Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Thursday, November 10, 2011 -- Accelerators and Incubators: An Entrepreneur's Point of View. Upstart.LA.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

Watt, who came to MoviePass as an entrepreneur in residence at True Ventures, previously founded the brand and product placement startup NextMedium and also spent time as a board partner at Upfront Ventures. Now, the serial entrepreneur and startup investor is combining his two career paths under the auspices of Share Ventures.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2018

The event featured a keynote by Bill Gross of Idealab , a panel of VC experts, and dozens of pitches by startups spawned by local universities and research institutions from across Southern California.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2012

The startup--which is backed by Idealab--said the effort will help Pasadena area merchants increase revenues and help communicate and reward customers of their businesses. Steuer is a serial entrepreneur, whose last firm was MerchEngines.com. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

The crowd of more than 1,500 spilled out into hallways, and would-be investors were turned away from the doors, as a crush of entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, wanna-be entrepreneurs, and others looked to be part of the surge of startups emerging in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pasadena-based Punchcard , the newly launched startup developing mobile, loyalty programs for retailers, said this morning that it has raised $1M from Idealab. Steuer is a repeat entrepreneur, having founded MerchEngines, and was involved at MusicNet, CNET, Infoseek, Xoom.com, and ZeroDegrees. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

According to the firm, the new competitoin is a way to help entrepreneurs get noticed and gain exposure for their companies, with the finalists invited to make a live, online "pitch-off" to a panel of judges.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Bill Gross, CEO and Founder, Idealab. Our first offering this fall couldn't be more fitting for this backdrop: serial entrepreneur Bill Gross of the Pasadena-based Idealab in conversation with Art Center president Dr. Lorne Buchman on social innovation--and the critical issues of housing. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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., Gordon Cheng (Cameron Pace Group China), and Idealab. Nikhil Jain: My co-founder and I met at Idealab. Entertainment Co.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. Tell us a bit about the involvement of Idealab here? The firm so far has signed up a number of restaurants in the Pasadena area.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

All schmoozing and networking aside, what are investors, entrepreneurs, and others in the industry thinking about? and who, as Sky Dayton aptly states --know that the one trait that all entrepreneurs must have: perseverance. Big disclaimer: the author and editor was one of the honorees at the event). READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

which programs are--and aren't--worth looking at has become very difficult, if not impossible, for startup entrepreneurs. Up next: Part II, The in-house incubators/studios, including Idealab, Science, Brighthouse, Nantworks, Originate Labs. However, with the proliferation of incubators, the difficulty in figuring out. Funding: Yes.

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Southern California Incubator Guide Startup 246

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. Sam & Adam will be joined by Josh Webb who I have worked closely with and who formerly worked at Idealab. For the past 2.5

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

He had approached me with this idea when I had just joined Bill Gross at Idealab and was starting Ubermedia. Having been part of Idealab for awhile, anything you learned in particular from that experience? We''ve known each other for a long time. I was only months into it, and it happened we needed a CTO at the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Not to mention the granddaddy of them all and arguably the first firm to properly do an accelerator – Idealab.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pasadena has a long history as a center of the technology and innovation world�all the way back to first American experiments with rocket launches in 1936�Southern California's first foray into the rocket business (sorry, SpaceX)--through the Internet boom with Idealab, to today. What else do you think Pasadena needs in the ecosystem?

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

Manatt said the funding will come from the Manatt Venture Fund, an early stage venture fund which has already invested in more than 90 companies, including Pinterest, Etsy, and Idealab. Hale Boggs, who is well known to local entrepreneurs as one of the digital media- and tech-focused attorneys here.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. Because of that, I formally reached out to Caltech, Idealab, the Art Center College of Design, and all the CEOs I knew running tech companies out here. more) READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2013

Those are on top of the more established incubation and acceleration efforts here, such as Launchpad LA, MuckerLab, Amplify LA, StartEngine, Science, EvoNexus, Qualcomm Labs, Idealab, and many others. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

The firm is backed by Idealab, and is headed by Internet veteran Andy Steuer. Is this part of Idealab's new ventures group, or how did you connect with them? Andy Steuer: It's actually out of Idealab proper. After I met the team here at Idealab, we hit it off.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

I first joined the Xprize Foundation, and later got together with Bill Gross at Idealab, where I ended up working as CEO for a number of companies in energy storage, with Energy Cache, to Edison Microgrids, and also was involved in a variety of other things Idealab was doing at the time. Aaron Fyke: It's really funny.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2012

Late last year we announced that local Southern California startup Caplinked was launching a worldwide pitch competition for entrepreneurs to present their business ideas to a panel of all-star judges from Idealab, Rincon, and Chris Yeh.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

which programs are--and aren't--worth looking at has become very difficult, if not impossible, for startup entrepreneurs. However, with the proliferation of incubators, the difficulty in figuring out. What is an in-house incubator? Managed by: Bill Gross. Funding: Yes. Amount: Varies. Office Space: Yes.

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Steve Reich

JUNE 23, 2013

The Pasadena Angels will be there, in addition to representatives of CalTech, the City of Pasadena, IdeaLab, and more. Angel Investing Entrepreneurs Innovate Pasadena' You can get tickets while they last by joining the Innovate Pasadena group on LinkedIn. Don’t miss it!

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Bill Gross – Idealab.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2011

CapLinked , the online platform for private investment funded by members of the “ PayPal Mafia “—announced that it is launching a worldwide pitch competition for entrepreneurs to present their business ideas to a panel of all-star judges from Idealab, Rincon, Rapidfire, and Actarus.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. I was a former entrepreneur. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

Terry Kay: We have always been about helping the entrepreneurs succeed, first, and then, we figure out how we get our fair share from that success. The premise was, let''s help companies succeed, and cut ourselves a fair deal, and treat entrepreneurs in a decent way. What does that mean to entrepreneurs? It''s more than money.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Today, we share the thoughts of Andy Wilson , Managing Director of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation (www.alliancesocal.org).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Please join TechZulu as well as Los Angeles tech savvy elite comprised of VC’s, Angels investors, startups and your fellow entrepreneurs, as we celebrate LA’s most exciting tech creations of the moment with the brightest digital minds and engineering talents this side of Fresno.

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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. I believe that first-time entrepreneurs also benefit hugely from working in close proximity to other companies. Entrepreneurs need to share more information with each other.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 2, 2013

Somehow the home of IdeaLab, OpenX, CalTech, Art Center College of Design, and JPL doesn’t have much of a reputation as a innovation hub. There is a bit of a startup feel to the sessions–we meet in borrowed space–IdeaLabs, Materia, CalTech. Pasadena may be the best tech story never told.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I thought it would be interesting to raise a tranche of money, to have a platform where we could incubate our own concepts, work with the best entrepreneurs around, and build new businesses. One, is we'll come up wit our own ideas, and work with really early stage entrepreneurs in-house. We'll do only a few every year. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. Barnehama was tight-lipped about the specifics of the technology that Elementary is using for its robotic stack.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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