Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing. downtown LA]. Also East of the 405?

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

socalTECH

JULY 1, 2013

The incubator-- Greenwings Biomedical (www.greenwingsbiomedical.com), is led by Richard Koffler , a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in Los Angeles. Three years ago, I started the first of three companies in a portfolio out of the UCLA health system, VAL9000. It''s the same issue. We are betting on ourselves.

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Incubator Startup USC Tech Coast Angels 217

Tech Zulu Event

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. Tom Soto – Managing Director/Investment Committee Member, TCW/Craton. Let’s Talk Money.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What they do, is accelerate that team or company to get them to the next level, and then go through and put in some investment money, help them build out the management team, and help with vendor relationships, help with overall strategy, and then help those companies riase their next round of capital. We actually are ideating internally.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Nikhil told us a bit about the startup,which was spawned out of Idealab, and recently raised a round of funding from CrestValue Capital, Cybernaut Westlake Partners, Leaguer Venture Investment Co., Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Entertainment Co., Gordon Cheng (Cameron Pace Group China), and Idealab.

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Idealab Artificial Inteligence Startup Ideas 173

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Post navigation.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. The company's CEO, Kos Galatsis , spoke to us a few years ago at the very beginning of their journey.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Enrou : Socially conscious marketplace started by UCLA graduates, and discovered by Troy Carter at the 30 Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia, where shoppers discover goods from all around the globe and support the people who made them through their purchases. SMASHD LABS First-Round Cohorts.

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Mentor Venture Capital Draper USC 75

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in. Our Panelist Include: Brock Pierce - Starting & Investing in Bitcoin, Games, and Gambling Businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. RT @OEInnovation #SBF why I live in #LA: intersection of #beach #tech #entrepreneur #entertainment. & Thanks to students and organizer UCLA comp sci Ph.D & #celebrity to pull off anything!

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

That kind of vote isn’t exactly encouraging to companies and entrepreneurs with new and potentially disruptive business models looking to plant roots here. Another idea was to tap into the talent pool at CalTech, UCLA and USC early using accessible internship programs through a public-private partnership with the City.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Southern California 98

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. In 2012 over $3.2

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GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

socalTECH

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. We sat down with TX Zhuo , who is heading up the firm's venture investments, about the fund and his path here after a recent stint at Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors fund in Palo Alto.

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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Some entrepreneurs might be surprised you didn't want to sit on a beach in Bali for the rest of your life�talk more about that? I got super, super fortunate that early in my career, I was living with an entrepreneur, Randy Saaf, who was running a company called MediaDefender. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA. First of all, what's new with your conference this year?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The wide range of startups is great and creates more opportunities for new talent and entrepreneurs to join the Los Angeles area. A centralized startup community provides a stronger and talented group of individuals, entrepreneurs, and investors to communicate and build a healthier startup community. With Yahoo!

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Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. What is Science37? One of the major barriers to finding patients is geography.

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Technology Study UCLA Research 133