socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2011

Impinj , a developer of RFID chips which has satellite engineering office in Rancho Cordova and Newport Beach, and which was founded by a California Institute of Technology (Caltech) professor, has filed for an IPO. The firm said it is raising up to $100M on the markets. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley , J.P. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Cisco has agreed to pay $660 million for Luxtera, a Caltech spinout that makes optical chips for data centers. The semiconductor company, founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, CA, a San Diego suburb. David Goeckeler, executive vice president and. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2016

Impinj's headquarters were originally split between Newport Beach and Seattle, with half of its founding team in Orange County, with technology originally developed at Caltech. The company's IPO is being underwritten by RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Piper Jaffray, Needham & Company, and Canaccord Genuity. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The technology being used at both Materia and Elevance was originally developed at Caltech. Morgan, Jeffries, Piper Jaffray, and Raymond James. Elevance was spun out of Materia in 2008, in a partnership with Cargill, Incorporated.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 3, 2016

Impinj was co-founded by Caltech professor Carver Mead, and had set up offices in Newport Beach in 2004. Impinj is backed by ARCH Venture Partners, AllianceBernstein, GF Private Equity, Intel Capital, Madrona Venture Capital, Mobius Venture Capital, and Polaris Partners, and had started in Newport Beach in 2000. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

San Diego-based Illumina announced its acquisition of Helixis yesterday, saying it would pay $105M for the firm. Helixis is a developer of real time, DNA analysis hardware, which was originally developed with technology licensed from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2011

Gevo , the biofuels startup spawned out of technology from the University of California, Los Angeles and Caltech, has set an offering range for its IPO. coli) bacteria, as well as technology from Caltech from the lab of Dr. Frances Arnold. and $15.00 Gevo had filed for an IPO in August. Gevo moved to Colorado in 2008.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Caltech generates more patents than any other university while UCLA boasts more startups founded by its graduate than any other school in the nation. Suster has also noted for years that the region produces more technology doctorates than any other geography in the United States.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Monday, November 9, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Acquiring External Technology to Drive Innovation Accelerate innovation through externally acquired technology. Recognize when outside technology is needed and obtain the tools to manage the acquisition process.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Elevance was spun out of Materia in March of 2008, based on the research conducted by Materia, whose technology is derived from Nobel prize winning chemical technology originally developed at Caltech. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Gevo , the biofuels technology startup spawned out of technology at Caltech and UCLA, has raised $107M in an IPO this morning. The firm, which is now based in Colorado, debuted on the Nasdaq Global Market Wednesday morning as GEVO, debuting at $15.00. The stock was trading as high as $17.50 in morning trading.

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socalTECH

JULY 26, 2012

Impinj , a developer of UHF, radio frequency identification (RFID) chips which has linked to Caltech, and an office in Orange County, said today that it has raised $21M in an equity funding round, as well as dropped its plans for an IPO. Impinj said the funding came from AllianceBernstein L.P.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

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. They're acquisitive, have cashed up, and lots of them are now looking at repatriating money to the US. They are very acquisitive. That will cause a real boom in M&A.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Take the next left on Holliston Avenue, into Caltech campus. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. What Do We See From the Road Ahead? The infrastructure phase of the Internet is over.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Interesting. So what's going on with the fund nowadays?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. Materials is as well, and I spend lots of time at UCLA, and Caltech looking at interesting materials. We really believe in the market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S. Event Details.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77 Amid criticism, Uber’s CEO fights back: ‘On bad days, I look at our revenue graph’ channels. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2011

Brea-based QWIP Technologies , a developer of thermal imaging systems owned by Cantronic Systems, has been sold to Vancouver, Canada-based Skytech Systems. The sale was announced this week by Cantronic, which says the deal is worth C$5.7

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today.

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