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MARCH 18, 2019

Leonard Kleinrock is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. After we typed the first two letters from our computer room at UCLA, namely, “Lo” for “Login,” the network crashed. In this it has disappointed to fully achieve the aspirations of its founding fathers.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Irvine-based healthcare practice management software developer Kareo has a new, high profile member of its board this week: Travis Kalanick, former CEO and founder of Uber. Kareo develops healthcare practice management software, which manages electronic health records, billing, marketing, telemedicine, and other parts of healthcare pracices.

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MARCH 1, 2013

With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. By Sunday afternoon, all software had been tested and submitted. I say, goal attained.

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JULY 16, 2018

San Diego-based Human Longevity , which is developing genomics-powered, health intelligence software, said on Friday that it has named David Karow, M.D., Karow has previously been a researcher at UC San Diego, UCLA, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. as its Interim CEO.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

to date, the company said that it saw an 188% growth in annual recurring revenue compared to a year ago, with more than 25,000 individuals in 2,000 salons and spas in the country now using its platform. “We started obsessing about this,” Danna went on. Focusing on the U.S. Things then took an investigative, plainclothes turn.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Pacific Palisades-based VAL9000 , a developer of technology which gives doctors access to clinical information systems by voice, is one of fifteen companies which recently scored an award for innovative electronic health records software. VAL9000's technology was developed at the UCLA Medical Center. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2017

Falcon Computing Solutions , a developer of software specifically aimed at accelerating big-data applications with hardware--including both GPUs and FPGAs--has raised $8M in a funding round. The company said it recently opened its new headquarters in Santa Clara, growing beyond its existing offices in Los Angeles and Beijing.

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APRIL 20, 2017

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. They could send only the “LO” of “LOGON” before recording the very first crash of the Internet.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

In what might be one of the more unusual perks for a Southern California high tech company, LRN , a developer of enterprise compliance and ethics software, has an unlimited, paid vacation policy. LRN--which is around the corner from UCLA--serves such customers as 3M, Dow, Johnson & Johnson, Loews, Pfizer and Siemens.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. One, led by Todd Gitlin, is getting companies to post internships.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures has had another exit in its portfolio, this time with the acquisition of Cetas , a developer of cloud data analytics software, by VMware. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Two, Southern California companies have made the semi-finalist list for the much-watch Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge competition, which promises to give out $150,000 to a company developing the "next best thing" in the Internet-of-Things area. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Two, Southern California companies have made the semi-finalist list for the much-watch Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge competition, which promises to give out $150,000 to a company developing the "next best thing" in the Internet-of-Things area. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

The new headquarters are among a cluster of technology companies who are just around the corner from UCLA. MyLife's new building is in the same building as incubator Elevator Labs, compliance software and services firm LRN, and is the same building which was the headquarters for PeopleSupport. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference, which we co-host every year. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference. What was the big news for you or your company this year? Also more serial founders are doing their second, third, even fourth companies.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

Today, we just had a screening for the Tech Coast Angels, they're screening companies and having lunch here. Instead, we partner with all the companies provide those services. We are partnering with every event company you can think of, including General Assembly, TechZulu, Digital LA, and others. How long have you been open?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

A number of Southern California inventors and companies have been recognized today by magazine Popular Mechanics , for their work on what the magazine says are "world changing" innovations. The last university team recognized by Popular Mechanics comes out of UCLA. Tags: southern california inventor ucla innovation.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I consider this trip the anniversary of the company’s starting up, and made the trip 11 years in a row. I’d often say: “I created the company so no one could fire me.” I had to be successful at my new software company. It was stressful and yet so typical when running a small company.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Hopscotch, led by Laurence Sotsky , has built software which enables sports teams, venues, and others to rapidly create mobile apps for their fans. We caught up with Lauren to hear about Hopscotch, and why teams and schools are turning to the company to power their mobile apps. That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others.

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MARCH 4, 2014

Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. He reminds us that there was also a time when major companies like Washington Mutual, and Linen ‘n’ Things toppled.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) held its annual awards event last night, honoring former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, as well as local, venture backed companies in a banquet last night at the Luxe hotel in Los Angeles.

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MAY 7, 2009

Applications (software, Operating Systems), Device Technologies (micro-processors, touch screens, system on chip radios, motion sensors) and Networks (GPRS, CDMA, LTE, WiMAX, WiFI). This forum brings together media companies, application developers, device manufacturers, networking and O.S. in an open Forum at UCLA.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

fact, turns out it is much, much harder than raising money for an early stage company. My partner, Craig Cummings, and I were fortunate to close our $20M fund in October and couldnt be more excited about identifying new portfolio companies and helping those entrepreneurs build their businesses.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision To Reality Program for Emerging Tech Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies.

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JULY 1, 2013

Koffler tells us why Greenwings isn''t just another accelerator --and instead, is internally incubating companies based on research from local universities. I was involved in the healthcare industry with a company that I ran, and eventually sold, in healthcare information systems and telemedicine. Do you provide funding for companies?

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. The firm was bootstrapped several years ago, and is profitable, and its founders are both MBAs from UCLA Anderson, where they met. To hear about the company, we spoke with Ramit Varma , co-founder of the company.

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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. The company's CEO, Kos Galatsis , spoke to us a few years ago at the very beginning of their journey.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. MarketShare recently launched a rebranding effort for the company, and is in the midst of a major hiring and expansion phase.

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MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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APRIL 29, 2014

We spoke with Mike Outmesguine , CEO and Alan DeRossett , CTO of the company, and how their roots in do-it-yourself, "Maker" projects is key to their entry into the prize competition. The company actually was working on a different project which had dried up at that point, and it was just natural to step into this at that point.

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MARCH 26, 2014

One of the biggest areas where the cloud is transforming business is in small and medium sized businesses--where suddenly, companies are able to leverage software which wouldn''t be available, or are too costly for them to implement individually, but where the cloud access suddenly makes it affordable and easy. What does Kareo do?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

While the burden of software installation, update or maintenance is removed from the hands of the enterprise user, the burden of creating, managing and securing the infrastructure, devices, user accounts, and, networks, falls in the hands of the CIO.

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MARCH 1, 2017

We sat down with Jamie�who has been part of LA's technology industry, either as an investor or advisor since its very early days--to get his perspective on where we are today, especially as it relates to all of the companies he's worked with over the years on a more global stage and in Silicon Valley, and his advice to entrepreneurs.

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MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. We spoke with CEO Darren Marble to learn more about why analytics are important to the modern film-maker, and how the company is helping. What is FilmBreak?

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