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MARCH 30, 2011

Solana Beach-based CineForm , a developer of video compression technology, has been acquired by helmet-mounted camera firm GoPro. GoPro is based in Half Moon Bay, California, and was founded by UCSD graduate Nicholas Woodman. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

Echodyne said it is developing radar products developed on metamaterials technology invented through a collaboration with Intellectual Ventures, Duke University and the University of California at San Diego. echodyne metamaterials spinout ucsd duke venture capital radar bill gates materials' Echodyne Corp. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to UCSD, the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur received $1M from the Invention Science Fund (ISF), the incubator arm of Intellectual Ventures, and San Diego's Legler Benbough Foundation, to accelerate new startup companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Tortuga Logic , a new startup focused on chip-level cybersecurity technology whose founders include professors from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Thursday. The seed funding came from Eclipse Ventures.

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JULY 23, 2013

I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more. You’re a tech guy.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2014

Anyone who has been in the technology industry for awhile has heard that oft repeated myth , that most startup founders in Silicon Valley are from Stanford. Here are four startup founders, who are among the hottest companies in the technology world, who got their start in Southern California. Aaron Levie. CEO and co-founder of Box.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

San Diego-based MemComputing , a startup working on high performance computing technology, says it has been selected to join the Air Force Research Laboratory's Catalyst Space Accelerator , being held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Beane, formerly an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UCSD.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2015

According to The Triton Fund, GrollTex will use the funding to accelerate commercialization of the company's technology. GrollTex's technology is based on mass producing graphene, which is a material being aimed at use in such things as water desalination membranes and flexible electronics.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Let’s assume that you’re a reasonably well-connected person, you have a strong network of friends & colleagues who work in the technology sector and you have many friends who are investors either professionally or as individuals. You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2020

Acording to the group--which normally runs competitions to spur development in technology--says the new group is open to the world's innovators, clinicians, researchers, data scientists, institutions, and experts, to help push breakthroughs, research, tap into a network of supports and partners, and more. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Mark is a UCSD graduate and writes one of the best startup blogs on the Internet. Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. See [link] (more)

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JULY 5, 2011

If you’re in LA and looking for somebody to do project-based marketing jobs – Jacqui’s your lady (not to mention a fellow UCSD alum!). We wanted to stay true to our roots, which were in retail and financial services, both industries in which we invest heavily, albeit almost exclusively where there is a technology core.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 19, 2009

Ramesh Rao at UCSD's research facility Calit2, Darrel Drinan, CEO at Philometron, and Clint McClellan, Sr.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2014

Anyone who has been in the technology indusry for awhile has heard that oft repeated myth , that most startup founders in Silicon Valley are from Stanford. Here are four startup founders, who are among the hottest companies in the technology world, who got their start in Southern California. Aaron Levie. CEO and co-founder of Box.

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JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. I had a public education all the way through college and my under grad – UCSD – actually cost less than $2,000 per year to attend between 1986-1991.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2018

lu, is intended to encourage the development and use of new data science technologies in just about every field on campus—and beyond. The center, made possible by a $75 million gift from UC San Diego alumnus and early Facebook employee Taner Halicio?lu,

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2016

HelloTech taps a work force of college students, who provide in-person technical support to users, with everything from computers to home automation technology. The company said it is recruiting college students from UCSD, USD, and SDSU, as well as IIT and local junior colleges, to support its expansion.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

We created a lot of technology around making really cheap, and really effective streaming HD video, solving lots of problems where distance was involved, and allowing our customers to stream a huge amount of HD video without any quality loss. Before that, I was a student researcher as San Diego Sate University and a UCSD student.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Students and shoppers will soon be using technology developed by Aira, a San Diego startup that links vision-impaired people with “visual interpreters” via smartphone and smart glasses, to help them navigate their environments.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? professors, who saw these changes coming, and the need to evolve and adapt that emerging technology into the scientific publishing area. Marc Friedmann: They made lots of correct technology decisions, and they had a good foundation and great developers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2008

San Diego-based Mushroom Networks announced today that it has rolled out a service which offers "better than T1" speeds to broadband subscribers, at a significant savings to traditional T1 service.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. in 2012, Hylton led a team that developed BrainOS, software technology designed to enable robotic systems to adapt to their environments and learn from humans.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Talk us through how the person using your product is benefiting through your technology. I recently spoke at the business school at UCSD. If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. Don’t: show us every single feature – we don’t care.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2019

Welcome to socaltech interviews, where we talk to the startup entrepreneurs, investors, and others in Southern California's technology industry. Today, we talk with Jeff Coleman, the CEo and co-founder of BrainLeap technologies , a software company focused on using games to improve the attention skils of individuals with autism and ADHD.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2016

Tsien died on August 24 while bike-riding in Eugene, Oregon, a UCSD Health spokesman confirmed late Wednesday. The technology, which has advanced into early clinical trials for breast cancer, is meant to make it easier for surgeons to identify and remove tumors and metastatic tissue.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

San Diego-based green energy technology developer Nuvve , which is developing vehicle-to-grid load balancing technology, says it has started participating in California's wholesale energy markets, via an effort with the University of California San Diego.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Whelan was previously Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technologist for Boeing, was director of the Tactical Technology Office (TTO) at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) as well as acting director for the Sensor Technology Office (STO).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The company says it hopes to make its technology available to the general public in mid 2016. says that it has been testing its service initially with around 100 blind and low vision users. is led by Suman Kanuganti, who co-founded the company with Yuja Chang. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2021

According to the conference, it awarded $200,000 to Advocat Technologies, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) software for research and drafting at enterprise legal departments, and another $300,000 split between ChargeNet Stations, Digital Proteomics, Fluid Power AI, and Verity.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2019

Cummins is a very large, well known manufacturer of diesel and natural gas engines, as well as hybrid and electric engine technology, plus related products such as battery systems, fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said. Biosensor startup Biolinq said Thursday it has raised $4.75 million from new investors, including the New York-based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, following the results of a clinical study of its experimental biomarker monitoring device.

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2018

Just as the computing industry opened the way to technologies that enabled people to manage and analyze information in unprecedented ways, a new era in biology is opening the way for new technologies for understanding and using the code of life.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Let me start with the simplest explanation for anybody who didn’t take economics in university (for my sins I took it for 7 years at UCSD and then University of Chicago).

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2018

The countdown clock is running for Big Data Meets Big Biology , and time is almost up to grab a seat for Xconomy’s half-day forum that will convene technology and life science innovators and influencers. Register today and save with our Procrastinator’s Special while it lasts.

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