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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.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

SetPoint is venture backed by NEA, Morgenthaler, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Topspin, Action Potential Venture Capital and others, and raised $30M in August. The company said the human trial will include a total of 15 subjects, aged 22 to 75. SetPoint's devices are implanted in the vagus nerve. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) announced last week that it has raised a second fund, worth $300M. To learn about the new fund, we sat down with Jamie Montgomery , one of the fund's co-founders, to hear about March Capital's strategy and the new fund. We started March Capital in late 2013.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Los Angeles-based Sketchy, an educational technology company known for creating visual study tools, says it is taking aim at the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) in a deal with Blueprint, a provider of MCAT prep products. Sketchy is backed by TCG and Reach Capital, who invested $30 million in the company in 2020.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2023

The Angel Capital Association recently published a study contributed to by several of my friends quoting that seventy percent of investments made by angel investors to date return less than the amount invested – upon a sale or closing of the business – the great majority of these outright losses as businesses die. And the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Studying for the SAT, LSAT, GMAT, TOEFL, MCAT and other standardized tests in the US is a massive market that has been dominated for years by Kaplan and Princeton Review. Online peer-to-peer lending.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

The funding came from JDRF T1D Fund, Aphelion Capital and LifeSci Venture Partners. Prior investors in the round include M Ventures and Hikma Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Hikma Pharmaceuticals. The company said the new funding will go towards its technology platform, and to fund additional clinical studies.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

which will trade ont he Nasdaq Capital Market as PALI. from Altium Capital, to fund continued development of the combined company's clinical programs. The newly merged company will focus specifically on advancing Leading Biosciences' lead pipeline asset, LB1148, in clinical studies. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2021

San Diego-based immunology startup Aristea Therapeutics says it has raised $63M in a Series B financing round, which was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, LLC, along with Novo Holdings A/S, plus Arena Pharmaceuticals and funds managed by Tekla Capital Management, LLC.

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MAY 4, 2018

According to Science37, it is in a strategic collaboration with UCB to improve the clinical trial experience, with initial studies in the areas of neurology and immunology. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2022

ONK said the new funding will go to drive multiple, pre-clinical programs through IND-enabling studies, and also go towards GMP manufacturing capability. The startup says it is developing optimally engineered natural killer (NK) cell therapies. The company's CEO is Chris Nowers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. It is easy to invest capital, but very, very hard to exit, so don't.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

The funding was led by SR One, and also included RA Capital Management, an un-named US healthcare-focused fund, and Deerfield Management. The company said it will use the funding to advance its product through approval, to support initial launch activities, and to evaluate it in clinical studies for additional indications.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

The company said the funding is the first close of a targeted $30M funding round, and came from existing shareholders Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Advent Life Sciences, Cormorant Asset Management, Legend Capital, NeoMed Management, and individuals. Axonics said it hopes to begin that study in the second half of the year.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2017

According to Epic Sciences, the funding was led by Hermed Capital, and also included Altos Capital Partners, Domain Associates, Genomic Health, Pagoda Investment, Reach Tone Limited, RMI Partners, Sabby Capital and VI Ventures. The company said the fund will go to accelerate clinical studies and enhance its technology.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The funding was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and also included Deerfield Management, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Novo Holdings A/S, Pappas Capital, RiverVest Venture Partners and Rock Springs Capital. The company says it recently had a successful Phase 2b study. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new company, Apex Innovation Sciences --with headquarters in Long Beach, California and Marlton, New Jersey--has formed out of a corporate merger of CNS Network and Hassman Research Insitute , along with the Clinical Trial Centers Alliance , three companies in the clinical trial studies industry, the companies said this morning.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2023

The company said the funding will go towards in-patient clinical studies. The funding came from the San Diego Angel Conference, NuFund Venture Group, Cove Fund, Chemical Angel Fund, Medical Devices of Tomorrow, along with other individual investors. The company said it plans to seek its next round of financing in the second half of 2023.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company’s public offering should be a nice windfall for the Chicago-based investors DNS Capital, an investment firm managing the private wealth of the Pritzker family, and Cleveland Avenue, founded by former McDonald’s executive Don Thompson; as well as the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins and Obvious Ventures.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

San Diego-based Arcturus Therapeutics has received up to $220M in additional financial commitments from the country of Singapore, after receiving positive Phase 1/2 study results on one of its compounds.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The company said the exclusive placement agent on the offering is H.C. Wainwright & Co.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. That network effect is a subtle but has a powerful effect with all this new technology. Big ideas rule the day.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The Series A funding was led by Arix Bioscience, and also included Pappas Ventures, Chiesi Ventures, Takeda Ventures, and Decheng Capital. Lead investor Arix said the funding will be used by VelosBio to complete nonclinical development and advance the company's lead programs into clinical studies. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The startup's Series A funding was led by August Capital, and also included existing investor Refactor Capital. FactoryFour was foudned by 22-year old Param Shah, who grew up in Irvine, but most recently was a student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, studying Computer Science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. On the other hand, venture capital doesn’t get smoothly spread across the geographic and demographic landscape, and the number of active venture capital firms has dropped sharply. No surprises here. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

LifeVoxel said it offers up aces to imaging studies and data, allowing for what it calls "4D interactive intelligent medical image views" over the Internet. Source of the funding was not announced, however, the company said the round came from medical and radiology specialists, strategic medical technology investors and family offices.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2019

and raised some capital from the Los Angeles-based investment firm, Science. The company’s goal is to capitalize on paranoia around the effects of cell phone radiation on health and possible links to cancer. Indeed, there are no studies that definitively prove a link between radiation emitted by cell phones and cancer.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Santa Monica-based cloud-based learning and human capital management software developer Cornerstone OnDemand is aiming to make it easier for employers to help their people learn the skills they need to survive in the "workplace of tomorrow", through a link with think tank Institute for the Future. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2016

The debt funding comes from Pharmakon Advisors and Athyrium Capital Management. The company said the funds go to support initiation of a phase 3 study in pancreatic cancer, along with studies in non-small cell lung and gastric cancers, and start of our planned trial in breast cancer in collaboration with Eisai.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

The Angel Capital Association reported this week that investing activity by angel investments groups dropped by nine percent between 2008 and 2007, and 40 percent of angel groups expect overall investment to decrease again this year. Tags: angel investment venture capital report.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2011

A new study compiled by the University of Southern California tallies up $380M raised in capital by USC spinouts in the last three years, and a 15 year total of $800M raised by 39 startups with roots at the school.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2019

The new funding was led by Pangaea Ventures and also included Fresenius Medical Care Ventures GmbH, Grey Sky Venture Partners, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co. The company said the funding--the first close on a larger, $10M round--will go towards commercialization of its products and additional clinical studies. Ltd and Fouse KK.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2020

Thrive Earlier Detection, one of the companies vying to be the first to commercialize a blood test that can uncover cases of cancer before symptoms arise, has raised $257 million and announced plans to evaluate its CancerSEEK test in a registrational study.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2023

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Here are my thoughts on the right steps to prepare for these discussions and how to capitalize on your strengths: Declare and file your innovations early as intellectual property. Use real case studies and customer feedback. Capitalize on team experience and relevant business area strengths.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Los Angeles-based e-commerce service provider Onestop Internet --which is backed by Bessemer Ventures and Fung Capital USA--said it has run a new consumer survey, which shows that Amazon is a "serious threat" to its customers, apparel brands. The company said it tapped Survata for the study, which interviewed 501 online respondents.

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