socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

he's been spinning out of his incubator. What's the idea behind the incubator? Now, we're turning into a formal incubator. However, we're very different than most incubators, in that we only do big data. Second, we only incubate companies we ourselves start. It's just exploding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This morning, Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com), led by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings , announced its first formal fund, a $19M seed stage fund. What we would do, is we would round up ten other angel investors, get $25,000 from each of them, and then roll up our sleeves and help that entrepreneur find venture capital.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. on all the computers and established a network using Novell.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

The startup, led by Richard Wolpert, scored the funding from Upfront Ventures, Accel Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Amplify.LA, Ron Burkle, and others. The startup was incubated from within Amplify.LA. hellotech hello technology tech support venture capital amplifyla amplify.la READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Hell headed by DivX until its acquisition by Sonic Solutions in October of 2010, and most recently was chairman of the EvoNexus startup incubator run by CommNexus. Hell sits on the boards of Hold-Free Networks, Perminova, Inc, MicroPower Technologies and Pixon Imaging, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. If that's actually true, then it creates New Rules Of Technology VC. Angel networks act like low-end VCs and expect a company with a product and a somewhat proven market opportunity.

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 29, 2013

Over the past several years there have been a plethora of incubators and accelerators springing up all over southern California and particularly on the west side of Los Angeles. Networking, Events & Community. LAVA (Los Angeles Venture Association). SoCal Tech. Angel List. Built in LA.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. What is the Ventura incubator?

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Greystripe , an operator of a brand-focused mobile advertising network. Greystripe was venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Monitor Ventures, Peacock Equity, and Incubic Venture Capital, and was based in San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). So we went for it.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

The accelerator said that the demo day is a culmination of its latest three month program, which included ten new companies in mentoring, collaboration, funding, and access to its network of investors and entrepreneurs. MuckerLab's model is based on the TechStars incubation model, and the group is an affiliate of that startup accelerator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Get help with grant funding and incubator resources. These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Get help with grant funding and incubator resources. These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

The firms get one-on-one mentoring from experience entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and the program was open only to companies who had not not already raised institutional venture capital, and were located in or are willing to relocate to Los Angeles. Tags: incubation mentoring startup launchpadla. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The new group, The Tech CEO Network , said it is looking to help bridge between the technology present at local schools like Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, and other universities, and actual, viable companies. Tags: startups university research mentoring network tech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

According to the TCA, its angel network members invested $2.5M Atlazo is led by founder and CEO Dr. Karim Arabi; the company was part of EvoNexus, the startup incubator that operates in both San Diego and Orange County. in a seed funding round. The funding round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and the TCA's San Diego chapter.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Alex Kazerani and James Segil (shared), EdgeCast Networks (Los Angeles, content delivery network). Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Jerry Jao , Retention Science (Los Angeles, analytics/advertising). Ophir Tanz , GumGum (Los Angeles, advertising).

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Finally for startups there’s a $31 billion available for programs that give small businesses access to credit, venture capital, and R&D dollars. Specifically, the proposal calls for funding for community-based small business incubators and innovation hubs to support growth in communities of color and underserved communites.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2009

For the past 20 years, I have had a front row seat in watching the evolution of the angel and venture capital sector from both the legal and venture finance perspectives. Tags: insights opinions venture capital angel investment maverick angels dilts john. Continued.).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

Social network for investors. JumpStartFund has been built ground up with an interactive social network where members can easily find, follow and network with investors and other startups to fundraise using rewards- or equity-based crowdfunding. How its online incubation works. Social capital rewarded.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Additionally, independent organizations, such as Pitchbook, compile annual lists of the number of VC-backed companies launched at US Universities. Note: due to the founders’ relative lack of experience, most student enterprises do not qualify for venture capital. Are funds available to invest in student businesses?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Get help with grant funding and incubator resources. These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors.

Class 124

Class Startup Resource Mentor 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

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Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

So this fall, we launched Science Blockchain, a new incubator that partners with leading entrepreneurs to build a portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency related businesses. So far, we have launched a handful of blockchain companies and are looking forward to more partnerships in 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. We started the incubator with the idea of helping people with ideas, and making some investments,” he said. Jean Balgrosky.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based NanHealth , the subsidiary of NantWorks, the incubator of LA billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, has scored an investment from Verizon Investments , the investment arm of Verizon Communications. Size of the funding was not disclosed. NanHealth said it will use the funding to "accelerate innovation" at the company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

NantHealth , the advanced, next-generation healthcare services startup which is part of NantWorks, the startup incubation effort of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, has raised $6.1M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Details on investors and the funding have not been announced by the company.

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Cloud Computing Incubator Los Angeles Funding 147

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. We are productizing the raising of capital for startups. ”. 5) Rincon Venture Partners recently invested in The Resumator , which we identified via AngelList. Capital is very mobile, but capitalists are not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Venture capital. Bartering services for equity.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital. Joanne was an angel investor for two years at Hyde Park Angels prior to joining Foundation Capital in 2014. As the President of Start Co.,

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. They did it entirely through social networking. Capital to date? $20k Get Angel capital and build a prototype. Then get VC funding, rent a cool space, hire a big team, rebuild and relaunch.

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