socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association have weighed in on Q3 venture capital totals, saying that $475.5M was invested in 65 Southern California deals in Q3, compared to $773.3M and 87 deals in Q3 of last year. The biggest deals in the quarter came for San Diego's Roka Bioscience , with a $37.2M

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 -- Mobile /Wireless Technologies. The focus of this panel is to explore Ventures in Mobile/Wireless technologies  how a deal is accomplished and how the company is valued, funded, executed, branded, and brings consumers into focus.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

With the IPO of Los Angeles-based RealD , which starts trading this morning on the NYSE as RLD, Southern California now has three successful IPOs on record. RealD said last night that it had priced its IPO at $16.00, and is selling 12.5M shares of its common stock.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , which is developing technology for creating 3D avatars, said Tuesday that the firm has hired on Patrick Barry as the firm's Vice President of Content Alliances. Big Stage said that Barry joins the firm from SK Telecom, where he was Senior Director of Corporate Development and Strategy. and Intel Corp.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

How is the instability on Wall Street affecting local venture capitalists? According to some local Southern California venture investors, it absolutely is affecting how they are thinking about the investment environment.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Big Stage is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and Tech Coast Angels, and is based on technology developed at the University of Southern California. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , the venture-backed startup which is developing photo-realistic avatar technology, has exited its beta and officially launched its site. The firm had launched a beta of its site in August.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment, whcih provides technology to create 3D avatars, said today that it has partnered with Stephen J. BigStage's technology will be used to insert users into video clips and photos. Cannell Productions, the firm behind "The A-Team" and "The Greatest American Hero." According to the firms, Stephen J.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment, a USC spinoff developing avatar technology, announced a new effort to provide its technology to third parties. Big Stage said it has created BackStage, which will offer its 3D face modeling technology to clients and partners. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

James Adams will moderate our distinguished panel of San Diego technology leaders and put them on the spot to label San Diego "great, good, bad, or ugly" on more than 20 factors. Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- San Diego  The Great, Good, Bad and the Ugly. SDSIC Entrepreneur's Forum. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

While having a thorough understanding of their breakthroughs in technology or science it is the routine acts of fund raising, hiring resources and managing for results rather than publications that make taking research out of the lab and into a start-up a special case. See [link] (more).

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. This technology allows us to see what is hot. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

While we often lack the technology and product depth of our counterparts in the Bay, I would argue that entrepreneurs in LA would thrive if you dropped them into any industry. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

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