Agtools® Selected to Join UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation’s “Born in California®” for The Most Investment-Worthy Startups Agtech data and analytics company Agtools® has been selected by UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation’s “Born in California®” demo days. This event features the University of California’s premier and most investment-worthy startups in the Life Sciences, Digital Health, Technology, Consumer, and Sustainability sectors... Read more →

The National Venture Plan Competition offers startups one the biggest opportunities to raise capital by fast-tracking them to present to many investor groups, angels, and VCs. After the last year’s competition, millions of dollars were invested in several companies by investors, angels, angel groups, VCs and funds largely due to their participation in the competition. This year's competition is under... Read more →

Everybody has a network: Your boss, colleagues, mentors, lawyers, investors, accountants, classmates, startup friends… Could you please forward this newsletter to them with a quick invitation to subscribe for free? We could use your help expanding the reach of the work the OC Startup Council does to support local entrepreneurs and deal flow for our community. Twice every week the... Read more →

AIEDC wins prize in startup fast pitch competition for Small Business Development Day - Sponsored by US Bank. AIEDC participated in the Annual Asian Business Association of Orange County, “Small Business Development Day”, ---which was sponsored and presented by US Bank. The Small Business Development Day Conference theme for this year was --- “Growing Revenue through Innovation and Technology”. AIEDC... Read more →

Are you listed in the OC Startups Directory yet? Where's your startup? Or is your accounting firm, design agency, software development team, law firm, or venture capital fund listed in the OC Startup Ecosystem Directory? How about the school, incubator, non-profit, or community group you work with that helps early stage founders? WHAT? Not listed yet? Why not?? The OCSC... Read more →

IVC Team Takes 1st Place in National Business Plan Pitch Competition Last August, the Irvine Valley College (IVC) entrepreneurship department partnered with the College Leap organization, a national non-profit founded by UC Berkeley students to increase the leadership opportunities for transferring community college students. A national business plan pitch competition was held. Ten IVC student teams from different disciplines of... Read more →

Baby Box Wins $25,000 Grand Prize at 2020 UCI New Venture Competition AI-powered subscription box company, Baby Box, took home the grand prize of $25,000 placing 1st in this year’s New Venture Competition hosted by the University of California, Irvine. The competition is open to all of Orange County including UCI students, professors and researchers. Participants ranged from a wide... Read more →

MyShoperoo, an on-demand, errand service for office workers, was ranked No. 6 among the most fundable startups in the U.S., according to a lengthy assessment by Pepperdine University and The Venture Alliance. Irvine-based MyShoperoo, which plans to raise a seed round next year, topped more than 3,500 other startups on Pepperdine’s Graziadio Business School’s second annual Most Fundable Companies List.... Read more →

Irvine's Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship recently selected the Winners of its 2019 New Venture Competition. These teams pitched their business ideas to investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders competing for over $100,000 in awards. Their hard work, openness to coaching and feedback, and their innovative ideas truly speak to the amazing depth and breadth of talent that is found... Read more →

Curogram Selected as Top 4 Finalist in Publicis Health Media's Disruption Garage Competition LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Curogram, the leading patient-centric universal health messaging platform, today announced it has been selected as a top 4 finalist in Publicis Health Media's nationwide Disruption Garage competition. As part of the inaugural PHM HealthFront, a live-panel review will gather health... Read more →

OC Startup Events - there are more new startup events for techies and software companies listed every day in our OC Startup Council Events Calendar! Check out the Orange County tech startup conferences, happy hours, workshops, meetups, and seminars our members are posting here. You can meet new people, develop new relationships, learn new skills and expertise, advance your high... Read more →

Funding Post held its latest Orange County Venture Capital and Angel Investor Startup Pitch Fest recently. The return of this popular startup event led to a standing-room only crowd again. Entrepreneurs, investors, and lots of friends came together to hear from a panel of local startup investors, and participate in a pitch competition, too. The Panel of Venture Capitalists &... Read more →

Congratulations to CLI Studios and IntelliVision Entertainment - winners of the LaunchPad startup pitch competition at OCTANe's annual Technology Innovation Forum. Held at the Marriott Hotel & Spa in Newport Beach this week, the two day TIF conference brought together hundreds of local executives involved in our local Orange County startup ecosystem. The highlight of the event was the LaunchPad... Read more →

Cal State University, Fullerton's annual Startup Competition recently announced this year's winners. The finale of the competition featured each of the six finalists giving an eight minute presentation about their ventures. These presentations covered five key aspects of each new company, including: Problem, Solution, Customers, Business Model, and the Resources needed to launch their businesses. These presentations were followed by... Read more →

There was a great crowd of smart local entrepreneurs and investors at the OC VC & Angel Panel Thursday night. Organized by FundingPost.com and hosted at the new WeWork Boardwalk location, a standing-room-only audience enjoyed networking, a panel discussion on startup investing topics, and a startup quick pitch competition, too. The hot topics for discussion by the panel revolved around... Read more →

Thursday night's "Investor Speed Dating" was a big success! With over 100 local startup companies presenting and 40+ investors in the house, the energy was high and startup innovation was in the air for this startup pitch competition. Hosted at the UCI Merage School of Business' Beall Center for Innovation, the auditorium and lobby were packed with local entrepreneurs and... Read more →

Congratulations to the 2018 winners of OCTANe's annual High Tech Innovation Awards. The companies were selected because they demonstrated exceptional leadership while developing new technological advancements in their respective industries. 2018 Winners An independent panel of industry expert judges selected winners in 10 award categories: Outstanding Private Company CEO: Ladeira Poonian , iBASEt Outstanding Public Company CEO: Dean Stoecker, Alteryx... Read more →

Your startup always needs more publicity, right? You and your team need it for confidence, recruiting, morale, and, of course, to help generate revenues and to attract investment, too. If a startup and its founders don't consistently earn attention from employees, outside partners, investors, and eventually customers also, most startups will shrivel up and die. The OC Startups blog is... Read more →

OC startups news: A free community service of the OC Startup Council, this OC startups blog is dedicated to promoting the growth of early stage technology startups in our community. Read on for the latest news updates from around the Orange County high tech and software startup ecosystem - and subscribe for free news updates by email, too! Whether your... Read more →