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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Energy Vault , a startup created by Pasadena-based startup incubator Idealab , announced this morning that it has launched its utility-scale energy storage technology into commercial availability. According to Energy Vault, it already has signed a deal with the Tata Power Company to deploy a 35 MWh system in 2019.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Cross Campus , the coworking space operator which is home to many of LA's startups, told its customers today that it is planning to open up a new location in Downtown LA starting in April. The coworking operator already has locations in Old Pasadena and Santa Monica. The company expanded into Old Pasadena a year ago.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 2, 2013

Pasadena may be the best tech story never told. A number of tech companies, such as Bluebeam and Materia, are quietly building powerful businesses, and many startups are in Old Town. Still, Pasadena never hits anyone’s radar as a hot tech destination. The City of Pasadena has given great support.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Isaac Garcia , a serial entrepreneur who previously founded and sold his last company, Central Desktop, and now is working on a new startup, Sales Insider. How did you start Sales Insider from your past company, Central Desktop, after you sold it?

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MAY 9, 2013

Pasadena-based Idealab has sold another one of its companies to Yahoo today: GoPollGo , a Twitter polling service which let Twitter users collect feedback from their friends and followers. GoPollGo had been started by Ben Schaechter, Sam Grossberg, and Paul Kompfner, and was based in Palo Alto. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Pasadena-based Idealab , the startup incubator run by Bill Gross, has made another external investment in a company, funding London-based Top10. Top10 operates a service which allows users to create their own "best of" lists in a social way.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Pasadena-based Idealab , the startup business incubator founded by Bill Gross, announced this morning that it has added Andy Steuer to its team. The firm said Steuer will work on new company creation, particularly in the new mobile applications area.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Over 500 startups applied last quarter to Launchpad LA’s accelerator, but only eight were chosen. Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We spoke with Erick Laubach , the founder of Crash--which is backed by famed startup incubator Idealab--to hear about how the company is hoping to tap the power of the crowd to help others find interesting, local attractions. How did the company start? How did you end up working with Idealab? What is Crash?

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MARCH 4, 2021

How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does. But my start was pretty unusual.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2011

That’s right folks Idealab is hosting a job fair at their offices for 10 of their startups companies. They are looking for coders, roboticist, marketing managers, and community managers, to fill the areas of their Green Tech, Social Media, Big Data, and Enterprise companies. Pasadena, CA 91103. REGISTER HERE.

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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/).

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JANUARY 11, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision, is expanding, saying thta it is opening up a new location in downtown Los Angeles. StartEngine announced the new location in an invitation to an opening event January 15th for its mentors and companies.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Techstars (www.techstars.org) has a long history and record of success as a startup accelerator, with programs across the country and world--and recently opened up its third, Los Angeles program, Techstars LA. Three years ago, I had started to explore launching a new accelerator, to support women entrepreneurs in Los Angeles.

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JULY 10, 2015

Pasadena-based customer relationship management (CRM) software developer Rexter is launching a new product, later today, at the Microsoft Accelerator Demo Day in Seattle. Rexter is one of fourteen startups who participated in Microsoft Ventures' Digital Works Accelerator, in a three month program. Rexter is led by Andy Wilson.

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JUNE 20, 2014

The second thing we have going on, is we''re expanding beyond the cool, hot social apps, which we still have lots of, but to other companies in other areas. For example, we had a keynote from Patrick Soon-Shiong, who talked about his new health incubator, and Frank Addante, at Rubicon Project, talking his ad-tech services. READ MORE>>.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasn’t. But as a community, we have to figure out how Angels can effectively participate in the development of accelerator-based companies. The entrepreneurs in startups are trained to go fast and run lean. The Angel funding process can be arduous. So what do we do?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2012

Though the first three steps can generally be covered in house, there’s an interesting new Pasadena based startup with an app that can help both consumers and business owners with that final crucial point. Visit Punchcard ‘s company website to get a better look at their company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

In recent years, one of the more common ways to share information, conduct training, or pitch your company to other has been through online, web-based webinar and conferencing. We spoke with Costin Tuculescu , CEO of Freebinar, about the firm, how it's reaching out to Dimdim users, and the background on the company.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2012

Though the first three steps can generally be covered in house, there’s an interesting new Pasadena based startup with an app that can help both consumers and business owners with that final crucial point. Visit Punchcard ‘s company website to get a better look at their company.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Many “tech companies” now have green screens.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&#

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