SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 17, 2011

Thursday, June 23, 2011 -- Virtualization Trends, Strategies, Case Study. What are the current trends in this evolving technology? How do you evaluate the technology and various vendor offerings? Learn what creative companies are doing with this powerful technology from leading experts on the front lines.

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Case Study Study Metrics Technology 100

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

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Los Angeles Angel Southern California Study 100

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APRIL 27, 2012

Six companies started by students at the University of Southern California's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC Marshall have been awarded a total of $50,000 in seed funding, after competing in the center's New Venture Seed Competition held this week. providing online tutoring.

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Seed Funding USC Competition Funding 244

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. Though we bank companies large and small around the globe, here in L.A.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

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MAY 17, 2011

New information released in a study of the IPO pipeline, finds that California continues to be the most active market in terms of initial public offerings. According to the Renst & Young LLP US IPO Pipeline study, California had 25 companies looking to raised $2.2 billion on the market in Q1.

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Southern California Study Activity Marketing 140

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MAY 7, 2010

Five, Southern California firms are among companies who are splitting up $62M in government funding for the research, development, and demonstration of concentrating solar power systems, according to an announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy. for its development of thermal storage systems for energy storage.

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Canoga Park Research Southern California Chatsworth 186

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JANUARY 3, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. Technology investing is the best job in the world, but it can be fraught with failure. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018?

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Capital Southern California El Segundo SaaS 113

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In addition to being a tool for burgeoning startups and lucrative companies, virtual reality is also a great way to escape the stress of everyday life. Studies have shown that the practice of meditation positively affects the nervous system by lowering blood pressure, lessening symptoms of anxiety, fighting depression, and curbing insomnia.

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Guide Study Southern California Tool 173

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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Riot Games Southern California Startup Santa Monica 133

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Jim Armstrong: It's broadly technology, from consumer Internet, to marketplaces, from Internet infrastructure to enterprise software. I think there are a lot of opportunities across all of these areas of technology, especially as it relates to Southern California. That's when you start meddling in the company.

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Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Clean, safe and reliable natural gas company Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) has established $1 million innovation fund in partnership with Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) , to speed the development of clean technologies to meet current global energy needs and become a sustainable energy source.

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Incubator Los Angeles Southern California Funding 80

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009. IPO in 1996).

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Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29

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JULY 22, 2019

The Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator just announced ten companies that have joined its program last week. Matt Kozlov: We created this program, because there has been lots of recent advances in the growth of the commercial, military, and civil space economy here in our backyard in Southern California.

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Southern California Startup Entrepreneur Los Angeles 124

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We probably haven't done as many investments in Southern California as we'd like, but that goes through different cycles. Jamie Montgomery: If you study cycles and study economic history, and I've had that privilege, there are short cycles and long cycles. If so, they will be adopted. They're all big winners.

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Funding Capital Artificial Inteligence Startup 160

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JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

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MAY 10, 2018

TAU Ventures is based in Israel, and is linked with Tel Aviv Universitybut it hopes to take a lot of what Behzad has learned in Silicon Beach, and apply that to companies coming from Tel Aviv University. Behzad Kianmahd: Cross Campus is one of the companies I invested in, as the first, lead investor, about seven years ago.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

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APRIL 24, 2020

Carey tells us a bit about what OC4 is doing, how it invests and works with companies, and also gives startups some advice about how to approach moving forward in light of the pandemic. Carey Ransom: The way I think about it, is it is really the culmination of almost two decades of software and technology company building and investing.

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Invest Startup Ideas Examples 124

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Am I biased?

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the effort of the University of Southern California to foster innovation within its campus and the community, has been turning an eye to how to more effectively spin out academic efforts into companies. Tags: technology university venture capital transfer education. READ MORE>>.

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USC Southern California Venture Capital Education 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Busy taking classes and studying all night? Well tuff, these fine young folks currently attending the University of Southern California surely didn’t think so. trueRSVP is introducing a new prediction technology that over time will show you the true accountability of your attendees.

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Southern California Evite Startup Class 72

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. I like to book my own travel, so I might be on Expedia or on an airplane. Great stuff! Any thoughts on my post?

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 -- CASE STUDY: FuelRod -- Mobile Charging on the Go. One company is rethinking the world of mobile power through rechargeable batteries; in a way you might not expect. MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego. See [link] (more)

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Enterprise Forum Mobile Case Study San Diego 100

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AUGUST 2, 2017

We chatted with Alan about the company, the process of taking a new, genetic test to market, and his experience taking research from the University of Southern California and University of Utah and commercializing that research. Alan Horsager: We are an epigenetics data company. What is Episona?

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USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. So the concept is we're building companies with a very low budget, around $25,000 for each company. Coming into the U.S.,

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Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

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MAY 23, 2017

We have already proven out that they are a high lifetime value user, someone who will actually stay in their game, so that they have higher retention, and the user ends up spending more money over time. No one has ever been able to execute on that from a technology standpoint before. The basic premise, is try before you buy.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Studies show that natural light has a positive effect on mental health, productivity, and job satisfaction. Cool-colored lights (blue or white) and lighting close to a natural light color (around 5000k) work best to encourage alertness and concentration, so try and use those throughout your employee’s work areas. .

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Product Training Software Review Technical Review 94

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Just this year alone we have studied 3,400 North American enterprise software companies including many in SoCal and dug in deep on over 200 of these companies. Over the course of the year our active portfolio companies received awards or recognition on over 35 separate occasions.

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Capital Beverly Hills Artificial Inteligence Equity 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. We met at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Robotic Embedded Research Laboratory where Harsh is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. The sensing technology, too, is unique to our solution. You recently conducted a pilot study.

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USC Southern California Activity Study 104

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JULY 1, 2014

However, one local startup-- Vadio (www.vadio.com)--is hoping to bring those worlds together, by using technology to automatically add and synchronize video streaming to existing, audio streaming sites. We caught up with Bryce Clemmer , the co-founder and CEO of the company, to learn more. How did you start the company?

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Platform Startup Content Sites 164

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

We talked with Scott--who until recently, was a student at the University of Southern California--about how he created his company and how that investment from Branson pushed him to take his startup full time. After that weekend in Miami, he introduced us to his friend Jerry Murdock, who has invested in lots of tech companies.

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Startup CTO Coach Content Web 239

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2012

As communication technologies become ever more prominent, web security becomes increasingly important for small and large companies alike. According to a Norton study, cybercrime cost the global economy $388 billion in 2011.

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Study Web Technology Company 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. What was the big news for your company this year? Snap Inc became a hardware companySpecs, drones, merchandise.

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USC Startup News Entrepreneur 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. This could be your company’s chance to shine in the Spotlight. Diamond Sponsor.

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UCLA Southern California Santa Monica Pricing 104

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies. I moved out to California to build businesses.

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Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

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JANUARY 22, 2014

To help them with that, Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Tillster (www.tillster.com), which until recently was known as EMN8, has been developing a wide range of technology in the area. Perse Faily: The genesis of the company, is it was initially a kiosk company. What is Tillster?

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Mobile Customer Custom Platform 127

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Tomorrow starting at 8pm PST We will be live streaming ( click here to view live stream ) the "Action Sports + Social Media Marketing Mash Up" event put on by SoCal Action Sports Network. Gregory Ferenstein, Fast Company Magazine. Gregory is a speaker and writer in the areas of technology, politics, and business.

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Social Media Southern California Media Orange County 40

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

This latest round valued the company in excess of a billion dollars, entering them into the overly-hyped Unicorn Club. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100