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Capsida Uncloaks With $140M In Funding

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Thousand Oaks-based Capsida Biotherapeutics, a new biotechnology company focused on using adeno-associated virus (AAV) engineering and cargo development platform to develop tissue-targeted gene therapies for multiple types of diseases, has uncloaked from stealth mode, saying it has raised $140M in total capital.

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Amgen Co-Founder Bowes Passes Away

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the founding shareholder and chairman and treasurer of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen , has died, at the age of 90. Bowes--who also founded venture capital firm USVP --died peacefully in his home on December 28th. USVP has backed such companies as Sun Microsystems, New Focus, Check Point Software Technologies, and hundreds of others.

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Akriveia Therapeutics Raises $7.5M

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Thousand Oaks-based Akriveia Therapeutics , a biotechnology startup focused on immuno-oncology, announced this morning that it has raised $7.5M The investment came from F-Prime Capital Partners. in a Series A investment. As part of the funding, F-Prime's Thomas Beck and Ben Auspitz have joined the company's board.

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Amgen Gets Exit At Adheron Therapeutics

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Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has seen an exit out of its startup investment portfolio, and activities of its Amgen Ventures venture capital arm, at Berkeley-based Adheron Therapeutics this morning. Adheron said that it has been acquired by Roche , in a deal worth $105M upfront and up to $475M in additional milestone payments.

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Xirrus Acquired By Riverbed

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Thousand Oaks-based wireless networking equipment maker Xirrus has been acquired by Riverbed , to help bolster its SD WAN efforts, the two said on Wednesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Riverbed said it will continue to offer up Xirrus as a stand-alone enterprise WLAN solution. READ MORE>>.

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ImmunGene Raises $9M

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Thousand Oaks-based ImmunGene , a startup biotech company developing antibody-based, protein therapeutics for treating cancer, said today that it has raised $9M in a Series A funding, to advance its early stage development products. immungene venture capital biotech biotechnology cancer therapeutics' to its board of directors.

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Teledyne Cuts Outlook On Sales Slowdown In Energy Markets

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Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies said this morning that it is cutting its outlook for the third quarter and full year, due to decline in sales in energy-related products. dollar and "challenging" capital spending environment impacting its results. The company also blamed a strong U.S. READ MORE>>.

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