OC Tech Happy Hour: 4-year celebration
Details A humble thank you, That first event -- I wasn't sure if anyone was going to show up. We were at the Fashion Island Hotel in Newport Beach and we'd booked the Aqua Lounge bar area. At first, a few people
*NEWS: Co-Working Space Seeks OC Licensees
A co-working company that focuses on female entrepreneurs is looking for licensees in OC. Hera Hub, with HQ in San Diego, is comprised of co-working spaces where entrepreneurial women can create and collaborate in a “spa-like” environment. But the co-working spaces
*NEWS: EvoNexus Incubator Accepting Applications
Irvine incubator EvoNexus (see related story here about the incubator’s latest news) is sending out a call for applications for the next round of startups. The deadline to apply is September 14. The bar is high to get accepted. In its
*NEWS: Education Software Startup Receives Grant
A startup that created software to increase literacy achievement for students in grades K-3 announced a grant of close to $15 million from the U.S. Department of Education. Learning Ovations, with HQ in Irvine, announced in a press release that it
NEWS: EvoNexus Incubators Switch to Equity Model
An Irvine tech incubator that has received most of its space and operating expenses for free from the Irvine Company – and was accepting startups with “no strings attached” - has started taking equity stakes in the startups it incubates,
*Q&A: Startup Grind Irvine’s Executive Director
OC Startups Now will periodically run Q&A’s with interesting entrepreneurs and key players in the OC startup/innovation ecosystem, in their own words. This Q&A features Jessica Acosta Jacquez, the director of Startup Grind Irvine since late last year. The local
*NEWS: Novartis Confirmation of Alcon Spinoff Happens to Coincide with OCTANe’s Ophthalmology Technology Summit. Alcon Says Will Keep Manufacturing and BD&L in OC.
OCTANe’s annual 2018 Ophthalmology Technology Summit on June 29 coincided with the national news that Novartis will definitely spin off Alcon – with a presence in Lake Forest - to shareholders and buy back up to $5 billion in stock,
*NEWS: Startup Incubated in OC Raises More Than $10M
Bennett Washabaugh, co-founder and CEO, TenantBase A tech-enabled commercial real estate brokerage startup that was incubated in Irvine raised $10.7 million in its latest venture round. TenantBase, which has since moved its HQ to Santa Monica, was founded by CEO
NEWS: Irvine Incubator Partners with Co-Working Space in Singapore
Bian Li, Original Founder, The Hungry Lab Artificial intelligence (AI) is huge these days. Montreal has become a hotspot for this tech. As has Singapore. A national initiative called AI Singapore, funded by the country’s National Research Foundation, is
NEWS: Entrepreneurs Create Non-Profit to Help Youth
Left to right: Alan Cerna and Branden Wells Two CSUF students who grew up in Santa Ana and dodged some of the perils that enticed their peers - like joining a gang or doing drugs – created a startup that