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JANUARY 5, 2021

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, sposors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We've been posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Andy Wilson, Executive Director of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation (www.alliancesocal.org). You will be able to get to all of these posts on our 2020 reflections here.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Have you heard the old adage about the two mice who fell into the jug of cream? One mouse, seeing his situation as hopeless, gave up early and succumbed to… The post How to Overcome Crisis in Real Estate Market – Learning From Industry Professional Paul Daneshrad appeared first on AllTopStartups.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2021

Los Angeles-based Cameo, which allows anyone to pay their favorite celebrities, athletes, actors, and many others to record personalized messages to them, had roughly $100M in transactions in 2020, according to a report, and has reached 200 employees. The app maker's offering has become very popular, allowing people to pay all kinds of celebrities for video messages of all kinds, ranging from birthdays, personal messages to friends, and much more.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2021

Los Angeles-based dropshipping startup Topdser has extended its offerings for drop shippers to sourcing and storing product, the company said on Monday. According to the company, its new offering, Topdser Private Storage lets the company manage storage of surplus products until they're sold, allowing dropshippers to save on product sourcing. The new service is on top of its existing, drop shipping offering.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

San Diego-based IconOVir bio, a biotechnology company focused on oncolytic virus therapy, has raised $77M in a Series A funding, the company announced this morning. The funding was co-led by Nextech and Vida Ventures, and also included Two River Group, Bellco Capital, Polaris Partners, GV, Wellington Partners Venture Capital and Logos Capital. According to the company, it is working on oncolytic virus therapy to improve the treatment of patients with cancer.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Aliso Viejo-based software company Quest Software announced this morning that it has acquired erwin, Inc., a developer of data modeling, data governance, and business process modeling software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Quest said that Erwin has more than 3,500 customers across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. Erwin had been owned by private equity investor Parallax Capital Partners.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Camarillo-based GeoLinks, which provides high speed wireless connectivity, says it has completed its acquisition of certain network assets of TPx Communications. Financial details of the deal were not announced. GeoLinks acquired certain network assets, including fixed wireless infrastructure and spectrum licenses from TPx. According to GeoLinks, the deal will deepen and expand its coverage area, and allow it to deliver higher capacity circuits.

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