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JULY 26, 2021

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, SPINN, developing a fully automated, mobile- or voice-controlled coffee maker which grinds beans, heats water, and brews coffee for users, said on Monday that it has raised $20M in a funding round. The funding was led by Spark Capital, and also included Amazon's Alexa Fund, Bar 9 Ventures and others.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Can tapping the power of the crowd not only help you find customers and help fund your project, but also help you shape your startup idea and find funding? Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

San Diego-based Algebraix Data , a developer of analytics focused database software, has upped its most recent funding to $7.5M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. No details on the new funding have been announced by the company.

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JULY 19, 2013

The funding came from Fortress Investment Group. According to Netlist, it will use the new funding to support ongoing development of its product and patent portfolio. Both Netlist and Fortress said that the focus of the investment would be to bolster its intellectual property and patent assets, and capitalize on those patents.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Venice, California-based startup Vyng , which develops software which turns calls from friends into cute "video ringtones" that show up on your lock screen when a friend calls, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said on Thursday.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

in a Series A funding round, has been looking to develop an online marketplace for clean business deals. The firm also recently launched a patent exchange for cleantech related patents and technology. Steeb also has previously served at intel Corporation. OnGreen recently closed on $1.4M READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Raising money as a first-time VC fund is hard.In Many of my friends who are VCs (and some friends who tried to raise a fund unsuccessfully) warned me that raising for a first-time fund would be very difficult. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? As I look back on the last 18 months, I realize just how hard it was.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

San Diego-based venture capital firm Enterprise Partners is one of the firms in a $39M, Series E funding round for Mountain View-based Complete Genomics , Complete Genomics said today. Illumina and Solexa, the firm Illumina acquired on August 3rd, have sued Complete Genomics on patent infringement of three patents.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

JumpStartFund , which is based in El Segundo, opened up its service this morning to help use the wisdom of the crowd to move ideas, patents, and research from individuals, federal research labs, universities, and research organizations to the market. The site combines the crowd-voting aspect with crowd-funding elements, as well.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Technology.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has made another investment in femtocell and picocell technology developer ip.access , as part of a new round of funding. Ip.access is using Qualcomm's technology, including its Femtocell Station Modem (FSM) chipsets and femtocell patents.

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JUNE 4, 2012

San Diego-based Awarepoint , which develops real-time, location systems used for tracking patents and assets in a healthcare environment, said today that it has raised $14M in an additional financing round. HHIF will add a representative to Awarepoint's board with the funding. HHIF contributed $7.5M Awarepoint is headed by Jay Deady.

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MAY 4, 2010

Siimpel was founded in 2000, and had 42 employees, as well as a stable of 65 patents and patent applications.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

San Diego-based Cibus Global , a developer of technology for engineering agricultural crops, has raised $1.16M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. The funding appears to be part of an ongoing, $2.6M fundraising by the firm.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

Last week, Pasadena-based Ocular Data Systems (www.oculardatasystems.com) announced a funding round from the Pasadena Angels, for its camera-based systems used by law enforcement to capture evidence in drunk or drugged driving cases. When did this become a business and when did the funding come about? What does Ocular Data Systems do?

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

What kinds of areas does the fund make investments in? Krisztina Holly: We are an early stage fund, known for our ability to discovery and cultivate very complex science and technology deals. We just launched a third, $100M fund focused on seed to Series A investments in transformative science and technology companies.

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JUNE 13, 2012

How do you go about getting a company product--and company--funded through crowdsourcing? Olloclip managed to fund and start the company based on crowdfunding, and is one of the most popular projects that has been funded through Kickstarter. Is it even possible, and what are the pitfalls involved? Patrick O'Neill: Not really.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Carlsbad-based Regulus Therapeutics , a biopharmaceuticals firm focused on microRNA-based therapeutics, announced this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series A funding round. According to Regulus, the new funding will provide it with cash to operate through 2011.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

in a venture funding round, to transform carbon nanomaterials research from UCLA and USC and bring it to market. Kos Galatsis: We have worked on this for the past ten years, with funding from the semiconductor industry itself. So the path for us, is to show that we can perform as least as good as the incumbents.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. They are looking for early-stage companies, which have an advantage with IP, or some sort of patent, or sensibility from the technical perspective. percent of funds going to female founded businesses. How long have you been active in Los Angeles?

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Zare'' Baghdasarian: This technology was funded by the Department of Homeland Security, the Army Research Lab, and the Department of Defense. We''re now scaling it up, and we''ve also filed seven patents in that process. Zare'' Baghdasarian: That''s the precise issue we address with our patents. You can''t do it in real time.

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JULY 25, 2016

The early stage, self funded startup recently launched its beta in Los Angeles. The home search portal is the buyer side, and the goal is to also take the matchmaking engine, which we have filed a patent for, and use that across the board for other applications in real estate. How are you funding the company?

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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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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 business plan and private placement on that site, and recently started searching for investors to raise the funds we needed to go into production, and start marketing and sales.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

When we got funded, we worked harder to put together a product which was longer lasting, and not just a beta attempt like what we had done before. We filed for a patent in 2000, but in 2001, when we filed for the final patent, the market tanked. Kent also went off to other things, but in 2005 we got awarded that patent.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

My background has always been inventing products, and have several patents, and I have a passion for bringing new things to life, making partnerships, like the one with Sumitomo. Right now, we are getting ready for a Series A after just a little bit of friends and family funding. It's very exciting to me.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry and I worked together to create Beatshare as a business and go out for funding. Barry Lieberman: That funding round, which was a preferred seed equity round, took place in the summer of 2015, and there was $785,000 in the round. That funding was geared towards development of our product. All are separate. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I was sitting on the board at LiveOffice, which was funded by Summit Partnres, and was just sold to Symantec two weeks ago. He called me and said--this is a company you might be interested in, maybe taking a board seat, or co-investing in, or helping them get funded. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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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., 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.

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APRIL 29, 2014

Mann had long sold the company and patents, but one of their providers which had been installing them surgically, and had started installing parts from China. How are you funding this project? This is really also funded because of Mike and my other project, the 101 incubator. Mann implantable device area.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

My background has always been inventing products, and have several patents, and I have a passion for bringing new things to life, making partnerships, like the one with Sumitomo Electric. Right now, we are getting ready for a Series A after just a little bit of friends and family funding. It's very exciting to me.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Language Weaver is backed by Palisades Ventures, the Tech Coast Angels, and The Athenaeum Fund. We've also had great advances in engaging the trust of the commercial community, with patented advances like automatic scoring of our algorithms, which predicts the quality of translations based on a one-through-five scale.

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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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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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