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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Irvine-based telematics company Spireon said today that it is expanding into India, and has hired 40 engineers in Bengaluru, to help it with its product innovation and engineering capacity. Acording to the company, the new unit--Spireon Telematics India--will be headed by Pranab Das. Bengalaru is part of India's equivalent of Silicon Valley. Spireon said the new unit folds in all of the employees of a managed service provider it has been partnered with for the past five years in India.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

As a long-time business advisor, and an investor in startups along the way, I’m always on the lookout for an entrepreneur who is responding first to a problem in the marketplace , rather than bringing a new technology to the market, assuming it will find a problem to solve. I assert that problem solvers are more likely to succeed, since every business comes with plenty of problems.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

San Diego-based Replicate Bioscience, which is looking to use self-replicating RNA (srRNA) to treat cancer, autoimmune, inflammatory disorders and other diseases, has raised $40M in its Series A funding. The funding was led by life sciences venture capital investor ATP. According to the companies, Replicate will use that funding to advance multiple novel srRNA programs into clinical development.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

San Diego-based Tiled, which develops "no code" software to allow sales, marketing, creative, and HR teams to create interactive content without software development, has raised $13.7M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Signal Peak Ventures, and also included Seismic, Adobe, and University Growth Fund, among others. The company is led by CEO Darrell Swain.

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Advertiser: Aggregage

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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Customers of the Whole Foods Market in Sherman Oaks will soon get a new option for purchases: they will be able to "just walk out" the door and have their grocery purchases automatically charged based on computer vision and other sensors. According to Amazon, two stores--one in Washington D.C., and the other in Sherman Oaks--will start implementing the new "Just Walk Out" technology, which uses what Amazon says is "computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning" to let customers simply walk o

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Los Angeles-based healthcare venture capital investor Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health has scored an exit in its portfolio, through the acquisition of Ciitizen by Invitae. According to Wavemaker Health, Ciitizen was its third investment in its fund. Ciitizen is a consumer health technology company, and also was backed by a16z, Section 32 and Verily. Invitae said it will acquire Ciitizen for approximately $325M, split between $125M in cash and 7,070,000 shares of its common stock, and will also issue

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