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APRIL 20, 2021

The competition challenged teams to convert CO2 emissions into valuable products. CarbonCure Technologies, the Alberta track winner from Canada, demonstrated a technology which enabled the production of concrete with a reduced water and carbon footprint without sacrifice to the material's reliability.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. Innovation does not always equal invention. ARPANET becomes the Internet.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 13, 2011

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 -- Health Care Convergence: The Business of Research, Product and Delivery. Discussion with leading women in Health Care and Biotech that focuses on health care research, product development and delivery from a business perspective. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 -- Sustainable Product and Smart Grid System Design Program. This program will be jointly taught between Dr. Sanjeev Jain and Dr. Rajit Gadh of UCLA. The first part of the program will present Sustainable Product Design and the second part of the program will present Sustainable Smart Grid System Design.

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DECEMBER 4, 2015

The startup said it is developing novel drugs based on the anti-cancer activity of metformin and designed to reduce cancer energy production to treat a range of cancer types. The company was founded by Dr. Michael Jung and Dr. Richard Pietras, both of whom are professors at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 3, 2010

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 -- Sustainable Product Design and Smart Grid System Architecture Program. This program will be jointly taught between Dr. Sanjeev Jain and Professor Rajit Gadh of UCLA.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

The companies said the funding will provide Graduway with "significant resources" to continue its growth and innovatino efforts, as well as to expand its product suite, plus to help it grow its operations in North America. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. Microsoft , MySpace , WIX and Nokia all joined the Sponsors list by providing funds and products to distribute as awards. Show as slideshow].

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AUGUST 31, 2015

Water Planet said the investment came from Air Liquide's ALIAD Corporate Venture fund, Bluestem Capital and UCLA Venture Fund. Water Planet is led by Eric Hoek, the former UCLA and UC Riverside professor who created the membrane technology behind another, water filtering membrane startup, NanoH2O, which is now part of LG.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat 's newest product--Snap-recording sunglasses--is the result of the work of another, Los Angeles startup--Vergence Labs--which was quietly acquired by Snapchat back in 2014. Business Insider tells the story of Vergence Labs , founded by Erick Miller and Jonathan Rodriguez, and their roots at UCLA and Stanford.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. They could send only the “LO” of “LOGON” before recording the very first crash of the Internet.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

The funding, a Series C, will be used to continue expanding Boulevard’s product and engineering teams and to build out more tools targeting an ever-wider set of users in the bigger wellness and beauty sector (those product additions are typically big — it most recently added a whole new payments feature).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

the new electric car startup led by car designer Henrik Fisker, has announced its first vehicle, the Fisker EMotion , saying that it will tap technology from a UCLA spinout to help power the vehicle. a UCLA spinout specifically working on graphene research. Los Angeles-based Fisker Inc. , READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, October 27, at UCLA. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Moving beyond the Internet, we have spawned companies with breakthrough technologies in robotics, renewable energy and automotive design and production among others. Event Details.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. UCLA doesn’t aim to make a financial return. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Los Angeles-based Tribogenics , the UCLA spinout which is developing hand held X-ray devices, has rolled out its first product, a handheld device for analyzing metal alloys.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 18, 2020

Here’s how the letter digitally signed by the FDA’s chief science officer, Denise Hinton, describes the Rucative test: To use your product, SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid is first extracted, isolated and purified from oropharyngeal (throat) swab, nasopharyngeal swab, nasal swab, and oral fluid specimens.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Culver City-based SOFIE BIOSCIENCES , a developer of imaging diagnostics products, reported earlier this week that it has received $1.8M The company is working with a researcher at UCLA on the SBIR project. in a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. READ MORE>>. sofie biosciences lifescience scientific equipment probes'

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AUGUST 15, 2012

A new, Los Angeles startup, FitKit --started by a team of doctors and computer science students at UCLA--is launching today, looking to help make nutrition advice personal for online users. The startup was founded by Dr. Robin Bernhoft, Josh Haynam, Matthew Clark, Rohit Seth, along with Dr. Nicholas Bitz and Ethan Paulson. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 31, 2014

It isn’t the biggest secret that the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins aren’t the best of friends, especially on the football field. Cent (2 nd place Tech), a company from UCLA that allows easy use of crypto currencies.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Culver City-based molecular imaging products maker Sofie Biosciences said Tuesday that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. Sofie Biosciences--which is a spinout of UCLA and Caltech--said the funding will go towards further development of its technology.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

According to Tribogenics, the funds goes towards commercialization of its handheld XRF analyzer products, which allow X-rays to be taken from a small, handheld device. Tribogenics is a spinout of technology originally developed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Thousand Oaks-based ImmunGene , a startup biotech company developing antibody-based, protein therapeutics for treating cancer, said today that it has raised $9M in a Series A funding, to advance its early stage development products. According to the company, the funding came from Ally Bridge Group. The startup is led by Sanjay D. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

Cubic is a diversified provider of defense, transportation, and RFID products with more than 7,800 employees. NextBus supplies its systems to Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Boston, in additoin to other customers like UCLA and MIT. The firm's headquarters are in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

in a venture funding round, to transform carbon nanomaterials research from UCLA and USC and bring it to market. We have been working on this at UCLA and USC, where we have been developing the technology, and obviously been putting forward patents, licensing, and developing know-how. How did the team come together? READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 2, 2014

Santa Monica-based biopharmaceuticals firm Kite Pharma , which is developing products for the treatment of cancer, said today that it has named David D. Chang, M.D., as its new Executive Vice President, Research and Development, and Chief Medical Officer. READ MORE>>. cancer biotech lifescience amgen executive pharmaceutical pharma kite'

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

NanoH2O said the new plant will go towards supplying its products in the Chinese market, and addressing the market in China for both desalination and wastewater treatment. NanoH2O''s technology was originally spun out of UCLA. NanoH2O said the new plant will cost a total of $45M, and be operational by the end of 2014. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

His startup, Culver City-based Hyphos , just launched an early beta access at UCLA--his alma mater, and that of a number of his co-founders--this week, so we thought we'd learn more about what drove him to quit his job, and start the company. We noticed you have lots of UCLA folks involved in the business--what's the link to UCLA?

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APRIL 5, 2011

Rajaraman is an alum of UCLA Anderson's MBA program. The contest will be judged by Ed Burns (Saving Private Ryan); Steven De Souza (Die Hard) Break Media development team and executives. Scripped.com is the former, Los Angeles-based scriptwriting site headed by Sunil Rajaraman. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The attractive by-product is that I am reading more and working out more. Peter has also been on the Faculty of UCLA Anderson for the past 10 years. He has a BA from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from UCLA Anderson. Finally, what is your prediction for what will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2018?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The last university team recognized by Popular Mechanics comes out of UCLA. Tags: southern california inventor ucla innovation. The magazine, which announced its 2010 Breakthrough Rewards today, recognized Armand Tanguay of the University of Southern California, Yu-Chong Tai of the California Insitute of Technology, and Robert J.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

The plant--which currently is producing ethanol--will be converted to product isobutanol using Gevo's technology. Tags: gevo biofuels clean energy fuel alternative cleantech caltech ucla technology transfer. Gevo's technology is based on research developed out of Caltech, although the firm is now located in Colorado. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

Founded by a former Pixar and DreamWorks animator, Rex Grignon, Nimble launched in 2014 and has raised just under $10 million from investors including the UCLA VC Fund and New Enterprise Associates, according to Crunchbase.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

San Diego-based Novatel Wireless , which develops wireless broadband cards and other products, announced this morning that it has added Russell C. Gerns has served at Scientific Data Systems/Xerox, Computer Machinery Corporation, Cipher Data Products, and Rexon/Legacy Storage Systems. Gerns to its board of directors.

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