August 19, 2020, Aliso Viejo, CA. Octane, Southern California's leading accelerator announced today the top 8 LaunchPad companies that will be presenting at Tech Innovation Forum on September 8-11, 2020, a digital experience.  LaunchPad ranks in the top 5 of the nations...

Congratulations to the 2020 High Tech Awards Finalists!  Finalists were chosen from over 80 company nominations. The High Tech Awards seek to celebrate and recognize those individuals and companies who make Orange County a center of technology and medical technology...

UK firm starts research on skin patch for COVID vaccines

Originally from pharmatimes.com

Innoture has received funding from the Welsh Government to start proof-of-concept research into the use of its next-generation microneedle skin patch for the self-administration of...

Recently, Octane CEO, Bill Carpou sat down with FivePoint Chairman and CEO, Emile Haddad to discuss resilience in the face of a crisis and how to innovate going forward.

Haddad recalled growing up in Lebanon and the civil war there as the root of his strong belief in...

Last week, we sat down with Jen Leuer the CEO of CyberScout to talk about building resilience as a woman leading in the corporate world. Her insights and tools for getting through obstacles and setting a vision for the future and have allowed her to adapt and successfully...

Our fifth week of An Introduction to Octane Foundation for Innovation (OFI) will focus on our Non-Profit Accelerator.  Octane’s Non-Profit Accelerator leverages Octane’s award- winning accelerator, LaunchPad, and we have customized this process to support the specific...

Following up from our previous blog post from "City of Hope Researchers Developing a COVID-19 Vaccine", they have received  $750M for a COVID-19 study.

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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded $750,000 to City of Hope’s John Zaia, M.D., on for...

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 the...

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,...