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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is now the "big data" industry, and helped to pioneer the entire segment. he's been spinning out of his incubator. What's the idea behind the incubator? So, I set out a little bit in an ad-hoc way starting companies as ideas came to me.

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Reflections on 2020: Olivia (Libby) Duane Adams, co-founder, Alteryx

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Olivia (Libby) Duane Adams, co-founder and chief advocacy officer at Alteryx (www.alteryx.com) who is based in Irvine.

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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

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For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution.

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How Classy Is Helping Nonprofits To Attract and Retain Supporters

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In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. Eventually, we got so big, we had thousands of people coming to our events.

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Reflections On 2017: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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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 "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation.