Building the SoCal of Tomorrow by Helping Businesses Grow.
TECH INNOVATION FORUM
Join us May 9 – 11, 2023
UCI Beall Applied Innovation 5270 California Ave # 100, Irvine, CA 92617
AV Irvine 16500 Scientific Way Irvine, CA 92618
We will create 55,000+ jobs in Southern California by 2030.
Local success that creates global impact.
We convene and enable the Southern California tech and medtech business ecosystem by connecting people, resources, and capital. We impact our community through LaunchPad SBDC, a top-performing accelerator, Capital & Growth, a platform to provide companies capital and growth resources, Ignite Series, providing leading content, and Octane Foundation for Innovation, focused on furthering our mission while advancing diversity and inclusiveness.
We are building on our legacy of tech innovation and growth to create generational impact in Orange County through the Octane Impact Fund.
Octane’s Areas of Impact
Connect
Connecting people, resources, and capital locally, nationally, and globally through leading events, networking resources, and interactive content.
Community Initatives
The Octane Foundation for Innovation. Building community, jobs and assuring equality and diversity for company founders.
LaunchPad SBDC Accelerator
As a Top 5 Accelerator in the nation, LaunchPad SBDC is committed to helping your startup with its investment capital strategy. Though we are focused on SoCal companies, we work with companies globally.
Octane Capital & Growth
Accelerating speed to capital and providing best-in-class growth resources to companies around the nation. Access peer groups, vetted resources, and capital connections to scale your company faster.
We’ve helped more than 1,573 companies raise over $5.9B in funding and create 28,732 jobs since we started in 2010.
What People Say About Our Accelerator
LaunchPad’s mentorship program helped Avisi to refine its business pitch through a series of feedback meetings all leading up to MedTech Innovation Forum in 2020. After pitching, we got the ultimate result – Life Science Angels and others invested in Avisi’s seed round.
At first, LaunchPad was a challenge—we thought we knew how to present and what our business plan was…and then we found LaunchPad! They helped shape us, gave us guard rails and focus. Now, it’s much easier to fundraise because we know how to present our strengths and metrics, thanks to them.
We received real-time feedback from the panel of instructors as we built the pitch deck, which was invaluable. The LaunchPad team really helped refine our fundraising story, and this clearer story definitely helped us in our fundraising process.
Events Search and Views Navigation
May 2022
Leadership Ignite Series: David Moatazedi, President & CEO of Evolus
Register Here>> Octane will host a series of six small sessions featuring prominent leaders in Orange County. Each session will allow you to hear about the leader and ask them questions in an intimate digital or in-person session (when applicable). Join us for this exciting opportunity. All sessions have limited capacity. David will speak on the topic "Company Culture"
Find out more »Handling Workplace Complaints in the Return to Work Era with K&L Gates
RSVP Today >> As the pandemic recedes and employees return to work, it is critical that employers are prepared to properly intake, investigate, and respond to employee complaints, including claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, COVID-19 and other workplace safety issues, and disability accommodation. This seminar will address the risks associated with such claims and provide practical guidance for employers in associating this complex area of employment law. Issues to be addressed will include: The scope of protected activity, and the…
Find out more »June 2022
Octane / SOPE Webinar: Success with Physician Entrepreneurship
Register Today> Success with Physician Entrepreneurship Have an innovative idea that will help improve patient care? Do you want to learn more about how to get this idea to your patient? This webinar will provide the framework to empower physicians and other professionals to innovate healthcare through entrepreneurship. Focusing on the five critical areas of physician centered entrepreneurship, industry strategic experts will review the imperative aspects of Intellectual Property, Product Development and Business Model, Payments and Reimbursements, Regulatory Affairs, and Funding Your Idea. Arlen Myers, MD, MBA,…
Find out more »healthsocal.ai Virtual Launch
Register Here>> healthsocal.ai: Artificial intelligence initiative to foster precision medicine for one, population health for all. Our strategy is to build an innovation hub for AI and healthcare that will focus on creating more companies through our LaunchPad Accelerator, assure the equitable distribution of healthcare, and focus on both population health and precision medicine solutions to provide improved patient outcomes. You’re invited to a virtual launch of healthsocal.ai on June 21st from 12- 1pm PST. Be the first to hear us discuss…
Find out more »July 2022
Healthsocal.ai Official Launch Event
Come join our fireside chat panel on Mental Health and AI, which will include business, technology, and community leaders discussing how to solve for mental health issues in underserved and underrepresented SoCal communities via Artificial Intelligence. Be the first to hear about our point of view on AI in mental health along with various areas of engagement for collective impact. Join for our first in-person launch of healthsocal.ai on July 13th, which will include a fireside chat panel followed by…
Find out more »Women Leaders of Octane – July Quarterly Meeting
RSVP Here Please join Women Leaders of Octane for our virtual quarterly meeting, Wednesday, July 20 from 12 - 1 pm PST, featuring Spotlight Thought Leader, Mina Sooch, CEO, President, and Founder of Ocuphire Pharma and Vice-Chair of the Board. In addition to our thought leader, our committee chairs will share progress reports: Our Committees and Committee Chairs: Creating Women-led Businesses & LaunchPad Committee – Marinela Gombosev, SPARK Neuro Funding Committee – Delilah Panio, Toronto Stock Exchange Women on Boards…
Find out more »WLO Convene
Each quarter, one or more of our Women Leaders of Octane will plan a date and location for women to gather (not sponsored) for a casual cocktail hour at a local area bar/restaurant patio. Join these WLO Convene events to expand your network as we work to increase the ranks of women entrepreneurs and business leaders, help facilitate access to funding, and influence more women on boards. Thursday, July 28 5:00 pm, Bistango, 19100 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, CA. Register…
Find out more »August 2022
Summer Social 2022
2022 is a big year for Octane as we celebrate our 20th Anniversary. We are so grateful for everyone who supports our business as members, partners and advocates. We hope you come and enjoy an evening of appetizers, drinks, guided tours of Edwards Lifesciences and mingle with Octane Board of Directors, Leadership Teams and other luminaries who have contributed to our success over the last 20 years. Wednesday, August 10, at Edwards Lifesciences Headquarters in Irvine, CA 5:00PM - 7:00PM…
Find out more »Leadership Ignite Series with Ramin Mousavi, President & CEO of CathWorks
Leadership Ignite Series 2022 This year, Octane will host a series of six intimate Zoom sessions featuring prominent leaders in Orange County. Each session will allow you to hear about the leader and ask them questions in an intimate digital or in-person session (when applicable). Join us for this exciting opportunity. All sessions have limited capacity. Join us at our upcoming event: August 18th: 10-11AM PST - Ramin Mousavi, President & CEO of CathWorks Topic: Leading Innovation & Entrepreneurship: The…
Find out more »September 2022
High Tech Awards 2022
The much-anticipated High Tech Awards celebrate the top innovators, entrepreneurs and technology leaders in Orange County. Join us for the 2022 High Tech Awards to celebrate and recognize those individuals and companies who make Orange County a center of technology and medical technology innovation. RSVP here September 29, 2022 at the AV Irvine, 16500 Scientific Way, Irvine, CA 92618
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