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CLU's Gerhard Apfelthaler: What I Learned In 2014

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What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? gerhard apfelthaler education incubator' The Center is designed to be a hub for the start-up community along the Westlake Village  Thousand Oaks corridor. Within a few months, it has become a vibrant space where founders, investors, students and our faculty members meet and co-create.

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Portfolium Acquired By Instructure

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Portfolium was founded in 2014, and was led by founder and CEO Adam Markowitz. The company had raised around $9M in total funding, and had been part of the EvoNexus startup incubator. READ MORE>>.

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Lawn Love Expands In Orange County

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Lawn Love says it is backed by such investors as Joe Montana, Alexis Ohanian, Barbara Corcoran, Bullpen Capital, and others, and was part of the 2014 Y-Combinator startup incubator program.

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Five Years After Y Combinator First Admits Biotechs, They’re Dug In

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Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Marlin Equity Backs Elenion Technologies

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According to Marlin Equity Partners, Elenion has been in existence since 2014, and has been operating in stealth mode. Marlin explained that Elenion actually had been incubated alongside another of its companies in the optical area, Coriant, since 2014. READ MORE>>.

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2014 Was An Amazing Year for the Pasadena Angels

Steve Reich

2014 Pasadena Angels Performance. • We’ve also been building relationships with incubators and other investors in the ecosystem. Entrepreneurs rightly pointed out we must move much more quickly in an age of SuperAngels, incubators, and other sources of funding. 17 Deals closed, 10 new and 7 follow-on rounds. •

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Science Gets First Exit, Sells Playhaven To RockYou

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Los Angeles-based startup studio and incubator Science said late Wednesday that it has seen its first exit, and has sold Playhaven to RockYou. Playhaven is a mobile ad network, which Science had acquired in September of 2014. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.

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