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MARCH 8, 2012

The Tech Coast Angels , the organized Southern California angel investment group, helped boost California into the top states for angel investment deals, according to a new study released today. percent of angel investments in the state. percent of angel investments in the state.

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APRIL 19, 2019

A group of nine electric utilities and two agencies on the West Coast of the United States said on Thursday they have launched an effort to explore electric vehicle (EV) charging to enable "zero-emission" shipping along the I-5, connecting California, Washington, and Oregon by an all-electric shipping cooridor.

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

A new study compiled by the University of Southern California tallies up $380M raised in capital by USC spinouts in the last three years, and a 15 year total of $800M raised by 39 startups with roots at the school.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

The numerous other accelerators in Southern California, including many in Los Angeles, were not included in the ranking project, based on the list released by Tech Cocktail. The group said its study's goal is to help startups choose an accelerator and generate discussion about what makes a good accelerator.

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JUNE 4, 2012

For this morning's Insights and Opinions , section, where we feature the voices of Southern California's technology industry, we have an article from Howard Marks , the co-founder of Los Angeles startup accelerator StartEngine and co-founder of gaming giant Activision.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. At an angel round you can get away with no market validation.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 6, 2012

Thursday, April 12, 2012 -- Power of Angel Investing Seminar. This full-day seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals. It will also go into depth on how to develop angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success. See [link] (more)

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MAY 17, 2011

New information released in a study of the IPO pipeline, finds that California continues to be the most active market in terms of initial public offerings. According to the Renst & Young LLP US IPO Pipeline study, California had 25 companies looking to raised $2.2 billion on the market in Q1.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011 -- Power of Angel Investing. This full-day seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals. It will also go into depth on how to develop angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Studies have shown that the practice of meditation positively affects the nervous system by lowering blood pressure, lessening symptoms of anxiety, fighting depression, and curbing insomnia. VR has been studied and used as a tool to relieve stress, PTSD, and other significant health issues.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital. Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 6, 2012

Thursday, April 12, 2012 -- Power of Angel Investing Seminar. Tech Coast Angels. This full-day definitive seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital. Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum.

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USC SoCal Southern California Entertainment 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010 -- Power of Angel Investing. San Diego Tech Coast Angels. This full-day seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals and developing angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 23, 2010

The Third Annual India Trade Conference is being presented by Southern California Edison; the Port of Los Angeles; the U.S. Theme: Renewable Energy and Social Entrepreneurship July 29, 2010 - Los Angeles - Edison CTAC Conference Center 6090 North Irwindale Avenue, Irwindale, CA 91702 WHY ATTEND? Commercial Service, U.S.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Biocom California. Please join Biocom Los Angeles and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) for a virtual webinar to learn how Life Science companies in the Greater LA area can enter the Japanese market. Thursday, August 12, 2021 -- Entering the Japanese Market by Partnering With The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Busy taking classes and studying all night? Well tuff, these fine young folks currently attending the University of Southern California surely didn’t think so. They are currently backed by Southern California angel investor Scott Sangster’s OrganicStartup , a venture acceleration company.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

USC has just thrown their hat into the ring of the flurry of startup activity happening in SoCal with the introduction of a new accelerator, the Viterbi Startup Garage. It is getting hot in here. This is another smart move by the powers that be in the community to nurture the burgeoning startup ecosystem.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). 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. Who are some of your go to people in Southern California?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. It is how angel rounds come together.&#.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 -- The San Diego Tech Coast Angels present Early-Stage Valuation. Program Overview: This interactive workshop educates and empowers angel investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in access to capital on a variety of ways to value pre-revenue companies. Email linda@techcoastangels.com.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. So doing that R&D is challenging. We have had to innovate and invent that hardware.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

Pasadena-based Cramster (www.cramster.com) recently announced $3M in a large angel round for the firm's online study communities. Cramster is looking to create online study groups, to help high school and college students study math, science, and other topics. What we're trying to emulate is the face-to-face study group.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Thursday, March 1, 2012 -- Please join PwC, the Los Angeles Venture Association, and a distinguished panel of venture capitalists and industry experts for their insight into results of the MoneyTree Report. The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States.

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Press Venture Capital Study Report 124

socalTECH

JULY 1, 2014

Vadio came out of LA''s Amplify startup accelerator, and now has operations both in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. Editor''s note: we''re dual running this content across our Southern California and Pacific Northwest Site, since Vadio is split between the two regions). What is Vadio all about? How did you start the company?

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Platform Startup Content Sites 164

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. Winning the USC’s Silicon Beach Awards however is not their only accomplishment.

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Education Startup Technology Patents 106

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Tomorrow starting at 8pm PST We will be live streaming ( click here to view live stream ) the "Action Sports + Social Media Marketing Mash Up" event put on by SoCal Action Sports Network. Fellow at the University of California Center for the Study of Democracy and an Expert Blogger for Fast Company.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Please join PwC, the Los Angeles Venture Association, and a distinguished panel of venture capitalists and industry experts for their insight into results of the MoneyTree TM Report. The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States.

Press 100

Press Venture Capital Study Report 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. So, we decided to go out and do it.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. The EA works closely with the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA. TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 5, 2011

Tech Coast Angels. Monday, May 9, 2011 -- The Art of Leveraging and Maximizing LinkedIn. Join Barbara and LinkedIn expert Neal Schaffer as he shares with us concrete steps to help optimize your LinkedIn presence and start integrating it as an effective and natural way to do business. and Neal Schaffer is here to help!

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

They teamed up with Dr. Julie Edge, who received a grant from The Kauffman Foundation to conduct the first study on cofounder relationships. Meetups are also scheduled in Irvine and in Los Angeles at the government-run Business Technology Center. Together they are working on automating the capture and matching process.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Maverick Angels. Recent studies indicate that companies with a well developed HR function grow faster and are more profitable than firms who cut corners. Wednesday, October 28, 2009 -- Investor Beware: HR Practices Matter in High Growth Companies.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics - SoCal CTO , March 11, 2010 Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. The study is featured in the March issue of the Harvard Business Review.

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Startup Software Review Competition SoCal 150

socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Most Angelenos don't realize Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the country. (We

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