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12 Articles match "USC","Venture Capital"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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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 16, 2010
Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. We wrote up a business plan, and won a USC business plan competition, which allowed us to get funding from the University and raise venture capital we needed to begin development on the plan. For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. The school--which has been actively encouraging startup activity based on its research in recent years--said that 16 USC startups raised $148M, in a combination of new startup funding and additional rounds of financing for those companies. The school said that the 24 spinouts of the school employ approximately 500 full time employees, with at least 267 of those jobs in Los Angeles.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Lookout , a firm developing security software for mobile phones and started by two recent USC graduates, has raised $5.5M According to the Times, the firm raised the new round of funding this month from Khosla Ventures. Tags: mobile security venture capital lookout flexili in a funding , according to the New York Times this morning. Lookout, formerly known as Flexilis, was based in Los Angeles, however, apparently is now listing its headquarters in San Francisco.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the effort of the University of Southern California to foster innovation within its campus and the community, has been turning an eye to how to more effectively spin out academic efforts into companies. Among tidbits from their study: inventors are expected to be involved start-ups, but shouldn't expect to run the company as CEO; venture capital funds shouldn't be considered as "ATMs"--they expect to be "highly involved" in portfolio companies; and understand that venture capitalists are looking for a return on investment--either an IPO or acquisition.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. The school--which has been actively encouraging startup activity based on its research in recent years--said that 16 USC startups raised $148M, in a combination of new startup funding and additional rounds of financing for those companies. The school said that the 24 spinouts of the school employ approximately 500 full time employees, with at least 267 of those jobs in Los Angeles.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
2tor said it raised $10M in a Series A financing from Redpoint Ventures, along with Novak Biddle Venture Partnres and City Light Capital, for its service, which helps universities create online degree programs. 2tor also has offices just North of USC on Figueroa Street. Tags: 2tor online learning education venture capital redpoint greg A New York-based online learning firm with links to the University of Southern California has scored a round of funding, and added Redpoint's Greg Martin to its board, the firm said this morning. The firm currently
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
and I got to wondering, what is easier: an entrepereneur getting venture capital in OC/So Cal (or really anywhere not Sand Hill Road) or a "no-name" team winning the NCAA college basketball championship? Venture capital and angels sort of find them rather than vice versa. Probably a combination of "first time tryouts", talent, network and/or even if I was filling out my winning March Madness Basketball brackets .. oops ..
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. We wrote up a business plan, and won a USC business plan competition, which allowed us to get funding from the University and raise venture capital we needed to begin development on the plan. For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The firm's technology--which creates a 3D, virtual avatar from digital photos--was originally developed at the University of Southern California for the CIA, and was spun out into a venture funded company targeting the consumer market. We spoke with Phil Ressler--a former venture capitalist from Clearstone Ventures--who is now CEO of BigStage.
For Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. For those not familiar with
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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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Monday, March 2, 2009
Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles”.
This is for CEOs of companies that have either raised $1m+ in capital or have $1m+ in revenues. Eric Golden ( CEO of Equipois ) & I ( Aaron Ross bio ) are organizing a formal, facilitated CEO group here on the westside that will meet monthly. The theme of CEOFlow is to explore what it takes to create predictable
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles”.
This is for CEOs of companies that have either raised $1m+ in capital or have $1m+ in revenues. Eric Golden ( CEO of Equipois ) & I ( Aaron Ross bio ) are organizing a formal, facilitated CEO group here on the westside that will meet monthly. The theme of CEOFlow is to explore what it takes to create predictable
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