L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Venice-based startup Altruist Corp. raised an $8.5 million Series A round.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Lionel Messi, who’s still arguably the greatest soccer player in the world , signed his first contract with FC Barcelona when he was thirteen years old. Although he grew up in a small town in central Argentina, he had captured the attention of some of the world’s most famous soccer teams when he was only eleven years old. While Messi’s rags to riches story is the stuff that sports dreams are made of, it’s impossible for the world’s best teams to get a window into al

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In startup world these days, the word “biotech” is increasingly accompanied by “computational” and two, two-letter initialisms: AI and ML. Those tools—artificial intelligence and machine learning, respectively—have been around for decades, but in recent years have become faster and cheaper, accelerating their use by those in the business of discovering and developing new drugs.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The CEO of Los Angeles-based InStride , Vivek Sharma, has been appointed to the board of directors of JetBlue , JetBlue said last week. InStride offers up enterprise education services to employers, helping them offer up degrees, certificates, and credentials to their employees from global universities. According to JetBlue, Sharma will serve as an independent director on JetBlue's board.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. Both are required to stay competitive.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Frame.io , which develops a video review and collaboration product used for content management, has raised $50M in a funding, and plans to set up an office in Los Angeles, the company said today. The startup--based in New York--said it raised a $50M, Series C funding round, from Insight Partners, Accel, FirstMark, SignalFire, and Shasta Ventures. The company said it plans to open up a combined office and showroom in Hollywood, which it says will not only house its LA-based employees, but will al

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu appears to have suffered a major outage on Sunday, prompting a rash of complaints on social media. It's unclear what the cause of the issue was, which mostly hit the Eastern half of the United States. It appears the outage lasted for at least 5-6 hours, based on messages sent by Hulu's support team on Twitter, although it appeared that those teams were still dealing with disappointed and annoyed customers on Sunday night.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Sunday, December 1, 2019 --.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

San Diego-based Inseego is powering a new, 5G hotspot device for Vodafone Qatar , the two companies announced today, rolling out the first, commercially available 5G mobile hotspot in Qatar and the region. The new 5G MiFi hotspot, the M1100, allows mobile phone owners to access 5G, even if their phones and devices are not 5G-enabled. The two said the new device is available at Vodafone Qatar stores, and are tied into Vodafone Qatar's Unlimited 5G Plans.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital said this morning that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, Power Partners , to another private equity-backed company, Pioneer Transformers. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. Pioneer Transformers is backed by private equity investor Mill Point Capital. Power Partners is based in Athens, Georgia, and had approximately 370 employees.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , which develops an online platform used by the wellness industry for managing appointments, payments, and more for businesses in the fitness, beauty, grooming, spa, and other related wellness businesses, has rolled out a new "MINDBODY Wellness Index" , to rank the healthiest cities in the nation. According to MINDBODY, the MINDBODY Wellness Index evaluated the largest cities in the US by population and ranked them from healthiest to least through a proprietary sco

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In an effort to help small businesses improve their cybersecurity, Los Angeles-based NINJIO , a startup offering up cybersecurity awareness training, says it has released a new library of Hollywood-style, animated "micro-learning" videos, which help businesses train their employees on cybersecurity topics. According to NINJIO, its videos--which are aimed at small businesses with less than 100 employees--offer up cybersecurity training as a month-to-month, subscription-based service.

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