I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005.  Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs.  My blog was wiped out.  MORE >>

Pasadena-based Materia , the advanced chemical technology firm spun out of Caltech, said Tuesday that it has licensed its metathesis technology to specialty chemical firm BASF. According to Materia, BASF will use the technology in research and development of certain specialty chemicals. Materia is headed by Michael Giardello. MORE >>

By 2005 a flat $56 got you into the park. Los Angeles Starting Up Uncategorized Disney Enterprise Startup technology videogamesThis is a guest post by Manhattan Perry , a entrepreneur who also runs marketing at Skurun , an LA enterprise startup that empowers sales with content and data delivery to mobile devices. to see 8 attractions. MORE >>

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. What does Confident Technologies do? The Confident authentication suite of software, which also includes out of band technology. MORE >>

Costa Mesa-based clean technology investor SAIL Venture Partners has boosted a maker of energy storage technology, as part of a big round for Ice Energy. SAIL focuses all of its investments on clean energy related companies, and first invested in Ice Energy back in 2005. MORE >>