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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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MAY 11, 2011

I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments.

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APRIL 29, 2014

Our first project was 3D imaging of the heart, so that doctors could study a pacemaker and defibrillator recall from the Alfred E. Mann, to his credit, with his multi-billion dollar foundation, he offered to find out what was going on, offering $100 million to UCLA to find out what was going on. How are you funding this project?

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubble: I have a finance background, and studied international finance in Germany, Chile, South America, and Australia. About three and a half years ago, I got my Master in Financial Engineering at UCLA, and did a double-MBA at Loyola Marymount, focused on finance strategy. What were you doing before?

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubbe: I have a finance background, and studied international finance in Germany, Chile, South America, and Australia. About three and a half years ago, I got my Master in Financial Engineering at UCLA, and did a double-MBA at Loyola Marymount, focused on finance strategy. What were you doing before?

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JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. The company's CEO, Kos Galatsis , spoke to us a few years ago at the very beginning of their journey.

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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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MAY 23, 2017

I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology. He was just a friend from church, and we actually connected at church through bible study. LA's ecosystem was not like it was today, and it now has a rich history, lots of smart people who have exited, and who now run funds and get the ecosystem.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). And if it’s not I’m generally not that interested in funding it. I also know many people who never studied business as an undergrad who appreciated the knowledge that they gained as an MBA. So back to MBAs.

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