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Hyperloop One's Shervin Pishevar Sues Political Group Over Smear Campaign

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Venture capital investor Shervin Pishevar , the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One , has just filed a lawsuit alleging a political research group has been running a smear campaign against him. Pishevar filed the lawsuit in San Francisco against company Definers Public Affairs this week.

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Encodia Gets $75M In Series C

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San Diego-based Encodia, a biotech company which is focused on proteomics research, has raised $75M in a Series C funding round, the company said this week. Andrew ElBardissi of Deerfield Management have joined the company's board of directors.

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Relativity, a new star in the space race, raises $140 million for its 3-D printed rockets

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The financiers funding the company’s plans are a mix of Silicon Valley venture capital firms and members of Hollywood’s elite, which is only fitting for a company whose headquarters are in Los Angeles, but whose business takes it to the far flung research centers and launch facilities which support the U.S.

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Embodied Gets $22M For Lifelike Robots

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Jason Schoettler from Calibrate Ventures and Andrew Firlik from JAZZ Venture Partners both join the company's board with the funding. Embodied's robot technology is based on research from Maja Mataric, the chaired professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at USC.

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Embodied Gets Funding From Intel For Personal Robots

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Pasadena-based Embodied , a new startup developer "affordable personal robots", has raised funding from Intel Capital. Embodied was co-founded by Paolo Pirjanian, the former CTO of iRobot and Professor Maja Mataric, a researcher in robotics and neuroscience at the University of Southern California.

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MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. Ethan recruited a great team of people to help build this proposition including Lisa Robinson running marketing and Rahul Thathoo as CTO who have been working tirelessly for the past year.

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