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We have been very busy ensuring that doctors and clinicians have the resources and solutions that they need now, when they reboot and tomorrow. First, and foremost ZEISS is the only company that can provide solutions for diagnosis, treatment and management. We are...
When venture capitalists fund an early stage company, they provide capital to see a start-up through various stages, sometimes from seed, to post-seed, to Series A and beyond. Like venture capital, in real estate, every stage generates different, unique needs for a...
We are excited to announce that Quest International has chosen to become a Gold Partner with Octane the Orange County (OC) based Technology and life science accelerator and Networking events organization hub ”Octane”. Quest fully understands that challenges can arise...
View the full article on theceomagazine.com here While ongoing transmission suppression and social and economic recovery are naturally the focus this year, WHO states we must also “recover better”: “We simply cannot return to where we were before COVID-19 struck, with...
Jane King, CEO of LilaMax Media, is working with Octane and the NASDAQ Marketsite to help companies in its ecosystem tell the world their story. This unique opportunity allows your company to be featured at the world-famous NASDAQ studios in Times Square, lending...
Originally from Syracuse.com Syracuse, N.Y. — The $900 billion stimulus relief bill contains $284 billion for a second round of loans to small businesses under the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program. The U.S. Small Business Administration approved 5...
View full article from The Post Journal here The federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program provided small-business owners with just under $800 billion in COVID-19 relief, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. The PPP concluded on May 31, but as...
Read the full post on apnews.com The federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program provided small-business owners with just under $800 billion in COVID-19 relief, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. The PPP concluded on May 31, but as businesses...
Original post from pymnts.com The nation’s small businesses are facing an ignominious anniversary: nearly a year has passed since the first round of pandemic-related closures kicked off last year in California on March 19. What started in California quickly echoed out...
Read the full article on appliedclinicialtrialsonline.com Yes, you read that headline right. Intrigued? Good, but I have misled you just a little, as this paper is about Clinical Trial Diversity, but is not so much “politically incorrect” as “politically agnostic”....
Article originally from Gensler.com Editor's note: This post is part of our ongoing exploration of how design is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The lessons learned from the recent collective work-from-home experiment will play a critical role in guiding the...
Orange County Based Company Focuses on Innovative Solutions for Neurovascular Diseases MicroVention was founded and incorporated in a small facility in 1997 in Aliso Viejo, California. From the beginning, it was our founding principle to establish the strategic...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif.- OCTANe, Orange County’s technology and life sciences accelerator organization, today announced it has chosen four LaunchPad SBDC companies to present at this year’s sixth annual Ophthalmology Technology Summit on June 28th at the Fashion Island...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., April 25, 2018 — OCTANe, Orange County’s technology and life sciences accelerator organization, today announced that it has partnered with the CEDARS/ASPENS Society to enhance offerings around ophthalmic surgery for its annual Ophthalmology...
Octane’s annual Ophthalmology Tech Summit is back in Newport Beach at the Balboa Bay Resort on June 16-17. Southern California is the worldwide leader in ophthalmic innovation and Octane’s event is a must-attend gathering for industry, physicians, industry partners,...
Octane CEO Bill Carpou sat down with Lucy Dunn, CEO of the Orange County Business Council (OCBC) to discuss several key topics related to COVID-19 businesses. They talked about adapting businesses to the new normal of working in a virtual world and their challenges. A...
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to focus on unmet needs and apply proven science and new technology to revolutionize treatment for patients, starting with eye care. Tarsus was founded in 2017 and has...
For Q4's Success Story, OCTANe is featuring MTIF LaunchPad People's Choice and Judge Award Winner, IntelliStem. I spoke with Riam Shamma, CEO of IntelliStem, to learn more about their process with LaunchPad leading up to MTIF, and where they see themselves in the...
ALISO VIEJO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 3, 2017) - OCTANe, Orange County's technology and life sciences accelerator organization, today announced the agenda for its annual Technology Innovation Forum (TIF) on June 1-2, 2017 in Newport Beach, California. This conference...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., November 11, 2019 – OCTANe, Orange County’s technology and life sciences accelerator organization, today announced the continued growth of its signature event, Medical Technology Innovation Forum (MTIF), which was held on October 28-29 at the...
April 20, 2021. Octane, Southern California’s leading tech and med tech accelerator announced today that Octane’s Director of Marketing, Cara Davidoff, was named as a member of the Board of Directors of Saddleback College Foundation. Saddleback College is based in...
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., June 6, 2018 – OCTANe, Orange County’s life sciences and technology accelerator, today announced continued growth of its signature forum, Technology Innovation Forum (TIF). The conference was attended by industry leaders, entrepreneurs and...
Aliso Viejo, CA, March 17, 2020. Octane, Southern California’s leading accelerator, released their 2019 Annual Impact Report today, covering January through December 2019. Orange County has become nationally recognized for its innovation, entrepreneurs, and a...
January 3, 2022, Aliso Viejo, California. Octane, Southern California’s leading accelerator announced today the rebrand of its consulting platform, Octane Capital & Growth. Formally known as Octane Enterprise Solutions (OES), Octane Capital & Growth connects...
Post originally from suberbcrew.com Below is our recent interview with Bill Carpou, CEO of Octane: Q: We spoke to you five years ago when you first started working at Octane. How has Octane evolved over the past few years? A: We introduced OES (Octane Enterprise...
March 1, 2022. Octane, Southern California’s leading accelerator announced a plan to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to create a global AI superhub based in Southern California. The new project, Healthsocal.ai, aims to establish Southern California as a leader...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 2, 2019 –on September 1st OCTANe named Paul Tobin, President of OCTANe Enterprise Solutions (OES). OES is a newly established entity which provides early-stage and mid-market companies a platform that accelerates speed to capital and growth...
Aliso Viejo, Calif., February 18, 2020. On February 3rd 2020, Octane, Southern California’s leading accelerator, announced that they have hired, Carol DiStanislao, Managing Director of Octane Enterprise Solutions (OES). OES is Octane’s newest entity which provides...
July 5th, 2020, Aliso Viejo, California. Octane, Southern California’s leading tech and medtech accelerator, was recently named as one of the 2021 Best Places to Work in Orange County. The awards program was created in 2009 and is a project of the Orange County...
OCTANe' LaunchPad Alumni, AtYourGate, was recently highlighted as a Top App of 2019 on the Today Show! You can view their segment below: Paul Mastrachhio, CEO of AtYourGate, states that "Bill, JC, and the entire OCTANe team were a tremendous help...
Created by musicians for musicians, Trubify—an innovative live-streaming app that offers fair pay to artists—has announced its $12MM Series A round of funding. Trubify has partnered with Octane, an Orange County, California, tech accelerator and innovation...
Post originally from newswire.com KITCHENER, ON, April 23, 2021 /CNW/ - Kitchener-based MedTech startup, NERv Technology Inc. has raised a $2.65 million USD seed round of funding to build the company and allow NERv to secure regulatory approval, complete clinical...
Mavenlink Appoints Steve DeSantis as CFO to Set Foundation for Continued Growth Proven Financial Executive to Bolster Leadership Team Committed to Exceptional Customer Experience, Technology Innovation Irvine, Calif. — June 30, 2020 — Mavenlink, the leading provider...
Article originally from bloomberg.com NBA, NFL Investments Push Hyperice Valuation to $700 Million Hyperice, a maker of performance recovery products, is valued at $700 million after raising $48 million from the National Basketball Association, the NFL’s investment...
Laguna Hills, CA — Jan 21, 2021 — Eyedaptic, Inc., a natural vision software company, announced today they were recently granted their first out of nine pending patents. Additionally, Eyedaptic launched an Equity Crowdfunding Campaign to increase awareness and...
Read the full press release from prnewswire.com here SAN DIEGO, Dec. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech company Cooler Heads today announced it has received FDA clearance to sell its revolutionary scalp cooling device to help cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy save...
LaunchPad Alumni and Technology Innovation Forum Presenter, Conectric Networks, and 2018 High Tech Awards Winner, Site 1001, today announced a key strategic partnership enabling buildings to become intelligent places that people want to go. "We are thrilled to hear...
AtaCor Medical Secures $25M Financing to Continue Extracardiac Pacing Development Full Post from Businesswire SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AtaCor Medical, Inc. announced today that is has completed a $25M Series B financing. The financing syndicate, led by a...
This week Octane is featuring SiC Technologies, Inc. for the LaunchPad Alumni Spotlight. SiC Technologies was a 2018 Technology Innovation Forum LaunchPad Finalist. SiC Technologies develops patent pending hybrid composite materials used for braking and other...
Our second feature of our LaunchPad Alumni features Fischer Imaging, Inc. Read below to see what they have been up to since graduating from LaunchPad. Tell us a bit about your company! We are developing slot-scanning imaging systems for breast cancer detection. How...
This week, Octane is featuring LaunchPad Alumni company, Enmotus for the LaunchPad Alumni Spotlight, a new weekly feature spotlighting the success of Octane’s LaunchPad Accelerator. Enmotus was a LaunchPad Presenting company at Tech Innovation Forum 2015. Enmotus’...
OCTANE has started a mini series featuring LaunchPad Alumni. We want to share the accolades and achievements that our Alumni have received with the OCTANE ecosystem. Tell us about your company! Agragene is an agricultural biotechnology company that is commercializing...
Shadowbox Solutions, a 2018 LaunchPad Alumni Company has had some recent success that Octane wants to celebrate as part of our LaunchPad Spotlight Series. Shadowbox brings to market a patented instant no-code alternative to API integration for enterprise and...
This week, Octane is featuring, NGD Systems, Inc. , a Technology Innovation Forum 2018 LaunchPad Success Story. NGD Systems is a company that manufactures and markets high capacity NVMe Computational Storage Drives (CSD). LaunchPad is nationally recognized and ranks...
As Octane looks forward to the annual Ophthalmology Technology Summit, we are thrilled to feature LensGen, Inc for this week’s LaunchPad Alumni Spotlight. LensGen presented at the 2018 Ophthalmology Technology Summit and was the featured Success Story in 2019 during...
This week we are spotlighting, Eyes 4 Lives, Inc., a 2017 MedTech Innovation Forum LaunchPad Presenting Company. Eyes 4 Lives is a Los Angeles based startup company with the mission to find an effective and low-cost solution to minimize or prevent Digital Eye Strain,...
This week, Octane is featuring a 2019 LaunchPad Medical Technology Innovation Forum Presenting Company, Cerenetex, Inc. Cerenetex is solving the problem of delayed stroke treatment from subjective stroke exams. Delays in treatment can run as long as 2.5 hours with a...
Read full article on Yahoo.com Partnership to Provide Patient-Friendly Financing to Make Breast Augmentation More Affordable for Patients and Accessible to Plastic Surgery Practices PatientFi®, a point of sale financing company that helps make elective procedures more...
This past week, Octane and the LaunchPad SBDC Accelerator have contacted our LaunchPad Alumni to determine how they are impacting the community through their technologies. The response was overwhelming, and the Alumni are eagerly willing to help the public through...
Avimesa and Conectric combine solutions to deliver simplified Industrial IoT value. San Diego, CA May 29th, 2019 Conectric Networks, a recent graduate of the OCTANe LaunchPad business accelerator program and TIF2019 finalist is pleased to announce that we have...
Building efficiency and well-being is enhanced by Conectric and SenSING collaboration San Diego, CA December 5, 2019 Conectric Networks is a Southern California based wireless IoT start-up and recent awardee in the Southern California Energy Innovation Network, World...
As part of our feature series on the LaunchPad Presenting Companies of the Aesthetics Technology Summit, we recently talked to CEO of Sofwave Medical, Louis Scafuri. Sofwave was founded in 2015 and is currently establishing their US headquarters in Orange County. Hear...
The Octane Team would like to invite you to our annual Partner Summit. The virtual Summit will be an opportunity share our high-impact results we have had collectively in the community, thank our current partners, and meet with business colleagues. Please be sure to register for the event to receive the log in information via email. We look forward to seeing you there! REGISTER HERE>>
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Please join Women Leaders of Octane for our virtual quarterly meeting, Wednesday, April 19th from 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST, featuring Thought Leader: Anne Mulcahy 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 Committee – Joyce Averna, JP Morgan Private Bank Resources & Communications – Nanneke Dinklo Plus, after the WLO Quarterly meeting,…
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Tech Innovation Forum 2023 will focus on the acceleration of innovation in technology. The Forum will concentrate on topics such as the next industrial revolution- the role that Southern California is playing in both climate tech and space, and feature topics related to the investment landscape for emerging and growth companies. Learn more. Register here.
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Join industry physicians and top ophthalmologists who are defining the future of the field at Octane’s Ophthalmology Technology Forum (OTF). The event is held annually in Orange County, the center for Ophthalmology in the US. We will be hosting Ophthalmology Tech Forum 2023 as a hybrid experience, which will allow our guests to attend in person or online. Learn more Register here
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Please join Women Leaders of Octane for our virtual quarterly meeting, Wednesday, July 19th from 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST, featuring Thought Leader: Cynthia West, Ph.D. 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 Committee – Joyce Averna, JP Morgan Private Bank Resources & Communications – Nanneke Dinklo Plus, after the WLO Quarterly…
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Octane’s Cardiovascular Tech Summit 2023 will synergize innovative solutions in cardiology with physicians, industry strategics, and investors convening together to advance patient care. The Summit will explore the unmet needs in cardiology, highlight current buying trends of strategics and investors, review current funding models of cardiology innovation, present innovation trends, and showcase top emerging cardiology companies to our ecosystem of strategics and investors.
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The much-anticipated High Tech Awards celebrate the top innovators, entrepreneurs, and technology leaders in Orange County. Join us for the 2023 High Tech Awards to celebrate and recognize those individuals and companies who make Orange County a center of technology and medical technology innovation.
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Octane will host our Medical Innovation Forum 2023 as an in-person experience. Join us in collaborating with industry experts, strategics, physicians, entrepreneurs, and investors who have made significant strides toward an accelerated future in the medical industry. The Forum will highlight the wide-ranging impact of the most recent medical innovations and how the industry will adapt to enhance patient care.
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