TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

MarketerHire , a Los Angeles-based startup backed by a slew of executives from some of the city’s hottest startups, launched its new service matching freelance marketing experts with open jobs listed on its platform. . “Today’s startup economy depends on the expertise of industry specialists as much or more than full-time generalists,” said Nick Green, co-founder and CEO Thrive Market, MarketerHire customer and investor, in a statement.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

In my years of advising business leaders, from entrepreneurs to enterprise executives, I often hear a passion for strategic change planning, but seldom see the same commitment to strategic execution. I fully understand that real change is hard, but I’m convinced that more focus on the execution is required to overcome the current 70 percent failure rate for strategic transformations.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding. Acting as if there’s not still a global pandemic raging throughout the world, some of the largest institutional financing firms like Wellington Management, TSG Consumer Partners, CPP Investments, and funds managed by BlackRock poured more money into

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A just-announced partnership between the social giant TikTok and the ecommerce giant Shopify could mint a brand-new class of TikTok-friendly ecommerce stores. The two platforms are both huge in their respective markets: By connecting TikTok's audience with small businesses online everywhere, this team-up could offer a lifeline to business owners amid a rocky economy.

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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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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

There’s a new company that’s sitting on top of some of the fastest growing consumer-facing businesses in the world — liquor and marijuana delivery — and its name is Pacific Consolidated Holdings Group. The investment firms and executive teams behind the Los Angeles-based delivery liquor delivery company, Saucey , along with Inception Companies, the backer of marijuana distribution company, Emjay , have formed Pacific Consolidated to merge their two companies and build wha

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Newly formed holding company Pacific Consolidated Holdings announced the merger of alcohol retailer Saucey and cannabis vendor Emjay.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Long Beach-based aerospace company Rocket Lab USA Inc. has successfully launched its 15th Electron rocket.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A new, Los Angeles-based operating and holding company, Pacific Consolidated Holdings Group Inc. (PCH) announced on Wednesday that it has acquired both alcohol delivery and logistics platform Saucey , as well as cannabis delivery and retail software developer Emjay. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Pacific Consolidated Holdings said it is focused on "cannabis and analogous vice industries".

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2020

San Monica-based Happy Returns , which operates services to help online, e-commerce retailers handle and accept returns, and retail and e-commerce returns processing company Inmar Intelligence said this morning that the two have entered into an agreement where Inmar Intelligence will be a reseller of Happy Returns' Returns Bar and Online Returns Exchange Services (ORES).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Two, Los Angeles-area venture capital investment funds have gotten backing from PayPal , as part of a new effort by PayPal to support Black and Latinx-led venture capital funds. According to PayPal Holdings, it invested a total of $50M in eight, early-stage, Black and Latinx-led venture capital funds yesterday, including two, Los Angeles area funds-- Slauson & Co. , led by Austin Clements and Ajay Relan; and VamosVentures , led by Marcos C.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2020

San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals announced this morning that it has launched a new company, Longboard Pharmaceuticals , with $56M in funding. According to Areana, the newly launched company will focus on investigational therapies for rare neurological diseases. The new funding comes from Farallon Capital, Cormorant Asset Management, HBM Healthcare Investments, Highside Capital Management, and T.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Los Angeles-based mobile games developer Scopely announced this morning that it has raised a huge, $340M Series E funding round. According to the company, the new funding came from Wellington Management, NewView Capital, TSG Consumer Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), funds managed by BlackRock, D1, Battery Ventures, Eldridge, Declaration Partners, and Moore Strategic Ventures, plus Greycroft, Baillie Gifford, Sands Capital, Revolution Growth, and Highland Capital

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