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JANUARY 26, 2022

Mojave-based aerospace developer ,a href="[link] reports that it has received a research contract with the U.S. Financial details of that contract were not announced by the company. The company said the contract is in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton.

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MAY 5, 2021

Santa Monica-based ,a href="[link] the online car buying marketplace, said late Tuesday that it has launched a pilot program with Roadster, a digital sales software provider which helps dealers sell automobiles to consumers.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

During the days when Snapchat’s popularity was booming, investors thought the company would become the anchor for a new Los Angeles technology scene. Instead, several former SpaceX employees have launched a raft of new companies, capturing the imagination and dollars of some of the biggest names in venture capital. ” . .

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based a href="[link] , which develops futuristic remote collaboration and meeting products, said Thursday afternoon that the company has raised approximately $3.0M in gross proceeds for the company. The company sells its systems to very large, enterprise companies. through a private placement.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Los Angeles-based a href="[link] , a startup which operates a platform it says connects product suppliers who dropship with Shopify e-retailers, says it has expanded its platform to provide localized content for sellers in Brazil and France. The company says its now offers country-specific websites in French and Portuguese.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Irvine-based a href="[link] Technology, a developer of advertising software, says it has launched an IPO, intending to sell 7,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock in an offering on the Nasdaq Global Market as DSP. The company has given an estimated offering range of between $19.00 The IPO will raise as much as $181M for Viant.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

West Hollywood-based a href="[link] , which provides a number of live streaming and other products focused on live entertainment--and also runs Slacker Radio--has named Tad Ro as Head of Product. Ro previously has worked for such companies as Verizon Digital Media, TMZ, Virgin Mobile, Spin Media and Rhapsody.

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JUNE 23, 2017

Los Angeles-based audio advertising technology developer ,a href="[link] Digital said today that it has rolled out a new, "supply side platform" (SSP) aimed at the online audio market.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Los Angeles-based a href="[link] , the startup led by Ryan Born which focuses on rights management, copyright enforcement, and content monetization, has acquired two startups, TuneRegistry , and RoyaltyClaim. Born becomes Chairman, President, and CFO of the combined companies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, a href="[link] , has launched its first product, a "smart" baby monitor which it says captures and analyzes a baby's breathing and sleeping patterns, the temperature and humidity levels in a baby's environment, as well as other data.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant a href="[link] said on Monday that it has agreed to acquire its joint venture with Kirin, Kirin-Amgen , in a deal worth $780M. The JV was created in 1984 as a 50-50 joint venture to fund global development of Amgen's EPOGEN, and later included the company's other pharmaceutical products.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 8, 2016

San Diego-based a href="[link] Therapeutics , which is developing biopharmaceuticals aimed at cancer and other diseases, said this morning that it has closed on $140M in private placements. The company, which is publicly traded as SRNE on the NASDAQ, said the funding came from Ally Bridge Group, Beijing Shijilongxin Investment Co.,

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

San Diego-based ,a href="[link] Wireless announced this morning that it has appointed Michael Newman as the company''s new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Newman was most recently at Websense, most recently serving as CFO, but has spent over eleven years at the company. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 28, 2016

Carlsbad-based synthetic chemistry technology developer ,a href="[link] said this week that it has named David Kelsey as its new Chief Financial Officer. Kelse replaces former CFO Brian Conn, who the company said left back in February. He also serves on the board of Granite Construction. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

Los Angeles-based sales lead management software developer a href="[link] has named Matt Reid as the company's new Vice President of Marketing, the firm said Monday.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

Westlake Village-based ,a href="[link] , which develops facial recognition technology, said Thursday that it has named Tom Melzl as its new Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Melzl joins the company from StackIQ, where he was Vice President of Sales, and also has also served at Inquira.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

Pasadena-based a href="[link] , a developer of rugged, solid state drives, said it has launched a new self-encrypting, solid-state disk drive. The company is targeting users in the government, defense, financial, and medical industry with the hardware. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Manhattan Beach-based a href="[link] , which develops a line of patio umbrellas which also double as solar-powered mobile device chargers, has named Karina Fedasz as its Chief Operating Officer. The company's patio umbrellas include solar panels on top and USB charging ports. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2016

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm b>a href="[link] Bio said Friday that it has raised approximately $5M, via a private placement from an investor. per share in the investment, and als will receive a warrant to purchase one-half of a share of the company's common stock at the same prive, five years from closing.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

E-sports franchise ,a href="[link] Liquid , which operates ten different e-sports teams with more than 50 players in total, has been acquired by a group of entrepreneurs led by Peter Guber and Ted Leonsis. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

Silicon Valley-bsaed wireless charging electronics developer ,a href="[link] has opened up a new office in Costa Mesa, the company announced today. The company said the new location in Orange County will help it tap into the talent residing in southern Los Angeles, Orange County and northern San Diego Counties. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2015

Los Angeles-based MCN a href="[link] > has acquired social media studio McBeard , the two coampanies said earlier this week. The company was founded byAlec McNayr and Alan Beard. Mattel, Netflix, and AT&T.

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APRIL 9, 2014

San Diego-based a href="[link] , the developer of camera-based, driver safety and monitoring systems, said Wednesday that it received five patents in 2013, and filed applications for an additional, 18 patents on its technology. Lytx--formerly known as DriveCam--develops systems used to track driver safety, correlating sensors with video data.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

San Diego-based real estate information provider >a href="[link] said it has acquired a title business, Rels Title. ATI Title COmpanies dba Rels Title is currently a subsidiary of Rels Title Services, LLC. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2020

Thousands of companies have indicated interest in the last several days,” a spokesperson wrote in an email. ” The stimulus loans that startups hope to access were created to save jobs at companies affected by the government’s closure of non-essential businesses. .” Really bad for startups.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2016

Many first-time founders seek advice when thinking about what ideas would be great for a startup company and receive the wrong advice that you need to focus on a billion-dollar idea. Twitter was a podcasting company. There are very few ideas that are obviously a billion-dollar idea from the start. So what should you do? And so forth.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The two year old company is still in beta, but decided to work with the Women’s March as an initial test of its product. The company agreed to donate up to $300,000 in total, and up to $100 per-person for new users who downloaded the application. Image courtesy of Mark. Even though it’s technology, it’s organic.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He did what every LP did, looked at returns, talked to portfolio companies, talked with our competitors and so forth. https://medium.com/media/aec01f203f35f445d82826855e482c4a/href So what is the importance of succession planning in VC? Fred & Brad aren’t leaving but wanted Andy & Albert to take over management.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

I understand this instinct for more capital and I have two very different personal experiences: In my first company we raised an A-round of $16.5 million and in my second company we raised only $500,000 by choice. million and in my second company we raised only $500,000 by choice. I have this “How much should I raise?”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This past year was also the year that startup boards also got more disciplined about containing burn rates and pushing for companies to be run more pragmatically. In case you’re keeping score at home — that’s approximately the size of 65 US seed-stage funds managed by one company. On stark graph should give you a sense of the picture.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

https://medium.com/media/fcbf3382017c6dc3792ff6baf03d260b/href Nope! https://medium.com/media/fcbf3382017c6dc3792ff6baf03d260b/href Nope! https://medium.com/media/13f6c95d2258ee84d60d5442ce6eede1/href Ah, but I’m doing both! https://medium.com/media/13f6c95d2258ee84d60d5442ce6eede1/href Ah, but I’m doing both!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

That’s why today I’m so excited to finally be able to tell you about Density , a company I led a $4 million financing (2) along with Jason Calacanis (We’re teaming up on the board together! A mobile marketing company could track campaigns and then measure increases in retail traffic driven into local stores.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. My thesis is that it will become a major I/O computing metaphor or as this field is sometimes referred to HCI ( human-computer interaction ).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

https://medium.com/media/73e635308c13a4f3c71517be2826fdb0/href Startups Outside Silicon Valley Jason asked Mark is he thought it was possible to build non-Silicon Valley successful startups. Part of the problem is that companies don’t go public any more. 20 years ago there were 9,000 public companies. Now there are 4,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2016

It exemplifies how difficult it is to build a company — even one that extraordinarily successful — and the perils of the trade-offs between growth and cash. I love reading non-fiction as a way to challenge myself to understand topics that stretch my understanding of the world around me. This is truly a stain on American society.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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