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The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. USC also reported that it owns equity in 32 startups, though none of those startups were identified. READ MORE>>.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum.
Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum.
Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC.
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Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. As the line blurs between tech and entertainment, and as Silicon Valley seeks synergy with L.A.’s One after another, tech and entertainment companies – and hybrids of the two – have taken root here. commercial real estate market.
What we've done, is we've taken technology originally developed at USC, a CIA funded project, and gained global commercial rights for the non-security sector. As a former VC, why'd you decide to get involved with BigStage and back to the operating side? However, I've only spent 5 and a half years of the last thirty in venturecapital.
We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that. While we happen to be located here, we have panels throughout today and tomorrow, talking about where in LA should I build my startup -- we have people from Hollywood, Pasadena, USC, talking about those neighborhoods.
We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venturecapital funds and many of them. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained.
Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. We made a decision not to go for venturecapital early. This is my third company.
We spoke with Kristztina "Z" Holly --most recently, Vice Provost for Innovation at USC--about what Mayor Garcetti''s EIR program is all about, and her vision for how it might help shape the industry in Los Angeles. A lot of people think of Los Angeles--rightfully so--as a creative hub, and just equate us with media and entertainment.
Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venturecapital. I was just at USC yesterday, and they''re really focused on great things in science in engineering. It''s got its mission, and capital, and we''re up and working.
But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venturecapital into the region. So, despite their rivalries and silos, people have come together, and we now have all 5 UC campuses in Southern California, plus Caltech, Harvey Mudd, USC, UC San Diego, and others involved.
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