socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

eSolar is the solar thermal technology developer backed by ACME Group, Google, Idealab, NRG, Oak Investment Partners, and the The Quercus Trust of California. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. eSolar said the efforts would focus around cost reduction targets for its customers. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2009

eSolar is venture backed by Google, Idealab, and Oak Investment Partners. Tags: esolar executive solar energy thermal idealab. Van Scoter was most recently at Texas Instruments Alternative Energy Strategy, and has a 25-year career at Texas Instruments. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Triptrotting , the online site which helps connects travelers with other like-minded, local hosts, has boosted its funding round to $1.5M, and added angel investment group Golden Seeds. Triptrotting was founded by Aigerim Shorman and Shana Zheng.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2012

The company is venture backed by NRG, Google, Oak Investment Partners, Quercus Trust, Acme, and Idealab, where the company was started. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. eSolar develops concentrating solar power technology used in utility scale solar installations. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2011

The firm previously raised funding from Idealab, Google, Esenjay Investments, The Simons Family, and The Beall Family Trust. Aptera failed to score DOE funding in the last round of loan and incentives from the Federal government's stimulus efforts. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2009

Carlsbad-based Aptera, the electric car startup backed by Google and Idealab, is delaying delivery of the firm's vehicles to customers, according to a letter to customers. Aptera raised $24M in a Series C investment from Google, Idealab, Esenjay Investments, The Simons Family, and The Beall Family Trust back in July.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Aptera is backed by Idealab, Google, Esenjay Investments, The Simons Family, and The Beall Family Trust. Aptera also said it is moving its headquarters from Oceanside to Carlsbad, where it says it will begin staffing engineering, composites product development and design positions by the third quarter of the year.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pasadena-based eSolar, the Google-backed thermal solar energy startup, is announcing today that it has hired on a new Vice President of Engineering, Craig Tyner, Ph.D. eSolar is backed by more than $140M in funding, from Google, Idealab, and Oak Investment Partners. READ MORE>>

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. After about a year of research, the company launched with an initial investment of $1.2

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2009

eSolar is backed by Idealab, Google, Oak Investment Partners, and others. The firm, whose technology is used for utility-scale, solar thermal power plants, said that Johannesburg-based Clean Energy Solutions will represent the firm in the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

eSolar, the solar thermal utility plant developer started by Idealab's Bill Gross, has a sizeable chunk of capital and notable support of Google and others, not to mention a number of contracts with utilities. Backers: ACME Group, Google, Idealab, NRG, Oak Investment Partners, The Quercus Trust of California.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

eSolar said the multi-million dollar deals calls for it to supply solar collecting equipment to Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels, a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Oak Investment Partners-backed solar energy firm. eSolar is venture backed by Google, Idealab, and Oak Investment Partners. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

Pasadena-based eSolar , which is developing solar thermal power plants and technology, disclosed this morning that it has scored $30M in an investment from Indian firm ACME Group, in conjunction with a deal to construct 1 gigawatt of solar power plants in India.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. Investors: Google Ventures.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

Boone Pickens; Aptera Motors , in Carlsbad, which has funding from Google and Idealab; and Phoenix MC , based in Ontario. Car makers are not the only firms in Southern California playing a role in the alternative vehicle market. A number of companies providing systems and infrastructure for the industry are also here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Several funds and firms are participating in this investment including Rincon Ventures , Idealab ( Bill Gross built the original incubator and there will be active support from Allen Morgan ), Baroda Ventures , GRP Partners , David Cohen (founder of TechStars ), David Tisch (founder of TechStars NY ), DLA Piper and Stubbs Alderton.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). Google had huge destination traffic. It kicked Google Video’s ass. billion to Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What they do, is accelerate that team or company to get them to the next level, and then go through and put in some investment money, help them build out the management team, and help with vendor relationships, help with overall strategy, and then help those companies riase their next round of capital. We actually are ideating internally.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. There are five prominent ones in town, Launchpad, Amplify, MuckerLab, StartEngine, and IdeaLab. Share on Google+. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Post navigation. ← Previous. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform. Current round: $4.2mm led by Spark Capital and Foundry Group.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. June 17: Silicon Beach Fest: Pasadena Day , Hosted by Idealab.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. But obviously Google won the war. Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. is a good monthly investment? Coffin has personally invested in Machinima, Mahalo.com, Demand Media, Rubicon, Docstoc, ShoeDazzle, Deal Quad (sold to Beachmint), and many others.

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