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OCTOBER 24, 2019

With $11 million in funding and a mission to open up the doors of regenerative therapies to dogs across the nation, the Los Angeles-based startup Gallant is now opening its doors for the first time. The company was founded by DogVacay founder and chief executive Aaron Hirschhorn after seeing his own pet’s struggle with debilitating illness and knowing firsthand that regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies could help.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most of us are driven by the competitive spirit, the desire or need to win. It reinforces self-worth, provides closure at the end of a good effort, and energizes us during the effort to achieve. Being driven to achieve results. Many of us as managers – and our employees as workers – are driven by process, actions required to achieve a result.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

San Diego-based Qualcomm said on Thursday that it has launched a new, $200M fund specifically to invest in companies in the 5G ecosystem. According to Qualcomm, the new Qualcomm Ventures 5G Ecosystem Fund will specifically lookin to invest in startups developing new and innovative 5G use cases, driving 5G network transformation and expanding 5G into enterprise markets.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 -- OCBC 25th Annual Economic Forecast Conference. The 25th Annual Economic Forecast Conference at Hotel Irvine is hosted by Orange County Business Council and California State University, Fullerton. This annual conference offers critical economic indicator insight to the leading business, government and academic leaders in Orange County.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX may be getting set to run a test of its Crew Dragon, putting it back on track to put astronauts into space, six months after a test failure destroyed its prior Crew Dragon. According to CNBC, the static fire test of the capsule's SuperDraco engines are expected on November 2nd. Those engines--aimed at use at landing the Crew Dragon in an emergency--were the ones that failed in April, destroying the company's first Crew Dragon.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Los Angeles-based in-home, doctor house-call provider Heal is making it possible for members of Alignment Health Plan to select Heal's licensed, board-certified doctors for primary care, the two said on Thursday. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. According to the two, the work together will offer up primary care for Alignment Healthcare's Medicare Advantage Health Plan members.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

San Diego-based Radicle Growth , a startup investor which invests in innovative agtech and food tech startups, says it has awarded $250,000 to WeedOUT , an Israeli startup focused on the resistance of weeds to existing chemical herbicides. According to Radicle Growth, it made the investment in WeedOUT as part of the Radicle Challenge Israel, a competition to identify the most promising agtech and foodtech startups in Israel.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Irvine-based NextGen Healthcare has acquired Topaz Information Solutions , a company offering up solutions in the behavioral health and social services area, the company said yesterday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to NextGen Healthcare, all employees of TopazIS have joined the company as part of the deal. NextxGen said the buy will help it accelerate market penetration into the behavioral health segment.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

HelloOffice , a San Francisco-based real estate startup, is opening up an office in Los Angeles, after raising $6.5M in a funding round. The company said it raised funds from Initialized Capital, Founders Fund, Founder Collective, Peak State Ventures, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, SaaStr, and The House Fund. HelloOffice helps companies find office space, operating as a commercial real estate brokerage to help companies find office space.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Mojave-based Virgin Galactic is set to start trading on the NYSE as SPCE on Monday, after shareholders of a blank-shell merger company owned by Chamath Palihapitiya approved the reverse merger between the companies. The two had embarked on the effort to take Virgin Galactic public via a reverse merger back in May. The reverse merger came via Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

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