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JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. The firm recently raised a $15M series C funding, and we caught up with Kevin to learn more about why its customers, and investors, are interested in its technology.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

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JULY 25, 2016

The early stage, self funded startup recently launched its beta in Los Angeles. Fifteen years now down the line, I'm now connecting the dots between design, technology, and real estate software. How are you funding the company? Avantika Shahi: Currently it's all self funded. What is Haus all about?

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JUNE 23, 2009

Semiconductor startups seem to be quite rare in today's environment, with few companies being funded or launched, due both to the difficulty of bringing products to market, lack of investment capital, as well as lots of established, large companies in the industry. We're now funded by a bunch of angels. Mike Neshat: I'm broke now.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. We have a contest for people to design what the case will look like, and we're using Fundable to raise $10,000 to give to the winner. I was doing that until 1995.

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MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom is not new to the startup world -- in fact, his last startup, Fruugo, raised an astounding $48M in funding, and became one of the most heralded-- and controversial --startups in Finland. We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The firm was pitching for funding at the Technology Council of Southern California's VentureNet event earlier this month. So we started to work on that in the background, and towards the end of last year thought it was a very good idea and that we should file some patents and create the company, which we did.

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VentureNet Startup Mobile Technology Council 100

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MARCH 16, 2010

Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. That's what we licensed from Caltech, and now, with our own people, we've been able to take it to the next level, not only from the technology but also the design perspective.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We were contemplating one of the problems we had all faced, which was when we designed a project, the issue was that it usually never got done on time. Dipanshu Sharpa: My third company raised a ton of money from venture funds--$26M--and I what I didn't want to do is to raise a lot of money and have lots of people.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

We have a long relationship with them, and have been funding research in their labs, and have a continuing relationship. About a year later, we recognized that it was very important to also have the patent, and Dina joined us. Our company was privately funded by our partners. We refer to them as plastic solar panels.

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UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

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JUNE 25, 2009

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. We've got patents on technology that helps save bandwidth utilized for VoIP calls and particularly for video.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Last week, Irvine-based Inspired Instruments (www.yourockguitar.com) announced a round of funding, saying that it has developed an electronic guitar which combines the game controller functionality for popular videogames like Rock Band and Guitar Hero with actual musical functionality.

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