TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position. Through interviews with 100 leaders of the technology ecosystem and an analysis of venture capital funding for the region, the organization has concluded (

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2018

If you run a restaurant, it turns out the move towards online ordering is a recipe for chaos--with multiple online order services and apps, all with their own way of getting orders to your restaurant. Santa Monica-based Ordermark (www.getordermark.com) is looking to tame that chaos with a system which takes all of those online orders, and feeds them into a single printer at a restaurant.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 22, 2018

The Boring Company named finalist for Chicago tunnel system; Kozmo.com returns; and women in tech pressured to return early from parental leave.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2018

San Diego-based Pairwise Plants , which is applying gene editing to the agriculture industry, said this week that it raised $25M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Deerfield Management and Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV). Dr. Tom Adams is CEO of Pairwise, which was founded by Drs. Feng Zhang, David Liu and J. Keith Joung. READ MORE>>.

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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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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

Through the years, Xconomy has taken many of the stories we’ve published about innovation and entrepreneurship and brought them to life on stage at our events. In the process, we have learned that combining an entrepreneur with a venture investor for a one-on-one chat can provide some fascinating insights into the startup process. So we’re looking forward with anticipation to the conversation we’ve arranged between Amir Nashat, a managing partner in the Boston office of Polaris Partners, and Ril

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2018

Sylmar-based medical implant maker Second Sight Medical Products announced this morning that it has named John T. Blake as the company's new Chief Financial Officer. Blake was previously Senior Vice President at aTyr Pharma, and also served at Volcano Corporation and BD Biosciences. Blake replaces Thomas Miller, who had been CFO since 2014. Miller apparently had resigned as CFO in June of 2017, but had remained at his post until the company could find a new CFO.

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MARCH 22, 2018

The Boring Company , the startup founded by Elon Musk to bore tunnels underneath cities for high speed transportation, is one of two companies now in the running to dig a tunnel underneath downtown Chicago, to O'Hare airport. According to local reports, The Boring Company now just faces one competitior, O'hare Express LLC, a consortium of companies made up of Meridiam, Antarctica Capital, JLC Infrastructure, Mott MacDonald, and First Transit.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

YouTube has broadened its restrictions on gun-related videos, while thousands of Americans are mobilizing to demand stricter gun controls Saturday in a mass march spurred by young survivors of a deadly armed attack on a Florida high school last month. Google’s popular video-hosting site will bar videos that facilitate direct sales of firearms or accessories, and those that contain links to websites where such purchases can be made, YouTube’s revised policy states.

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