In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers In addition to these, I'd recommend looking at: Technology Council of Southern California – Surprised John didn't mention this one.

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. Tags: helixis venture capital caltec out of a ongoing, $10.0M venture round.

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's olefin metathesis catalyst technology has a very wide range of uses in the Financial terms of the license were not disclosed. Grubbs was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for the technology in 2005.

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

The spark for this post is that I'm going to go to Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on Saturday. This also happens for Technology Council of Southern California , AITP-LA , TechBizConnection and others. 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.

He's a long term angel investor and Caltech professor, meet Ken Pickar. The Anaheim Center for New Energy Technologies is hosting the Clean Tech Business Plan Competition . 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

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. The company's technology is based on research into optimizing the TCP/IP protocol. FastSoft has previously received funding from Miramar Venture Partners, Caltech, and angel investors. READ MORE>> 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.

A analysis released by Ernst & Young this week finds that clean technology investments are up significantly this quarter, rising 73% to $572M from last quarter. According to the analysis, based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource, clean technology investments were up significantly from Q1, but still down 59% in terms of capital from Q2 of 2008, which was the second-highest quarter for cleantech investments on record. The key segments of investment were energy/electricity related deals, which total $157M, or 26 percent of all of the deals, followed by energy efficiency, which had $152M in investments.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Taking Technology Products to Market. See http://www.irc.caltech.edu/p-173-taking-technology-products-to-market.aspx... mor

Monday, November 9, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Acquiring External Technology to Drive Innovation Accelerate innovation through externally acquired technology. Recognize when outside technology is needed and obtain the tools to manage the acquisition process. Integrate external technology sourcing into your business process. Get the keys to structuring successful deals and managing the relationships. See http://www.irc.caltech.edu/p-278-acquiring-external-technology-to-drive-innovation.aspx...