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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. to witness the achievement of what could represent a giant leap forward in the effort to decarbonize some of the world’s most carbon intensive industries. For Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab and brains behind the excursion, the unveiling was simply the latest in a string of demonstrations for new technologies commercialized by his nearly three-decade old startup company incubator.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Hyundai is getting set to launch a new, car-sharing service in Los Angeles, called Mocean Carshare , the company said this week, ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show. According to Hyundai, its new venture, MoceanLab , will initially launch with 20, plug-in-hybrid vehicles, with plans to eventually include 300 electric vehicles in its fleet, according to the auto maker.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Audi revealed Tuesday evening in Los Angeles the e-tron Sportback as the German automaker begins to chip away at its plan to launch more than 30 electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids by 2025. The e-tron Sportback reveal ahead of the LA Auto Show follows the launch earlier this year of Audi’s first all-electric vehicle, the 2019 e-tron. Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Santa Monica-based Catasys , a developer of artificial intelligence-enabled healthcare technology, said this morning that it has named Gustavo Giraldo to its board of directors, replacing existing director Sharon Gabrielson. Giraldo is currently President of Behavorial and Specialty Health at Magellan Health, and previously had been Chief Operating Officer for Chubb's Latin American life, accident, and health business, as well as served at Cigna for 18 years.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Volkswagen revealed Tuesday evening a new concept vehicle called the ID Space Vizzion, and despite the crazy Frank Zappaesque name, this one might actually make it into production in Europe and North America. The ID Space Vizzion is the seventh concept that VW has introduced since 2016 that uses its MEB platform, a flexible modular system — really a matrix of common parts — for producing electric vehicles that VW says make it more efficient and cost-effective.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

San Diego-based 5G device maker Inseego said this morning that it has named Adam Gould as Senior Vice President, Product Management, IoT & Mobile solutions. Gould was most recently CEO of QuantalRF, a developer of low-power, high sensitivity RF technology. He was also VP of Market and Technology Disruption at ARM, and CEO of Sensinode; and also had served at NextWave Broadband, Motorola, and Nokia.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE announced a brand new competition, the $10M Rainforest XPRIZE. According to the organization, the new competition will run for four years and calls on innovators to create technology capable of identifying and cataloging rainforest biodiversity and develop insights that may lead to a new bioeconomy through standing forests. XPRIZE says that current ways of measuring biodiversity--including in situ human-led studies, remote sensing by satellites or radar, or sophisticated

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When the Los Angeles-based startup Maslo launched its first product in early 2018 , the company was focused on a direct-to-consumer tool designed to encourage mindfulness and self-awareness through a machine learning enabled avatar that would respond to individual’s inputs. Now the company has reframed its offering, raised a fresh round of financing and is coming to market with a refined vision for a training tool for executive coaching.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Santa Monica-based Bird , the on-demand, scooter rental service, is hoping to encourage better safety among its riders, with a new #HelmetSelfie campaign, which it launched on Tuesday morning. According to Bird , it will offer up special incentives and ride credits to users who post a "helmet selfie", tagged with #HelmetSelfie, and forwarded to the company, in order to get more of its riders to wear helmets.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Peter Adderton , the founder of Boost Mobile , the prepaid cell phone provider now owned by Sprint , is looking to buy back the company for up to $2 billion, according to reports. Adderton--a Southern California entrepreneur who most recently was founder of local 360-degree video camera maker 360fly , which was backed by L Catterton, Hydra Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures, founded Boost Mobile way back in 2000 when Adderton was in Australia.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two, Southern California companies--Hawthorne-based SpaceX and Irvine-based Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems , have both been selected as part of a NASA program aimed at landing payloads to the Moon. According to NASA, the two are part of five companies which will take part in NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), which will make them eligible to bid on proposals to provide deliveries to the surface of the moon.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Pasadena-based Heliogen , a clean energy startup which is backed by such notable investors as Bill Gates, Idealab and local billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong of NantWorks, says it has demonstrated for the first time, concentrated solar energy which exceeds temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius. The startup says it is looking to use sunlight to create and replace fossil fuels, using concentrated sunlight for industrial processes and hydrogen fuel creation.

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