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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Three local universities, plus a Pasadena-based startup, have received a $360,000 grant to promote student entrepreneurship in clean technology. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West. OnGreen said it is the commercial partner for the effort.

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CalTech UCLA Southern California Pasadena 165

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com).

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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. It ran in April of 2008.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

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MAY 2, 2013

However, the newest venture capital fund in the area TenOneTen Ventures (tenoneten.net), headed up by David Waxman and Gil Elbaz, is hoping to change that, by focusing its efforts on technology-focused startups here. The majority of them are in Los Angeles, but not excusively. How did the new fund come about?

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. That technology is coming out of USC's biomedical department, which is part of its School of Engineering.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

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APRIL 21, 2014

Los Angeles is the only place in the US with a collegiate hackathon, an event where programmers spend hours together programming and building, of that scale and the LA Hacks team from UCLA made sure it was awesome. Sifting through the crowd, it was easy to see sweatshirts with Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, USC and many other universities.

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UCLA Los Angeles Snapchat USC 108

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MARCH 26, 2012

The Los Angeles startup is looking to help connect travelers with local guides and hosts. We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. However, we felt the pain that everywhere you go, particularly on tours, you end up ushered around places by people who are always trying to sell you things.

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Startup Idealab USC Ideas 199

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MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. How did you connect with Nolan?

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Los Angeles startup-- ArmorWay (www.armorwaycom)--is trying to take what has mostly been an esoteric computer science research area, and is now looking to make it applicable in real life. It was started at the University of Southern California in 2006-2007. Where did the technology come from? That''s where our niche is.

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Research Patents USC Software 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

TechZulu caught up with the founder Mike Tringe and this is what he told us. CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. Any competition in LA?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

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JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. If people don’t know the mission there is no way to achieve the objective and you end up with a team pulling in 100 different directions – even if only by small amounts.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Seek out similar academic competitions and programs. Don’t take no for an answer.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

What we've done, is we've taken technology originally developed at USC, a CIA funded project, and gained global commercial rights for the non-security sector. One problem with other avatar technology, is that in most competitive cases what people are doing is using a standard head model and trying to apply a face to that model.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

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AUGUST 20, 2009

As I watched my kids' eyeballs move over, as well as looked at the research data and advertising data which saw TV's share shrinking, I started looking into new media. I saw that kids seem to get bored by kids sites by age ten or eleven, and then they start moving onto sites that shouldn't be online and really aren't appropriate for children.

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Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Los Angeles. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). eBay and others.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313