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MAY 11, 2012

The Western Regional winners at Caltech were determined by a panel of judges from Mohr Davidow, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sierra Ventures, CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund, the Angeleno Group and the Pasadena and Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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Technology CalTech Tech Coast Angels Startup 184

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Auditude is venture backed by Granite Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners, and Redpoint Ventures; the appointment of Helfand came in conjunction with a new, $11M Series B funding round for Auditude. The firm was actually spawned out of a UCLA MBA business plan competition.

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Woodland Hills Redpoint UCLA Advertising 177

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APRIL 29, 2014

A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. So, it was not a good situation.

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Startup Competition Software Review UCLA 262

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 -- The Tech Coast Angels 5th Annual Fast Pitch Competition will take place on February 24th at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Dinner and refreshments will be served after the program at a networking event attended by hundreds of investors, entrepreneurs and other industry experts. See [link] (more).

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Tech Coast Angels Angel UCLA Tips 100

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The venture capitalists we look at to fund our deals are certainly tightening down, there's no question about that. What is not happening, is those marginal deals that would have gotten funded a number of years ago, when things were better, are not making it. So you don't see as many people looking for funding now?

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 231

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Hiptico also has a Mayan education fund, a great fund they support through purchases, to help put the children of the artisans into school with scholarships. We went to junior high school and UCLA together. We were seniors at UCLA, and both of us in very different areas. How did you get together with your cofounder?

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Commerce Help UCLA Organization 140

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. How did this go from technology in a lab at UCLA, to a company?

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UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today.

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MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. How did the new fund come about? There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. Do you have institutional LPs in your fund, or is this your personal capital? READ MORE>>.

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

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MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. How is the firm funded?

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

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MAY 2, 2011

In recent weeks, online ticketing has seen a surge in interest and funding. Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. Describe SaveFans and what it does?

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Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Startup 253

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JANUARY 2, 2014

It occurred to us that a startup company with limited funding is not going to pay $5000 upfront, and that we would have loved to know the prices up front and not have to go through the same eight conversations eight times. It sounds like you have some angel funding? We haven''t gone to institutional funding yet.

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Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. The firm was bootstrapped several years ago, and is profitable, and its founders are both MBAs from UCLA Anderson, where they met. How did you manage the growth you have, without outside funding?

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. million dollars from some of the biggest funds (First Round Capital, NEA and GRP), is precisely because they solved such a huge problem. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

We are trying to keep it competitive. I went to UCLA, and majored in English, and then worked in Hollywood for ten years, for companies such as CAA, Paramount, and Judd Apatow. How's the company funded? Did you bootstrap this or get some funding? We had some small friends and family funding.

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Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. Any funding? How unique are you from the competition if you have any? What is TenHands and why the name?

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Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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