University of Southern California

Los Angeles CA. Largest private research university in US by enrollment. $8.1B endowment. USC Stevens Center for Innovation — tech transfer, licensing, startup formation. Strong film/media, engineering, business (Marshall), medicine (Keck). Well-connected LA/SoCal VC ecosystem. Annenberg, Viterbi (engineering), Marshall (business). Notable spinouts: Qualcomm (founded by USC alum Irwin Jacobs — also co-founded with UCSD colleagues).