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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Patrick Soon-Shiong , the billionaire founder of Abraxis Bioscience, has made a "multi-million" dollar donation to the University of Southern California , to endow a new chair at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. According to USC, the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation, funded by Soon-Shiong and his wife, Michele B.

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MARCH 25, 2015

According to USC this morning, the $50M gift will go to endow the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute , which is focused on preventions and cures for brain injury and disease, including Alzheimer''s, schizophrenia and traumatic brain injury. He now runs S-Cubed Capital, his own private family office.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Dave told us a bit more about the Viterbi Startup Garage and several other associated efforts there at USC centered around the startup ecosystem. 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. What is Viterbi Startup Garage?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based audio processing technology developer Audyssey and Intel Capital said Tuesday morning that Intel Capital has made an investment in Audyssey. Financial details of the funding were not disclosed. Audyssey said the investment was led by Intel''s Ranjeet Alexis. Audyssey was founded by Chris Kyriakakis.

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JUNE 25, 2020

In a move to help make Black professionals easier to connect, Los Angeles-based Valence said on Thursday that it has launched a new, social networking service, with backing from investments from Upfront Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Accel. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2019

in a seed funding round. The funding came from the Mayo Clinic, the Venture Reality Fund, Wavemaker 360, USC Marshall Venture Fund and Michelson 20MM. According to the company, the investment will go to "substantially increase" the quantity of content it is making available to its user base. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Good Growth Capital , a venture capital investment firm focused on complex science and technology start-ups, says it has set up shop in Southern California, and hired a new, West Coast Venture Partner in Los Angeles. Good Growth Capital says it has just launched a third, $100M seed/Series A fund focused on deep tech startups.

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MAY 22, 2018

Santa Monica-based Halogen Ventures , the female-focused venture capital fund run by Jesse Draper, has made an investment in email newsletter and millennial women's news source TheSkimm. as part of its first fund, Halogen Ventures LP. Halogen specifically invests in female founders. TheSkimm is based in New York City.

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MARCH 28, 2014

The company--which runs online degree programs for the University of Southern California (USC) and many other schools--had been backed by Redpoint Ventures, which funded the company out of its Los Angeles office. Those investments were led by former Redpoint VC Greg Martin. Redpoint Ventures owned 23.2 percent at 13.95

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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? Explain what kinds of investments TenOneTen makes or hopes to make? David Waxman: We''ve been making investments since the beginning of the year.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

million in seed funding. The money came from heavy hitters in the Los Angeles entertainment and investment scene including Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew and Jared Leto. Forerunner Ventures led the deal and the investment was made by Kirsten Green, the firm’s famous founder and managing partner.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the effort of the University of Southern California to foster innovation within its campus and the community, has been turning an eye to how to more effectively spin out academic efforts into companies. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2013

I then started another project, based on an invention out of the USC biomedical engineering department, a company developing an ultrasound device used for cardiac monitoring. Finally, I started a third project out of the USC Keck School of Medicine, using software to optimize drug dosages for individuals. It''s the same issue.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last night, Amazon.com jumped into the movie business, with its own, online film submission site, Amazon Studios , backed by the help of a number of notable USC Film School advisors. Despite coming from Amazon, the local involvement is heavy, with USC's School of Cinematic Arts heavily involved, as well as other local entertainment execs.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC.

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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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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Not only are the founders deeply invested in the research, but their chosen profession is academia rather than the business world. Getting research out of the university lab and into a growing business poses a unique set of challenges - especially when the scientist is assumed to be the entrepreneur.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

First, my thanks to Tim Draper for allowing me to use his song in my entrepreneur presentations at UCLA, Anderson School of Business and USC, Marshall School of Business. Invested all his mattress money. Even Draper will not fund! This song is the heart of soul of many entrepreneurs like me and I love sharing it. Company vision.

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MARCH 26, 2012

We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. He decided to invest in us in January of last year, and one of the first New Venture companies. What are your plans with the new funding?

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We’re aligned, but not overlapping, is the way I like to look at it.”.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. CTM and USC, staff of Citrix Online, TCA members, and now you! Very important, but less than before.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you making investments in those firms as part of the program? It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors. I was just judging the USC gaming hackathon. USC is producing lots of very talented game professionals, and so is UCLA. That's our mission.

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MAY 25, 2012

For Scott Ferreira , the founder of MySocialCloud.com (www.mysocialcloud.com), it was an investment from Sir Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock. After that weekend in Miami, he introduced us to his friend Jerry Murdock, who has invested in lots of tech companies. First off, what is MySocialCloud? Both have been great mentors ever since.

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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., That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. We have a great team on the ground in the Philippines, who are phenomenal at managing, training, and investing in staff. You''ve built quite a big business--how did you fund all of that? Bryce Maddock: We have had no outside funding until now.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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MARCH 4, 2014

Tom Soto – Managing Director/Investment Committee Member, TCW/Craton. Tom comments on the state of affairs as someone in the trenches, investing real dollars. He sees that with Cleantech and sustainability, they’re really in the 3rd or 4th generation in an investment sense. Government Funding and Cleantech.

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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. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. Did you take investment initially? Fundraising was something we just weren't investing in. So you were able to fund your growth just from customer? We were quite profitable, quite quickly, which enabled us to self fund and grow.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. It was about three years from investment to exit, which we were really thrilled about. So what's going on with the fund nowadays?

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Trakfire : a platform that enables its community to curate the best music from emerging artists, the third company founded founded by 19 year old USC Iovine Young Academy sophomore Arjun Mehta. Atom Factory also has a venture fund, Cross Culture Ventures, which has made 8 investments so far. SMASHD LABS First-Round Cohorts.

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MAY 11, 2011

I told him, I wanted him to invest his time. How is the firm funded? Elizabeth Amini: We're privately funded by the founders. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC. But, we never were looking for funding. We're funding things like clean water, education, and other efforts.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

I had been at USC, at the Etnrepreneurship program. I was born and was raised in California, in Central California, and came down here for USC and never left. I had already spent all this money and investment, but he had never seen the truck in person. How did you decide this was worth creating a company out of the idea?

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

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). TX Zhuo: Karlin Ventures is an early stage venture fund based in LA. We are going to focus most of our investments in LA.

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MARCH 14, 2011

So, I wrote the business plan and get investment behind it. My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. Scot Richardson: We've done two rounds of funding, both angel rounds. How is the company backed?

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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. Semiconductor advances are infamous for costing millions of dollars and requiring very significant investment in infrastructure.

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