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32 Articles match "CalTech","Fund"
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All
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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.
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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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Friday, August 14, 2009
Very few people fund individuals. I Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. In And whenever I needed to round up signatures for future fund raisings it was difficult to track him down / get him to care. The This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC .
Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round
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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 According to a regulatory filing, some of the funds involved in the deal include Advanced Technology Ventures VII and Domain Partners VII. Helixis has previously received funding from ATV, Domain Associates, and Okapi Venture Capital. out of a ongoing, $10.0M venture round.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
The firm, which develops optical interconnects, is a Caltech spinoff. 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. 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. The firm's products currently include a optoelectronic cable which allows
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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. No details on the funding have been announced by the firm. FastSoft has previously received funding from Miramar Venture Partners, Caltech, and angel investors. READ MORE>>
...Tags: According to the filing, the round came from eight investors and has a target of $1.34M. FastSoft develops appliances used to accelerate Internet transfers, which the firm says increases
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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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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Pasadena-based Materia has scored Army funding for a program focused on developing fire resistant fuel additives, the firm announced Wednesday. Materia, which is commercializing olefin metathesis catalyst technology developed at Caltech, said that the funding is going towards technology to provide greater fire protection for fuel tanks. Amount of the funding for the program was not disclosed. Materia explained that enemy combatants currently target fuel tanks with their improved explosive devices (IEDs) and small munitions, in hopes of creating a fuel explosion. The
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
in what looks to be the first tranche of an ongoing funding round. The funding came to light through a regulatory filing this week. According to the filing, the new funding is part of a $26.9M No details of the funding have been released by the company, however, CFX has previously raised funding from CMEA Ventures, Harris and Harris, and US Venture Partners. Azusa-based CFX Battery , a developer of battery technology, has raised $5.0M fundraising effort by the firm.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Carlsbad-based Helixis , a developer of nucleic acid analysis tools, has upped its recent funding round to $7.3M, according to a filing from the firm this week. The funding is a continuation of a $10.0M Source of the new funding was not disclosed. venture round which the firm has been raising since July. Helixis has previously received funding from Advanced Technology Ventures, Domain Associates, and Okapi Venture Capital.
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Azusa-based CFX Battery , a Caltech spinout developing advanced battery technology, has upped its funding to nearly $15.2M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. CFX Battery has previously raised funding from CMEA Ventures, Harris and Harris, and US Venture Partners. The filing indicates the additional capital is an expansion of the firm's earlier, Series A funding. CFX is developing both primary and rechargeable battery technology, which is says provides high performance, is environmentally friends, and cost effective. READ MORE>>
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009 -- "Neurons on the Run: Brain, Brawn and Algorithms" Caltech/MIT enterprise Forum. The Caltech MIT Enterprise Forum will examine the progress in neural interactive medical devices, whether implantable or external, and the place of the entrepreneur in this captivating field. We will discuss the progress-to-date, the promise for the future, present priorities, the opportunities for entrepreneurs, and the prospects for private capital to fund See [link] (mor
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