SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2017

Join us at Cal State Los Angeles for a full day of innovations and technologies presented by the region's finest researchers and inventors! This technology preview is geared for Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Venture Capital Investors.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Three local universities, plus a Pasadena-based startup, have received a $360,000 grant to promote student entrepreneurship in clean technology. The new effort, led by Caltech's Resnick Institute, is hoping to tap into OnGreen's network to find mentors to guide student groups and clean energy projects. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 29, 2013

A local, clean energy business plan competition started by the California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has awarded $160,000 in prizes in its latest competition.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Join us at Cal State Los Angeles for a full day of innovations and technologies presented by the region's finest researchers and inventors! This technology preview is geared for Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Venture Capital Investors. See [link] (more)

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JANUARY 20, 2019

Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum. Big Data has exploded and engulfed us all and has led to a technology and business revolution. Saturday, January 26, 2019 -- Big Data: Today's Supernova of Information and Opportunity. Producer/Moderator: Stan Tomsic, Managing Director, Magna Point Group. See [link] (more)

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Harvard, Caltech, UCLA, USC, the BBC, and NASA. A former record producer, David loves blending creativity with technology - and this year, Angel City Data was recognized as the Burbank Chamber of Commerce's Small Business of the Year. See [link] (more)

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Gevo , the Caltech spinoff developing biofuels processing technology, said last week that it has completed its acquisition of a biofuels plant in Luverne, Minnesota. The plant--which currently is producing ethanol--will be converted to product isobutanol using Gevo's technology. Gevo filed for an IPO in August. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

The City of Los Angeles said this morning that it will be officially launching its Cleantech Incubator tomorrow, as it attempts to create a cluster of clean technology companies downtown. According to Mayor Villaraigosa, the effort is to help develop new businesses and create jobs in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Gevo , the biofuels technology startup spawned out of technology at Caltech and UCLA, has raised $107M in an IPO this morning. Gevo develops process technology which converts renewable feedstocks into isobutanol, which can be used for plastics and fuel. The stock was trading as high as $17.50 in morning trading.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Gevo , the biofuels startup spawned out of technology from the University of California, Los Angeles and Caltech, has set an offering range for its IPO. The firm's technology is based on research form UCLA focused on producing next-generation biofuels through genetically modified Escherichia coli (E. and $15.00

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Sofie Biosciences--which is a spinout of UCLA and Caltech--said the funding will go towards further development of its technology. The funding was led by Tata Industries, and also included MRM Capital and the Cycad Group.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). Incubators, at the core level, take basic core level technology and try to build a company around it.

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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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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Sofie Biosciences technology is being applied to new imaging agents for PET. The round came from Cycad Group and other investors. The firm said the new funding is its first institutional and large corporate financing for the firm. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The magazine, which announced its 2010 Breakthrough Rewards today, recognized Armand Tanguay of the University of Southern California, Yu-Chong Tai of the California Insitute of Technology, and Robert J. The last university team recognized by Popular Mechanics comes out of UCLA. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2013

The first was Gevo, a biofuels company originally started in Pasadena and based on technology from Caltech and UCLA, and which moved to Colorado to escape local rules and regulations over its biofuels manufacturing efforts, and eventually had an IPO.

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MAY 13, 2016

CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) runs the California Research and Education Network (CalREN) , which connects such institutions as Caltech, UCLA, USC, Cal State LA, and the Los Angeles Community Colleges, as well as K-20 students and educators.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Let’s assume that you’re a reasonably well-connected person, you have a strong network of friends & colleagues who work in the technology sector and you have many friends who are investors either professionally or as individuals. You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc.

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JUNE 23, 2017

However, the new group has no Southern California venture capitalists, and aside from Qualcomm's Jacobs, no representation from Southern California's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. Marc Stern of The TCW Group, and Scott Wolfe of Latham and Watkins in San Diego.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

There''s a gap between the robust, growing technology startups in Los Angeles and the many students graduating from local universities, according to Steven Dietz , who is a venture capitalist at LA''s Upfront Ventures. Steven Dietz: There is very little connection between the schools here and the technology community in the LA area.

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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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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Caltech and UCLA are now equidistant from CU Boulder and MIT, and that has been a surprising benefit. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? Furthermore, while a small fund, we invest across the country, and Thin Line has relationships in every time zone. We have a lot of rebuilding to do.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Cleantech Career Night is a collaboration between Caltech, UCLA, USC, and CleanTech LA with the goal of connecting LA´s brightest business and engineering students with leading clean technology companies. Tuesday, February 1, 2011 -- CleanTech Career Night. Cleantech LA.

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MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to. They put on great events. You can use keywords like: Events in Los Angeles or Southern California Events or even Santa Monica Events.

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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Taking notice of the gap between the amount and depth of research and technology at local universities, and new company formation, a new group has quietly formed in Los Angeles to tackle the issue. The group includes a number of experienced CEOs with experience raising venture capital as well as bringing companies to an IPO or exit.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pasadena has a long history as a center of the technology and innovation world�all the way back to first American experiments with rocket launches in 1936�Southern California's first foray into the rocket business (sorry, SpaceX)--through the Internet boom with Idealab, to today. For example, Orange County with medical devices.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

LA Cleantech Incubator , officially launched last week, and was created by Los Angeles Cleantech Alliance, a group supported by Mayor's Office, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Community Redevelopment Agency for Los Angeles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UCLA, USC, CalTech, and Arts Center College of Design.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. Technology Drives Carbon Reduction. Ian Harris - VP of Partnerships, LA Cleantech Incubator. Cleantech, a Misnomer.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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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. Carbonics is focusing on wireless technology, using new semiconductors that bring us into the 5G era.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. The goal has to make the technology really accessible using the power of the smartphone, and bringing people into AR and VR as no one has done before in such a way.

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APRIL 13, 2021

The NSF determined eight to ten years ago that the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants they were funding to academic teams, to commercialize technology, they were losing, because not many academics had the background to understand how to go out and source customers, and did not know how to run a startup.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. We're looking for inventors interested in commercializing and spinning out their technology into a company. Thanks for the time today.

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MAY 23, 2017

No one has ever been able to execute on that from a technology standpoint before. We are a technology company, not an ad agency, and we are really just a bunch of nerds who believe we can turn this thing upside down, and let people try those apps out before downloading. The basic premise, is try before you buy. I was a sponge.

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APRIL 17, 2012

An innovator in technology, especially monetization. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. Not derivative.

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