Tech.Co
MARCH 5, 2015
Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market.
socalTECH
MARCH 27, 2013
Idealab-based solar energy startup eSolar has just raised $12.8M Solar power--once the darling of the clean technology industry--has seen an intense shakeout due to extremely low cost competition from Chinese manufacturers. in a new funding, part of an ongoing $30M funding for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm.
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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. Previously, he ran a venture capital fund (Momentum Ventures) and founded several SoCal tech startups.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 11, 2010
This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. One of the meetings I had (organized by my good friend Jeff Yolen ) was with New Atlantic Ventures held the at the CIC, aka the Cambridge Innovation Center (no prizes for guessing where it’s located).
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. So he founded IdeaLab with his wife Marcia Goodstein (he talks in the video about working with a spouse and also working with siblings). IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion.
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