Alliance Blog
We all know that SoCal is an amazing place, but every now and then we get to experience SoCal perfection. Last week we were treated to one of those very…
This marked the sixth straight year that the Alliance has produced the First Look SoCal Innovation Showcase and from my perspective, each year it gets better. It’s not the startups…
The Alliance hosted a SoCal Venture Pipeline Alumni Reception that brought together founders from across SoCal to celebrate their successes, learn, build community, and have some fun. The event was…
As part of our ongoing series of leadership roundtable discussions, we recently partnered with Techstars to convene a group of top leaders from industry and academia at Viterbi School of…
As someone who is both a leader and life-long student of building startup and innovation ecosystems, I am always excited when new literature is released on this important topic. I vividly…
A newly popular framework for insight-driven iterative innovation, called the Biodesign Innovation Process, is focused on life sciences innovation and has been honed at Stanford over the last two decades. We…
One of the core communities of practice we have assembled at the Alliance is our corporate innovation leaders. We are fortunate to have almost two dozen leading innovation-driven firms including…
For those of us who live in the innovation and startup world, these past 72 hours have been like no other. It all started late last week when CEO Greg…
The world of venture capital is in flux, with profound implications for founders and funders alike. Earlier this month, we hosted a discussion with investors based in Orange County…
photos courtesy of Susanne Hayes at the Pasadena Angels We concluded early in the formation of the Alliance that embracing partnership and collaborations was the only viable way that our…