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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. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! Where: Baxter Hall | CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Take the next left on Holliston Avenue, into Caltech campus.

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Cisco to Pay $660M for Luxtera, Maker of Advanced Data Center Chips

Xconomy

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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A Chat With Jamie Montgomery On How LA's Tech Ecosystem Has Grown

socalTECH

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. In the last couple ofyears, we've seen more enterprise technology and software locally here, and software is starting to grow up. I think that is a big strength for us.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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

Both Sides of the Table

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Interview with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson, Okapi Ventures

socalTECH

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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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

socalTECH

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. On Demand enterprise, and consumer software-as-a-service is also very interesting to us. We really believe in the market.

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