socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2012

Energy Innovations reportedly has been looking for a buyer since earlier this year for the business, which developed concentrating solar photovoltaic modules, aimed at the commercial rooftop market. Energy Innovations--which had entered the solar market late--was backed by Idealab and Mohr Davidow Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Idealab High Tech Pasadena 145

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Twitter client apps developer headed by Idealab's Bill Gross, appears to be further moving away from its reliance on Twitter, and is getting set to launch a new service called Chime.in has been listed on Idealab's website since at least March of this year. a direct competitor to Twitter's service.

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Idealab Pasadena Services Report 164

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

The prize, which is looking to award $10M to a team which develops a 100 MPG, super fuel-efficient vehicle, said that among the 22 teams which have registered for the prize are Idealab-backed Aptera Motors, based in Carlsbad, and Santa Ana-based Kinetix Motors. The X PRIZE competition will begin in 2009, with winners awarded in 2010.

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Southern California Idealab SoCal Google 100

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

Whoever wins, these are some of the local firms in interesting markets--and their tough, well-backed head-to-head competition--worth watching. Backers: ACME Group, Google, Idealab, NRG, Oak Investment Partners, The Quercus Trust of California. DocStoc vs. Scribd. DocStoc - Profile. BrightSource Energy. eSolar - Profile.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Pasadena-based Evolution Robotics , the robotics technology startup backed by Idealab, said today that it has linked up with a number of retail partners on its Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner--the firm's entree into the household robot market. The robot puts the firm in direct competition with Roomba.

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Marketing Idealab Startup Pasadena 185

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Given my fascination with this sector (I also happen to serve on the board of a municipal utility), I have watched with great curiosity an Idealab portfolio company Energy Vault (initially named Energy Cache) evolve over the last decade. The start-up has developed kinetic energy based, long-duration energy storage solutions.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Venture Capital 140

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system.

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Media Content Startup IP 235

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2012

We've developed an algorithm to match other people who are like-minded with you. He helped us develop the algorithm, which suggests people in your destination most in common with you. It's great for networking, and for developing friendships. How did you end up working with Idealab?

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Startup Idealab USC Ideas 199

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JULY 10, 2012

There was no competitive advantage once the big guys got involved. He is a great developer and one of the best programmers, always getting poached by all of these recruiters.” Kim was the Technical Lead at Triptrotting when it was incubated in Idealab and came on board to Insteegran last October. They can easily squeeze us out.”

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