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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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Reflections on 2018: Alon Goren, 805 Startups and Crypto Invest Summit

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Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. You'll hear about it soon.

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An LA-led, public-private partnership pitches a $150B green infrastructure package to Congress

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As the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area, boasting an over $1 trillion economy, decisions made in the city can have broad economic and social implications that ripple far beyond the Southern California region. “Startups and small businesses are the engine of every local and regional economy,” writes Peterson.

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Reflections On 2017: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. So far, we have launched a handful of blockchain companies and are looking forward to more partnerships in 2018.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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First, within our portfolio I am really excited about Wheels (Crosscut led the seed round at the end of 2018). Second, this was a great year for the broader Southern California tech ecosystem. What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why?

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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics

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A lot of the challenge is in human resources that understands that technology, however, we live in Southern California, which has some of the best universities in the country in that area. So those resources have been fantastic. So doing that R&D is challenging. We have had to innovate and invent that hardware.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

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The firm even launched an accelerator for YouTube personalities in late 2018. The program, called The EduCator Incubator, planned to seed 25 to 40 “emerging video creators” with $25,000 to $75,000 in seed funding. invests exclusively in the space.

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