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Impinj, With Offices In OC, Sets IPO Pricing Range

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Impinj , a developer of RFID technology which has engineering offices in both Rancho Cordova and Newport Beach, has set the estimated IPO pricing range for its stock at between $12.00 and $14.00 per share, the company said in a filing this morning. READ MORE>>.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, February 2, at Caltech. Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! Where: Baxter Hall | CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Price: $25 (Early Bird). Take the next left on Holliston Avenue, into Caltech campus.

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Gevo Raises $107M In IPO

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Gevo , the biofuels technology startup spawned out of technology at Caltech and UCLA, has raised $107M in an IPO this morning. GEVO priced at the high end of its estimated pricing range of $13 to $15, selling 7.5 The stock was trading as high as $17.50 in morning trading. million shares of its common stock.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Our research revealed a saturation level causing unprecedented challenges, starting with exorbitant housing prices and runaway operating costs that accelerate a startup’s “burn rate”—its monthly spending. 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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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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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. Price: $25 (Early Bird). 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.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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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. Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

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. Price: $15 (Early Bird).