socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2009

Capital Factory , a business incubation program based in Austin, Texas, has lured away a Los Angeles startup, Homstie , which operates an online marketplace which helps people find places to store their stuff. The person-to-person marketplace was started by a number of UCLA undergraduates.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Carpenter--who also is an attorney--had been a quarterback for UCLA. X1 Discovery is one of the companies out of Pasadena's Idealab startup incubator, and shares its headquarters with Idealab. Carpenter was most recently CEO of Fronteo, and also served at Kroll Ontrack, Recommind, and AccessData.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In just the last few weeks, at least five different incubation/acceleration efforts have booted up in the region. Specifically targeted at clean techonlogy firms, the group has more of a traditional incubator program, offering up office space for 6-8 companies, along with support, resources, and mentorship.

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socalTECH

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.

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Services Startup UCLA Incubator 185

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2013

JumpStartFund--which is based in El Segundo--said its community has voted to name the company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies , and also has tapped into ANSYS, GloCal Network Corporation, and UCLA"s Architecture and Urban Design program SUPRASTUDIO to work on the effort. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The new headquarters are among a cluster of technology companies who are just around the corner from UCLA. MyLife's new building is in the same building as incubator Elevator Labs, compliance software and services firm LRN, and is the same building which was the headquarters for PeopleSupport. READ MORE>>.

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MyLife UCLA Social Network Incubator 147

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D. Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures has had another exit in its portfolio, this time with the acquisition of Cetas , a developer of cloud data analytics software, by VMware. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Blackstone LaunchPad program has been operating at UCLA since 2014. According to Blackstone and the University of California, they are expanding their Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars program with $5M, and expansion to more UC campuses. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Caltech generates more patents than any other university while UCLA boasts more startups founded by its graduate than any other school in the nation. Suster has also noted for years that the region produces more technology doctorates than any other geography in the United States.

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Southern California Dollar Shave Club SoCal Develop 224

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

The group said that the winners with Stanford Nitrogen Group , Greenbiotics , and Xite Solar will split the $200,000 in prize money, and also will gain access to the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator.

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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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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. We started the incubator with the idea of helping people with ideas, and making some investments,” he said. Jean Balgrosky.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I have been able to work closer with my entrepreneurs, as well as closer with other incubators and accelerators than would have been the case. Caltech and UCLA are now equidistant from CU Boulder and MIT, and that has been a surprising benefit. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

How is this different than accelerator or incubator? David Carter: There is a lot of misunderstanding on what an incubator is, and what an accelerator is. When I was at Amplify, we had a lot of people wondering what an accelerator was, and how we differentiated from an incubator. That''s why creative people seek out Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

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.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. So this would have been a lot more difficult if those labs weren't available to you as a company in the incubator?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. An example of that is the UCLA flood. So, he launched Watsup, and the first thing it showed was a highlight of the UCLA flooding. What drove your interest in this area?

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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. This is really also funded because of Mike and my other project, the 101 incubator.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Twenty-two years later, the tech presence here has not only grown, but the city is now home to dozens of accelerators and incubators for startups. in Business and Economics from the UCLA. When I started my first company in 1997 during the middle of the dot com Gold Rush, there were 8-10 meaningful companies in the LA ecosystem.

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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. LA brings forth a lot of talent from USC, UCLA, and Caltech.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

We've been able to get a bunch of applications already through word of moth, from talks at different classes, and most recently at the UCLA Business School. USC is producing lots of very talented game professionals, and so is UCLA. There are some very talented students who have a vision, and have been interested in participating.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Incubator: Amplify LA. VSI2 enables student collaboration with partners, mentors, and startup visionaries to incubate the brightest young minds of today into tomorrow’s groundbreaking tech wizards.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. We were also really happy when we first launched our beta at UCLA. TB: Well we went to UCLA and loved the weather here!

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Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. Just think what you could do if you had the top technologists from Caltech, UCLA, and the whole list presenting their major research to a room full of entrepreneurs looking for their next startup.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson. Who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine. Event Details.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). Quilici received a PhD in computer science from UCLA, and from 1991-1999 was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii. . Founder and senior writer for GigaOm.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Ian Harris - VP of Partnerships, LA Cleantech Incubator. Cleantech, a Misnomer.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. What is TenHands and why the name? Co-founder and COO Jack Blaeser was President of BT Conferencing Inc.

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Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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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, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time.

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