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Pragma Raises $12 Million for Multiplayer Video Game Engine

L.A. Business Journal

the developer of a software engine for video game designers, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round. Pragma Platform Inc.,

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MEDICAL IMAGING INNOVATIONS

SoCal Tech Calendar

What do entrepreneurs, mathematicians, software engineers, physicists, physicians, biologists, anatomists, angels, venture capitalists and bankers have in common? Electrical engineers design and make the hardware. Software engineers write the programs for computers to process the data.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. He praised DARPA for looking to fund “safety first, rather than jumping to fund unsafe work with only a handful of potential applications.” Some see it as a way to eradicate malaria.)

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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based startup Worlize (www.worlize.com) announced it had received a seed round of funding, and launched a firm to focus on social gaming and chat. Brian McKelvey: For the last ten years, I've worked in software engineering, ranging from building social viral games for Paramount, Lionsgate, and GSN.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom.

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