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SpaceX Seeking $510M In New Funding

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX is looking to raise another $510M in funding--the second time the firm has gone out for funding this year-- according to a regulatory filing from the firm. The funding will bring SpaceX's total raised to more than $2.75 billion, and reportedly values the rocket firm at over $30 billion. The new funding came to light after another, successful launch for the company--the first, commercial flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday.

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With a new CEO and fresh funding from Upfront, healthy prepared food delivery service Territory looks to grow

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With a new chief executive officer and $4 million in fresh funding from investors including the Los Angeles-based investment firm, Upfront Ventures, Territory Foods is poised for growth. The company recently hired powerhouse executive Abby Coleman, the former vice president of marketing and strategy at Quidsi and head of e-commerce at Diapers.com as its new chief executive and is now looking to expand its footprint and unique approach to meal delivery beyond its current geographies.

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Semtech Gets Design Win With Aerospace Manufacturer

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Camarillo-based semiconductor developer Semtech has chalked up another design win for its LoRa wireless radio frequency technology, saying that its technology has been selected by an aerospace manufacturer, Ineo-Sense , for it smart asset tracking tools. Semtech said its wireless technology is being used in Ineo-Sense's "Clover-Core" sensor products, used for asset tracking in manufacturing settings.

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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

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Image via Flickr by Phil Gyford Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the entry price has come down dramatically in last few decades. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product. Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Bird Plans Massive European Expansion

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Santa Monica-based, last-mile, scooter rental service Bird said on Friday that it plans a massive, European expansion this summer, with plans to launch the service in more than 50 European cities. According to Bird, the move will expand its European fleet more than ten-fold. Bird said that, as part of the expansion in Europe, it will also roll out a new electric scooter, the "Bird Zero", which it says is designed and engineered specifically for the e-scooter sharing industry.

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Thwarting Opposition, Bristol Gets Shareholder OK for $74B Celgene Buyout

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The early opposition has turned out to be just noise. Shareholders of Bristol-Myers Squibb today approved the pharma giant’s planned buyout of Celgene, paving the way for a deal that will create one of the largest biopharma organizations in the world, and send ripples throughout the sector. Bristol (NYSE: BMY ) said Friday that more than 75 percent of its shareholders voted to approve the deal at a meeting on Friday.

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Lyft, Uber, and the Changing Disclosure Rules For Unicorn IPOs

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When a much-watched tech company such as Lyft, Uber, or Pinterest files for an initial public stock offering, people eagerly scour the sudden trove of information that such a private business must finally disclose when it begins to offer shares to the general public, rather than only to sophisticated inside investors such as venture capital firms. For newly public company Lyft , (NASDAQ: LYFT ) though, the IPO disclosure requirements were significantly lower than they would usually be for busine

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SmartDrive Wins Large Trucking Firm

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San Diego-based video-based transportation safety systems developer SmartDrive Systems has scored a win with a large trucking firm, Atlas Trucking, for that company's entire fleet, SmartDrive said this week. Financial details of the win were not announced. SmartDrive Systems said that Atlas rolled out its platform without even conducting a pilot deployment, just based on recommendations from other fleets.

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Bio Roundup: EASL Does It, Alnylam’s BFF, Gene Therapy Deals & More

Xconomy

A major conference devoted to liver disease kicked off with updates from the race for approval of the world’s first drug to treat a form of advanced liver disease called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH. The gene therapy field continued to attract venture cash and industry interest, and it was a busy week in Washington for healthcare policy and regulation.

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Mavenlink Finds $48M More

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Irvine-based Mavenlink , a startup which develops business process management software and related tools for services businesses, has raised $48M more, in a Series E funding round. The funding came from Carrick Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. Mavenlink's round brings the Orange County's total funding to more than $111.5M. The company last raised a funding round back in 2016, which also was led by Goldman Sachs.

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XPRIZE Gives $1M Award To Israeli Moon Landing Team

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Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , which organizes prize competitions to inspire people to advance technology to help change the world, said last night that it has awarded a $1M "Moonshot Award" to SpaceIL , the Israeli team which attempted a moon landing on Thursday. XPRIZE said it decided to recognize the successful lunar orbit and (not-so-successful) landing attempt for its contribution to private space exploration.

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