socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2019

The companies said the funding will provide Graduway with "significant resources" to continue its growth and innovatino efforts, as well as to expand its product suite, plus to help it grow its operations in North America. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

The funding, a Series C, will be used to continue expanding Boulevard’s product and engineering teams and to build out more tools targeting an ever-wider set of users in the bigger wellness and beauty sector (those product additions are typically big — it most recently added a whole new payments feature).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Thousand Oaks-based ImmunGene , a startup biotech company developing antibody-based, protein therapeutics for treating cancer, said today that it has raised $9M in a Series A funding, to advance its early stage development products. immungene venture capital biotech biotechnology cancer therapeutics' The startup is led by Sanjay D.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, October 27, at UCLA. InVenture is next stage microfinance – focusing on providing expansion capital. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. There are still a few tickets left for you to be part of what will surely be an amazing night.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The plant--which currently is producing ethanol--will be converted to product isobutanol using Gevo's technology. Tags: gevo biofuels clean energy fuel alternative cleantech caltech ucla technology transfer. Gevo's technology is based on research developed out of Caltech, although the firm is now located in Colorado. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Calabasas-based Kythera Biopharmaceuticals , a developer of aesthetic medicine products, has added $10M more in new funding. Tags: aesthetic medical lifescience capital venture biopharmaceuticals kythera. The new funding came to light in this week's PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree report.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

According to Tribogenics, the funds goes towards commercialization of its handheld XRF analyzer products, which allow X-rays to be taken from a small, handheld device. Tribogenics is a spinout of technology originally developed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2010

Pong, which was started by UCLA professor emeritus of physics Alfred Wong, previously only had an iPhone version of the firm's silicone protective case. Pong's products use antenna theory and technology to redirect cell phone signals away from a user's head, for users who might be concerned about cell phone radiation. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2010

Pong, which was started by UCLA professor emeritus of physics Alfred Wong, previously only had an iPhone version of the firm's silicone protective case. Pong's products use antenna theory and technology to redirect cell phone signals away from a user's head, for users who might be concerned about cell phone radiation. READ MORE>>.

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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. “Sustainability is about developing an investment focus around social economic benefits that occur from capital solutions.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

If you're an NCAA fan, and you've loaded the app for your favorite team, there's a high likelyhood that the app is actually the product of El Segundo-based Hopscotch (www.gohopscotch.com). That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others. We're now the biggest provider of mobile applications in college. What do your apps do?

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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. The founders of the group, Richard Koffler and John Morris , are two well known investors in the Los Angeles area.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. Remind our readers, for those who aren't familiar with your company, what your products are all about?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based Enrou (www.enrou.co) thinks it has a way--by connecting people with products that also help support international development and causes, via its own online marketplace. Ann Wang: Enrou is an online, content driven marketplace for products in developing communities around the world.

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From the Venture Trenches

MAY 21, 2013

In a recent update on LinkedIn Jason Calacanis recommended raising money on the promise of an idea, before a company launches its product. I recently caught up with a classmate from UCLA Anderson and told him the exact opposite in regards to raising money for his own startup.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Alfred Wong , Chief Science Officer, and Albert Liu , Vice President of Business Development, at Pong Research (www.pongresearch.com), a company developing products for redirecting cell phone antennas to reduce the radiation exposure of users. Talk about the technology behind the product? It's an altogether new approach.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Nikhil told us a bit about the startup,which was spawned out of Idealab, and recently raised a round of funding from CrestValue Capital, Cybernaut Westlake Partners, Leaguer Venture Investment Co., Where is the product now? Nikhil Jain: We plan on doing our product launch in Q2 of 2017. Entertainment Co.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Technology. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Advertisers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2019

We're focused on reducing those to have the greatest impact, by focusing on products that target the biggest fossil energy users, which are heavy industrial facilities. Parker Wells: We do a lot of different things, but all of them are build around one core piece of technology, which we started working on at UCLA as researchers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Ultimately, once those issues are validated, it's how to go about building the product, recruiting talent, and enough capital to make it into a business. We need to be able to determine a pathway to a revenue generating product. The technology was ready for revenue, and the product was refined. Thanks, and good luck!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Pasadena another growing startup community, has startups focusing mainly on business products and services and sciences. Communication and growth will bring more capital and investors to start new businesses and ideas to create more opportunities, thus continuing the circle of startup life. Not enough money flows in LA.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. We created a product that would allow you to print barcodes.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've made over 30 investments in Southern California, and that's just in Redpoint, and doesn't include all of the investment we made as Brentwood Venture Capital since the late 70's.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The firm was bootstrapped several years ago, and is profitable, and its founders are both MBAs from UCLA Anderson, where they met. Ramit Varma: Jake (Neuberg), my business partner, met at UCLA's Anderson business school. We never took a dollar of outside capital, from the founding until this round a couple of months ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. The bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell a story – Every great presentation tells a story.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. We have the actors, directors, producers, lighting specialists, writers, agents, post-production editors, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Product Development: philosophie. philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Get to know them now before they become household names.

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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. Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures. On Demand).

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Enrou : Socially conscious marketplace started by UCLA graduates, and discovered by Troy Carter at the 30 Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia, where shoppers discover goods from all around the globe and support the people who made them through their purchases. All this is by design, per the vision of Atom Factory founder Troy Carter.

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Mentor Venture Capital Draper USC 75

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Auto-interfaces are clunky, and when a lot of these big tech companies IPO’d, a lot of them developed products that were endemic to the car industry – navigation, social graphs, etc. After I went to grad school at UCLA for finance, I decided to get into the car industry because it was my passion.

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Advertising Startup Marketing Mobile 97

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. We offer an intensive three-month program and provide up to $18,000 of seed capital, extensive mentorship and a shared work environment to help entrepreneurs go from idea to product to fundable business.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. Date & Time: Friday, March 13. 7:30a – 9:30a: CEOFlow working session.

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