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APRIL 12, 2013

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. But, how successful have they been? Our analysis.

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Southern California Incubator Report Startup 222

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JULY 9, 2019

How did you get into venture capital, and how did you make that leap from scientist to venture capital? Chris Bostick: Before joining OCV, I was at a postdoc at Columbia, studying genetic epilepsies and invitro and in-vivo models for translational medicine. Chris Bostick: That's always a great question.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

FactoryFour was foudned by 22-year old Param Shah, who grew up in Irvine, but most recently was a student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, studying Computer Science. The company says it has now raised a total of $8M in funding.

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Culver City Startup Study Los Angeles 113

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar. However, because of our marketing and how efficient we are, we're able to make it work.

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MAY 11, 2011

I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. An example of that is we have built in daily tips, which we have put together after going through 17,000 medical studies on what to do to reduce early memory loss. How is the firm funded?

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

We caught up with Clayton Lewis , the company's CEO (and also a General Partner at Maveron), here in Los Angeles last week as it launched into this market. The second thing I learned as a VC, is that data paralyzes people. VC is definitely a dream job. Arivale is based in Seattle. What is Arivale?

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APRIL 28, 2011

A new study released last night finds that Silicon Valley venture capitalists have gained significant confidence from last quarter. The survey included only San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists, and did not take into effect investors here in Southern California.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others. 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. Those communities already exist.

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Technical Review Startup Platform Resource 140

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Mojave-based XCOR , which is developing reusable, rocket powered vehicles aimed at the commercial space market, said Monday that it has raised $5M in an equity round of funding. As part of the funding, the company said that Dyson, Fleming, and Dr. Lee Valentine of the Space Studies Institute have all joined the company's board.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

We had been looking at the landscape of the mobile videogame market, and Epic games launched Infinity Blade 2, which was the best looking game we'd ever seen, let alone the best game for a small mobile device like the iPhone. Jonathan LaCour: I studied finance in law school, and did lots of structured finance and investments.

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Startup Mobile Venture Capital Resource 217

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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. Josh Viner: I've always been a huge fan of the transportation market, because I have a huge passion of making cities better.

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JULY 22, 2019

We also have companies where space is not the only commercial market for them. Space is just another harsh environment, but their primary market is commercialization terrestrially. Quite a few of our companies are, in the near term, going to market commercially in parallel with their space applications. Thanks, and good luck!

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Southern California Startup Entrepreneur Los Angeles 124

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JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

Pasadena-based Cramster (www.cramster.com) recently announced $3M in a large angel round for the firm's online study communities. Cramster is looking to create online study groups, to help high school and college students study math, science, and other topics. What we're trying to emulate is the face-to-face study group.

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MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund? Post 2008, LPs abhor illiquidity.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We wrote up a business plan, and won a USC business plan competition, which allowed us to get funding from the University and raise venture capital we needed to begin development on the plan. At that point, we realized we needed more money to get things to market, and that's when we went out and raised a round from the Maverick Angels.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

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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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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

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JULY 20, 2011

It came about, because we saw a gap in the market around entertainment news written for the 18-34 consumer segment. collapsed and the stock market was crashing, when I chose to leave a steady, paying full time job to go to HitFix. We didn't see anyone else in the market doing what we wanted to do on the entertainment side.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. What does FutureDash do, and how do you fit into the home energy monitoring market?

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Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What I mean by that, is many times, when marketing departments are releasing a film, they release a few teaser scenes. A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials. Studies show, if you don't, people will turn to piracy. You just won't get those moments.

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MAY 21, 2009

Brian Nilles, the firm's CEO, is no stranger to the 3D animation and computer graphics market, having served for ten years as CEO of Vicon Motion Capture, and he sat down with us to chat Darwin Dimensions and what's special about the firm's avatar software. You mentioned you're VC funded? Tell us about the company and how started?

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Tool Platform Venture Capital Startup 113

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies. That's because you don't need to make as much as through a traditional wholesaler when it's not your primary channel, and where it's your marketing showroom. I moved out to California to build businesses. How did all the investors come together?

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Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

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JUNE 1, 2009

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. From a branding and marketing standpoint, we had tremendous success. With a Visa gift card, they can buy their own gift.

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Startup Evite Organization Case Study 113