Steve Reich

MARCH 9, 2013

The Pasadena Innovation Council organized a great tech executive meeting in Pasadena on Friday. This is another good step toward pulling together the tech community in the greater Pasadena area. Ted Tekippe, CEO of Doublebeam joined us, as did Kevin Scanlon, Chairman of the Pasadena Angels. It was a great crowd.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 2, 2013

Pasadena may be the best tech story never told. Somehow the home of IdeaLab, OpenX, CalTech, Art Center College of Design, and JPL doesn’t have much of a reputation as a innovation hub. Still, Pasadena never hits anyone’s radar as a hot tech destination. The City of Pasadena has given great support.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2014

We''ve designed a system where we track your employees in real time. Through that, I designed a system using Excel spreadsheets to track this, and went on to start the company because I saw the need for it. We''re going to design the existing product for those verticals, and go very deep into those verticals. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

“I love solving problems with design and entrepreneurship. ” In some ways, the model isn’t that different from Bill Gross’ idealab, the Pasadena, Calif.-based based incubator company that’s a few miles up the road from Share Ventures Los Angeles home base.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2014

A new, Pasadena-based startup out of Idealab , the startup incubator headed by Bill Gross, is hoping to bring 3D printing to the masses for $149. According to New Matter , it is hoping to bring its 3D printer to users, starting at only $149, in an attempt to make 3D printing accessible to everyone.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based Slickdeals , the online coupon and deal site led by Josh Meyers, has tapped two technology veterans for its board. Slickdeals said Thursday that it has named Tim Cadogan , the CEO of Pasadena''s OpenX , along with Nathan Hubbard , head of commerce at Twitter , to its board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based MyShape , the online personalized fashion and women's clothing firm, has shut down. MyShape had raised north of $36M in funding from such investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Pasadena Angels, Tech Coast Angels, and Tenaya Capital. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. Before that, I was at a multimedia design academy in high school. How did you two connect?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. 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.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. Rubicon Project.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Pasadena-based FastSoft , the Caltech spinout developing Internet acceleration devices, disclosed earlier this week that it has rolled out a new product. FastSoft is venture backed by Miramar Venture Partners, Caltech, and angel investors. Pricing on the new product was not released. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

Need something--anything--delivered in Los Angeles? Fetch and Schlep just raised a round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Fetch and Schlep just raised a round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. How does Schlep and Fetch work? Petersburg.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

San Diego-based BrightQube, an angel-backed stock photo search site, has updated its web services to make it easier for photo buyers to find images. The firm is angel backed by the Tech Coast Angels and the Pasadena Angels. BrightQube said it now has a library of more than three million royalty-free images.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. Alan Horsager: The funding originally started with a convertible note, through the Pasadena Angels.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. It''s designed for business people. After three years of that, I decided I needed to go back to the entrepreneurial world, and joined up with another young company, which was SupplyFrame in Pasadena.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 16, 2012

Mark asked Kevin Scanlon, Chairman of the Pasadena Angels, to critique his student’s draft business pitches, and I joined the two of them. The businesses included furniture designed for gamers, an ebook business ( [link] ), and a redesigned water container for undeveloped countries.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2010

Last week, Pasadena-based Rockoco announced that it had raised $1.5M in funding from the Pasadena Angels, for its technology which applies semiconductor processing to diamonds to create more brilliant and super-polished stones. Roughly $500K to $600K came from the Pasadena angels, and the rest from other angel investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. LA should be LA.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

If you go to Tripadvisor, you're not going to find the 10 hidden waterfalls in the Pasadena area. They handle legal, finance, and even design help and engineering. That's important for a travel app. So, what we're trying to do now, is surface content that people wouldn't have heard of. Idealab is fantastic with that.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I asked the panelists ( David Travers , Brian Norgard , Fouad ElNaggar , & Demian Sellfors ) about the specific challenges that we face down here in Los Angeles as opposed to Silicon Valley. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles. Simply put LA has a lack of GREAT product, UI/UX, and design talent.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. Where: Baxter Hall | CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. We leverage our network in the Los Angeles community to provide members with access to potential employees, mentors and investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

CODA Automotive is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Monica, California that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and lithium-ion battery systems purpose-built for transportation and utility applications. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Their focus is green technology. Event Details.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. Also, many of our deals were in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or London.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest covers more than 30 topics that uniquely reflect LA’s strengths, including: Investors, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Games, Social Media, Digital Content, Advertising Technology, Design UX/UI, Fashion, and more. June 17: Silicon Beach Fest: Pasadena Day , Hosted by Idealab. In 2012 over $3.2 Media Partners.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. And costume & set designers. In LA companies used to be concentrated near Pasadena or in the San Fernando Valley. I’m sure there’s a lot of truth to that. And make-up artists. And sound engineers.

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