socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Pasadena-based Cramster.com, an online community focused on students and homework, said today that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Mr. Shai Reshef, who the firm described as an online education industry veteran.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Pasadena-based Cramster , the online homework help site started by Aaron Hawkey, Robert Angarita and Kaveh Golabi, has been acquired by Chegg , Chegg announced today. The firm had raised around $9M in funding, from Primera Capital and Shai Reshef. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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LATechDigest

MAY 30, 2016

Innovate Pasadena. MARCH CAPITAL Opens LA Shop with $240M Fund ( link ). Students & Educators — Win $25k in THE MAYOR’S CUP ( link ). VNTANA Spoke at Innovate Pasadena. Accelerating IoT. Friday June 3. Mobile App Hackathon (-6/4). Saturday June 4. JPL Open House SignUp. Women & Girls in Tech. **.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Parchment , the startup which operates Docufide, a service to help transfer high school transcripts to colleges and universities, said Monday that it has raised $6M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. It's about how to educate the importance of that, and get them to recognize how the information fits into their treatments.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. Nikhil told us a bit about the startup,which was spawned out of Idealab, and recently raised a round of funding from CrestValue Capital, Cybernaut Westlake Partners, Leaguer Venture Investment Co.,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

When you’re on Fund I or Fund II it is often a founding team that all started together, knew each other before and went through the trenches together to get a fund raised. It was more hedge fund than venture capital. The truth is that the newer the firm the easier that shared mission is. It was stunning but sterile.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Pasadena-based Cramster (www.cramster.com) recently announced $3M in a large angel round for the firm's online study communities. Aaron Hawkey: Cramster is an online study community, built around students and educational subjects. Rob Angarita: Aaron and I were looking for funding, to grow the business over the last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. Shopping.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

June 17: Silicon Beach Fest: Pasadena Day , Hosted by Idealab. Panels: Developer, Arts/Education; Green, Good and Government. At least 100 companies secured funding of at least $1 million, and 43 were acquired. Sponsors include Esri, Scopely, and more offer more than $20,000 in prizes. In 2012 over $3.2

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Sangster lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in improving early childhood education. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125.

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