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Reflections on 2018: Andy Wilson, Alliance for SoCal Innovation

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Our first is with Andy Wilson of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation. In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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Kevin O'Connor, ScOp Venture Capital, On Startup Success and Investments

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This morning's interview is with Kevin O'Connor , a longtime investor and serial entrepreneur, who is now running venture capital investment firm ScOp Venture Capital. Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick.

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SoCal Angel Investors See IPO Pop At CytomX

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A number of Southern California angel investors are undoubtedly breaking out the champagne this morning, after the successful IPO of CytomX Therapeutics , a developer of cancer therapeutics which was spun out of UC Santa Barbara. CytomX was founded by UC Santa Barbara professor Patrick Daugherty. in morning trading.

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Forbes Midas List Skips SoCal, Again

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The last time Forbes has placed a Southern California venture capitalist on the Midas List appears to have been in 2009, when Jim Gauer of Palomar Ventures made the list.

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Invoca Debuts New Facebook Ad Product

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Santa Barbara-based Invoca , which helps marketers correlate phone calls to what advertising drove those calls, has rolled out another product for Facebook, the company said Tuesday. Invoca said its new Invoca for Social allows marketers to optimize their Facebook ad campaigns, all directly within Facebook's Ad Manager. READ MORE>>.

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MOTM: Conversation With Ben Kuo

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Ben has invested the past 10 years in tracking the Southern California Technology market, maintaining a deep database of technology firms and publishing realtime news about local high tech companies through his website, socalTECH.com. Wednesday, September 1, 2010 -- MOTM: Conversation with Ben Kuo of socalTECH.com.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2