socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

Our team comes from two different areas, at UCLA and Stanford, and we have some DNA from the University of Pennsylvania. Michael Greenberg: My original background was in theoretical physics, at UCLA. We were acquired in 2014 by Summit Partners, and I ended up in private equity, post-acquisition at Summit Partners.

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Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Custom Customer 113

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

The Startup Garage is an incubator which gives preference to USC teams, or startups that are USC affiliated in some way, for example, alumni-led. Dave Eastman: For one thing, although we're not completely unique in this, is we don't take equity. It's not entirely exclusive, however. but the key thing is customer discovery.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

socalTECH

JULY 1, 2013

Three years ago, I started the first of three companies in a portfolio out of the UCLA health system, VAL9000. They might specialize, for example, on biotech, drugs, molecules, or for others certain types of medical devices, or certain types of conditions. It was also focused on consumer internet, which was not my strength.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

And, the equity markets are certainly a more challenging environment. It used to be there was a geographical composition to our prescreening panel--for example, if an LA company, regardless of what they did, applied for funding, the LA network of the TCA would process them. Mike Napoli: Obviously, it's still tough.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 231

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private equity. You can find very talented technology executives.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

For example, with photos, two years ago it was enough to enable users to actively share photos with friends online. For example, Foursquare has added a points system to its location-tracking service, enabling friends to compete for who visits more and better locations, while at the same time alerting users when their friends are nearby.

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