socalTECH
MAY 8, 2017
The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. Belinda Tan: Most of our trials are Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.
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socalTECH
MAY 11, 2011
I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments.
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.
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.
socalTECH
MAY 23, 2017
I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology. He was just a friend from church, and we actually connected at church through bible study. That says a lot about what's happening in LA, in terms of the investment scene. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M I was a sponge. They did a phenomenal job.
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
After a short stint at a community college for some credits I needed, I was accepted to UCLA. MM: What did you study? 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. I also received an academic scholarship for first year.
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