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Building Robotics Backed By Navitas Capital

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Building Robotics , a developer of software to manage heating and cooling in commercial buildings, has raised $1.4M The funding came from Claremont Creek Ventures, Google Ventures, Formation 8, Navitas Capital, Red Swan Ventures, and other angels.

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8 Keys To Developing A High-Trust Business Culture

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Everyone knows and admires the leaders , including Google and Zappos, but most entrepreneurs have only a fuzzy idea of what to do to get there. Zak is the director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University, and he has studied the connection between trust and performance all over the world.

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

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In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. That''s the reason we developed our own positioning there. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. Explain what kinds of investments TenOneTen makes or hopes to make?

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A Chat With Jamie Montgomery On How LA's Tech Ecosystem Has Grown

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The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA. The LIDAR, the sensors, the software, what's been developed for and by the aerospace industry, JPL, and local universities. There are four kinds of buyers in M&A.