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42 Articles match "Capital","UCLA"
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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 Los Angeles. People People either love it our hate it. All All the stereotypes and caricatures are overblown. And
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. (www.pitchtheangels.com) Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible:
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , the online video guide service funded by Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures, said that it has linked with the University of California, Los Angeles, with a branded version of the service specifically for UCLA students. The site--which is run by Jim Lanzone , the former CEO of Ask.com--said that the partnership will provide both online entertainment and university video content through UCLA's web portal. Clicker said the UCLA on Clicker site will give UCLA students both access to original videos from UCLA, as well as access to other online entertainment from ABC, MTV, PBS, Hulu, YouTube, and other sites and sources.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , the online video guide service funded by Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures, said that it has linked with the University of California, Los Angeles, with a branded version of the service specifically for UCLA students. The site--which is run by Jim Lanzone , the former CEO of Ask.com--said that the partnership will provide both online entertainment and university video content through UCLA's web portal. Clicker said the UCLA on Clicker site will give UCLA students both access to original videos from UCLA, as well as access to other online entertainment from ABC, MTV, PBS, Hulu, YouTube, and other sites and sources.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
In a conference on March 24, UCLA/CNSI launched a “technology incubator” – the first of its kind for UC – in conjunction with UCLA’s Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research (OIP-ISR). The event, held in the CNSI auditorium, brought together faculty entrepreneurs, representatives of industry startups and venture capital firms. The UCLA on-campus technology incubator will be housed in the CNSI building and will offer four to five separate startup projects access to a total of 1,000 square feet of flexible lab space for 18 to 24 months.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy in the Musical Instrument Business Keywords Layoffs Fund Venture Capital Events Technology Angel Mahalo Zag MySpace Geni
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Los Angeles-based NanoH2O , a UCLA spinout commercializing water filtering and desalination technology, has raised $5M in a equity funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Wednesday. Tags: nanoh2o venture capital funding water membrane technology ucla desalinatio Details on the funding have not yet been released by the company. The filing continues to list Samir Kaul of Khosla Ventures and Brian Hinman of Oak Investment Partners on the board; both Khosla and Oak are prior investors in the firm.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
The UCLA Anderson School of Management and the German American Business Association (GABA), invite you to an exciting panel discussion with top digital media executives and venture capitalists followed by a reception at the UCLA Faculty Center.
Despite the rapid online video adoption, achieving profitability continues to be a challenge for many content creators and distribution companies.
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· Brett Brewer - President of Adknowledge , a performance-based advertising network; Myspace (Intermix Media) Co-founder (acquired by News Corp) &
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Meet John Taylor, VP Research at the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). For venture capital to be successful all the pieces have to flow," the companies "go public and the money then is cycled back into the next generation of companies. Pitch at Fast Pitch at UCLA, Feb 24th
He joined to provide quality data on the industry and with help of Thomson and PriceWaterhouseCoopers he generates gobs of statistics.
"For Right now there are incredible stresses on that system."
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Kythera is backed by ARCH Venture Partners, Prospect Venture Partners, Versant Ventures, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Altitude Life Science Ventures, JAFCO, BBT/Apothecary Capital, and UCLA Venture Capital Fund.
...Tags: Tags: aesthetic medical lifescience capital venture biopharmaceuticals kyther Calabasas-based Kythera Biopharmaceuticals , a developer of aesthetic medicine products, has added $10M more in new funding. The new funding came to light in this week's PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree report.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Capital Factory , a business incubation program based in Austin, Texas, has lured away a Los Angeles startup, Homstie , which operates an online marketplace which helps people find places to store their stuff. The person-to-person marketplace was started by a number of UCLA undergraduates. According to Capital Factory, the firm was one of five companies to receive Capital Factory is one of a number of seed-stage incubation programs--which also include Y Combinator and TechStars--which look to combine small, seed-level investments with advice.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Aragon's technology comes from research developed at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and UCLA. Tags: aragon pharmaceuticals venture capital lifescience cancer therapeutic La Jolla-based Aragon Pharmaceuticals reported Wednesday that it has raised $8M in a Series A financing. The firm, which is focused on small molecule therapeutics for treating hormone-resistant cancers, said that the financing was led by The Column Group and OrbiMed Advisors.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
NanoH2O is developing reverse osmosis membranes based on technology from UCLA, and is applying that technology for water desalination. Los Angeles-based NanoH2O is reporting that it has secured $15M in additional funding, for the firm's water desalination technology. According to the firm, the round came from Oak Investment Partners and Khosla Ventures.
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