SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Thursday, March 1, 2012 -- Please join PwC, the Los Angeles Venture Association, and a distinguished panel of venture capitalists and industry experts for their insight into results of the MoneyTree Report. The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Please join PwC, the Los Angeles Venture Association, and a distinguished panel of venture capitalists and industry experts for their insight into results of the MoneyTree TM Report. The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital. Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The startup--which started in Baltimore, Maryland--says it already has 15 full time employees in Los Angeles, and has plans to add approximately 15 more hires within a year. The startup's Series A funding was led by August Capital, and also included existing investor Refactor Capital.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2011

A new study compiled by the University of Southern California tallies up $380M raised in capital by USC spinouts in the last three years, and a 15 year total of $800M raised by 39 startups with roots at the school.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

Viterbi, the engineering school at USC, has teamed up with United Talent Agency , and Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers to support new ventures by USC students and alumni. This is another smart move by the powers that be in the community to nurture the burgeoning startup ecosystem.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital. Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Despite the Q1 correction in valuation, and subsequent drop in VC funding, we saw numerous LA companies not only survive, but thrive - despite the macroeconomic trends. I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. ” “Mattel stepped up and changed the face of Barbie.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Leroy Hood, the well known DNA and genomics pioneer�which combines gene sequencing with a host of other diagnostic tests, with personalized counselors and health and wellness recommendations, recently launched an expansion into California, starting in Los Angeles. The second thing I learned as a VC, is that data paralyzes people.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. How is the firm funded?

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

This morning's interview is with Matt Kozlov , the Managing Director of the new Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator , which just got started in Los Angeles. We invest both capital and an enormous amount of time and mentorship to help companies build the best businesses, as rapidly as possible. So how did you get into this?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The company said that its research was in part driven by stories of investors with an "infinite amount of regret"--quoting Los Angeles venture capitalist Mark Suster, who passed on an investment in Uber's seed round with a massive amount of regret. AngelList's service is aimed at promoting seed investment.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It's not easy, which is why Los Angeles-based Divercity.io MIT and McKinsey did some studies on this, that showed about $400 billion a year is lost in the tech industry, due to lack of diversity and inclusion. A diverse team will increase your profitability by between 31 and 41 percent, according to that McKinsey and MIT study.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

They say they’ve treated “thousands” of women in Los Angeles and have more than 250 referring providers, such as OB-GYNs, at this stage.). “So for us it was really important to partner with really the best team in Los Angeles.”

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

San Diego-based Wheels (www.takewheels.com) was co-founded by Jon and Josh Viner, who were the co-founders of Wag, where they raised nearly $400M in venture capital. Wheels currently operates in Los Angeles and San Diego. Josh Viner: Wheels is live in Los Angeles and San Diego. What is Wheels?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

s first accelerator called The Fort and raised VC funding. They teamed up with Dr. Julie Edge, who received a grant from The Kauffman Foundation to conduct the first study on cofounder relationships. Meetups are also scheduled in Irvine and in Los Angeles at the government-run Business Technology Center.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. Studies show, if you don't, people will turn to piracy. I ran the Los Angeles Film Festival for a decade.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. Both companies were in Los Angeles. A summary of the show with direct links to a spot you might like to watch is below: 1:00 Welcome everyone to episode 69, season 3 of This Week in Venture Capital. Not bad, hey?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

His set of studies include examining the conscious control of single neurons in humans, the ability to affect altered states of consciousness as dreams or sleep, and the ability of humans to regulate high-level emotions. This upbringing naturally steered him to Los Angeles, where he now works in computer graphics for feature films.

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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. The company's CEO, Kos Galatsis , spoke to us a few years ago at the very beginning of their journey.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. So, I tried to figure out what I could do with my skill set, in engineering, investment banking, and operations, and figured out I could do venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Eden Jarrin, the President of Los Angeles-based eDivvy (www.edivvy.com). We've been doing case studies, and we've found that people don't want to be stuck with money and nothing to give. Eden Jarrin: We're privately funded, at this time not by venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Part 1: Inside the mind of an angel investor and how it differs from professional seed investors and VC. As an angel, do you reserve money for follow-on investments? A typical VC (A round) will reserve at least 100-200% of initial investment. Companies on the west coast ideally located in Los Angeles or San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments.

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