socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

According to Pasadena-based green marketplace firm OnGreen , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of Southern California (USC) scored a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This morning, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners. Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Our interview this morning is with Kelly Perdew of Moonshots Capital , a Los Angeles based investment firm that makes seed stage investments in early stage companies�and in particular, for this Veterans Day, in companies founded by military veterans. Great catching up with you, tell us a little bit about your new investment fund?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Closing our inaugural fund was big news for us, but even bigger news in my perspective has been the breakaway performance of many of our investments led by military veteran founders: 1. Those investments are a huge validation of our Fund thesis: investing in Extraordinary Leadership, with a heavy emphasis on military veteran co-founders.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

We sat down with TX Zhuo , who is heading up the firm's venture investments, about the fund and his path here after a recent stint at Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors fund in Palo Alto. We are going to focus most of our investments in LA. We have four investments so far, two of which are public. What is Karlin Ventures?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. Previously he co-founded 3 tech companies, one in computer networks, one in logistics and one in biometric security.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

We dropped in recently, and found a screening session for the Tech Coast Angels; a number of former StartEngine, MuckerLab, and LaunchpadLA startups in residence; not more than a few startup founders wandering the halls; and a long list of upcoming technology networking events on the calendar. What's the idea with ROC?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 28, 2009

The UCLA Anderson School of Management and the German American Business Association (GABA), invite you to an exciting panel discussion with top digital media executives and venture capitalists followed by a reception at the UCLA Faculty Center. Tuesday, June 30, 2009 -- Online and Mobile Video. See [link].

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Mobile Break.com UCLA GRP Partners 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 31, 2010

The German American Business Association (GABA) and Epic States, invite you to an exciting workshop and panel discussion focusing on the social media industry followed by a reception at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Over the past few years, social networking sites have experienced explosive growth.

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Social Media Media Marketing UCLA 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

First, we’d like to thank our exhibitors, sponsors, and venue (Dave and Buster’s Westchester) for supporting the all-encompasing day of industry insights and networking. Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Let’s Talk Money.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

It used to be there was a geographical composition to our prescreening panel--for example, if an LA company, regardless of what they did, applied for funding, the LA network of the TCA would process them. We're always happy to talk to people, and all of our networks have open networking events in a variety of locations.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Yelena Rachitsky is an executive producer of experiences at Oculus , a company that’s invested hundreds of millions of dollars into VR content. Networking. Community building goes beyond simple networking. She’ll discuss how the company plans to help Facebook kickstart its VR future. Will Facebook’s customers buy in?

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that. We also will help others make investment in teams at the startup garage, because we understand the progress of those teams and where they are.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. Thanks for the time today. We really believe in the market.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Middle Market Investment Banking. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com).

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

They wanted to combine Hinshaw’s experience in starting and growing health IT startups with Balgrosky’s expertise in strategic IT planning and overhauling healthcare IT networks—but without getting too deeply involved. We started the incubator with the idea of helping people with ideas, and making some investments,” he said.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. Semiconductor advances are infamous for costing millions of dollars and requiring very significant investment in infrastructure.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

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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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

App developers are spending a lot of money with the ad networks just to get users to download an app and go through your tutorial. I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology. That says a lot about what's happening in LA, in terms of the investment scene. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The startup--which has the backing of such high profile investors as Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's A-Grade Investments, Dreamworks, and Live Nation--also has some major partnership with entertainers like Madonna and No Doubt to create crowdsourced videos of their events. We also brought Live Nation and Dreamworks into the investment.

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Startup Entertainment Los Angeles Ideas 235

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in. Our Panelist Include: Brock Pierce - Starting & Investing in Bitcoin, Games, and Gambling Businesses. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

Finding the best jobs takes a lot of commitment to taking many different networking meetings with executives, recruiters, entrepreneurs, VC’s, investment bankers, etc. If she’s not up for transferring to UCLA – that’s fine. Why do I give this blunt advice? Lots of reasons. But wait, there’s more!

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Startup UCLA Los Angeles Entrepreneur 326

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. Companies represented include: Disney, Warner Bros., In 2012 over $3.2

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GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

After a short stint at a community college for some credits I needed, I was accepted to UCLA. Early on at UCLA I decided that I wanted to work on the political side of technology. It’s about the business community investing resources. plus a housing allowance. I also received an academic scholarship for first year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. ’ &# His message was that in 2010 great business can be built anywhere if there is a great team and the will to make it work. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). Quilici is also a member of the board of directors of NeoEdge Networks and a member of Tech Coast Angels. Dave McClure. . Founder and senior writer for GigaOm.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

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? Graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Econ/Business from UCLA and with a JD from UCLA Law, Brian Lee was a talented attorney.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. 8:30 – 9:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96