socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2015

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, spun out of UCLA, is in the midst of looking to commercialize a technique developed by researchers at the school to create easily printable supercapacitors--circuits which, in the future, could further shrink the size of mobile electronics.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

Blake Krikorian , the UCLA graduate who founded Sling Media , the maker of the Slingbox, has died, at the age of 48, according to reports trickling out of Silicon Valley. Krikorian had received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA in 1990, and also played on UCLA's Men's Water Polo team. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 24, 2018

Justice Department investigates cryptocurrency and price manipulation; PeerStreet passes $1 billion mark in real estate loans; UCLA Magnify looks for tech and life science startups.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 12, 2018

million for UCLA rechargeable research Ashton Kutcher’s VC opens $150 million funding round; Cleantech and Clean Energy kick off climate-change challenge; $9.75

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UCLA Funding Venture Capital Research 100

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Two people associated with Southern California's high tech investment and startup industry have been named as part of the far reaching investigation into a college admissions scandal , which named Hollywood actresses, CEOs, coaches at USC, UCLA, and UCSD, as well as many others. According to a complaint filed by the U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

This weekend UCLA has put together 48hr Startup and TechZulu will be there to bring you all the final startup presentations live. UCLA 48hr Startup brings together people with technical, design or business background to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. You can signup here. The top team receives prizes.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 15, 2017

City of Los Angeles launches cyberattack warning center, US government demands details on visitors to anti-Trump website hosted by DreamHost, and UCLA Extension creates Innovation Lab program.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 21, 2017

Million, Hyperloop One’s Chief Marketing Officer Kimberly Salzer leaves for Ozobot, and CalTech, UCLA ranked top universities for technology transfer. acquires geofilter patent from Mobi for $7.7

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Patents CalTech UCLA Report 113

L.A. Business Journal

MAY 7, 2018

Snap taps Amazon exec as CFO; UCLA among 400 sites caught in cryptocurrency hack; Sirius XM opening in Hollywood

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based ImagineAb , a spinout of UCLA which is developing diagnostic imaging technology, reported Monday that it has been awarded $2.3M ImagineAB was founded in 2007 by three UCLA faculty. in funding, from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

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UCLA Research Los Angeles Report 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Despite the fact LA lacking VCs, Be Great reports VCs and angel firms invested an average of about $4 million, ranging from $25,000 to $30 million.

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socalTECH

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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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. Join TechZulu as we celebrate LA’s most exciting tech creations of the moment with the brightest digital minds and engineering talents this side of Fresno. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The firm had previously reported a 6.77 Solarmer develops flexible, plastic-based solar cells, and is based on technology spun out of UCLA. The firm said the efficiency breaks the world record for plastic solar cell efficiency. percent efficiency in its cells. The firm said the efficiency was tested by Newport Corporation's TAC-PV Lab.

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UCLA Los Angeles Report Technology 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The new funding came to light in this week's PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree report. Kythera is backed by ARCH Venture Partners, Prospect Venture Partners, Versant Ventures, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Altitude Life Science Ventures, JAFCO, BBT/Apothecary Capital, and UCLA Venture Capital Fund.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

La Jolla-based Aragon Pharmaceuticals reported Wednesday that it has raised $8M in a Series A financing. Aragon's technology comes from research developed at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and UCLA. The company said it is initially focused on prostate and breast cancer. READ MORE>>.

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UCLA Venture Capital Research Report 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Los Angeles-based NanoH2O is reporting that it has secured $15M in additional funding, for the firm's water desalination technology. NanoH2O is developing reverse osmosis membranes based on technology from UCLA, and is applying that technology for water desalination. READ MORE>>

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future.

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.Net Report Web Research 87

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. The work he performs is a mixture of research and enterprise, with UCLA being a hotbed petri dish of industry.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. That provides much better reporting to sponsors. We're now the biggest provider of mobile applications in college. What do your apps do?

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

As you may have seen in a recent report, when that happens, it's death for those businesses. Our team comes from two different areas, at UCLA and Stanford, and we have some DNA from the University of Pennsylvania. Michael Greenberg: My original background was in theoretical physics, at UCLA. How did you start the company?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Peter has advised and invested in over 50 early stage companies and 8 VC seed funds, including MindBody, Cognition Technologies (sold to Nuance), StyleHaul (sold to Bertelsmann), Postmates, ESalon, Provention Bio (NSDQ: PVRB), Docupace, Winc, , List Reports, Wheels, Ranker and CUE (NSDQ: CUE). READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

Mann, to his credit, with his multi-billion dollar foundation, he offered to find out what was going on, offering $100 million to UCLA to find out what was going on. Unfortunately, UCLA''s money dried up due to legal issues. Coming up May 15th is the submission deadline for the report of what we''re going to do.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (www.biztechlaw.com). Technology. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Advertisers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. They designed the next gen UI for the film The Minority Report. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. And do so in real life, too. downtown LA].

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

An inadvertant bump led on the crowded Southwest flight prompted a conversation between Spitulski and Zhu, and by flight’s end, Zach had agreed to leave UCLA to join the startup. Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet. He’d just finished his third year and had built his own top-performing apps.).

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Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Congrats to That’s Suspicious Behavior (USC), the female-led team which won the grand prize in the student pitch fest with ten teams competing from USC, UCLA and Yale via 5-min presentations at CoWorks. Thanks to students and organizer UCLA comp sci Ph.D ShipMate (UCLA) took second place and Where My Dogs At (USC) placed third.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

An inadvertant bump led on the crowded Southwest flight prompted a conversation between Spitulski and Zhu, and by flight’s end, Zach had agreed to leave UCLA to join the startup. Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet. He’d just finished his third year and had built his own top-performing apps.).

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Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” At the tender age of 15, Tanz teamed up with his friend Michael Schneider (the CEO of MobileRoadie ), to create the design firm Fluid Design.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

You may also be surprised to know that not only does LA graduate more engineers than anywhere else in America but we also have more top 25 engineering programs than anywhere else in America with nationally acclaimed programs at Caltech, UCSD (my alma mater), USC, UCLA and Harvey Mudd. What Do We See From the Road Ahead?

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). million in SF Bay Area ).

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