TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

Southern California 224

Southern California Dollar Shave Club SoCal Develop 224

socalTECH

JULY 31, 2014

San Diego-based Portfolium , a startup developing an online platform to share a students'' academic portfolio, has raised $900,000 in a seed funding, according to startup incubator EvoNexus. The funding came from the Tech Coast Angels, Taner Halicioglu of Keshif Ventures, and others. READ MORE>>.

Seed Funding 157

Seed Funding Tech Coast Angels Funding Incubator 157

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

San Diego-based Atlazo , a startup developing systems-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductors aimed at used in healthcare and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, has raised $3.4M The funding round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and the TCA's San Diego chapter. in a seed funding round. in the round. READ MORE>>.

Orange County 124

Orange County Tech Coast Angels Artificial Inteligence Technology 124

Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. Jean Balgrosky.

San Diego 67

San Diego CIO Incubator Startup 67

socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2013

San Diego-based ecoATM , the startup led by Tom Tullie which develops kiosks for recycling used mobile phones, MP3 players, and tablets, reported yesterday that it has now recycled more than one million electronic devices. EcoATM develops self serve kiosks which pay users cash when they trade in their electronic devices.

Claremont 157

Claremont San Diego Incubator Venture Capital 157

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It's already a great technology center for lots of different areas, but when compared with Silicon Valley, the activity level needs to go way up in order for Southern California to be on par with Silicon Valley. I spent my professional career starting and running tech companies in Silicon Valley, and have been really successful at it.

Southern California 170

Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

San Diego-based wireless communications module developer On-Ramp Wireless announced Wednesday that Kevin Hell, the former CEO of DivX, has joined the company as President and CEO. Hell sits on the boards of Hold-Free Networks, Perminova, Inc, MicroPower Technologies and Pixon Imaging, Inc.

San Diego 159

San Diego Incubator Venture Capital Acquisition 159

Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2017

Following a six-month trial of its digital mortgage platform, San Diego-based Approved has officially launched its Web-based software for home loan applications. In a recent statement , the 20-month-old startup also said it has raised $1 million in what co-founder and CEO Andy Taylor calls a “pre-seed round.” “Our

Platform 79

Platform San Diego Incubator Web 79

socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

San Diego-based ScoreStream said today that it has raised $2M in a seed financing round, to bring scores, pictures, and other information about high school and local sports online. The startup--led by technology startup vet Derrick Oien--said the funding was led by Sinclair Digital Ventures, a division of Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Avalon 100

Avalon San Diego Incubator News 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The idea in 2011 was to create a space at what was then Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical research and development facility in San Diego for an “innovation center,” a place where 18 to 20 life sciences startups could incubate, replete with lab space and equipment. The first JLABS incubator opened here.

San Diego 75

San Diego Incubator Screening Research 75

Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

Many top food companies are increasingly pumping money into supporting young, innovative startups, according to a recent analysis by CB Insights. The big guys are starting to figure out that they can’t really innovate well enough within their own organization,” says Robyn Metcalfe, director of Food+City , a multi-departmental.

Incubator 91

Incubator Startup Equity Organization 91

Xconomy

AUGUST 20, 2019

Digital mortgage lenders, for example, are having a field day, pulling in millions from investors who see opportunities to make money by speeding up the historically tedious process of getting a home loan. One such lender, Better.com, raised a $160 million Series C financing round Monday.

San Diego 69

San Diego Startup Examples Tool 69

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. How did you guys end up working together on investments? A few years back, I started looking at angel investing.

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2015

The company is part of the EvoNexus startup incubator, and is led by Rick Cooper. MANTA was founded by UC San Diego researchers Dr. Dariusz Stramski, Dr. Kuba Tatarkiewicz, Dr. Rick Reynolds and Monette Karr. READ MORE>>.

Funding 100

Funding Seed Funding San Diego Incubator 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. We designed K5Launch to fill the void left behind by local angel and VC investors. Exciting times in the Southern California tech community.

San Diego 66

San Diego Southern California Orange County SoCal 66

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After launching a study to identify how tech hubs work, the leader of a nonprofit consortium created to boost Southern California’s startup ecosystem says he is focusing on three initiatives to supercharge the seven-county SoCal region as a hotbed for innovation. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Southern California 61

Southern California San Diego SoCal Incubator 61

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

His firm, Phase Genomics was one of the first startups to come out of UW’s genome sciences department. As a first-time entrepreneur working from UW’s incubator more than five years ago, Liachko says he didn’t think much about the rarity of genomics startups spun out of university research.

Incubator 111

Incubator Research Tool Startup 111

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. We designed K5Launch to fill the void left behind by local angel and VC investors. Exciting times in the Southern California tech community.

San Diego 56

San Diego Southern California Orange County SoCal 56

Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2020

At the start of 2020 thousands of biotechies anticipated spending the second week of June in San Diego, hobnobbing at the annual conference hosted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. There, topics once as unanticipated as the remote nature of the meeting shared top billing: COVID-19 and racism.

San Diego 121

San Diego Conference Organization Incubator 121

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

That was primarily driven by the economy; when the economy is down, investments are down, and it is increasingly difficult to d a startup. Launchpad is a virtual incubator and accelerator, where we put companies in and give them quantitative and qualitative feedback and mentorship. Thanks for the time this morning.

OCTANE 174

OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

Katelyn O’Shaughnessy already had a solid track record, selling TripScope , a travel startup she co-founded in 2013, to Travefy two years ago. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now creating their own networks to do the same.

Help 111

Help Startup Networking Ideas 111

Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2019

When Novartis dissolved its gene and cell therapy unit a few years ago, a bunch of projects the Swiss pharma giant had incubated were tossed aside. Talaris Therapeutics, a Louisville, KY, startup founded by. That work has just been salvaged. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Organization 102

Organization Incubator Startup Help 102

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Agtech investment firm Finistere Ventures; private equity firm Cloud Break Advisors; and Israeli venture capital firm OurCrowd contributed to the new accelerator. Radicle representatives plan to discuss their plans for the accelerator during AgTech Week 2016 , an ag investment conference being held in San Francisco this week.

Funding 68

Funding Research San Diego Incubator 68

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2017

San Diego’s Brain Corp., founded in 2009 as a Qualcomm-incubated startup to develop software and computer systems that emulate the human brain, seems to have found a new path forward. Qualcomm Ventures, which previously invested about $11 million in Brain Corp.,

Artificial Inteligence 75

Artificial Inteligence Incubator Funding Invest 75

Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

General Assembly (GA) launched in early 2011 with an incubator in New York City that was a cross between a co-working space and a startup university. As Xconomy reported at the time, entrepreneurs and young ventures that set up shop in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Training 59

Training Incubator Demand Course 59

Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2018

San Diego and San Francisco. There were a few notable absences from the list, released early today. Detroit, MI, which had high expectations as a competitor, was left out, as was Madison, WI, and most of California. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

San Diego 52

San Diego Software Development Web Incubator 52

Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2017

Versant Ventures now has $400 million in its coffers to fuel its pursuit of early-stage healthcare technologies and startups, and it has a particular goal of expanding its investment approach in Europe. Versant takes. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Funding 52

Funding Incubator Invest Networking 52

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2010

They are gearing up for DEMO Fall 2010 which is happening Sept. This coming week the tour is making two stops in Southern California, one in San Diego, CA on June 15 and another in Irvine, June 16. Sure to attend will be local VC's, entrepreneurs and DEMO alumni. June 16- Irvine Incubation Center.

Southern California 40

Southern California Conference SoCal San Diego 40

Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Instead, Aha is a bootstrapped startup. Brian de Haaff wonders this sometimes, especially as compared to his own tech business, Aha. It’s not a “unicorn”—a business with a valuation of more than $1 billion—and it’s not even close.

Sales 100

Sales Software Services Startup 100

Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

tech startups and investment firms have long been thought of as the domain of white men—because historically, they have been.

Statistics 75

Statistics Ideas Invest Startup 75

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

That law helped kick-start the modern tech transfer field. Both patented and non-patented intellectual property from universities and colleges in Indiana have been turned into successful products and processes by licensing IP to already-established companies or to entrepreneurs looking to launch a startup. The results?

Patents 67

Patents Research Anthem Education 67

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Tiny Rhode Island and its capital city Providence have always punched above their weight, for better or for worse. Worse: After World War II, one Providence neighborhood became the nerve center of New England organized crime and one of its mayors the ne plus ultra of civic corruption—twice elected, and twice a felon.

Organization 103

Organization Capital Venture Capital San Diego 103

Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

it’s natural for startup entrepreneurs and others immersed in the technology world—including us journalists—to wonder about the role of innovation in solving social problems. It can help grow the economic pie, but it can’t, by itself, slice up the pie more equitably. Is it really true? In the short term, no.

Social Media 40

Social Media High Tech Media Organization 40

Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

A year ago about 40,000 people gathered in Chicago for the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Today a virtual version of the ASCO conference, the cancer field’s largest, kicks off, with oncologists and others tuning in from throughout the country and around the world to check out the latest in cancer research.

Screening 67

Screening Conference Research Course 67

Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2017

From Portland to Pittsburgh, it’s likely that every city in the U.S. with more than 1 million people has made its case to Amazon to locate the company’s second headquarters there. At least, hopefully they have already, because today—if you haven’t heard—was the deadline to apply.

Develop 82

Develop Development Software Development San Diego 82

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44