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MARCH 17, 2021

Find My Vax LA, a new website created by developer Andrew Friedman, is looking to help streamline vaccine appointments in Los Angeles County, allowing users to find both confirmed and possible available appointments. According to the website, it aggregates multiple vaccine providers sites--including myturn.ca.gov, carbonhealth.com/covid-19-vaccines/los-angeles, riteaid.com, and kaiserpermanente.org--and also tweets out as new appointments become available.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based Evid Science.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

San Diego-based biotech investor NRGene, which says it is using artificial intelligence for genomics in the agricultural and livestock industry, says it has completed an initial public offering (IPO) on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange, and raised approximately $30M. The company says it is now trading as NRGN on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The company's CEO and co-founder is Dr.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Manhattan Beach-based Traliant, which provides online workplace compliance training solutions, said it has received a majority investment from private equity investor PSG. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. Traliant was founded in 2016, and says it has over 5,000 customers. As part of the majority investment, PSG's Tom Reardon and Chris Andrews have both joined Traliant's board of directors.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Carlsbad-based logistics start Airspace, a startup that helps provide time-critical shipping technology, annoucned this morning that it has raised $38M in its Series C funding. The funding was led by Telstra Ventures, and also included co-lead HarbourVest Partners, as well as Scale Ventures, Defy Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, and Prologis Venture. The company says it has now raised a total of $70M.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Fountain Valley-based gaming accessory maker HyperX launched a new product this morning, a new, USB microphone with fancy RGB lighting effects. According to HyperX, its new microphone, the HyperX QuadCast S , includes RGB lighting effects, anti-vibration shock mount, pop filter, and more features. The company said the microphone is aimed at streamers, online broadcasters, and work from home professionals.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Logically.ai , a startup which recently set up an office in Los Angeles, says it is developing artificial intelligence which it claims can help fact check statements and news, says it will apply its AI application to fact check the U.S. Presidential debates. The company says it will use both artificial and human intelligence to "uncover and address misinformation".

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Huntington Beach-based Rocket Lab , the space launch startup led by Peter Beck, is aiming at beating NASA to Venus , in the hopes of helping to search for extraterrestrial life. According to Beck, it plans to dispatch its own space probe to Venus, to "scout for signs of extraterrestrial life". Rocket Lab apparently has been working on the Venus mission for several months.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Ivanti , the IT and security operations company owned by Los Angeles-based private equity company Clearlake Capital Group , has acquired two other companies-- MobileIron and Pulse Secure , Clearlake announced this morning. MobileIron is a provider of unified endpoint management software, and Pulse Secure develops secure access and mobile security software.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Los Angeles-based canned water brand Liquid Death , the Science, Inc.-based startup offering up bottled water in aluminum cans, has raised $23M in a Series B funding round, the company disclosed over the weekend. The funding included Convivialite Ventures, Fat Mike, Pat McAfee, Velvet Sea Ventures, and a number of other investors. The company said the funding goes towards growth.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software says it has acquired the operator business of Circle Media Labs , a developer of parental control software. Smith Micro said the asset deal was worth approximately $13.5M in cash, and included customer contracts and a perpetual software license. The company says it the operator business is expected to report 2019 revenues of $4M.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

San Diego-based Seqster , which develops software used f[link] health data management, said today that it has received an investment from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Size of the investment was not announced. According to Seqster, it will use the new funding to accelerate adoption of its technology, which is used for managing clinical trials and patient engagement.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Irvine-based electric vehicle maker Karma Automotive is laying off 60 more workers in Irvine, as the startup continues to shed workers, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) report issued on Wednesday. The new cuts come on top of an earlier layoff involving 200 workers at the company. Karma said in a statement, that it was "necessary to realign resources in some business functions" saying it wants to go beyond "just creating and selling luxury electric vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A team from the University of California, Riverside has scored the top prize in a "hackathon" run by insurance company Geico. According to Geico, the UC Riverside team--made up of William Shiao, Aditya Acharya, Eric Ong and John Shin--won a two-weekend hackathon, the GEICO Hacktivates Hackathon--which had invited teams from a number of other universities to compete in a competition on "tech skills and ingenuity".

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen said Thursday that it has successfully completed its acquisition of the worldwide rights to Otezla , from Celgene Corporation , in a deal that was worth $13.4 billion. Otezla is an oral, non-biologic treatment for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Amgen acquired Otezla as part of the merger of Celgene with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The founders of Santa Monica-based TaskUs , CEO Bryce Maddock and President Jaspar Weir, have received a national award as part of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year program, the only Southern California entrepreneurs to gain recognition in the yearly program. The two received the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 Award in the Services category, one of only 11 categories awarded in the E&Y program.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Elon Musk and Tesla unveiled a new electric vehicle--the Cybertruck --last night in a big event, showing off an highly unusual design, made of the same stainless style used on the SpaceX Starship. According to Elon Musk at the reveal event, the truck is bulletproof--even showing the results of a 9mm handgun against the door panels--and Musk joked that the company would make a "pressured version" for Mars.

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JULY 2, 2019

For our video interview this morning, we have Andy Wilson, the Executive Director of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation (www.alliancesocal.org), a new nonprofit which is trying to bring together Southern California's technology industry, universities, and others in the local ecosystem. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based Beyond Meat , which develops plant-based meat products, which look and taste like real meat, has set its IPO pricing range, as its preps to go public. According to Beyond Meat, it expects an initial offering price of between $19.00 and $21.00 per share. The company has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Market as BYND. Beyond Meat's IPO is being underwritten by Goldman Sachs & Co.

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APRIL 12, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is looking to raise another $510M in funding--the second time the firm has gone out for funding this year-- according to a regulatory filing from the firm. The funding will bring SpaceX's total raised to more than $2.75 billion, and reportedly values the rocket firm at over $30 billion. The new funding came to light after another, successful launch for the company--the first, commercial flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based mobile games developer Jam City announced on Thursday morning that it has acquired 231 Play , a Berlin, Germany-based mobile games studio. As part of the acquisition, the company says it has opened up Jam City Germany , which will be based in Berlin. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to Jam City, the founders of 231 PLay, Matthias and Thomas Hoechsmann, will both join the company, and will continue to manage development and operations for its new

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MARCH 19, 2019

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. Telesign--which now has over 300 employees-- recently was acquired by BICS in a deal worth $230M. Disraeli also recently was appointed as CEO of the company. Ryan and Stacy co-founded Telesign over 15 years ago along with their co-founder, Darren Berkovitz.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Scopely says it now has a $400M annual revenue run rate, which it attributes to its recent foray into Star Trek-themed mobile games. According to Javier Ferreira, the company's President and COO, its Star Trek title, Star Trek: Fleet Command resulted in an 80 percent jump in its revenues last year. Scopely says it now has 260 employees.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Santa Monica-based Activision has fired its CFO, saying on December 31st that it has notified its current Chief Financial Officer, Spencer Neumann, that it intends to terminate his employment. According to Activision, the move is "unrelated to the Company's financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures. " No details of exactly what triggered the termination were announced, however, reports say that Neumann may have been hired away by Netflix.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Ventura-based Apollo Robotics , a new startup developing autonomous drone hardware and software aimed at automated surveying, announced this morning that it has named Rob Cammack as its Chief Executive Officer. Cammack is an existing angel investor in the company. Apollo Robotics said Cammack is a "seasoned serial entrepreneur", but did not details what Cammack has done previously.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Los Angeles-based electric car maker Faraday Future said on Monday that it has reached a deal with its main investor, Evergrande Health, to restructure the company and allow the company to continue to operate. Faraday Future had been headed towards insolvency and shutdown, after clashing with Evergrande Health earlier in 2018, and had run through all of its available funding options in December According to Faraday future, the two have agreed to terminate the previous investment contract between

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Irvine-based BookingPal , which develops vacation rental distribution and booking software, said on Wednesday that it has named Simon Lehmann, the former CEO of Interhome, to its board of directors. Lehmann also previously was on the board of HomeAway, and had served as presidento f travel reseadrch firm PhocusWright. BookingPal is led by founder and CEO Alex Aydin.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Irvine-based TITAN School Solutions , a developer of nutrition software and services for K-12 school districts, said on Wednesday that it has raised $5.2M in its Series A funding round. The funding was led by Wavemaker Partners and Springboard Ventures, and also included RezVen Partners. According to Titan, the funding will go towards buildings its software, plus sales and marketing.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies announced on Wednesday afternoon that it has acquired a number of scientific imaging brands from Roper Technologies , in a deal worth $225M in cash. According to Teledyne, the businesses include Princeton Instruments, Photometrics and Lumenera, as well as other brands. Roper Technologies is based in Sarasota, Florida.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based EDF Renewables North America , which develops renewable energy projects such as solar and wind farms and Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell), said late Wednesday that the two are in a 50/50 joint venture to develop wind farms off the shore of New Jersey. According to the two, the area has the potential to produce approximately 2,500 megawatts of offshore wind energy.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Virgin Orbit , the space launch startup which is backed by Sir Richard Brason, showed off its small satellite launch vehicle, the LauncherOne today, posting images of the launch vehicle in Long Beach Airport being mated with its Cosmic Girl launch vehicle--a converted 747. Virgin Orbit is attaching the LauncherOne rocket on the underside of the Cosmic Girl, which will take the launch vehicle high into the atmosphere before release into orbit.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

California Lutheran University (CLU) is receiving a big, $6M donation from former Hughes Electronics Vice Chairman Steve Dorfman, for a new building for the school's School of Management, the school announced this morning. According to the Thousand Oaks university, Dorfman's contribution will go towards the construction of the two-story, 27,000-square foot Steven D.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

San Francisco-based Cloudflare , which provides a service which helps web site and web application developers manage caching and access to their websites, protecting against cyberattacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS)--and which is backed by Qualcomm--is heading towards an IPO. Reports from Reuters say that Cloudflare has hired Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, which will value the company at more than $3.5 billion.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Venice, California-based on-demand scooter rental firm Bird said on Thursday afternoon that it has hired two, former Uber executives. Bird said it has named Davis Cinelli as Vice President and Head of Finance of the company, and Yibo Ling has become Vice President of Corporate Development, in addition ot heading up Bird's team in China. Cinelli was most recently Head of Finance, Global Rides at Uber, and also served for 11 years at General Electric; Ling spent the last four years as Uber's Diret

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AUGUST 13, 2018

Los Angeles-based security software developer Prevoty is now officially part of Redwood Shores, California-based Imperva , Imperva said Monday afternoon. Prevoty was a developer of DevOps security software and was backed by Trident Capital. The acquisition had originally been announced in July. Imperva paid $140M in cash for Prevoty. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

Costa Mesa-based Veritone said Monday that it has acquired Denver-based Wazee Digital , a provider of cloud-based video management and licensing services. Veritone is a developer of artificial intelligence software used to analyze audio, video and other data sources. Veritone said it paid $15.0M for Wazee Digital, split between $7.5M in cash and $7.5M in Veritone common stock.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Camarillo-based Semtech reported a win this morning with a Chinese manufacturer, which will use the company's LoRa low power wireless technology for use in a "smart city" product. According to Semtech, Chinese company Lowan , a low power wide area network (LPWAN) solution provider located in Hangzhou, China, has incorporated its LoRa radio frequency technology into its smart-grid power meters.

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