socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Pasadena-based Idealab , the startup business incubator founded by Bill Gross, announced this morning that it has added Andy Steuer to its team. The firm said Steuer will work on new company creation, particularly in the new mobile applications area.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Sharpening its focus on the electronic discovery market, Pasadena-based X1 , the enterprise search tools provider backed by Idealab, has split out a new company called X1 Discovery , headed by John Patzakis, the former President of eDiscovery at X1.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2013

Pasadena-based Idealab has sold another one of its companies to Yahoo today: GoPollGo , a Twitter polling service which let Twitter users collect feedback from their friends and followers. Financial details of the deal were not announced. GoPollGo had been backed by Ram Srinivasan, Phil Schaechter, CrunchFund, Chris Eppstein and Idealab.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2014

A new, Pasadena-based startup out of Idealab , the startup incubator headed by Bill Gross, is hoping to bring 3D printing to the masses for $149. According to New Matter , it is hoping to bring its 3D printer to users, starting at only $149, in an attempt to make 3D printing accessible to everyone.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Pasadena-based Idealab , the startup incubator run by Bill Gross, has made another external investment in a company, funding London-based Top10. The investment looks to be the farthest venture, geographically, for Idealab, which recently booted up new efforts to invest in firms not directly incubated in the company's offices.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Come explore a variety of tech opportunities and network with some of LA's top startups at the offices of Idealab, the Pasadena-based technology incubator. Wednesday, October 12, 2011 -- Idealab Job Fair. See [link] (more)

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

” In some ways, the model isn’t that different from Bill Gross’ idealab, the Pasadena, Calif.-based based incubator company that’s a few miles up the road from Share Ventures Los Angeles home base. Another inspiration is @Ventures, the dot-com era company that built a number of different portfolio companies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Pasadena-based X1 Discovery , which develops e-discovery and search software for the legal industry, has named Craig Carpenter as its new CEO, according to the company. X1 Discovery is one of the companies out of Pasadena's Idealab startup incubator, and shares its headquarters with Idealab. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Pasadena-based desktop 3D printer maker New Matter , which is backed by Idealab, said today that it has rolled out its second generation of its 3D printers, the MOD-t (2nd Gen). Pasadena-based Idealab is well known for its incubation and funding of new startups, and is led by Bill Gross. New Matter is led by CEO Steve Schell.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Pasadena-based 3D printer manufacturer New Matter announced this morning that it is donating five of its MOD-t 3D printers to a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education organization program in Downey, called the Challenger Center. New Matter is an operating company of technology incubator Idealab. READ MORE>>.

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Steve Reich

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Innovate Pasadena is, as usual, leading the charge to showcase the Tech Community in the Greater Pasadena area. Check it out on their site at: Innovate Pasadena. Many Pasadena Angels will join the events, and I’ll be judging apps at the Hackathon. See you there!

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We spoke with Erick Laubach , the founder of Crash--which is backed by famed startup incubator Idealab--to hear about how the company is hoping to tap the power of the crowd to help others find interesting, local attractions. If you go to Tripadvisor, you're not going to find the 10 hidden waterfalls in the Pasadena area.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 2, 2013

Pasadena may be the best tech story never told. Still, Pasadena never hits anyone’s radar as a hot tech destination. The goals are straightforward: 1) brand the Greater Pasadena Area a desirable location for tech companies to startup or locate, and 2) encourage collaboration among companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Energy Vault , a startup created by Pasadena-based startup incubator Idealab , announced this morning that it has launched its utility-scale energy storage technology into commercial availability.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

And while they historically had come up with 100% of their ideas and created the companies themselves, they are increasingly open to funding people with great ideas who want to build businesses with IdeaLab provided the companies will stay be in LA (and preferably Pasadena). They are very hands on. I think this makes no sense.

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Steve Reich

DECEMBER 31, 2014

2014 Pasadena Angels Performance. • I have never seen such energy at the Pasadena Angels in my decade+ as a member. Angels have been attending many outside events, both in Greater Pasadena and further afield in Silicon Beach. We’ve also been building relationships with incubators and other investors in the ecosystem.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 9, 2013

The Pasadena Innovation Council organized a great tech executive meeting in Pasadena on Friday. This is another good step toward pulling together the tech community in the greater Pasadena area. Ted Tekippe, CEO of Doublebeam joined us, as did Kevin Scanlon, Chairman of the Pasadena Angels. It was a great crowd.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2013

Downtown LA is a major up-and-coming area for technology startups with easy access to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the new office is located only a few metro stops from Pasadena. lifestyle solution for professionals wanting to live, work and play?.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2021

Pasadena-based concentrated solar energy technology developer Heliogen, a spinout of the Idealab startup incubator, has gone public via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) deal, the company said on Wednesday. According to Heliogen and Athena Technology Acquisition Corp.,

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2009

According to NREL, it is investing $6 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as part of a new PV Technology Pre-Incubator Award. The two local firms are International Solar Electric Technology , which is based in Chatsworth, and TiSol , which is based in Pasadena.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2013

StartEngine said the new office is a split-level loft, with access to such locations as the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and a few metro stops from Pasadena. The accelerator is the first one to target the downtown area with an office location.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2011

So do yourself a favor this month and come explore a variety of tech opportunities and network with some of LA’s top startups at the offices of Idealab, the Pasadena-based technology incubator. Pasadena, CA 91103. Come have a good time and enjoy the Idealab hospitality. REGISTER HERE. When: Wednesday, October 12, 2011.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

For example, we had a keynote from Patrick Soon-Shiong, who talked about his new health incubator, and Frank Addante, at Rubicon Project, talking his ad-tech services. The second thing we have going on, is we''re expanding beyond the cool, hot social apps, which we still have lots of, but to other companies in other areas.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. The firm was incubated with the founder's own cash--the other founder is my father. We spoke with Costin Tuculescu , CEO of Freebinar, about the firm, how it's reaching out to Dimdim users, and the background on the company.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. There are a couple of companies that have already done fundraising whereas at a normal incubator non of them would have even started.”. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The coworking operator already has locations in Old Pasadena and Santa Monica. The company expanded into Old Pasadena a year ago. Cross Campus , the coworking space operator which is home to many of LA's startups, told its customers today that it is planning to open up a new location in Downtown LA starting in April.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Be Great recognizes seven main startup points in Los Angeles: “Silicon Beach”, West LA, Culver City, Pasadena, Orange County, South Bay, and Downtown LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2012

Though the first three steps can generally be covered in house, there’s an interesting new Pasadena based startup with an app that can help both consumers and business owners with that final crucial point.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2015

Pasadena-based customer relationship management (CRM) software developer Rexter is launching a new product, later today, at the Microsoft Accelerator Demo Day in Seattle.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2012

Though the first three steps can generally be covered in house, there’s an interesting new Pasadena based startup with an app that can help both consumers and business owners with that final crucial point.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasn’t. I’m personally aware of several TCA and Pasadena Angels members who are actively investing, and then sponsoring companies at their respective groups. The Angel funding process can be arduous. The problem will get solved. We need each other.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

I was kind of incubating it before, but we landed our first client and started getting revenue in August of last year. You can find reps from other industries, and recruiters will throw resumes at you, but finding software sales reps with experience, particularly, B-to-B SaaS, is difficult. That's a niche we are targeting.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

The idea, is to make it accessible as a multi-disciplinary part of Tel Aviv University, so that young people, alumni, and students with ideas for a company can join the fund, not only to be funded with seed money, but also so they can be accelerated and potentially incubated before they go out.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does. We're also at Caliburger in Pasadena, at Dodger Stadium, and Chase Field.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2017

Of course, there's a lot of concentration in LA along Siliocon Beach, but there are great things in Pasadena, Claremont, Downtown, and the Valley. There are so many different pockets of interesting companies, and different vertical that are strong in LA. It feels more spread out to me than it is in San Francisco.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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LATechDigest

AUGUST 3, 2019

Staying attuned to new opportunities, CSUNs partnership with LA Cleantech Incubator will foster entrepreneurship, business formation and job creation in a growing and socially valuable sector. This impact is amplified by CSUNs more than 300,000 alumni 80 percent of whom live, work and thrive in Southern California.

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