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.

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

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.

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 http://www.sgvlug.org... mor

Thursday, November 13, 2008 -- Linux at the Caltech seismo lab. San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group. See http://www.sgvlug.org... mor

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pasadena-based FastSoft , a developer of Internet acceleration appliances based on research out of Caltech, has raised $950K in a debt funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. FastSoft has previously received funding from Miramar Venture Partners, Caltech, and angel investors. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Tags: fastsoft internet acceleration caltech venture capital According to the filing, the round came from eight investors and has a target of $1.34M. No details on the funding have been announced by the firm.