socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2011

A new study compiled by the University of Southern California tallies up $380M raised in capital by USC spinouts in the last three years, and a 15 year total of $800M raised by 39 startups with roots at the school. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

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. Win-win model.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Rob Freelen: The best lesson I learned in 2016 is that a well-managed company can succeed in any funding environment. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2010

According to the study, US VC investments in cleantech hit $1.5 The study said that is a 63.8 The numbers were heavily weighted toward the top 10 deals in the sector, with the study finding those deals represented $993M, or two thirds of the total investment in the area. billion, spread across 65 financing rounds.

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Invest Venture Capital Southern California Study 154

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2010

According to the Association for Women in Technology this week, it has tripled its scholarship awards to three, $2500 scholarships aimed at Southern California women pursuing technology and science related education. The scholarships are open to looking to study at a vocational school, community college, or four-year institution.

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AWT Technology Education Southern California 210

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

So you need to do one and have it in your back pocket ready to whip out your presentation or your laptop at any moment and go through it in case you’re asked or in case you’re not building the rapport you hope to just verbally. Very few people fund individuals. It is also the best thing to send in advance see here.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. We now have $250 million under management, are investing out of our fourth fund and have made more than 80 investments.

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Riot Games Southern California Startup Santa Monica 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. We are so excited to have done 25 deals, many in the SoCal area, with many more to come. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. So how does this apply to you? You should, too. (no,

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 23, 2010

The Third Annual India Trade Conference is being presented by Southern California Edison; the Port of Los Angeles; the U.S. Thursday, July 29, 2010 -- 3rd Annual India Trade Conference. Commercial Service, U.S. Department of Commerce; Network of Indian Professionals, and Quanta Consulting, Inc. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

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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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. Belinda Tan: Most of our trials are Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies.

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Technology Study UCLA Research 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the effort of the University of Southern California to foster innovation within its campus and the community, has been turning an eye to how to more effectively spin out academic efforts into companies. READ MORE>>.

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USC Southern California Venture Capital Education 100

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. Who are some of your go to people in Southern California?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

We chatted with Alan about the company, the process of taking a new, genetic test to market, and his experience taking research from the University of Southern California and University of Utah and commercializing that research. Alan Horsager: This was developed at the University of Utah and the University of Southern California.

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USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. We met at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Robotic Embedded Research Laboratory where Harsh is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. You recently conducted a pilot study. So that pretty much helped to influence our design.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

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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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

We talked with Scott--who until recently, was a student at the University of Southern California--about how he created his company and how that investment from Branson pushed him to take his startup full time. Jerry especially has so much domain knowledge, and Branson has a very entrepreneurial mindset, they've been great to work with.

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Startup CTO Coach Content Web 239

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

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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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

He was just a friend from church, and we actually connected at church through bible study. You can google him, and you can see he's now CEO of Lucid Sight, another Southern California company, which is in VR and AR. It ended up being probably the most pivotal and influential experience of my life, living with Randy Saaf.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. So, we decided to go out and do it.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

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. Cramster is looking to create online study groups, to help high school and college students study math, science, and other topics. What we're trying to emulate is the face-to-face study group.

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Study Education Startup Sites 113

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. billion).

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

s first accelerator called The Fort and raised VC funding. They teamed up with Dr. 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.

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Entrepreneur Santa Monica Startup CTO Hire 87

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

It was founded by Paul Sidlo, who is from Los Angeles, and it''s very much a Southern California company. You received some significant amount of funding last year, can you talk about that? That funding was really raised to help us fund in part the acquisition and growth of the combined company as we scale.

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Mobile Customer Custom Platform 127

TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

“So for us it was really important to partner with really the best team in Los Angeles.” “Now profitability is sexy,” jokes Carmy, when asked about its approach to financing the business and whether it’s looking to go down a typical startup VC funding route or not.

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Startup Los Angeles Platform Research 140

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.” They said, “we’ve seen you in action across 2 companies and could really use somebody with your skills at our fund.”

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. 10:15 Do you the LPs are more open-minded to single VC funds today?

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration). I Be specific. they released a new 2.0

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

SoCal Delicious

APRIL 5, 2010

His $8 million gift to California State University, Channel Islands named the Martin V. Smith Professorship in Land Use Studies, and the Martin V. Henley has been a major donor to his alma mater, funding technology management programs and scientific research programs at UCSB.

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Santa Barbara Thousand Oaks Oracle Ventura 53

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. at a level of specificity you don’t always find in VCs. Someone who inspires others.

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Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). In other words, the future of financing is continuous funding, not discrete.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217