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JUNE 19, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- Meet the VC: Anthem Venture Partners. Meet the VC brings entrepreneurs and VCs together. See [link] (more).

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Venture Capital OCTANE Anthem Entrepreneur 100

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Thursday, September 24, 2009 -- Meet the VC: Accuitive Medical Ventures. OCTANe's Meet the VC series brings entrepreneurs and VCs together. Join us as we meet Gerard van Hamel Platerink from Accuitive Medical Ventures.

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Venture Capital OCTANE Entrepreneur Invest 100

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MAY 28, 2009

Thursday, May 28, 2009 -- Meet The VC. Join us for an informative (and informal) discussion with Dave Ryan of Mission Ventures. Dave will describe his firm's investment philosphy, investment process, and the current state of VC fundraising and investment. This event is for entrepreneurs only.

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Venture Capital OCTANE Southern California Mission Ventures 100

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Visionary Ventures Fund is a new, Orange County-based venture capital investment firm, focused on opthalmology investments, which works directly with the OCTANe Launch Pad accelerator; Tigris Ventures is a seed stage funding and medical device incubator located in Del Mar. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County OCTANE San Diego Incubator 113

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009 -- Meet the VC: Saban Ventures. Join us as we meet Craig Cooper and Richard Yen from Saban Ventures. Together, they have experience at six leading VC firms from across the country so attendees will also get insight into the VC community in Silicon Valley, Southern California, and New York.

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Venture Capital OCTANE Southern California Mobile 100

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MAY 2, 2017

Aliso Viejo-based Visionary Venture Fund , a new venture capital firm specifically focused on only investing in opthalmology companies, has closed its first round of funding for a targeted $30M venture fund, the company announced on Tuesday. Jeffry Weinhuff is Managing Partner of the new fund. READ MORE>>.

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Funding Invest OCTANE Venture Capital 113

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JULY 17, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009 -- Special Joint TCVN and OCTANe Forum - Raising Money: Meet The VC's. For this special program, TCVN and OCTANe are joining forces to produce a timely, interactive program on venture capital financing in todays difficult times. Two programs for the price of one! See [link] (more).

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TCVN Venture Capital OCTANE Pricing 100

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

We''re honored to have the following folks helping us to pare down the hundreds of names we''ve received so far for the Socaltech 100, and we''ll be providing profiles of our selection committee in the coming weeks. Interested in sponsoring the awards?

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SoCalTech Southern California Venture Capital OCTANE 183

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AUGUST 13, 2013

The startup was one of the startups in OCTANE''s Launchpad program. myidkey arkami venture capital funding kickstarter password crowdsourcing' Arkami was created by technology veterans Tareq Risheq and Mark Thacker, and had originally raised money via Kickstarter for its secure, USB drive. READ MORE>>.

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OCTANE Venture Capital Funding Capital 157

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AUGUST 23, 2021

The company said it was founded by Rob Loughan (former founder of Octane Software) and Al MacDonald (CEO of NominoData). The company said the funds will go towards the acquisition and collection of data, and also go to expand its artificial intelligence search, monitoring, and natural language processing capabilities.

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Artificial Inteligence Tool OCTANE Seed Funding 113

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MAY 8, 2012

Join CleanTechOC and OCTANe for the inaugural Cleantech Investor Forum on May 14. The Forum will bring together over 250 innovators and experts in the cleantech space across California.

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OCTANE Venture Capital Startup Invest 113

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MAY 31, 2012

The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States. As a collaboration between PwC and the National Venture Capital Association, based upon data from Thomson Reuters, it is the only industry-endorsed research of its kind. Wednesday, June 6, 2012 -- PwC MoneyTree Report.

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Report OCTANE Press Venture Capital 100

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MARCH 4, 2013

Technology veterans Tareq Risheq and Mark Thacker are no strangers to the world of high tech startups and angel and venture capital--Risheq was formerly CEO of Celllynx, Thacker was co-founder at Datallegro--but the way they're funding their newest startup is unusual, and a testament to the growing popularity of crowdfunding.

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Orange County OCTANE High Tech Venture Capital 196

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

LAVA says it has recently been working on strengthening ties across the region with the Innovation Network of Southern California (INSoCal) with OCTANe and the San Diego Venture Group. LAVA's day to day operations are managed by Executive Director Len Lanzai. READ MORE>>.

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LAVA OCTANE Southern California Pasadena Angels 113

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Harbor MedTech's technology was developed at Edwards Lifesciences, and the company was a part of the OCTANe LaunchPad program. The firm is headed by Jerry Mezger. Mezger was recently CEO of NeoMend.

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Orange County Technology OCTANE Venture Capital 133

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MARCH 29, 2012

CleanTechOC and OCTANe. California companies continue to bring in the majority of cleantech venture capital dollars, raising $2.8 Wednesday, April 4, 2012 -- So You Want to be a CleanTech CEO? Experiences and stories from the trenches with a panel of cleantech company CEOs. billion in 2011.

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OCTANE Venture Capital Capital Companies 113

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JUNE 7, 2012

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 -- Successful Medical Device Company Commercialization Without Venture Capital.

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Case Study Company Companies OCTANE 100

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MAY 14, 2010

Marc Averitt, Okapi Venture Capital; Douglas Crawford, QB3 Garage; Michael Guiliana, Knobbe Martens; Stephen Jenks, UCI/Hiperwall; Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe; and Jacob Levin, UCI. Speakers include B. See [link] (more).

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UCI OCTANE Incubator Mentor 100

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APRIL 12, 2013

Although it might still be on the early side for an analysis, we''ve run our numbers again to figure out who''s having the biggest success so far in the market, where entrepreneurs are most likely to find capital providers hanging out, and where (if anywhere) are exits happening? We''ve analyzed our database of angel and. Our analysis.

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Southern California Incubator Report Startup 222

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JANUARY 8, 2010

As private and venture capital sources of funding are shrinking, the Federal government has expanded the amount of funding available to private sector companies. Thursday, January 14, 2010 -- Funding Sources Within the Federal Government.

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Funding OCTANE Venture Capital Capital 100

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MARCH 23, 2011

A Bit Lucky is also backed by Accel Partners ' Seed Fund, Rembrandt Venture Partners , Blumberg Capital , SV Angel, The Founder Collective , Felicis Ventures , Charles and Kai Huang (Co-Founders of Red Octane), Mark Jung (Co-Founder and CEO of IGN), David Lawee (Head of M&A at Google), Joshua Schachter (Founder of Delicious), Lerer Ventures , and (..)

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OCTANE Seed Funding Google Training 150

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Our selection committee -- which included Marc Averitt (Okapi Venture Capital), Barbara Bry (Blackbird Ventures, founder of Proflowers), Amanda Coolong (TechZulu), Peter Delgrosso (D&B Credibility, formerly of Web.com, United Online), John Greathouse (Rincon Venture Partners, formerly at ExpertCity, CallWave), Matthew Jenusaitis (OCTANe), Mike (..)

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Angel Investors & Venture Capital. Groups like Tech Coast Angels and Octane hold pitch sessions to hear entrepreneurs sell their businesses. Venture Capital, Business, Management, Funding, Money, SBA, Lending, Equity. Its rate is tied to prime (currently prime +2.5% WIN Opportunities, Inc. www.WINopp.com.

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Startup Tech Coast Angels TCVN Incubator 124

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 24, 2011

I am currently at the annual VC in the OC program held in Irvine CA by OCTANe , an organization that connects people and ideas to resources and capital in Orange County. Over 600 people came to this event to listen share and network, including entrepreneurs, VC’s and investors.

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Orange County OCTANE Technical Review Outsource Development 104

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

We spoke with Kevin shortly before the holidays about the firm, as well as how he connected with Allan at an OCTANe event. Kevin Strong: I actually met Allan at an OCTANe event, back in March or early April. We built that to 50 people with funding from a VC in Ireland closely connected with the European company.

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Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. Quick caveats: having fewer investors (3-5) is better than many investors (10-15) and PLEASE make sure you hire a great lawyer who has experience in doing start-ups to avoid pitfalls that will make VC harder down the line. They might be as hard as raising VC.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Matthew has seen hundreds of startups pitch funding though OCTANe’s LaunchPad program. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57