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MARCH 25, 2010

Two major orange county technology advocacy and business groups, OCTANe and the Orange County Venture Group (OCVG) said today that they have merged their organizations. Tags: octane ocvg orange county technology event organization venture capital group nonprofit.

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MAY 14, 2010

At the same time, the need for the products and services that OCTANe provides are greater in a recessionary economy than in when the economy is booming. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow. Historically, OCTANe has been loosely married to UC Irvine, where OCTANe first started five or six years ago.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Orange County's effort to boost startup and high tech companies, OCTANe, is losing its President and CEO, Gary Augusta, and has retained an executive search firm to find a replacement, the group said Thursday. Tags: augusta octane orange nonprofit gary county executive. Augusta will continue to serve as CEO until a new CEO is found.

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MAY 20, 2009

Orange County's nonprofit effort to support the technology industry, OCTANe , announced this morning that it has located a replacement for outgoing president and CEO, Gary Augusta. According to OCTANe, it has named Matthew Jenusaitis as the next president and CEO of the group. and Baxter Healthcare. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The new podcast, run by serial entrepreneur Carey Ransom , so far has included such guests as Bill Carpou, the CEO of OCTANe; Dan Rodriguez, the CEO of Kareo; Andrew Lyon, the Founding Dean of the Fowler Engineering School at Chapman, and others.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

The company said it was founded by Rob Loughan (former founder of Octane Software) and Al MacDonald (CEO of NominoData). The company said the funds will go towards the acquisition and collection of data, and also go to expand its artificial intelligence search, monitoring, and natural language processing capabilities.

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MARCH 9, 2021

the company said its new software, Octane X, is available on the Mac App Store for free. Los Angeles-based visual effects software developer OTOY says it has launched new GPU rendering software for MacOS, aimed at providing macOS users with what it says provides what it claims is the fastest spectral GPU renderer on macOS Big Sur.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Visionary Ventures Fund is a new, Orange County-based venture capital investment firm, focused on opthalmology investments, which works directly with the OCTANe Launch Pad accelerator; Tigris Ventures is a seed stage funding and medical device incubator located in Del Mar. Tear Film Innovations is led by CEO and President Rob Thornhill.

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MAY 2, 2017

Visionary Venture Fund is partnered with technology and life sciences accelerator OCTANe. The company said it has already invested in IanTech (cataract treatment); Mynosys (capsulotomy); SighLife Surgical (eye bank and corneal tissue); and RxSight (intraocular lens product). Jeffry Weinhuff is Managing Partner of the new fund. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 30, 2018

NI0 says its seed investors include Tim Chen of HTC, Trill Ventures (which has invested in Jarvish and 23 and Me); Eddy Chan (an investor in PayPal and SpaceX), Charles Huang (founder of Red Octane, the company behind Guitar Hero), and Chris Cobb, Sr. Riot Games). READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

LAVA says it has recently been working on strengthening ties across the region with the Innovation Network of Southern California (INSoCal) with OCTANe and the San Diego Venture Group. LAVA's day to day operations are managed by Executive Director Len Lanzai. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Camarillo-based Cool Planet Energy Systems , which is developing a system for converting biomass into high octane gasoline, claimed today that it believes it can produce high octane gasoline at the cost of $1.50 per gallon, without the need for government subsidies.

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MARCH 25, 2020

AWM, which is led by CEO Kevin Howard, was recognized as a 2019 Outstanding Small Technology Company by OCTANE last year. The system then automatically charges customers for the items they actually take out from the store using a digital wallet. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The company--which was part of the OCTANe Launchpad program--said the deal was part of a license and supply agreement between Monsanto abd Biosynthetic Technologies.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

And here's where you can find more events: SoCalTech Calendar – A great aggregation of events around Southern California that has been pulled together for years by Ben Kuo. Often very IT focused, but can be interesting topics. TechBizConnection – Orange County monthly events. Often good topics and interesting networking.

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MARCH 13, 2013

Aliso Viejo-based Arkami, one of the startups in OCTANE's Launchpad Accelerator, has just zoomed past $360,000 in funding commitments on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, according to the firm's myIDkey project page.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

The startup was one of the startups in OCTANE''s Launchpad program. Arkami was created by technology veterans Tareq Risheq and Mark Thacker, and had originally raised money via Kickstarter for its secure, USB drive. The firm had raised an astounding $473,333 on a goal of $150,000 for its device. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

He also serves on the boards of Predixion Software, OCTANe, and B&B Electronics, and has been involved with such companies as TechStarter Ventures, GameSpy Industries, Graham Partners, and others. Thiel has been on Local.com''s board since January of 2013, and was most recently Managing Partner at Triton Pacific Capital Partners.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Arkami is part of the OCTANe LaunchPad Accelerator. The firm initially set a goal of $150,000 to help create its new product, easily surpassing that goal last week; the project now lists over 2,600 backers who have chosen to contribute everything between $1 and $2000. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Harbor MedTech's technology was developed at Edwards Lifesciences, and the company was a part of the OCTANe LaunchPad program. Harbor MedTech is developing products to restart, support healing of difficult or chronic wound such as diabetic, venous and pressure ulcers as well as for hernia patches and orthopedic soft tissue repair.

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MARCH 23, 2011

A Bit Lucky is also backed by Accel Partners ' Seed Fund, Rembrandt Venture Partners , Blumberg Capital , SV Angel, The Founder Collective , Felicis Ventures , Charles and Kai Huang (Co-Founders of Red Octane), Mark Jung (Co-Founder and CEO of IGN), David Lawee (Head of M&A at Google), Joshua Schachter (Founder of Delicious), Lerer Ventures , and (..)

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JANUARY 5, 2021

We engage and collaborate with over two dozen universities (including all the SoCal UC campuses), two dozen leading corporations (including Disney, Kaiser, Edison) and several dozen leading SoCal ecosystem organizations like Octane, LAVA, Connect, CLA-OC, Innovate Pasadena, BioscienceLA, as well as investors and accelerators such as Techstars, Starburst, (..)

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MAY 4, 2010

Decker still sits on the boards of International Rectifier, mindspeed Technologies, and Pacific Mutual Holding Company, and also has been behind the development of Orange County's OCTANe. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2013

On top was OCTANe Launchpad , the Orange County-based accerator for startups in the technology, life science, and clean technology industries. The good news is--the accelerators seem to be driving a lot of volume of deals overall, and deals seem to be spread across the different accelerators/incubators in the region.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

We spoke with Kevin shortly before the holidays about the firm, as well as how he connected with Allan at an OCTANe event. Kevin Strong: I actually met Allan at an OCTANe event, back in March or early April. Kevin was previously an executive at GloNav, and founder and President Allan Hundhausen was previously at Quark, Inc.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Matthew has seen hundreds of startups pitch funding though OCTANe’s LaunchPad program. socaltech socalcto MYTH 5: The SoCal crowd is better looking. We came to play.

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