L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 19, 2019

million to Caltech for additional development on ShakeAlert, an earthquake early warning system. Geological Survey has awarded $2.2

CalTech 173

CalTech Develop Development 173

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Saturday, November 16, 2019 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Transportation. Emerging Opportunities in Urban Mobility and the Business Models It Will Enable. The ways that people and products move around cities worldwide are rapidly changing.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Startup Mobile 100

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MAY 5, 2019

Saturday, May 11, 2019 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Robotics. The past few years have seen significant improvements in ease of adoption of robots with the introduction of collaborative robots, low-cost easy-to-use drones, and level 3 autonomous vehicles.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Technology Services 100

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OCTOBER 8, 2017

Saturday, October 14, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Cybersecurity. The Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum will be devoted to identifying entrepreneurial opportunities for providing tools to combat cyber threats.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Tool Technology 100

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APRIL 7, 2019

Saturday, April 13, 2019 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Venture Funding. The Los Angeles Tech and Venture Scene 2019 / Anatomy of a Successful Seed Round. Our program keynote will debut the 2019 Amplify.LA presentation which offers a comprehensive overview of the Los Angeles tech and venture landscape.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Los Angeles Funding 100

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

Saturday, October 13, 2018 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Longevity. Approaches to enhancing healthspan range from drug discovery efforts to big-data methods and direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategies.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Southern California Resource 100

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APRIL 21, 2017

The California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of San Diego (UCSD) have all ranked very highly on a new ranking of universities for their technology transfer efforts, issued by The Milken Insitute , the Santa Monica-based thinktank.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Saturday, November 12, 2016 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Biotech. Gordon Binder, Venture Capital investor, former Chairman and CEO of Amgen, and Trustee Emeritus of both Caltech and MIT keynotes the Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum program “Entrepreneurs in a Biotech Age”.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup 100

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Caltech said Musk will deliver the commencement address for the school on June 15th at its campus in Pasadena. The selection of Musk is particularly well suited to Caltech, which runs the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The school said that Musk will talk about how "brilliant, big ideas can and will have a positive impact in the world."

CalTech 209

CalTech Pasadena SpaceX Sites 209

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

Saturday, November 3, 2018 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Venturing to Mars. Mars entrepreneurship has entered its lift off phase. The US Government is preparing for manned missions to Mars but private companies like SpaceX may well get there first. Elon Musk declared that SpaceX will put one million people on Mars.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur SpaceX Startup 100

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JUNE 9, 2017

In an unusual addition to the list of recruits to NASA's astronaut program, NASA said this week that a SpaceX engineer, and a Caltech researcher, are both among the list of twelve new candidates at a chance for future space exploration with the agency.

CalTech 133

CalTech SpaceX Los Angeles Research 133

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Saturday, October 15, 2016 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Big Data. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caltech-entrepreneurs-forum-big-data-tickets-27098956709?aff=es2. Big Data has exploded and engulfed us all and has led to a technology andbusiness revolution.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Technology 100

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MARCH 19, 2012

Here's an interesting Kickstarter project looking for some (crowd) funding: a Caltech scientist is looking to raise $50,000 to create "nanoart".

CalTech 206

CalTech Funding Design Technology 206

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Larry Gilbert , the founder of the technology transfer program at Caltech , passed away in November in Florida, Caltech said this week, with a tribute to Gilbert's efforts at the school. Gilbert was the "founding father of technology transfer" at Caltech, according to the school, forming the Office of Technology Transfer in 1995.

CalTech 100

CalTech Southern California Patents Startup 100

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MARCH 17, 2019

Saturday, March 23, 2019 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Security Tokens and Blockchain. A high value application of Blockchain is the reliable recording of ownership of things in the real world, ranging from stocks and bonds, to real estate, even to ownership of fine art.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Technology Customer 100

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JANUARY 15, 2017

Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum. Saturday, January 21, 2017 -- Aerospace and Defense: Finding and Funding Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in Southern California. From small sat’s and drones to headline-making rocketry by the “big guys,” our Southern California Aerospace landscape has been revitalized.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Southern California Funding 100

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MARCH 19, 2017

Saturday, March 25, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Funding. The Snapchat Effect: How the company’s mega IPO may enhance the odds of your startup getting funded. Will LA overtake New York as the second most interesting tech ecosystem after Silicon Valley?

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Funding Venture Capital 100

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FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Saturday, February 25, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Entertainment. Southern California is still the home of Hollywood -- the symbolic name for the motion picture industry, but that industry has changed dramatically in recent years.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entertainment Entrepreneur Southern California 100

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JULY 17, 2012

According to Coursera, Caltech and the University of Pennsylvania have invested a combined $3.7M in investments to back its efforts to put university courses online. Coursera allows anyone to take university courses online, for free, across a wide range of disciplines.

CalTech 154

CalTech Invest Equity Startup 154

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JANUARY 26, 2011

According to Caltech earlier this month, description of the new reactor technology developed by Haile's lab was published in the December 23rd issue of Science. Image: ETH-Caltech reactor) READ MORE>>.

CalTech 214

CalTech Research Pasadena Technology 214

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MAY 31, 2016

Pasadena-based Caltech has sued both Apple Computer and Broadcom over their use of technology used in Wi-Fi networking. The patents owned by Caltech are U.S. Caltech is specificdally suing the three companies over use of IRA/LDPC encoders, which are related to the implementation of 802.11n networking and parity checks.

CalTech 100

CalTech Patents Pasadena Networking 100

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AUGUST 19, 2015

Pasadena-based Guidance Software , which makes computer forensics and digital investigation software, said today that it has funded a data security research program at the Caltech Institute of Technology (Caltech). Guidance Software did not say how much it is investing in the program, aimed at advancing cybersecurity incident response.

CalTech 100

CalTech Funding Software Pasadena 100

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JANUARY 16, 2017

Saturday, January 21, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Aerospace. Our Southern California Aerospace landscape has been revitalized.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Southern California Technology 100

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MAY 7, 2017

Saturday, May 13, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Robots, Computer Vision and Deep AI. Our Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Aaron Ames, the Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Caltech. See [link] (more)

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur .Net Startup 100

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APRIL 16, 2017

Saturday, April 22, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - The Future of Startups. What is the future of Entrepreneurship? The event will begin with a Keynote Presentation from Preston McAfee, Chief Economist and CVP of Microsoft.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Startup Metrics 100

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APRIL 16, 2017

Saturday, April 22, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - The Future of Startups. Startups in 2027 and Beyond: Opportunities and Challenges for Entrepreneurs in the Next Decade. The event will begin with a Keynote Presentation from Preston McAfee, Chief Economist and CVP of Microsoft.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Startup Metrics 100

L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Caltech scientists experiment with DNA; Netflix abandons iTunes payment; L.A. Times hacked

CalTech 100

CalTech Netflix Report 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In a paper presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the Caltech grad students said they created a system--assembled out of a commercially available Google smart phone and Lego building blocks--which automatically tracks the growth of cultures in petri dishes. READ MORE>>.

CalTech 162

CalTech Google Incubator Research 162

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APRIL 21, 2015

to Caltech , as part of an effort to develop space-based, solar power systems. northrop grumman space power solar beam laser caltech research' Northrop Grumman Corporation said yesterday that it will be providing up to $17.5M Atwater, Jr., READ MORE>>.

CalTech 100

CalTech Research Funding Develop 100

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AUGUST 15, 2012

The Caltech team won the top prize for its solar-powered toilet that generates hydrogen and electricity. Gates' philanthropic organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said it will invest $3.4M in advancing toilet projects, as part of an overall $6.5 Reinvent the Toilet Challenge".

CalTech 217

CalTech Funding Technology Invest 217

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MARCH 9, 2011

A new startup with links to Caltech has just raised $72M in funding. Alta Devices< is based on the research of Caltech's Harry Atwater, Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at Caltech, along with co-founder Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley.

CalTech 164

CalTech Capital Funding Startup 164

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Both the University of California , and Caltech both appear to be key to the new clean technology investment fund, Breakthrough Energy , which is being led by former Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Gates called climate change a "serious threat" , especially in the poorest parts of the world.

CalTech 100

CalTech Invest Funding Technology 100

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 -- Innovation Soiree: Caltech MIT Enterprise Forum?s September at Caltech, signals innovation in high gear as summer blends into a new academic year: creative minds abuzz, innovating and discovering throughout a strikingly beautiful campus. s 2012 Fall Social.

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Enterprise Forum CalTech Southern California Networking 113

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute and CEA-Leti's Electronics and Information Technologies Laboratory have been working together for the past three years on nanotechnology efforts. Tags: caltech cei-leti nanotechnology nanosystem technology commercialization.

CalTech 150

CalTech Pasadena Research Technology 150

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Gevo--which is now based in Englewood, Colorado--was started in Pasadena, and has licensed technology from both the University of California, Los Angeles, and Caltech. coli) bacteria, as well as technology from Caltech from the lab of Dr. Frances Arnold.

CalTech 210

CalTech UCLA SoCalTech Los Angeles 210

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

According to Caltech, Narendra K. Pasadena-based California Insitute of Technology said this week that it has tapped a venture capitalist for its Board of Trustees. Gupta, cofounder and managing director of Nexus Venture Partners and an alumnus of the school, has been elected to its board.

CalTech 145

CalTech Pasadena Invest Software 145

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MAY 4, 2011

The Caltech team included S. SFC said the technology is being targeted at use in portable consumer electronics and vehicle power. The three said the technology was developed at the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, led by G. Surya Prakash and George Olah. Surampudi, S. Narayanan, E. Frank, and G. Halpert.

CalTech 150

CalTech USC Southern California Technology 150