Funding
• UCI Applied Innovation will host the first UC Pitch Day on Nov. 30 at The Cove.
The event showcases technologies from the research labs of University of California at Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Davis and San Francisco to prospective investors.
Applied Innovation is partnering with UC Biomedical Research Acceleration, Integration and Development, or BRAID, a consortium of five University of California medical campuses, and the UC Center for Accelerated Innovation.
Richard Sudek, Applied Innovation chief innovation officer and executive director, said in a statement that “projects selected to make presentations will be those that show strong commercial viability and address serious unmet medical needs.”
— Sherry Hsieh
• Orange County device makers will make up nearly half of the 15 companies presenting to prospective investors at the Southern California Biomedical Council’s second annual Digital Conference on Nov. 9 at Hotel Maya in Long Beach.
The seven local companies are:
• Allevion Therapeutics of Irvine, developer of wearables for treating tremors.
• Eyedapitc Inc., a Newport Beach-based maker of simulated eyewear for people with age-related macular degeneration.
• Flint Rehabilitation Devices, a Santa Ana-based maker of wearables for clinic-based and at-home therapy to help in post-neurologic injury recovery.
• Pressao Medical in Irvine, which develops wearables for treating prehypertension.
• StimAire, a Costa Mesa-based developer of a wireless neurostimulation product to treat sleep apnea.
• Tagnos, an Irvine-based hospital operations workflow-monitoring platform that tracks and combines real-time, patient staff and equipment data.
• Wytcote Technologie, a La Habra-based elder-care platform.
— Sherry Hsieh
Space
There’s another new haus on the co-working block, in one of the hip areas of Costa Mesa.
BizHaus, a creative-office co-working company with two locations in Los Angeles, plans to open a nearly 13,000-square-foot site in the SoBeca district early next year.
It will set up shop at 2942 Century Place, an industrial building next to California State Route 73, about a block from The Lab Anti-Mall and Camp retail centers.
The property is under renovation; Loescher Meacham Architects of Los Angeles is designing the space.
“This mid-century building and its nearby businesses will provide the perfect atmosphere for our members,” said BizHaus co-founder Joseph Tang. The company wants to fill the spot “with entrepreneurs, small businesses and creative professionals that value positivity, productivity and work-life balance.”
Desks will start at about $175 a month. A four-person pod goes for about $1,500 a month, and a four-person private office is about $1,900 a month.
BizHaus’ first OC location will feature multiple work-lounge areas, meeting rooms and a members cafe and dining area, according to the Irvine office of brokerage JLL, whose Matt Christensen represented it and landlord SCM Enterprises in the lease.
The new space is “the first major investment on Century Place,” Christensen said. “Their success will be the catalyst for more creative development projects in this market.”
The site is about two miles from Costa Mesa’s largest co-working space, the nearly 40,000-square-foot WeWork at Pacific Arts Plaza.
— Mark Mueller
