Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Despite the fact LA lacking VCs, Be Great reports VCs and angel firms invested an average of about $4 million, ranging from $25,000 to $30 million.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Pasadena-based FastSoft , the developer of Internet traffic acceleration technology, reported today that online file storage service FilesAnywhere has selected its web acceleration software. FastSoft's technology was originally developed at Caltech, to speed access to the Internet2. Financial details of the win were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2009

Among the biggest deals of the quarter was $40M invested in Englewood, Colorado-based Gevo--a spinout of Caltech working on biofuels, which moved from Pasadena last year due to permitting and regulatory hassles in California.

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Technical Review Invest Technology CalTech 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2009

Carlsbad-based Luxtera appears to have raised $26.75M in another venture round, according to this week's PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree report. The firm, which develops optical interconnects, is a Caltech spinoff. Tags: interconnect venture capital luxtera caltech optical semiconductor. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2009

FastSoft is a spinout of Caltech which is commercializing enhancements to the TCP/IP protocol, which is used to transmit Internet data. According to the firm, the upgraded devices accelerate small web objects, and also include performance reporting and analysis.

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Miramar CalTech IP Pasadena 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. They designed the next gen UI for the film The Minority Report. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. And do so in real life, too. downtown LA].

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. What do Bill Gross and Gil Elbaz have in common that portends well for the future of LA Tech? Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Collectively, the panel spoke on behalf of the Cleantech industry, standing firm, to state that: “Reports of my death have been greatly exxagerated” Tom Soto, of TCW/Carton opens the discussion for us. Between Caltech, USC, and UCLA, $1 billion has been put into research expenditures.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). million in SF Bay Area ).

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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