socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2014

It''s too cumbersome, and most of the products are 360 reviews, corporate management type products, which are too expensive. In an industry which has a turnover ratio of about nine months, most companies do these one year reviews which don''t make any sense. It''s kind of a challenge in those businesses, so that they don''t even do it.

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Help Hermosa Beach Technical Review Redondo Beach 223

socalTECH

JULY 17, 2013

The ACA said the new SEC rules require either pay stubs for the two most recent years for an angel, or review of IRS forms that report income (include a W-2, 1099, or 1040)--which it says its angels would be unwilling to provide. The ACA''s Southern California members include the Tech Coast Angels, the Pasadena Angels, and the Keiretsu Forum.

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Angel Invest Tech Coast Angels Keiretsu 203

socalTECH

JULY 30, 2009

A analysis released by Ernst & Young this week finds that clean technology investments are up significantly this quarter, rising 73% to $572M from last quarter. Tags: clean technology venture capital cleantech green energy.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Invest Technology CalTech 100

socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2012

The assets of Pasadena-based Energy Innovations are set to go up for auction on March 20th, according to auctioneer Heritage Global Partners, as the firm continues to wind down. READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Idealab High Tech Pasadena 145

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2017

Last week, Pasadena-based Ocular Data Systems (www.oculardatasystems.com) announced a funding round from the Pasadena Angels, for its camera-based systems used by law enforcement to capture evidence in drunk or drugged driving cases. How did the company and its technology come about? What does Ocular Data Systems do?

Pasadena Angels 100

Pasadena Angels Pasadena Technical Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Elevance Renewable Sciences , the producer of specialty, renewable chemicals based on research licensed from Pasadena-based Materia , has pulled its IPO. The Illinois company said in a filing this morning that it has pulled the IPO due to a new private placement of preferred stock. READ MORE>>.

CalTech 133

CalTech Technical Review Pasadena Research 133

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2010

Gevo , a startup which is developing renewable chemicals and biofuels technology, has filed for an IPO, according to an S-1 filing by the firm Thursday afternoon. Gevo--which is now based in Englewood, Colorado--was started in Pasadena, and has licensed technology from both the University of California, Los Angeles, and Caltech.

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CalTech UCLA Technical Review SoCalTech 210

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Philz opened an outpost in Santa Monica last year, due to the demand of Silicon Valley venture investors and executives who were spending an increasing amount of time in "Silicon Beach".

Santa Monica 100

Santa Monica Southern California Venice Technical Review 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. billion invested in Q2. The largest deal in the quarter was for Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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Southern California Invest Westlake Village SoCal 196

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Sharpening its focus on the electronic discovery market, Pasadena-based X1 , the enterprise search tools provider backed by Idealab, has split out a new company called X1 Discovery , headed by John Patzakis, the former President of eDiscovery at X1.

Social Media 182

Social Media Media Idealab Software Review 182

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. It’s a gathering of friends and tech enthusiasts of all stripes. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). Event Details.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2012

invested in that sector; Industrial/Energy firms, which includes a significant number of clean technology companies, had a total of $137.4M In Los Angeles, near $324.2M was invested across 48 deals; San Diego has $241.5M in 20 deals; and Orange County had $128.8M invested, in 11 different investments. in investments. Image courtesy Bigstock.

Southern California 210

Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 210

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This is our second year of creating our list of the top 50 people to watch in Southern California''s technology industry, and it was NOT an easy task. As we found last year, it''s a tough, unforgiving task to narrow down a list of the folks in Southern California''s technology industry to just fifty to watch. Will Kassoy , AdColony.

Southern California 279

Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review USC 279

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2012

invested in that sector; Industrial/Energy firms, which includes a significant number of clean technology companies, had a total of $137.4M In Los Angeles, near $324.2M was invested across 48 deals; San Diego has $241.5M in 20 deals; and Orange County had $128.8M invested, in 11 different investments. in investments. Image courtesy Bigstock.

Southern California 180

Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 180

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. Where was the technology for this developed? The onus for us is really about the technical validation of the assay.

USC 100

USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2009

Pasadena-based X1 Technologies, a developer of desktop and enterprise search software, is setting its sights on the eDiscovery market, saying this morning that it has created a new offering specifically aimed at the eDiscovery market. X1 Technologies is backed by Idealab and US Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Idealab Software Review Technical Review Pasadena 113

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Speaking onstage at the Upfront Summit, an event at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. organized by the Los Angeles-based venture firm Upfront Ventures as a showcase for technology and investment talent in Southern California, venture investor Josh Kopelman spoke to the heightened pace of dealmaking at his own firm.

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IBM IBM Venture Capital Invest 164

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

Southern California 100

Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review Draper 100

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2018

Pasadena-based WaveMaker Three-Sixty Healthcare (www.wavemaker360.com) There are now a number of products, technology, and services which are being brought to market, which a few years ago had no way for an entrepreneur to generate money. So yes, our big focus is on technology and the more digital related businesses.

Startup 113

Startup Technical Review Software Review Artificial Inteligence 113

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

He kicked off the fest with his opening keynote, saying LA is a unique city of mash-ups, where tech, startups and entertainment – plus creativity, cultures, and passion – mix with successful results. RT @OEInnovation #SBF why I live in #LA: intersection of #beach #tech #entrepreneur #entertainment. & Women 2.0:

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Do you think you could have offered this earlier, or was it due to the scale that you could launch this? Sixteen months later, we're the biggest tech event in Southern California which is held on a regular basis. I think one of the main reasons, is that LA has some unique challenges when it comes to a technology community.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

I wrote a version of this post four years ago but given the hectic nature of today’s tech markets I thought it was worth revisiting and updating. I wrote directly to his assistant asking why he had cancelled and made it clear that I had not attended a conference in town due to my having accepted this meeting.

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Conference Startup Century City Email 369

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2012

You’ve taken care of the 1) product, 2) marketing, 3) overall experience (to garner positive reviews), but then what? How do you guarantee a simply favorable review versus a regularly returning loyal customer?

Software Review 95

Software Review Idealab Pasadena Customer 95

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The Pasadena firm''s co-founders, Sean Lynch and Steve Curry , sat down with us to talk about the service. What does MetaCloud do?

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CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. Also, many of our deals were in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or London.

Rancho Palos Verdes 150

Rancho Palos Verdes Santa Monica Venture Capital Startup 150

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2012

You’ve taken care of the 1) product, 2) marketing, 3) overall experience (to garner positive reviews), but then what? How do you guarantee a simply favorable review versus a regularly returning loyal customer?

Software Review 61

Software Review Idealab Pasadena Customer 61

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2010

Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. This week, the firm announced that it was renaming itself Contour Energy (www.contourenergy.com)--and said it was ready to talk about what its battery technology is all about.

CalTech 168

CalTech Technical Review Azusa Venture Capital 168

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

—Xconomy rounded up some post-election thoughts from several local tech and life science leaders , which included a mix of outrage, resiliency, hope, rationalizing, grandstanding, and some calls for calm and reason. Bagger is helping run the transition. CRISPR DEVELOPMENTS. 6 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patents Study Pricing Research 87

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. Existing tech or industry executives - Do you have strong relationships in your industry?

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

For our interview today, we caught up with Al Eisaian , CEO of Pasadena-based IconApps (www.iconapps.com), which is developing mobile applications for the iPhone market. Al Eisaian: IconApps is built around simplifying people's lives through mobile technology. We caught up with Al recently to hear about his latest startup.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2011

If your curiosity is getting the best of you, be sure to check out some of the cool travelers contests the Pasadena based startup has run like “Ultimate Adventures&# and “Mongol Rally&#. Each time not only arming lucky winners with travel prizes but a camera to share their experiences.

Social Media 89

Social Media Startup Sites Tips 89

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Lynda Weinman: With the downturn due to the dot com crash, our school business died on the vine.

Startup 242

Startup Web Design Writing Web 242

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

You can link profiles together, rate and review companies, and reach outside companies with links. in angel capital from the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, and other unaffiliated angels. Over time, as companies take control of their profiles, it becomes more and more unique. It's a full-blown, B2B social network.

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SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100