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MARCH 8, 2016

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has made another investment this morning in immunology startup Tizona Therapeutics , via its venture capital arm, Amgen Ventures. Lightstone Ventures also participated in the funding. Tizona is based in South San Francisco, and is developing treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen and venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have put their backing behind a new, Westlake Village based drug development firm, Atara Biotherapeutics , in an unusual spinout of technology from the biotech giant. Financial details of the funding were not announced.

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JULY 30, 2018

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has returned as one of the investors in cancer therapeutis developer Sutro Biopharma , as part of an $85.4M funding round. in a Series E funding round. Sutro Biopharma is developing a piepline of cancer therapeutics, with the lead contact targeted at treating lymphoma and multiple myeloma.

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APRIL 28, 2014

Thousand Oaks-based wireless hardware provider Xirrus has raised yet another $10M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the company Monday. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. in the funding round, which so far includes 12 investors.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen is the lead investor in a round for San Francisco- and Bozeman, Montana-based SiteOne Therapeutics , SiteOne said on Friday. SiteOne said it raised $15M in a Series B funding round, which was led b Amgen, and also included Next Frontier Capital and insiders.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Thousand Oaks-based Xirrus confirmed Tuesday that it has raised an additional $20M in funding, bringing the firm's total raised to $80M. Xirrus said the new funding would bolster its reserves, and would go towards partnerships with large integrators. The round was led by InterWest Partners. READ MORE>>.

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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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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Thousand Oaks-based Xirrus , a developer of Wi-Fi networking hardware, has raised another $20M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Details on the new funding have not yet been announced by the company.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Thousand Oaks-based ImmunGene , a startup biotech company developing antibody-based, protein therapeutics for treating cancer, said today that it has raised $9M in a Series A funding, to advance its early stage development products. According to the company, the funding came from Ally Bridge Group.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Thousand Oaks-based biopharmaceuticals startup Atara Biotherapeutics announced this morning that it has raised $38.5M in a Series B funding round, for its efforts to develop treatments for patients with end-stage renal disease.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen is the a new investor in a round for Alector , a developer of immuno-modulatory therapies for Alzheimer's disease and other neurogenerative disorders, which announced a $29.5M funding today. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Thousand Oaks-based Atara Biotherapeutics announced this morning that it is in a second close of its Series B funding round, bringing its total raised in the funding to $52M. READ MORE>>. amgen lifescience disease renal capital venture biotherapeutics atara'

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JULY 2, 2014

San Diego-based Ocean Aero , a developer of unmanned, autonomous marine vehicles, has scored funding from Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne , the companies said this morning. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. According to Teledyne, the investment also included a strategic partnership deal.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Xirrus , the wireless hardware provider based in Thousand Oaks, has just raised $10.1M in a funding round, part of an ongoing $11.0M funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Thousand Oaks-based Akriveia Therapeutics , a biotechnology startup focused on immuno-oncology, announced this morning that it has raised $7.5M Akriveia Therapeutics said it is developing immunotherapeutic products that are specifically activated in the microenvironment of the tumor. in a Series A investment. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

Whats happening in regions in our counties with startup and entrepreneurial activity, especially in the Conejo Valley (Calabasas to Thousand Oaks) is exciting. Many jobs have been created and companies have received funding through our efforts of supporting and bringing value to founders.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has seen an exit out of its startup investment portfolio, and activities of its Amgen Ventures venture capital arm, at Berkeley-based Adheron Therapeutics this morning. In addition to Amgen, Adheron has received venture capital from Health Care Ventures, MedImmune Ventures, Partners Innovation Fund, and SROne.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Thousand Oaks-based Xirrus , the developer of high speed, high performance wireless networking hardware, has raised another big chunk of financing, saying today that it has raised $23.5M in a Series E funding round. Xirrus said the funding will go towards sales growth and its product.

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MAY 8, 2012

The venture capital arm of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has placed more funding into one of its portfolio companies, Sutro Biopharma , which is working on developing a scalable biochemical protein synthesis platform aimed at cancer therapeutics. Sutro said it has raised $16.5M

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APRIL 8, 2014

Thousand Oaks-based drug development company Atara Biotherapeutics announced this morning that it has added Matthew K. Fust as a board member, and hired Mitchall G. Clark as its Chief Regulatory and Quality Assurance Officer. READ MORE>>. atara biotherapeutics renal disease lifescience amgen executive board'

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Amgen Ventures , the venture capital arm of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen , has backed the developer of a biopharmaceutical aimed at treating irritable bowel syndrome, kidney disease, and diabetes.

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JULY 2, 2010

Thousand Oaks-based Ceres , a developer of biofuel crop technology, has raised another $20M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The filing indicates the round came from five investors.

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JULY 8, 2010

Thousand Oaks-based Ceres , a developer of biofuels crop technology, said Thursday that it has completed a private offering of convertible preferred stock. The funding came from Artal Luxembourg, Ambergate Trust, Gimv, and other undisclosed investors. Ceres is developing improved seed varieties--including.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Thousand Oaks-based Ceres , a developer of energy crops for the biofuels energy, has landed $4,989,144 in a grant from the Department of Energy, as part of a $151M effort to fund energy breakthroughs. The effort is targeted at creating feed stocks for biofuels projects, to displace oil and coal.

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JUNE 17, 2010

a developer of high speed, analog semiconductors, has filed for an IPO, saying late Wednesday evening in a filing with the SEC it is looking to raise up to $115M in an IPO on the NYSE. Inphi is venture backed by Walden International, Tallwood, Mayfield Fund, and Samsung Electronics. In its S-1, the firm said it had net income of $7.3M

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APRIL 29, 2014

How are you funding this project? This is really also funded because of Mike and my other project, the 101 incubator. The concept of the incubator is we''re raising a fund here locally and ten percent is local the other 90 percent on AngelList, and we''ll be locating here in the town of Thousand Oaks.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

—Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN ) of Thousand Oaks, CA, said that the FDA rejected its drug etelcalcetide (Parasbiv) , a treatment for patients with an excess of damaging hormone release because of chronic kidney disease. Morgan party. The firm has since pledged to help close the gender gap among biotech leadership.

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JUNE 10, 2016

Guardant is funding a series of trials around the country in people whose genetic or lifestyle profiles put them at high risk of five types of cancer. —More developments arrived this week in the Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT ) saga.

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JULY 22, 2016

—Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG ), of Summit, NJ, inked its latest immuno-oncology deal, forming a wide-ranging alliance with Cambridge-based Jounce Therapeutics to develop a group of cancer drugs. Also in Cambridge, Oncorus debuted with a $57 million round and a plan to develop next-gen oncolytic viruses, a type of cancer immunotherapy tool.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Developers say the ambitious Rice Depot Mercado project will be a mixed-use hub, drawing pedestrian residential traffic from the densely populated area around it. Smith name might ring the loudest bell today for the developer’s various philanthropic efforts. “Bud” Smith , is this year’s only posthumous winner.

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