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Two major orangecountytechnology advocacy and business groups, OCTANe and the OrangeCounty Venture Group (OCVG) said today that they have merged their organizations. Both groups have regularly run events geared toward the high tech market in OrangeCounty.
A Silicon Valley-based provider of semiconductor failure analysis services has plans to expand in OrangeCounty. Nanolab Technologies recently announced that it has plans to open up a Failure Analysis (FA) Center of Excellence in OrangeCounty, as part of an expansion of the company. READ MORE>>.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 -- MOTM OrangeCounty. Paul Mobley leads the first Meeting of the Minds in OrangeCounty. Whether collaborating on marketing, development, sales strategies, emerging technologies; our intention is to inform and empower our members to optimize their respective endeavors.
An election battle in the 45th Congressional District--which encompasses much of OrangeCounty--has erupted, with one of the candidates support for Bitcoin at the center of some election ads.
La said he is specifically seeking early stage companies who are developing better payment processing technology. Jason Thanh La , the co-founder and CEO of payment processing company Merchant Services Group , said this week that he has committed to personally fund $1M to early stage companies in Southern California.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- MOTM OrangeCounty with Rhonda Rohrabacher.Rhonda Rohrabacher from Huntington Beach will be our guest speaker on November 17 at MOTM OrangeCounty.
Culver City-based personalized medicine technology developer NantHealth said yesterday that it has deploed its GPS Cancer product--which is used to help idenity personalized treatments for cancer patients--at the Children's Hospital of OrangeCounty.
It a position where it can only lose, SendGrid --the email SDK and services firm which has significant operations in OrangeCounty--has become the center of a controversy which has thrown the high tech industry's acceptance of women into stark contrast.
A new company, J5 Infrastructure Partners , has launched in OrangeCounty, after the acquisition of two companies by private equity investor Ridgemont Equity Partners. and TowerCom Technologies LLC , to form Irvine-based J5 Infrastructure Partners.
For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and OrangeCounty $63.1M In OrangeCounty, the biggest deals were for Irvine-based WaterHealth International , a developer of water purification products with $22.1M billion invested in the region.
As you all know TechZulu is a huge supporter of Startup Weekend, and when we had the chance to be part of the very first OrangeCounty (my home town) Startup Weekend we jumped on board. Maneesh focuses on the medical information technology markets. Amir Banifatemi.
Storage hardware developer Adaptec is shutting down its Lake Forest, OrangeCounty site, according to sources close to the company. Adaptec moved into Lake Forest in August of 2008, when it acquired Aristos Logic , a developer of RAID chips and technology. At that time, Aristos had approximately 75 employees.
Amir Banifatemi: K5Launch supports our larger vision, the K5 initiative, which was promoted last year to provide a more stable and vibrant community of entrepreneurship in Southern California, but mostly OrangeCounty. We are in OrangeCounty, but we're also focused more largely on Southern California.
The OC Tech Alliance , one of OrangeCounty''s industry groups which helps to promote the local technology industry, says today is the last day to submit a company or CEO for its annual awards event, the High-Tech Innovation Awards. All companies submitted must be in either OrangeCounty or the Inland Empire.
invested in OrangeCounty. In OrangeCounty, the largest deals were for Aliso Viejo's GaiKai , which raised $30.0M, Anaheim-based Fisker Automotive , with $25.0M invested, followed by Industrial/Energy--boosted by many clean technology investments--at $135.92M. Los Angeles received $260.0M in San Diego, and $141.4M
Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Technology and innovation has historically been the thing that has pulled the economy out of recessions, and I think that is especially true right now. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow.
Los Angeles-based electric car maker Faraday Future has named a new VP to head up its product and technology products, according to the company. According to Faraday Future, it has named Jeff Risher as the company's Vice President of Product, Technology, and IP Strategy. READ MORE>>.
For Southern California, OrangeCounty actually had the most dollars invested, with $239.6M For OrangeCounty, the investments were significantly higher than the Q4 investments of $48M in the area, boosted significantly by $115.3M Clean technology in Southern California represented $230.0M across 31 days.
Similarly, the firm is using a Y-Combinator/TechStars model to startups, and covers Los Angeles, OrangeCounty, and San Diego. The group's members include many member of the Tech Coast Angels, and has a goal of making Southern California, and particularly OrangeCounty, a more vibrant environment for tech startups.
Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology is one of the backers of a company developing adaptable, datacenter computing technology based on PCI-express fabrics. The company said its prior seed investment came from Kingston Technology, Phison Electronics, ABR Capital Management and DH Capital, and that it has now raised $20M in total.
Aliso Viejo-based semiconductor maker Microsemi is being acquired by fellow chip maker Microchip Technology , in a deal worth a massive, $8.35 The two did not say how the acquisition will affect Microsemi's large workforce in OrangeCounty. billion, the two said on Thursday. According to the two, Microchip will pay $68.78
The accelerator said that it is aiming at helping entrepreneurs--particularly in the social and mobile technology space--in Los Angeles, San Diego, and OrangeCounty with pre-seed funding and mentoring.
For venture capital investors and entrepreneurs, used to making the commute between Silicon Beach and Silicon Valley, the distance--and time--between the two technology centers has just dropped, thanks to the launch of Surf Air , an all-you-can-fly membership airline.
billion was invested across Southern California''s technology industry. Los Angeles led the region with $309.79M in total investments for Q4 of 2013, with San Diego ($145.0M) and OrangeCounty ($143.6M) with nearly the same venture investment toal. The investments were a drop from Q4 of 2012, $711.8M was invested in the region.
OrangeCounty-based Harbor MedTech , a developer of wound healing technology, has raised $600,000 in a funding round from private investors, the firm disclosed today, to help the firm grow and further develop its products. The firm is headed by Jerry Mezger.
Thursday, February 5, 2009 -- AeA OrangeCounty'sTechnology Business Showcase. Kick off the new year with great connections by plugging into the OrangeCountytechnology community to meet honest-to-goodness, real life, established, payroll paying, revenue producing companies.
“3D bioprinting technologies, initially widely recognized in medicine, are nowadays gaining popularity in producing foods such as meat,” said Yusef Khesuani, co-founder and Managing Partner of 3D Bioprinting Solutions, in a statement. ” Image: Beyond Meat. . ” Image: Beyond Meat. ”
San Diego-based Fairway Technologies , a provider of consulting services in the IT area, said it has acquired Los Angeles-based IT Strategists , a provider of big data and data-driven IT consulting. Brett Humphrey is CEO of Fairway Technologies, which also has offices in San Diego and OrangeCounty, as well as Austin, Texas.
Licitra has also served at Freedom Communications and the OrangeCounty Register. The firm said that Licitra will report to Mike Plonski, the company's Chief Technology Officer. Licitra joins the company from MediaSpan Online Services, where she was most recently Vice President, Product Management. READ MORE>>.
Southern California technology companies raised $709.8M in venture capital raised in Q3; OrangeCounty had $155.96M in investments for the quarter. The amount raised in the region was up from Q2, when $627.4M was raised in the area, and slightly lower than Q3 of 2012, when $724.9M was raised in venture capital. in investment.
Semiconductor giant Broadcom , which has significant operations in OrangeCounty, said late Wednesday that it will acquire software developer CA Technologies in a deal worth $18.9 billion in cash. According to Broadcom, it will pay $44.50
The funding came from Townsgate Media, which the company said is an investment fund focused on early stage technology and media in OrangeCounty and Los Angeles.
Atlazo is developing systems-on-a-chip technology specifically aimed at use in the hearing aid, wearable, and healthcare IoT market, with ability to provide AI and machine learning support for bio-sensing and other applications. The funding round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and the TCA's San Diego chapter. in the round. READ MORE>>.
Santa Monica-based Science , the new startup creation and "technology studio" created by former Myspace CEO Mike Jones, said today that it has brought on Peter Pham as a Partner at the company. Pham, a SoCal native best known for his roles at Photobucket, Billshrink, and Color, will focus on marketing and business development for Science.
Los Angeles had a total of $311.25M in deals for the quarter, followed by OrangeCounty with $197.8M, then San Diego, with $174.6M and Cardiaq valve Technologies in Irvine, a developer of mitral heart valve replacements, which raised $37.3M. Industrial/Energy deals--mostly clean technology deals--totalled $95.98M in the quarter.
OCTANe , the OrangeCounty-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.
Monday, February 22, 2010 -- Claremont Technology Group Happy Hour. Strengthen your "Local network" close to home by getting to know neighbors who are involved in the technology and digital media industry in and around Claremont. Email arnel@guiang.com.
To make the most of your time, it is recommended to browse CoFoundersLab.com and filter by “Co-Founders Wanted-OrangeCounty-Meetup: before attending.It He is currently the Co-Founder of Kickstorming, a development shop focusing on “idea-to-MVP” and high-level technology team augmentation. Itinerary.
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. READ MORE>>.
Chatsworth-based Cal Net Technology Group , a provider of IT support services, has acquired OrangeCounty-based b> inhouseIT , according to Cal Net Technology's investors, including Boathouse Capital and Olympic Valley Capital. Cal Net Technology Group had quietly announced the deal to its customers at the end of July.
Irvine-based Enevate , a developer of rechargeable battery technology, is expanding in Irvine, according to reports today. The venture backed firm, which has investments from Mission Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is tripling its office space to 22,000 square feet, according to the OrangeCounty Register.
Ernst & Young named its LA region Entrepreneur of The Year award winners last night at the Beverly Hilton, including a number of technology executives. In OrangeCounty, E&Y's picks for the award last week included Hayes Drumwright , CEO of data management firm TRACE3.
VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. TechBizConnection – OrangeCounty monthly events. They put on great events. CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to. AITP-LA – Monthly events. Often good topics and interesting networking.
Adding another group to the growing list of Southern California startup accelerators and incubators: a new, OrangeCounty incubator, Frost Venture Partners , looks to be gearing up to tackle the "big data" market. The new incubator, headed by Stuart Frost , the founder of DATAllegro , lists five startups in its portfolio of companies.
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