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University Students Get $200K For Clean Technology Startups

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The group said that the winners with Stanford Nitrogen Group , Greenbiotics , and Xite Solar will split the $200,000 in prize money, and also will gain access to the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. Hawaiian firm eHale also was given a promising idea award for integrating solar cells into indoor and outdoor, home and office furniture.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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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. Mike Outmesguine: We''re one of about thirty teams left in the challenge, out of more than 300 that signed up last August.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? We went out on a limb in a competitive category with Wheels, and we did it because we believed in the founders. These are all gigantic categories with hundreds of new startups founded each year. in 2005 for $680M.

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

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TechZulu catches up with the three to talk about WESAWIT, startups, and the LA scene. Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. We came up with an idea for an app and around that time we met with Chris. Morgan Rostagnat: It first started as a news-oriented app. What does WESAWIT do?

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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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. What inspired you to come up with the idea? How unique are you from the competition if you have any?