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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. 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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Startup World Cup - SoCal Regional hosted by LAVA and Pepperdine

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Tuesday, January 28, 2020 -- Startup World Cup - SoCal Regional hosted by LAVA and Pepperdine. Startups worldwide first compete at regional events, and the regional finalists will showcase themselves at the Grand Finale event in San Francisco and compete for a $1m investment prize.

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Techstars Names New Los Angeles Accelerator Class

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Techstars Los Angeles has just named the ten companies that will be joining the startup accelerator for its 2017 class, saying its theme this year was "going long on LA and southern California". READ MORE>>.

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Alliance For SoCal Innovation's Poizner Throws Hat Back Into Politics

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Steve Poizner , the serial technology entrepreneur who recently founded the Alliance for Southern California Innovation , has thrown his hat back into the political ring, and will again seek a seat heading up the California Insurance Commission.

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ThinkNear Among SoCal's First Accelerator Exits

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The acquisition Tuesday of ThinkNear , the mobile advertising firm headed by Eli Portnoy, looks to be among the first accelerator-incubated companies in Southern California. ThinkNear graduated from TechStars New York in 2011, and was part of that group's Spring 2011 class. TeleNav said it would pay $22.5M

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Two Socal Firms Make Windows Azure Accelerator Program

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Two, Southern California companies are on the list of the next class for Microsoft's startup accelerator, the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure , according to Microsoft Monday.

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SoCal Mostly Passed On Battery Stimlus

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Southern California was for the most part passed up on the Department of Energy's $2.4 The SCAQMD's project--which is headquartered in Diamond Bar--involves deployment of a fully integration, production plug-in hybrid system for Class 2-5 vehicles, plus a demonstration fleet of 378 trucks and shuttle buses.