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MAY 19, 2020

The acute pain of California’s housing crisis can be measured in the human toll it takes on the increasing numbers of families made homeless by rising rents and the billions of dollars the state loses to the high cost of living. After wrestling with recalcitrant homeowners, husbanding their parcels of land to keep their property values high, the state’s leadership passed a law that increased the availability of new rental units and put more money into homeowners’ pockets in 201

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MAY 19, 2020

Los Angeles-based Shayre , a new startup developing data sharing software, says it has launched a new, "cloud-free" file sharing solution, aimed at enterprise businesses. According to Shayre, it has developed a point-to-point and point-to-multi-point software for file transferring and synchronization suited for enterprise businesses, which allows for unlimited files and file sizes to be transferred between devices.

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MAY 19, 2020

Polestar’s first U.S. retail stores will open in Los Angeles, New York City and two locations in San Francisco later this year — the latest milestone for the automaker as it gets closer to bringing its all-electric vehicle to market. Polestar, which is jointly owned by Volvo Car Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding of China, was once a high-performance brand under Volvo Cars.

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MAY 19, 2020

Carlsbad-based ChromaCode , which is developing molecular testing equipment, announced today that it has raised $10M in a Series C extension round. The funding came from Adjuvant Capital. As part of the funding, ChromaCode said that it will add Adjuvant Capital's Managing Partner, Jenny Yip, to its board. The company has now raised $38M in the Series C round.

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Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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MAY 19, 2020

Amplyx Pharmaceuticals has completed enrollment in one mid-stage trial of its lead drug candidate, a new kind of antifungal treatment, and has finished treating the first patients in two more such studies. Now the San Diego-based company has added $53 million to a round of funding it first closed in 2017, money that it plans to put toward continued evaluation of the investigational antifungal treatment, fosmanogepix.

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MAY 19, 2020

Los Angeles-based RelayCars , which provides a library of immersive and virtual reality content for the automotive industry, says it has launched a "virtual showroom" for individuals looking to shop and research a new car, as a result of more people being stuck at home. According to RelayCars, the website now features high quality, virtual realty (VR) content which lets users take virtual tours of any vehicle category, year, make, and model from its database of content.

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MAY 19, 2020

Los Angeles-based United Dwelling , a startup that helps homeowners convert garages or unused backyard space into newly allowed "Accessory Dwelling Units" which they can rent out to others, has raised $10M in a Series B funding round, the company said this week. The startup--led by longtime Southern California startup and venture capital veteran Steven Dietz--said the funding was led by Alpha Edison, and also included Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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MAY 19, 2020

Los Angeles-based Assembly , a developer of e-commerce tools and software, has received what it says is a "significant investment" from private equity investor Providence Strategic Growth. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. According to Assembly, the new funding will go to both build and acquire e-commerce software and services. In conjunction with the funding, Assembly says i thas acquired software developer Helium 10, which develops software for helping Amazon merchants expa

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MAY 19, 2020

Pasadena-based robotics developer Miso Robotics says it is partnering with PathSpot Technologies , a developer of technology which scans the hands of employees to make sure they are free of contaminants. According to Miso Robotics, the partnership will allow it to offer PathSpot's hand scanning device for optional integration into its Flippy autonomous kitchen assistant.

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MAY 19, 2020

San Diego-based Amplyx Pharmaceuticals has raised $53M in a Series C extension funding, bringing its Series C funding to over $90M, the comapny announced this morning. Amplyx--which is developing therapeutics for treating patients with compromised immune systems--said the funding was led by Sofinnova Inestments, and also included New Enterprise Associates, Lundbeckfonden Ventures, Arix Bioscience, Pappas Capital, RiverVest Venture Partners, 35 Partners, BioMed Ventures, along with Pfizer Inc. a

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