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AUGUST 24, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a developer of a system for sending electronic mail to postal addresses, announced today that it has raised $8M in a funding. Zumbox develops a service--aimed at marketers and businesses--to target individuals with electronic mailings, based on their street address, rather than their email inbox.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Westlake Village-based Altasens , a developer of CMOS image sensors, has raised $15.1M out of a $20.1M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Westlake Village-based Inphi , a developer of high speed, analog semiconductors, announced today that it has hired on a new VP of Operations, Atul Shingal. Inphi develops high speed analog semiconductors used in the server, storage, and networking markets. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A major competitor to Westlake Village-based Row 44 , which develops Wi-Fi equipment for the commercial aviation market, has scored a big funding round this morning. Those investors include Ripplewood Holdings, Blumenstein/Thorne Information Partners and other investment entities associated with Oakleigh Thorne.

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JULY 29, 2021

Westlake Village-based warehouse robot developer inVia Robotics, which is led by Lior Elazary, says that it has raised $30M in a Series C funding round. The funding came from Microsoft's venture capital fund, M12, as well as Qualcomm Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Hitachi, Ltd.,

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Alex Schneider: It all started in 2003, when the city created an economic development fund worth $5M. It was a kind of rainy day fund, available for economic development purposes. We put out an RFQ to all sorts of venture capital firms in California, in order to be the fiscal steward of that money. . $3M

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

The funding came from Westlake Village BioPartners. ACELYRIN said it is focused on providing patients life-changing new treatment options by identifying, acquiring, and accelerating development and commercialization of promising drug candidates. Size of the funding round was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Westlake Village-based Specialists On Call , a firm developing a service to provide physician specialists to urban, suburban, and other hospitals via videoconferencing, has raised around $11.73M in a series of fundings, according to regulatory filings by the firm this week.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

Westlake Village-based Inphi Corporation, which develops high speed analog semiconductors, said Monday that the firm has scored validation from Intel. Inphi is backed by Cadence Design Systems, Dali-Hook Partners, Flextronics, Mayfield, Tallwood Venture Capital, and Walden International.

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JULY 5, 2017

Westlake Village-based Sienna Biopharmaceuticals , a startup biopharmaceuticals firm developing products for the medical dermatology and aesthetics market, has filed for an IPO. Morgan, Cowen, and BMO Capital Markets. Sienna said it is hoping to raised up to $74.8M in an offering on the NASDAQ Global Market.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Westlake Village-based Cyber-Rain , a developer of smart irrigation controllers, has raised $792,454 in an equity funding raise, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Cyber-Rain has previously raised funding from Funk Ventures, Momentum Ventures, a various angel investors, including the Tech Coast Angels.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

But a new venture capital firm led by industry veterans is trying to cast the City of Angels in a new light. Westlake Village BioPartners is launching today with $350 million in committed capital. Harper will start with Westlake in January after retiring from Amgen.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Two are clinical-stage biotechs: Cambridge, MA-based Black Diamond Therapeutics, which is looking to raise $151 million, and Westlake Village, CA-based Arcutis Biotherapeutics, which aims to add $125 million. Cancer drug developer Black Diamond filed IPO paperwork with regulators on Jan.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Thousand Oaks-based Capsida Biotherapeutics, a new biotechnology company focused on using adeno-associated virus (AAV) engineering and cargo development platform to develop tissue-targeted gene therapies for multiple types of diseases, has uncloaked from stealth mode, saying it has raised $140M in total capital.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Westlake Village-based Energy Vault, which is developing gravity-based, grid-scale energy storage systems, has raised $100M in its Series C funding round, the company announced this morning.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Westlake Village-based gravity energy storage technology developer Energy Vault announced this morning that it is in a $100M transaction with two companies, Atlas Renewable and China Tianying, which involves a $50M investment subscription and an expansion of a PIPE agreement from $150M to $200M.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Thousand Oaks-based Dantari has raised $47M in its Series A funding, saying that it has launched a new, clinical-stage biotechnology company developing targeted therapeutics for the treatment of cancers and other diseases. Dantari has appointed Richard A.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

China also continued its push in biomedicine with regulators there stamping the first approval of a drug discovered and developed in China. This week brought the first sliver of human data from an in-body gene editing procedure, and the results were decidedly undecided (more on that below).

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