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Papaya raises $50M to give you a way to pay bills via its mobile app

TechCrunch LA

It has developed technology to give people a way to pay bills outside of traditional methods, such as through the mail, over the phone or via a Web portal. The financing brings the previously under-the-radar company’s total raised to $65 million since its 2016 inception.

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LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M

TechCrunch LA

Los Angeles, California, USA – March 23, 2016: Aerial view of the Hollywood sign at dusk in Los Angeles. Signal Sciences secures $35 million investment to protect web apps. Together with Signal Sciences, we will give developers modern security tools designed for the way they work.”. Image Credit: Getty Images/franckreporter.

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S?qster Exits Stealth with Web-Based Tech for Managing Health Data

Xconomy

qster, founded in 2016 to develop technology that enables individuals to aggregate and manage all of their own personal health information, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday.

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SD Venture Funding Tops $1.9B in 2017; and Q4 Top 10 Deals

Xconomy

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 The annual total was slightly ahead of venture activity in 2016, when VCs put slightly less than $1.9 million into 61 companies during the last three months of 2017, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday.

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Interview With Paul Myer, Veracity: Why The Industrial Internet Needs Security

socalTECH

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. The big industrial control systems vendors, like Rockwell Automation, Emerson, Yokogawa, and GE, have also increasingly been building systems with web servers into the end devices, so that you can monitor them remotely.

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Endpoint Security Company CrowdStrike Files Publicly for IPO

Xconomy

CrowdStrike , the cybersecurity company that identified the two Russian government-linked hacker groups that invaded the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s network during the 2016 presidential campaign, filed publicly for an initial public offering on Tuesday.

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Sluggish Year for IPOs, But Signs Abound of Post-Election Surge

Xconomy

IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016. The institutional research firm is predicting a surge of IPOs in the weeks and months to come.