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Silicon Beach Report April 21: Snap Inc. Acquires GeoFilter Patent from Mobi for $7.7 Million

L.A. Business Journal

acquires geofilter patent from Mobi for $7.7 Million, Hyperloop One’s Chief Marketing Officer Kimberly Salzer leaves for Ozobot, and CalTech, UCLA ranked top universities for technology transfer.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Caltech generates more patents than any other university while UCLA boasts more startups founded by its graduate than any other school in the nation. Suster has also noted for years that the region produces more technology doctorates than any other geography in the United States.

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REACH Connected Future | Cleantech Recap

Tech Zulu Event

Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. The work he performs is a mixture of research and enterprise, with UCLA being a hotbed petri dish of industry.

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, ObEN

socalTECH

We've already filed fifteen patents already on our technology, but it's definitely been a challenging couple of year sto come up with all of this and to find the talent to carry it out. We have about 25 people in house, and around 15 outside whoh have worked on this.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. acquired Overture for $1.63 billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer). What Do We See From the Road Ahead?