socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Gevo , the Caltech spinoff developing biofuels processing technology, said last week that it has completed its acquisition of a biofuels plant in Luverne, Minnesota. Tags: gevo biofuels clean energy fuel alternative cleantech caltech ucla technology transfer. READ MORE>>.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

One Lambda was founded in 1984, based on technology developed at UCLA in the labs of UCLA professor Paul Terasaki; the firm's co-founder, President, and CEO is George M. According to Thermo Fisher Scientific, One Lambda had revenues of $182M in 2011, and becomes part of its Specialty Diagnostics Segment. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

TechCrunch is heading to UCLA on October 18 and we’ve assembled some of the AR/VR industry’s most prescient founders, investors and executives to chat about the startups and trends driving virtual and augmented reality in 2018. UCLA, Los Angeles // October 18. See full agenda here. Kickstarting an Industry.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2011

The firm's technology is based on research form UCLA focused on producing next-generation biofuels through genetically modified Escherichia coli (E. Gevo is venture backed by Khosla Ventures, Virgin Green Fund, Total Energy Ventures, Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund, Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund, and LANXESS, among others.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

NextBus supplies its systems to Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Boston, in additoin to other customers like UCLA and MIT. The firm's headquarters are in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Wes Nichols: We probably have the greatest gathering of market scientists on the planet now, overseen by Dr. Dominique Hanssens, who is a prominent UCLA professor and specialist in the area of market response models. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In Best venture funding for clean tech, NanoH2O , the firm developing reverse osmosis membranes for desalination and water purification based on research out of UCLA scored honors. Finalists were CODA Automotive , Fisker Automotive , and Amonix.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Technology. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Advertisers.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). It fuels our bonus payments, our quarterly earnings, our growth rate, our value at acquisition time. Sales is the lifeblood of every organization. It’s how we move products. It pays for all of our great engineers.

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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc.,

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. If you missed it, or simply want to relive the moment, check out the rebroadcast above. Gold Sponsor. .

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. If you missed it, or simply want to relive the moment, check out the rebroadcast above. Gold Sponsor. .

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

He saw that the cost of acquisition for many, many different businesses were going through the roof, week after week. We saw that they were hitting the inflection point, where they were spending more than they were receiving from customer acquisition. Michael Greenberg: My original background was in theoretical physics, at UCLA.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Econ/Business from UCLA and with a JD from UCLA Law, Brian Lee was a talented attorney. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Brian Lee – LegalZoom, ShoeDazzle. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media.

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