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AUGUST 14, 2014

AuditFile , a developer of cloud-based auditing software for CPAs, has raised $3M in a funding round, the company said Thursday. The company was founded by Kevin Bong, who started the company in his dorm room at UCLA as a senior. The funding came from Banneker Ventures, Tim Draper, Nas Draper, as well as other angel investors.

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MARCH 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based Memorang , the developer of a flash-card based, study tool to help people study for such things as the MCAT, GRE, NBME, and a host of other tests, has raised $500,000 in a funding round, the company is announcing this morning. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals , which is developing treatments for central nervous system and neurological disease, said this morning that it has received funding from Fast Forward LLC, a nonprofit established by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and EMD Serono, a subsidiary of Merck. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2017

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. We're now starting to plan to open this to Phase 4 studies.

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MAY 11, 2011

I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. The company's CEO, Kos Galatsis , spoke to us a few years ago at the very beginning of their journey.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

Pasadena-based Cramster (www.cramster.com) recently announced $3M in a large angel round for the firm's online study communities. Cramster is looking to create online study groups, to help high school and college students study math, science, and other topics. What we're trying to emulate is the face-to-face study group.

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