socalTECH
JUNE 18, 2018
Pasadena-based Embodied , a startup which says it is developing "life-like robots to revolutionize care and wellness for humans", announced Monday morning that it has raised $22M in a Series A funding round. Jason Schoettler from Calibrate Ventures and Andrew Firlik from JAZZ Venture Partners both join the company's board with the funding.
socalTECH
MARCH 28, 2014
The company--which runs online degree programs for the University of Southern California (USC) and many other schools--had been backed by Redpoint Ventures, which funded the company out of its Los Angeles office. 2U''s first, online degree program was with USC''s Rossier School of Education. Redpoint Ventures owned 23.2
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socalTECH
JUNE 4, 2015
USC named its business school after Gordon Marshall in 1996, after he made gave a $35M endowment to the business school; he also has funded a number of positions at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. billion in sales before its acquisition by Avnet. Marshall Industries was sold to Avnet in 1999. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 3, 2009
The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the effort of the University of Southern California to foster innovation within its campus and the community, has been turning an eye to how to more effectively spin out academic efforts into companies. READ MORE>>.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. We are actually getting paid now to obtain customers, so our customer acquisition costs are now negative. I consider it INVALUABLE!
socalTECH
MARCH 6, 2012
El Segundo-based Fetch Technologies , the developer of data aggregation and analysis software which was a spinout of USC's Information Sciences Institute, has been sold to New Jersey-based Connotate. According to Connotate, former Fetch CEO Ryan Mullholland becomes President of the firm with the acquisition. in funding.
socalTECH
MARCH 19, 2019
Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. We were really focused on customer acquisition. So you were able to fund your growth just from customer? We were quite profitable, quite quickly, which enabled us to self fund and grow. What were you doing before?
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