University Spinouts
February 19th, 2007 by Benjamin KuoWe’re lucky in Southern California to have quite a few prominent universities and research institutions, where good technology gets spun out into great firms. Among the startups I’ve spoken to here recently, which were first academic projects are:
Alelo is developing tactical language training systems–based on a video game platform and language recognition– being used by the U.S. military to teach troops both language and culture before being deployed, and is based on research out of the University of Southern California.
Fastsoft, which was spun out of Caltech, has developed technology that accelerates Internet traffic through enhancements to the TCP/IP protocol. The technology has set the Internet Speed Record several years in a row.
AutoESL Design Technologies is designing electronic system level design automation software, which allows hardware designers to write C, C++, or SystemC code and have it automatically generate RT level circuit designs, which promises to reduce the amount of work required to design chips, and is out of UCLA.
Other spinout activity here include Quanlight (yellow-amber-red LEDs, UC San Diego), Language Weaver (automated language translation, out of USC) , and Inlustra (Gallium Nitride GaN semiconductor substrates, UC Santa Barbara).
There’s quite a number of organizations looking to increase the number and effectiveness of spinouts here, including the USC Stevens Institute, the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property & Industry Sponsored Research, the Caltech Office of Technology Transfer, and Orange County’s OCTANe, San Diego’s CONNECT–just to name a few.
A good resource is the Doing Business with UC in Southern California blog which covers technology licensing out of UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Riverside.
February 19th, 2007 at 9:17 am
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