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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

San Diego-based ViaCyte, a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company, said today that it has named Marty Lorenzo as General Counsel. Lorenzo previously was Vice President Legal Affairs and Assistant Corporate Secretary at Petco. Lorenzo also previously served at DLA Piper, Mintz Levin, and Kilpatrick Townsend. The company says its first product candidates are being developed as potential long-term treatments for patients with type 1 diabetes to achieve glucose control targets and reduce the r

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 -- USC Viterbi Startup Garage Presents: AWS Workshop. Abstract: This session will discuss base-level best practices for getting started on AWS and address some of the most common questions founders have when launching on AWS. Speakers: Jenny Wong, Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, and Harold Kim, Solutions Architect at AWS.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based Camino Financial announced this morning that it has hired a new Vice President of Engineering. According to the company, it has appoined Eric Smeby to the position. Smeby previously has served at such companies at Capital One and Ellucian, and founded a startup named TuitionCoin. Camino Financial develops artificial intelligence software for offering up credit to underserved, Latinx entrepreneurs.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Long Beach-based Virgin Orbit has set the planned board of directors for the company, assuming its ongoing special purpose acquisition (SPAC) deal goes through as planned. According to Virgin Orbit, the new board of directors of the combined company, which will be named Virgin Orbit Holdings will include Dan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit; Evan Lovell, Chief Investment Officer, Virgin Group ;George Mattson, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, NextGen; Katharina (Katrina) McFarland, former Assistant Secre

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Irvine-based venue management software developer Clubspeed announced on Monday that it has acquired Vantora, a developer of online booking and waiver management software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. The company said the buy will help it expand its product portfolio. Clubspeed is left by CEO Alok Pandey. Clubspeed says it provides its software to family entertainment centers.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based youth transportatoin service HopSkipDrive announced this morning that it will invest $2M in free ride credits, to help solve a school bus driver shortage. According to the company, it will provide those $2M in ride credits to existing education partners in CA, CO, WI, and WA as part of its Opportunity for All Community Fund. HopSkipDrive's service is based on its own network of drivers--which it calls "CareDrivers"--who earn income for driving around children; the company says

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