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89 Articles match "CalTech"
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All All the stereotypes and caricatures are overblown. And And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. We
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. How did Contour Energy spin out of Caltech?
Joe Joe Fisher: Back about three years ago, Caltech took some of the intellectual property involved with this to an event, where once a year they invite venture capital groups to come in. This week, the firm announced that it was renaming itself Contour Energy (www.contourenergy.com)--and said it was ready to talk about what its battery technology is all about. Joe
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Azusa-based CFX Battery , the stealthy Caltech battery spinoff, said today that it has renamed itself Contour Energy , and emerged out of stealth mode. in funding from CMEA Capital, Harris & Harris, Schlumberger and US Venture Partners--said it is targeting the transportation, government and defense, medical, industrial, portable electronics and specialty application markets with its products, which were developed out of a collaboration between CalTech and CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research. Contour Energy said it is developing advancements in fluorine-based battery chemistries, nanomaterials science, and manufacturing processes, and is targeted at portable power products.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
They put on great events. VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. 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. You can use keywords like: Events in Los Angeles or Southern California Events or even Santa Monica Events . You can also use Southern California Tech Central's list of Organizations to find possible events: UCLA , CalTech , Twiistup , USC , AeA , TCVN , OCTANE , BarCamp , Enterprise Forum , TCOSC , LAVA , UCI
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
A gem from the archives: Fred Farina on Caltech's approach to licensing technology . I wanted to re-issue this show since I met Siemens TTB chief, Stefan Heuser. And in just a few weeks you'll hear Joeph Steig and Phil Weilerstein of NCIIA descibe their work with colleges and universities.
Thanks to Tech Coast Angel
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Carlsbad-based Helixis , a developer of nucleic acid analysis tools based on technology spun out of Caltech, has raised $5.3M Tags: helixis venture capital caltec out of a ongoing, $10.0M venture round. According to a regulatory filing, some of the funds involved in the deal include Advanced Technology Ventures VII and Domain Partners VII.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
He's a long term angel investor and Caltech professor, meet Ken Pickar.
Ken's a Tech Coast Angel and he and I were part of a panel discussion at UC Irvine's recent Annual Entrepreneurship Conference. I could see he had a great way of dealing with the students, so I decided you should meet him, too.
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Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008 -- Shakin' it up at Caltech. Rae Yip and Shang-Lin will be on hand to give us an overview of the open source software in use at the Caltech Seismology Lab. San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group. See [link] (mor
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Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008 -- Linux at the Caltech seismo lab. San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group. See [link] (mor
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The spark for this post is that I'm going to go to Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on Saturday. A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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. Materia's olefin metathesis catalyst technology has a very wide range of uses in the chemistry industry, and is based on reserach from Professor Robert Grubbs at Caltech. Tags: material chemistry chemical basf olefin metathesis c Financial terms of the license were not disclosed. According to Materia, BASF will use the technology in research and development of certain specialty chemicals.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
The firm, which develops optical interconnects, is a Caltech spinoff. Tags: interconnect venture capital luxtera caltech optical semiconducto Carlsbad-based Luxtera appears to have raised $26.75M in another venture round, according to this week's PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree report. No details on the funding have been disclosed, however, the firm has previously raised three rounds of capital from August Capital, ITU Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds, and Zone Ventures.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. It was a really good event with lots of interesting folks in attendance. I would guess that there was about 100 people - on a Saturday in Pasadena. That shows some interest in the topic.
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