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Tech Coast Angels
Tech Coast Angels is the leading source of funding to early-stage companies in Southern California. TCA has over 450 members and is also one of the largest angel networks in the world. An analysis by CB Insights ranked TCA #1 out of 370 angel groups on “Network Centrality” and #5 overall in “Investor Mosaic.” History Since its inception in 1997, TCA members have focused on building valuable companies, personally invested over $255 million in over 465 companies, and helped portfolio companies attract more than $2.2 billion in additional capital, largely from venture capital firms and strategic investors. In 2020, TCA invested $20 million in 64 companies. TCA members provide companies capital, counsel, mentoring and access to a network of potential investors and partners. TCA has chapters located in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and the Inland Empire. Company exits TCA has had eleven IPOs and over 79 exits in total. Three of those (Mindbody, Greendot and Sand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TrueCar
TrueCar, Inc. is an automotive pricing and information website for new and used car buyers. The service allows users to see what others paid for any new or used vehicle in their local area and receive upfront prices from a network of over 15,000 TrueCar Certified Dealers. TrueCar is paid by dealerships so they can be introduced to and communicate with potential new and used car buyers. TrueCar reports its users purchase approximately 1 million cars from dealers in its network each year. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with a sales office Austin, TX. History 2005–2010: Early years TrueCar was originally incorporated under the name "Zag.com Inc." in Delaware in February 2005. Scott Painter and Tom Taira, along with other co-founders, started the business to provide white-label auto-buying programs to affinity groups. The company's initial partner was Capital One in order for its customers to arrange financing, access upfront pricing, and locate inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranker
Ranker is a digital media company located in Los Angeles. The site features polls on entertainment, brands, sports, food and culture. Ranker claims to be one of the largest databases of opinions with more than 1 billion votes gathered on over millions of subjective voters. Ranker has hundreds of thousands of lists of opinions. These lists have been referenced as a source for many pop-culture, trade, and tech publications, including TV and radio. Ranker collects individual user votes and track them across various lists, which purports to show correlations between interests across pop culture. History Launched in August 2009, the site was founded by Clark Benson, who created Ranker as an alternative to user reviews available on ecommerce sites. Ranker offers crowdsourced polls and lists across a variety of topics, including rankings of food, drinks, and celebrities. Ranker's board members include Draper Associates investor Joel Yarmon. Investors include Draper Associates, Rincon V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PharmaSecure
PharmaSecure is a U.S.-based software and technology company. History PharmaSecure was founded by Nathan Sigworth and N. Taylor Thompson in 2007. The company was started to address the problem of counterfeit pharmaceuticals. The original technology provided consumers with the opportunity to verify that their medicines are authentic by using a unique identifier on the package and a cell phone. As of 2014, the company issued IDs to more than 1 billion medicine packs. In July 2012, PharmaSecure became the first company to partner with the INTERPOL Global Register. Company Profile The company is currently headquartered in Lebanon, New Hampshire, with a subsidiary operation in India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ..., and is funded through private investment. PharmaSe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninja Metrics
A or was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of a ninja included reconnaissance, espionage, infiltration, deception, ambush, bodyguarding and their fighting skills in martial arts, including ninjutsu.Kawakami, pp. 21–22 Their covert methods of waging irregular warfare were deemed dishonorable and beneath the honor of the samurai. Though ''shinobi'' proper, as specially trained spies and mercenaries, appeared in the 15th century during the Sengoku period, antecedents may have existed as early as the 12th century. In the unrest of the Sengoku period, mercenaries and spies for hire became active in Iga Province and the adjacent area around the village of Kōga. It is from these areas that much of the knowledge regarding the ninja is drawn. Following the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate in the 17th century, the ninja faded into obscurity. A number of ''shinobi'' manuals, often based on Chinese military philosophy, were written in the 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadence Biomedical
Cadence Biomedical is a medical device company that provides orthotic products to help individuals with severe mobility impairments to walk again. The company is located in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 2007 under the name Empowering Engineering Technologies. Products Cadence Biomedical released its first product, the Kickstart Walking System, in August 2012. Kickstart is a wearable device, or orthosis, that gives users stability and the ability to walk independently. The device is intended to improve mobility for those in stroke recovery, or for individuals with neurological injuries such as spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis or muscular dystrophy. It is designed to provide walking assistance and stability for those who have difficulty walking, especially if they experience difficulty lifting their knee, catching toes when taking a step, lack of endurance, or problems with coordination, balance, or stability. The device uses no external ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ElephantDrive
ElephantDrive is a storage virtualization service used primarily as an online backup tool, but also as a remote access service/collaboration tool. The service runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android platforms, and allows users to create simple automated backups for protecting data by moving it into cloud-based ElephantDrive account. Architecture ElephantDrive makes use of infrastructure-on-demand as part of its architecture, and is one of the first examples of the applications built on Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service). ElephantDrive initially utilized Amazon S3 as a tool for a datacenter migration, but quickly moved it into the production infrastructure. History ElephantDrive, Inc. was founded by Michael Fisher and Ben Widhelm in 2005. ElephantDrive launched as a service in 2006. ElephantDrive's development was initially based in Westwood Village in Los Angeles, California. ElephantDrive's first major product came in conjunction with the 2008 closing of early cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apeel Sciences
Apeel Sciences is a company based in Goleta, California whose edible coating product Apeel can make avocados, citrus and other types of fruit last twice as long as usual by using a tasteless edible coating made from plant materials. The coating's formulation can be modified for strawberries, mangoes, apples, bananas, kumquats, citrus, and asparagus. Founding Apeel was founded in 2012 by James Rogers, after receiving a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help reduce post-harvest food waste in developing countries that lacked refrigeration infrastructure. After the initial grant, backing has been provided by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz. Apeel has raised $110 million in financing to date. See also *Edible packaging Edible packaging refers to packaging which is edible and biodegradable. Edible food packaging Several manufacturers are developing or producing food packaging that is edible. One example is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trius Therapeutics
Trius Therapeutics () was a biopharma company based in San Diego, CA that focused on the development of antibiotics. Business profile The lead compound from Trius, tedizolid phosphate (formerly torezolid phosphate, TR-701), successfully completed its first Phase 3 clinical trial (ESTABLISH 1) in acute skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI). It is a once daily, IV and oral, oxazolidinone being developed for the treatment of serious gram-positive infections, including those caused by methicillin-resistant ''Staphylococcus aureus'' (MRSA). The Phase 3 trials are being conducted under a Special Protocol Agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration and are using the draft FDA guidance of cessations of lesion spread at 48–72 hours as the primary endpoint. In the ESTABLISH 1 Study, 200 mg of Tedizolid given for a short course of therapy (six days) was shown to be safe, well tolerated and was as effective as the traditional length of therapy with linezolid (600 mg fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portfolium
Portfolium, Inc. is an American social networking platform company that allows university students and recent graduates to connect with businesses and employers and present their previous academic work and projects to supplement their resumes. The company was founded in 2014 and acquired by Instructure in 2019. History Portfolium was founded in 2014 in San Diego by Adam Markowitz. Markowitz was unable to stand out and get hired by employers after numerous interviews, leading him to create a portfolio with the projects and activities he participated in while at UC San Diego, ultimately landing him a job working on NASA's space shuttle program. He then went on to create a prototype social networking platform, in which users would have the ability to create media-rich resumes with their academic projects and activities. The company was accepted into Evonexus' accelerator 4-month Evostart program in San Diego. The company raised $900,000 in a seed funding round in the summer of 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Language Weaver
Language Weaver is the machine translation (MT) technology and brand of RWS. The brand name was revived in 2021 following the acquisition SDL and Iconic Translation Machines Ltd. and the merging of the respective teams and technologies. Language Weaver was formerly a standalone company that was acquired by SDL in 2010. History Language Weaver was a Los Angeles, California–based company founded in 2002 as a spin-out company from the University of Southern California. The company was founded to commercialise a statistical approach to automatic language translation and natural language processing known as statistical machine translation (SMT). The company's name is a reference to one of the pioneers of machine translation — Warren Weaver — who first proposed the idea of using computers to ‘decode’ or ‘decrypt’ language in a memorandum back in 1947. Language Weaver’s statistical approach to machine translation was cutting-edge at the time, and a significant improve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
