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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall is garnering some excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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Excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

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Elementary Robotics raises cash to expand in Los Angeles’ growing robotics hub

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Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company.

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Interview with John Delacruz, Foodme

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Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. We caught up with founder John Delacruz to hear more about what the company hopes to do as it expands beyond Pasadena.

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Evolution Robotics Launches New Mint Plus Robot

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The new version of Evolution's hard floor cleaning product robot includes longer run times, faster charging, better wet cleaning features, and larger coverage area, according to an email from the company. Evolution launched the Mint in September of last year, the company's first commercial, consumer-facing product.

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Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard

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The firm is backed by Idealab, and is headed by Internet veteran Andy Steuer. The best form of this right now is email, and even then, that's through a one-size-fits-all email. I called up the CEO of a company, MusicNet one day, because I am a big music fan and musician myself, and saw what they were doing.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies. Bill serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies.

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