -- OCAMA Signature Speaker Series - Peter Kraus, UCLA Anderson School of Business. Topic: "Word of Mouth in the Modern World - Selling in a Tempest" Times of adversity create the greatest opportunities.

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JUNE 28, 2009

The UCLA Anderson School of Management and the German American Business Association (GABA), invite you to an exciting panel discussion with top digital media executives and venture capitalists followed by a reception at the UCLA Faculty Center. Tuesday, June 30, 2009 -- Online and Mobile Video. See [link].

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

For example, our LA network is having the Fast Pitch on the 24th at UCLA. So, we're pretty accessible to talk to. We're always happy to talk to people, and all of our networks have open networking events in a variety of locations. It all comes down to if an entrepreneur has done their homework before officially applying for funding.

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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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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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MARCH 26, 2014

We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. We were small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California. They''re a Boston-based venture capital firm which as started by some ex-VCs from Insight Venture Partners.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? The Startonomics conference at UCLA Anderson business school, hosted by DealMaker Media, was a great event for the talks as well as the networking. because I would like KlickFu to remain primarily a SoCal company and success story!

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Fun Fact: Their startup accelearator, recently announced out of Viterbi, is partnered with venture capital jagernaut, Kleiner Perkins, and talent agency, UTA.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I was an electrical engineer, and had a tough time at UCLA getting access to resources I needed. We were going through the traditional route of seeking venture capitalists both here in Southern California and flying to Sand Hill road. We've been doing this for a while and capitalize on our head start.

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SoCal Delicious

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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Thank you all for your continued support in highlighting the many innovative technologies emerging in Southern California! Making Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Possible. Diamond Sponsor. Community Sponsors.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We really believe in the market.

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MAY 23, 2017

I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

If you’d like to see some of the best technologies and meet some of the brightest minds in beautiful Southern California, SIGN UP NOW. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Event Details. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. What: Spotlight Series Event.

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