socalTECH
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Santa Monica-based Call of Duty World League , the e-sports league based on Activision Blizzard's popular Call Of Duty videogame, announced its new set of sponsors for its 2019 season this week, saying that the presenting sponsor for the league will be PlayStation4. Also joining as sponsors will be ASTRO and SCUF Gaming, both returning from last season, and adding MTN DEW AMP and ASUS as new sponsors.
L.A. Business Journal
DECEMBER 7, 2018
New sponsors for Call of Duty World League; InSight Rover starts taking red planet data; former employees say Defy Media’s abrupt closure left them without final paychecks.
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socalTECH
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Houston, Texas-based symplr , a provider of healthcare governance, risk, and compliance software. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Clearlake acquired symplr from its existing set of private equity investors, Pamlico Capital and The CapStreet Group. Clearlake said that symplr has over 1,500 customers representing more than 4,000 healthcare facilities in North America.
L.A. Business Journal
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Economic reality forces VR firms to switch focus for wider audience.
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socalTECH
DECEMBER 7, 2018
8minuteenergy , a solar power project developer which has one if its offices in Los Angeles, says it has completed the largest solar farm in California, and among the largest in the world. According to 8minutenergy and its financing partner, Capital Dynamics, it recently completed the 328MW Mount Signal 3 Solar Farm, which is part of the larger 800 MW Mount Signal solar cluster, the largest PV project in California, but also among the largest solar power projects in the world.
L.A. Business Journal
DECEMBER 7, 2018
SpaceX reaches new heights with record-breaking rocket launch.
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Xconomy
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Why do unicorns get all the attention? Brian de Haaff wonders this sometimes, especially as compared to his own tech business, Aha. It’s not a “unicorn”—a business with a valuation of more than $1 billion—and it’s not even close. Instead, Aha is a bootstrapped startup. Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Despite the ease of communication through social media, new tools, the popularity of fearless independence and #MeToo, I still see many business organizations that are less than productive due to fear. Yet in my work as an advisor to senior executives, I find that many fail to see reality in their own organizations, and have no idea whether they are part of the problem or the solution.
Xconomy
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Synthorx, which is working to develop cancer and autoimmune therapies using technology that allows it to expand the genetic alphabet, raised $131 million in an upsized IPO on Thursday. The company sold more than 11.9 million shares at $11 apiece. Nearly 1.8 million additional shares are available for its underwriters to purchase. Synthorx, headed by president and CEO Laura Shawver, had planned to sell 9.1 million shares for between $10 and $12 each.
SoCal Tech Calendar
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Thursday, December 13, 2018 -- South Bay Monday Club Member Holiday Lunch. Email Fred@mondayclub.com.
Xconomy
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Henrietta Lacks’ “immortal cells” contributed enormously to the progression of scientific discovery, but Lacks, a poor, black woman who died from cervical cancer in 1951 months after her cells were harvested, never personally benefited from or consented to the medical research the HeLa cell line enabled. Dawn Barry, a former executive at San Diego genome sequencing powerhouse Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) who cofounded LunaDNA last year, says her company is committed to compensating those who help it
SoCal Tech Calendar
DECEMBER 7, 2018
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Xconomy
DECEMBER 7, 2018
The biggest yearly meeting for blood disease research has come and gone, and yet the stories to come out of the American Society of Hematology’s gathering in San Diego represent just a fraction of what happened in biopharma this week. Even if ASH wasn’t on your radar, the CRISPR baby saga—the apparent birth of gene edited twin girls in China that shocked the life sciences world a few weeks ago—rolled on.
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