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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns

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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. UCLA doesn’t aim to make a financial return. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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Personal mobility and transportation innovation are absolutely massive issues for citiesespecially Los Angelesand we watch the categories closely. mobility and transportation, space tech, and esports. in Business and Economics from the UCLA. Second, this was a great year for the broader Southern California tech ecosystem.

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REACH Connected Future | Cleantech Recap

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Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Ian Harris - VP of Partnerships, LA Cleantech Incubator. Cleantech, a Misnomer.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. An example of that is the UCLA flood.

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

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The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. Just think what you could do if you had the top technologists from Caltech, UCLA, and the whole list presenting their major research to a room full of entrepreneurs looking for their next startup.