socalTECH
MAY 22, 2019
San Diego-based Sotera Wireless , which develops vital signs monitoring products for the healthcare industry, has named Younes Achkire, PhD, as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Achkire was most recently Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Foxconn Health Technology Business Group, and also was co-founder, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Zap Surgical Systems.
L.A. Business Journal
MAY 22, 2019
Precellerator takes new applications; Snapchat backpedals from x-rated lenses, WarnerMedia co-hosts esports tournament
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socalTECH
MAY 22, 2019
San Diego-based Locana , a developer of RNA-targeting gene therapy technology, announced Wednesday morning that it has raised $55M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by ARCH Venture Partners, and also included Temasek and Lightstone Ventures, along with new investors UCB Ventures and GV (formerly Google Ventures). According to Locana, the funding will go to advance and expand its pipeline of RNA-targeting gene therapy programs, as well as to bolster its leadership team and technolo
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 22, 2019
Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay.
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socalTECH
MAY 22, 2019
Los Angeles-based venture investor Upfront Ventures unveiled one of its new startups on Wednesday, a company which has been in stealth mode since 2016. According to Upfront Ventures, it has finally launched Projector , a startup which builds creative tools aimed at helping with collaborative storytelling, after quitely backing the company since 2016.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 22, 2019
Announcing Projector?—?A Startup I’ve Been Excited to Tell You About for Years A few years ago I spent time in prison with Trevor O’Brien , the founder of Projector. Yes, I always imagined announcing the company that way. We were of course there to work with incarcerated men on developing entrepreneurial skills on behalf of Defy Ventures. We had met previously when Trevor was a product manager at YouTube and Upfront had funded the largest video producer on YouTube, Maker Studios.
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socalTECH
MAY 22, 2019
A new, academic study--conducted by UC San Diego and Google --has jumped into the world of "hacking for profit", running a study on hacking-for-hire services and their charges and success in hacking into a set of Google Gmail accounts. The study , published by UCSD, found that--for the most part-- most hacking services are scams. That said, of the 27 hacking services engaged by the study, five actually did end up launching attacks against test Gmail accounts, which were "honeypots" set up in con
socalTECH
MAY 22, 2019
Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen has made a $167M offer for Danish company Nuevolution , saying early this morning that it made a cash offer of SEK 32.50 per share for publicly listed Nuevolution, a developer of small molecule drugs. Nuevolution is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and develops small molecule drugs focused on treatment of targets within inflammation, oncology and immuno-oncology.
socalTECH
MAY 22, 2019
Electric vehicle network operator ChargePoint has opened up the first groups of DC fast chargers it is establishing along the Interstate 5, in an effort being run by ChargePoint, Chevron U.S.a., and the California Energy Commission. According to ChargePoint, the first charging location--at the Chevron station in Coalinga--is the first of a number of fast charging stations along the I-5, which are aimed at helping enable more electric vehicle charging up and down the busy freeway.
socalTECH
MAY 22, 2019
For our interview this morning, we talked with David Wood , the Founder and CEO of Eventene (www.eventene.com), an early stage startup, bootstrapped startup developing event management software. David--a veteran of Microsoft, having been the lead developer of Microsoft Exchange--tells us why he started his company. What does Eventene do? David Wood: We make event planning software for social organizations.
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