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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based Beyond Limits , a startup which is developing artificial intelligence software for the industrial and enterprise market, said this morning that it has raised $133M in a Series C funding round. According to the company, it has closed on $113M of that funding, with another $20M committed in the round.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

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

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MARCH 8, 2009

Saturday, March 14, 2009 -- Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. With a newly open economy and a powerful technology industry, India offers attractive global marketing opportunities for tech companies in California. India, the world's largest democracy, offers an important growth market for American tech companies.

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APRIL 21, 2011

Impinj , a developer of RFID chips which has satellite engineering office in Rancho Cordova and Newport Beach, and which was founded by a California Institute of Technology (Caltech) professor, has filed for an IPO. The firm said it is raising up to $100M on the markets. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley , J.P.

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JULY 11, 2016

per share, the company said in a filing this morning. Impinj is selling 4,600,000 shares of its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as "PI", is venture backed by ARCH Venture Partners, Polaris Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Mobius Venture Capital, Intel, GF Private Equity, and AllianceBernstein. and $14.00 READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.

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JUNE 3, 2016

The company has applied to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as PI. The IPO is being underwritten by RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Piper Jaffray,Needham & Company, and Cannacord Genuity. Impinj was co-founded by Caltech professor Carver Mead, and had set up offices in Newport Beach in 2004.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.” Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA.

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MARCH 6, 2014

It''s also home to many other prominent technology companies, including OpenX and NewEgg. billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, who got his PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, then went to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, and built Intel from an initial $2.5 Comment below! READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- "Building a Virtually Integrated Life Sciences Company" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. How, and when, does the fledgling company develop relationships with other companies with complementary strengths? Which relationships are advantageous and which are potentially dangerous?

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JUNE 28, 2021

In the current market it’s not that hard to find executives leaving: Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Snap, Salesforce.com, SpaceX … you name it?—?to to start their next company. You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc. But here’s the rub?—?almost

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Pasadena-based FastSoft , the Caltech spinout which develops web acceleration software, said today that it has launched a testing network for its clients. The firm's technology is based on out technology developed at Caltech for the Internet2 and for improving web transfer speeds. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 31, 2016

Two, Southern California investors-- Qualcomm Ventures and Greylock Partners --have backed San Jose-based Innovium , on its efforts to develop semiconductors for the next generation, data center market, Innovium revealed this morning. The company said the Series B included the same investors, but a lead from Greylock. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Lupo as the company's new President and CEO. The firm said that Lupo, a 25-year vet of the industry, will drive strategic growth in aerospace, defense, medical and other niche primary-battery markets. The reason for the executive switchup was not announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2013

According to The Design Accelerator , it will help startups by selecting promising early stage, design-driven technology companies from the Art Center and Caltech communities for an intensive three-month program. >. The new incubator is headed by Mark Breitenberg and Erik Hovanec.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Thousand Oaks-based Ceres , the developer of seeds for the energy and biofuels market, announced yesterday that it has added former BP Chief Scientist and Undersecretary of Energy for Science, Steven E. He also served as a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech from 1975 until 2006. Koonin, to its board of directors.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Leroy Hood, has launched itself into the Los Angeles market, as its first expansion beyond its home market of Seattle. The startup combines whole genome sequencing and other diagnostic tests, along with data analysis software, and provides counselor-driven, health coaching services aimed at long-term health and wellness of its clients.

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MAY 9, 2012

Arcadia-based Myricom , the provider of low latency, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and other networking adapters specifically aimed at the high performance computing (HPC) market, and storage networking hardware provider Emulex , which is based in Costa Mesa, said today that they are in a strategic partnership. The company is a spinout of Caltech.

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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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JUNE 10, 2012

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The market is enormous and the rewards are great. Assistive technology companies can both do good and do well. Saturday, June 16, 2012 -- Making Life Better: Entrepreneurs and Biomechanical and Assistive Technologies.

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JULY 26, 2012

Impinj , a developer of UHF, radio frequency identification (RFID) chips which has linked to Caltech, and an office in Orange County, said today that it has raised $21M in an equity funding round, as well as dropped its plans for an IPO. Impinj said the funding came from AllianceBernstein L.P., The firm had filed for an IPO in April 2011.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. Joe Fisher: The reason we're changing our name, is our original name, CFX Battery, was descriptive of our first technology coming to market.

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JULY 7, 2010

Azusa-based Contour Energy Systems , the Caltech spinoff commercializing advanced battery systems, reported today that it has doubled the size of its company headquarters. The firm said it has added an additional 15,000 square feet of manufacturing space, as it prepares for ramp of production of its batteries. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

It turns out that the firm--a spinout of Caltech--came out of the exact same lab as Helixis, the molecular diagnostics firm acquired for a healthy $105M by Illumina last week. We caught up with Paul Gloger, the firm's CEO, to learn more about the technology and company. It came out of a lab at Caltech, operated by Axel Scherer.

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DECEMBER 4, 2011

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Beneath the patina of their success, most ventures have a sausage-like story to tell that differs from familiar "how to build a company" lessons and catechism. Right decisions but for the wrong reason, unanticipated market events, fortuitous encounters, naivly ignoring sage advice.

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APRIL 8, 2012

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. This forum will address questions such as where the markets are developing, how entrepreneurs and corporate investors play a role in this space, what impact the recession has had on deal size and investors appetite for risk, and how investment activity varies according to technology type and fuel produced.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

TechZulu and The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are pleased to announce Spotlight: LA Tech Winter. We’re looking for companies with new technology to demonstrate (or better yet, those with upcoming launches they wish to promote among savvy peers). This could be your company’s chance to shine in the Spotlight.

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MARCH 8, 2009

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. With a newly open economy and a powerful technology industry, India offers attractive global marketing opportunities for tech companies in California. In the program on March 14th, we will examine how these new trends will influence emerging companies in Southern California in 2010 and beyond.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

According to the company, Elevance, the venture-funded spinout of the company, and Dow Corning will use the firm's metathesis technology for a line of products for use in skin care, color cosmetic, hair care, and underarm products. Financial impact of the new joint development and marketing agreement were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Will new technologies drive market dominance or are entirely new business models required? Saturday, February 6, 2010 -- New Media Revenue Models: Growing Greenbacks in the Digital Ecosystem. Navigating the digital landscape is more complex than ever but more profitable as well.

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MAY 3, 2009

Saturday, May 9, 2009 -- "New Paths Toward Convergence" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The competition is drawing players from diverse marketsincluding digital media, internet services, and Telecom/IP communications companies. An entirely new industry is being formed.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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MARCH 11, 2011

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. One, led by Todd Gitlin, is getting companies to post internships.

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APRIL 17, 2012

I kind of think LA is just LA and doesn’t need some clever marketing term. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. The people I know in LA building serious companies ARE working their asses off.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Those companies tend to be around for longer than one year, because of course our faculty are not working on those things full time, they're continuing to teach classes. There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that.

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