L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 30, 2018
Santa Monica-headquartered startup incubator Science Inc. disclosed Aug. 30 it added Cincinnati, Ohio-based personalized closet management app Cladwell to its growing portfolio of startups.
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2018
Redondo Beach-based MyCrypto , a developer of open source tools for interacting with the blockchain, said today that it has raised $4M in a funding round. The funding came from Polychain Capital and crypto-exchange operator ShapeShift, along with Ausum Blockchain Fund LP and Boost VC Fund LP, plus others. MyCrypto's CEO is Taylor Monahan. READ MORE>>.
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L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 30, 2018
Electric scooter manufacturer Bird Rides Inc. announced Aug. 30 it is one of the official participants in Santa Monica’s shared mobility pilot program. The program will begin Sept. 17 and includes not only Bird, but scooter manufacturer Neutron Holdings Inc., which manufacturers and operates Lime Scooters, as well as e-scooters and e-bikes operated by Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc.
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2018
Los Angeles-based gay and bisexual dating app developer Grindr is planning an IPO in China , according to regulatory filing. The filing came from Kunlun Group, a Chinese company which has majority control of Grindr. It's unclear which exchange Grindr's parent company is intending to list the company. READ MORE>>.
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L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 30, 2018
Grindr considers China IPO; Santa Monica picks four scooter companies for pilot program; California carbon-free utility measure heads to Governor Brown
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2018
Los Angeles-based EPARTRADE , which operates an online marketplace for performance racing parts, said this week that it has named John Kilroy as its Chief of Content and Audience Development. According to EPARTRADE, Kilroy will be Development, responsible for developing and implementing the overall content strategy for the company. The company said Kilroy was most recently Editor, Vice President, and General Manager at Performance Racing Industry, Inc. including overseeing the annual Performance
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socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2018
DataDirect Networks , the developer of high performance computing (HPC) and enterprise storage products, says it expects to finalize its acquisition of data storage array maker Tintri , in what it says is "the next few days". DDN is in the process of buying Tintri out of bankruptcy. DDN says it expects the acquisition to close this month. DDN said the acquisition will significantly bost its product portfolio and addressable market.
Xconomy
AUGUST 30, 2018
Diffbot , a tech startup that continuously scours the Web to assemble a “knowledge graph” of billions of facts in context, announced today that it’s opening up the searchable resource to the public—with starter rates as low as a cable TV bill. Mountain View, CA-based Diffbot gleans unstructured data scattered across websites, ads, blog posts, videos, and other public online assets to create a knowledge repository that can be mined by companies for their specific purposes.
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2018
Venice-based on-demand, electric scooter rental startup Bird has rolled out a new set of tools aimed at helping cities better manage the hordes of its scooters on its streets, the company said this week. Bird said its new GovTech Platform lets cities track how their citizens are using its scooters, set up "geofences" where those scooters are not allowed to be ridden or parked, and also access data on trips and usage using an API.
Xconomy
AUGUST 30, 2018
The first medicine that uses RNA interference, a method cells employ to mute a gene before it can make a harmful protein, has made its way to Europe. Three weeks after the FDA approved patisiran (Onpattro) , from Alnylam Pharmaceuticeuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY ), for a rare and deadly disease called hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR), the European Medicines Agency has followed suit.
Berkonomics
AUGUST 30, 2018
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