SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 15, 2019

Thursday, January 17, 2019 -- CES 2019 at UCLA Anderson. Technology based disruptions are affecting almost every sector today including transportation, healthcare, financial services and retail. They are also affecting industry structure, organizational capabilities and the future of work for humans and machines/robots.

Invest 100

Invest UCLA Research Organization 100

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JANUARY 14, 2016

Niklas was most recently Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Newborn Services at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center and a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. as its new Chief Medical and Scientific Officer.

UCLA 100

UCLA City of Industry City of Industry Help 100

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Graduway , a developer of software used for alumni engagement and career services management, has scored an investment from Manhattan Beach-based investor K1 Investment Management. The company said its software is being used by such schools as UCLA, University of Oxford, University of Wisconsin, University of Arizona and Tulane University.

Manhattan Beach 113

Manhattan Beach Invest UCLA Education 113

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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.

UCLA 204

UCLA Research Tech Coast Angels Offshore 204

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MARCH 16, 2018

The company pointed at the diversity in Los Angeles, the area's reputation as a growing tech hub, and the availability of graduates from California Institute of Technology, UCLA and USC as reason for locating in Los Angeles.

Artificial Inteligence 133

Artificial Inteligence Education Startup USC 133

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.

Artificial Inteligence 256

Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 256

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 -- Services For the Global Enterprise: Opportunities in Security, Mobility, Wireless and Cloud Computing. Services For the Global Enterprise - Opportunities in Security, Mobility, Wireless and Cloud Computing [link] The I.T. CIO Impacts Forum. See [link] (more).

CIO 100

CIO Services Cloud Computing UCLA 100

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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Help Startup UCLA Tool 195

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, October 27, at UCLA. Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Followed by a FREE cocktail and apps reception for all attendees. Event Details.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

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MARCH 9, 2018

Bird, which is led by founder and CEO Travis VanderZanden, offers up electric scooters as part of its service. Bird currently offers up its services in Santa Monica, Venice, UCLA, Westwood, and San Diego, and is looking at a nationwide expansion with the new funding. City Operations. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica 113

Santa Monica UCLA Venice San Diego 113

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MARCH 11, 2013

VAL9000 develops a service which gives physicians access to medical records via phone, providing notes, update charts, and patient data via voice commands. VAL9000's technology was developed at the UCLA Medical Center. Allscripts said more than 200 developers entered the challenge. READ MORE>>.

Pacific Palisades 159

Pacific Palisades UCLA Software Technology 159

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

The firm showed off its service at the DEMO conference today, saying that its service is now available at both USC and UCLA, and will soon launch at Stanford. Flinja was co-founded by Victor Young, Rebecca Bahr, and Calvin Shen, and was part of the Summer 2012 class from Howard Marks' StartEngine effort. READ MORE>>.

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UCLA USC Class Conference 145

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

SecureTheVillage joins UCLA Extension for its first cybersecurity conference: CYBERSECURE LOS ANGELES 2017. You'll LEARN FROM leading information security professionals and law enforcement, including: information security providers, cyber-insurance, financial services, law, the LA County District Attorney’s Office, and more.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Angel UCLA Guide 100

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Car sharing service ZipCar announced today that it is in a "significant expansion" of its car sharing network in the Los Angeles area, and has opened up a regional office in the city, the 16th for the firm. The firm is one of the first car sharing services in Los Angeles.

Pomona 157

Pomona USC UCI UCLA 157

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

At The Pool , the startup headed by Alex Capecelatro, is getting set for a big launch event Tuesday evening, as the firm launches its service to connect like-minded people in real life. At The Pool's founders are all out of UCLA. At The Pool said it now has members in every major U.S. city, and in more than 50 countries outside the US.

Clearstone 166

Clearstone UCLA Startup Capital 166

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based MyLife.com , the online, unified social networking service headed by Jeff Tinsley, said today that it has moved to a new, corporate headquarters in Westwood. The new headquarters are among a cluster of technology companies who are just around the corner from UCLA. READ MORE>>.

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MyLife UCLA Social Network Incubator 147

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.

Hollywood 254

Hollywood Cloud Computing Netflix Google 254

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Peer-to-peer car sharing service Wheelz has expanded into the Los Angeles, saying that it has added four college campuses in Los Angeles to its list of local schools where it lets students share their cars with others. Wheelz lets people offer up their cars for rent, via a special in-car box and integrated smartphone apps. READ MORE>>.

Los Angeles 140

Los Angeles Claremont Angel CalTech 140

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JANUARY 28, 2013

San Diego-based Cubic Transportation Systems , which provides payment and information technology and services for the transit industry, said last week that it has acquired NextBus , a provider of real-time passenger information systems for more than 100 transit agencies in the United States. The firm's headquarters are in San Diego.

San Diego 147

San Diego UCLA Los Angeles Custom 147

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AUGUST 3, 2012

According to a survey sent out through a local professional engineering organization this morning, a local college is exploring whether it would be meaningful to the Ventura County community to start an engineering program to service the needs of employers in the area.

Ventura 191

Ventura Orange County Santa Barbara CalTech 191

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Peter Cowen is the founder of Sutton Capital Partners (www.suttoncapitalpartners.com), a technology investment bank focused on SaaS, FinTech, Infrastructure and tech-enabled outsourced business services. Peter has also been on the Faculty of UCLA Anderson for the past 10 years. READ MORE>>.

Capital 113

Capital Southern California Technical Review SaaS 113

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

It looks like Los Angeles is set to get access to peer-to-peer car sharing service Zipcar , as it plans to open an office in Hollywood tomorrow. GetAround, another venture backed peer-to-peer car rental service, already has a Southern California beachhead in San Diego. Zipcar has been inviting the press to an event tomorrow with L.A.

Los Angeles 213

Los Angeles Angel Southern California Startup 213

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Peter Cowen is the founder of Sutton Capital Partners (www.suttoncapitalpartners.com), a technology investment bank focused on SaaS, FinTech, Infrastructure and tech-enabled outsourced business services. Peter has also been on the Faculty of UCLA Anderson for the past 10 years. READ MORE>>.

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Capital Southern California SaaS SoCal 124

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Hosted by UCLA-WINMEC, and UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center. Tuesday, September 28, 2010 -- Electric Vehicle Integration Into the Smart Grid of the Future.

UCLA 100

UCLA Research Technology Services 100

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

Southern California 200

Southern California Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 200

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

The group said it found that since 2008, 54% of UCLA's engineering graduates have chosen to relocate from the area, which the group called a "brain drain" to the region. The group also said it plans to launch a new program called the Edge.LA READ MORE>>.

Los Angeles 242

Los Angeles Technology Culver City Angel 242

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JANUARY 23, 2013

Instead, we partner with all the companies provide those services. Walter Grieves: We partnered with USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Anderson, Annenberg Center, we have an internship program. We had the AT&T hackathon here in April, UCLA hackathon. We hosted Digital LA's Silicon Beach Fest recently.

Google 253

Google Tech Coast Angels Screening Santa Monica 253

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

An online marketplace for legal services. Get free bids from lawyers on the documents and services you need! AppMyForm, an environmentally conscious new service offered by RGBmobile, enables any paper form to easily be converted into a customized Mobile Content Capture app, digital record and process launch mechanism.

UCLA 97

UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

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JUNE 27, 2019

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. I think that the second thing people haven't been using this for yet, but should, is for customer service.

Dollar Shave Club 113

Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 113

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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. Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. What do your apps do?

Mobile 162

Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In the Best venture funding in software/services, Edgecast , the content delivery network (CDN) provider, was the winner, with finalists including Eucalyptus Systems , Factual , and SV Network. Finalists were CODA Automotive , Fisker Automotive , and Amonix.

LAVA 166

LAVA Zumbox Technology ReachLocal 166

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APRIL 22, 2009

The person-to-person marketplace was started by a number of UCLA undergraduates. According to Capital Factory, the firm was one of five companies to receive $20,000 in funding and an additional $20,000 in services; as a result of the funding, the startup is moving to Austin.

Incubator 100

Incubator Startup UCLA Los Angeles 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

Los Angeles is the only place in the US with a collegiate hackathon, an event where programmers spend hours together programming and building, of that scale and the LA Hacks team from UCLA made sure it was awesome. We want UCLA to be the top tech school that comes to mind.” And they did a good job with it.

UCLA 108

UCLA Los Angeles Snapchat USC 108

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

LA Cleantech Incubator , officially launched last week, and was created by Los Angeles Cleantech Alliance, a group supported by Mayor's Office, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Community Redevelopment Agency for Los Angeles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UCLA, USC, CalTech, and Arts Center College of Design.

Southern California 216

Southern California Orange County Incubator Tech Coast Angels 216

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The new group, The Tech CEO Network , said it is looking to help bridge between the technology present at local schools like Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, and other universities, and actual, viable companies. The founders of the group, Richard Koffler and John Morris , are two well known investors in the Los Angeles area.

Research 164

Research Tech Coast Angels Company Companies 164

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Robert Ramey Software Development (www.rrsd.com/socal ) - We provide services for the design and development of products requiring expertise in software, electronics, and mechanical engineering. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services.

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

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MARCH 1, 2013

Who is the ideal audience for this service--studios, independents, others? Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. Where's the service now? Darren Marble: Top-tier, independent filmmakers. What's your background?

Hollywood 256

Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256