socalTECH

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

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

According to Pasadena-based green marketplace firm OnGreen , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of Southern California (USC) scored a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West.

CalTech

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

San Diego-based life sciences giant Illumina says it has made investments in seven startups, as part of its accelerator program, the Illumina Accelerator. The company said that the investments were made as part of two different programs, the Illumina Accelerator Cambridge, UK, and the Illumina Accelerator San Francisco Bay Area.

Startup

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Explain what kinds of investments TenOneTen makes or hopes to make? David Waxman: We''ve been making investments since the beginning of the year. Our investments include companies in the search technology space, such as SRCH2, which is one of our early investments. David Waxman: Right now, it''s just us. READ MORE>>.

Invest

socalTECH

JULY 30, 2009

A analysis released by Ernst & Young this week finds that clean technology investments are up significantly this quarter, rising 73% to $572M from last quarter.

Technical Review

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. The Caltech Entrepreneurship Club is the hub for innovators in the Caltech community who want to learn how to make their idea a reality. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

CalTech

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2009

CFX, a spinout of Caltech, is developing both primary and secondary batteries. Joseph Fisher, the firm's CEO, said on a panel that the investment was led by an unnamed strategic investor. READ MORE>>.

Azusa

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2012

Azusa-based Contour Energy Systems , which is developing next generation battery systems, is announcing today that it has scored a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel , the investment arm of the CIA and other U.S. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. The firm is a spinout of Caltech. intelligence agencies.

Azusa

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

The thesis is that before investing in an early-stage startup it is close to impossible to know which of the deals you did will break out to the upside. You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc. So is angel investing. to start their next company.

Funding

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

After about a year of research, the company launched with an initial investment of $1.2 ” As a result of the investment, Fika Ventures co-founder and managing partner Eva Ho will take a seat on the company’s board of directors. That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company.

Los Angeles

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. Investing Strategy. and Half.com.

Capital

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.

Southern California

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm Upfront Ventures has made an investment in Jiko , a startup developing an alternative to traditional banks. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Caltech. Jiko offers up a mobile app, a cash back debit card, and offering up investment options like U.S.

CalTech

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

Investors were really excited, and in the weeks following we took investment meeting after investment meeting. We had them lead the round, and after that, we had a pretty ridiculous conversion rate from our meetings to investments. Seventy percent of the people we met with invested in the company.

Media

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2019

Clarity Partners, based in Beverly Hills, invests in communications, media, and related technology companies. The company's investments have included such companies as CaseStack, Oxygen Media, MetroPCS, ImpreMedia, and many others. Paul Getty Trust board since 2009.

Beverly Hills

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

Okapi said that the first exit represented a return of more than six times the invseted capital in the firm, which it first invested in less than three years ago. Helixis is a developer of real time, DNA analysis hardware, which was originally developed with technology licensed from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

SoCalTech

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 5, 2011

The CalTech Enterprise Forum presents Renewable Energy & The Smarter Grid: Opportunities for the Entrepreneur this Saturday May 7th. As aggressive policies and vigorous investments take hold, newer and smarter technology is rolling out. Caltech students can now register online. In 2010, investors poured $3.7

Enterprise Forum

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JULY 28, 2011

Virgin Galactic's current headquarters are in Pasadena, near Caltech, but the firm is in the midst of building a headquarters at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic is backed by Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS, and is developing its spacecraft based on the designs of Mojave based Scaled Composites.

Draper

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Monday, February 23, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Technology Strategy for RandD and Product Development. Attend this 2 day course and learn how to manage technology investments through technology roadmaps. See [link] (more).

Development

Both Sides of the Table

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. He sold so many that after Caltech he decided to open a retail store. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business.

Competition

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech.

Entrepreneur

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- "Building a Virtually Integrated Life Sciences Company" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Even more important, who invests in these virtual companies and what criteria are they using? What is the essential core of a life sciences business? See [link] (more).

Enterprise Forum

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 31, 2016

The Series A came in the first quarter of 2015, from Walden Riverwood Ventures and Capricorn Investment Group, with participation from S-Cubed Capital and Qualcomm Incorporated (via Qualcomm Ventures). Specific breakdown of the two investments was not announced. READ MORE>>.

Southern California

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Neil Malhotra: I'm a Caltech engineering graduate, and started with the Internet with eCompanies with Sky Dayton, leading technology for Icebox. We're currently looking for seed level investment to fund the full development of the product for actual implementation. What's your background? How far along are you with product?

Startup

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 6, 2013

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. ?Game,? Saturday, January 12, 2013 -- Serious Games for Simulation, Education and the Enterprise. the phoneme, has spread its wings far beyond familiar "teenage" video games: it now embraces a variety of new and important applications. Evolving from pre-computer roots (e.g., "war See [link] (more)

Education

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Sharp most recently led BP Ventures/Americas investment in Beyond Limits in 2017, leading the company's $25M Series B funding round and joining its board. Sharp had been at BP's venture arm for the last nine years; the company said Sharp helped BP's investment portfolio of over $600 million with investments into more than 50 companies.

Artificial Inteligence

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 8, 2009

Saturday, March 14, 2009 -- Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Investment, intellectual property, RandD and innovation are starting to flow in both directions: almost every blue chip venture capital partnership now has an Indian operation. India, the world's largest democracy, offers an important growth market for American tech companies.

Marketing

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Elevance was spun out of Materia in March in a partnership with Cargill Corporation; TPG invested $40M alongside Materia in Elevance. Materia's technology--olefin metathesis catalyst technology--is based on Nobel Prize winning research from Caltech. READ MORE>>

CalTech

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

It was about three years from investment to exit, which we were really thrilled about. What kinds of investments are you particularly interested in right now? We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like. Is there a market?

Startup

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What they do, is accelerate that team or company to get them to the next level, and then go through and put in some investment money, help them build out the management team, and help with vendor relationships, help with overall strategy, and then help those companies riase their next round of capital. We actually are ideating internally.

Startup

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2017

Over 40 presentations from our region's most prominent research institutions: CalTech, UCS, UCLA, UCSB, UCI, Childrens Hospital LA, Cedars Sinai, University of Hawaii, Arizona State University, LA BioMed, City of Hope, CalState LA and more!

LAVA

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

The company said the funding was led by Westlake Village BioPartners and included participation from Corner Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, and Caltech. Dantari has appointed Richard A. Markus, M.D., as president and chief executive officer (CEO), and also added a board of directors headed by chair Sean Harper, M.D.,

Westlake Village

SoCal Tech Calendar

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.

Enterprise Forum

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Not only are the founders deeply invested in the research, but their chosen profession is academia rather than the business world. Getting research out of the university lab and into a growing business poses a unique set of challenges - especially when the scientist is assumed to be the entrepreneur.

Pepperdine

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. Thanks for the time today. We really believe in the market.

Redpoint

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town.

Venture Capital