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Southern California Accelerator Report Card: Q1 2013

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There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. But, how successful have they been?

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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We''re proud to announce the Socaltech 50 , our list of the 50, up-and-coming people in Southern California''s technology ecosystem. Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Ophir Tanz , GumGum (Los Angeles, advertising).

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Incubating LA's Biotech Future, With Richard Koffler, Greenwings Biomedical

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A couple of weeks ago, a brand new, startup incubator launched in town--with a slightly different focus, on biomedical technology. The incubator-- Greenwings Biomedical (www.greenwingsbiomedical.com), is led by Richard Koffler , a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in Los Angeles. What is Greenwings Biomedical?

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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he's been spinning out of his incubator. What's the idea behind the incubator? So, I set out a little bit in an ad-hoc way starting companies as ideas came to me. Now, we're turning into a formal incubator. However, we're very different than most incubators, in that we only do big data.

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Reflections on 2016: Lawrence Ng, OnRamp Fund

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This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. For California investments in general, the funding has kicked up pretty remarkaably. E-commerce is a great example.

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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

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For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.