socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2017
Santa Monica-based Gigmor (www.gigmor.com) is an online marketplace for musicians, and recently expanded beyond connecting musicians with each other, to connecting musicians with venues, club organizers, and others. We caught up with the company's founder and CEO, David Baird , a former AOL executive, to learn more about what Gigmor is working on. What is Gigmor?
L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 30, 2017
Rent loan service Domuso raises $3.1 million, Snapchat users spending more time in app and Mitu sells two shows to Facebook.
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socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2017
Westlake Village-based Ember Technologies , the maker of a temperature controlled, thermal mug, has raised $13M more in funding, the company disclosed today. Source of the funding was not announced. Ember, led by Clay Alexander, says its team includes product designers and engineers formerly with Apple, Google, Nokia, Microsoft, and Amazon Labs. Ember's mug allows users to rapidly cool drinks to their exact preference, and maintain the temperature of their favorite drink to any setting between 1
Xconomy
AUGUST 30, 2017
The word ecosystem conjures up a rain forest in Ecuador, where sunlight, soil, water, and a multitude of species exist together in a self-sustaining environment that is constantly evolving. This image from biology translates perfectly into what many people like to call an innovation ecosystem. Think of a group of people developing a new idea, all doing what they are good at.
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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.
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2017
Yuneec International , the Chinese drone maker which has its U.S. headquarters in Ontario, California, said today that it has launched into the commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market, with its first product dedicated to commercial use. Yuneec says its new H520 sUAS includes enterprise-grade cameras and mission planning software, with the intent of supplying the public safety, construction, inspection, video production, and other markets.
Xconomy
AUGUST 30, 2017
Ahead of schedule, Novartis has received the first-ever approval of a genetically modified living cell therapy called CAR-T, which uses a cancer patient’s own immune cells as the medicine. Within days, children and young adults with a severe form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia could receive the treatment at a handful of centers across the U.S.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 30, 2017
In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders.
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2017
Solana Beach-based Hookit , a developer of sports sponsorship analytics software, says it has raised $16M in a funding round. The funding was led by Arrowroot Capital, and also included Bialla Ventures and Social Starts. Hookit develops software which tracks hashtags, social media posts, followers, and promotion of brands by athletes, teams and events, in text, photo, and videos, and values that based on engagement numbers for those brands.
Xconomy
AUGUST 30, 2017
Investment in experimental drugs for hearing loss, long an untapped field in the pharmaceutical industry, may be picking up, but drugs that actually help with these disorders remain elusive. One of the closest contenders suffered a big setback today, as Otonomy revealed that a drug it has been developing for Meniere’s disease, a condition defined by a fluid imbalance in the inner ear, failed badly in Phase 3 testing.
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2017
Carlsbad-based Ionis Pharmaceuticals , a developer of treatments for infantile-onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), said it has received $40M more in a milestone payment from Biogen. Ionis said the payment was related to pricing approval for SPINRAZA in Japan. Ions says it has now earned more than $435M from Biogen related to SPINRAZA. Ionis Pharmacueticals said the compound is now available in the U.S., EU, Japan, Canada and Brazil.
Xconomy
AUGUST 30, 2017
Read today’s news and you’d think fully autonomous vehicles—commercial vehicles, in particular—will be everywhere in the very near future. With headlines like these, it’s no wonder: Self-Driving Trucks Could be on Highways in 3 to 4 Years U.S. and Europe Race to be First to Self-Driving Trucks Ford Plans Self-Driving Car for Ride Share Fleets in 2021 But when will the rubber meet the road, so to speak, for autonomous vehicles?
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2017
Los Angeles-based Domuso , a startup which is looking to help renters by offering up a better selection of ways to pay their rent to landlords, including installment loans, has raised $3.1M in a funding round. The funding came from a number of un-named owner/operators of rental properties, and also included David Kim, the founder of Bascom Group. The company says it has now raised $5.8M in funding.
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