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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. Our analysis. Science Inc.

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Poizner Updates Plan for Alliance on Southern California Innovation

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After launching a study to identify how tech hubs work, the leader of a nonprofit consortium created to boost Southern California’s startup ecosystem says he is focusing on three initiatives to supercharge the seven-county SoCal region as a hotbed for innovation.

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SoCalGas & Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Set Up A $1M Fund To Disrupt Clean Tech

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Clean, safe and reliable natural gas company Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) has established $1 million innovation fund in partnership with Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) , to speed the development of clean technologies to meet current global energy needs and become a sustainable energy source.

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Interview Behzad Kianmahd, TAU Ventures

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Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). What is TAU Ventures?

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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics

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Kos Galatsis: A lot of startups funded these days are software companies, and they do not have to do real hardware like they used to ten years ago. A lot of the challenge is in human resources that understands that technology, however, we live in Southern California, which has some of the best universities in the country in that area.

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, Clean Green Guy

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One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. As my thesis in college, I studied the efficiency of salt water ponds to store solar power. Nikhil Jain: The company is completely self funded, by myself.

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CoFoundersLab Matches Entrepreneurs Scientifically

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s first accelerator called The Fort and raised VC funding. Julie Edge, who received a grant from The Kauffman Foundation to conduct the first study on cofounder relationships. Kaviani and his team will be in Southern California quarterly to teach at Cross Campus and to hold local CoFoundersLab Meetups.