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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Max Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. Two rocket launches were set to take off Sunday , including one from Wallops Island in Virginia and another from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The first is a relatively standard (but still exciting — we are talking about rockets here, very little is “standard”) ISS resupply mission, and the second is a major scientific mission from NASA and the ESA called the “Solar

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Irvine-based JenaValve Technology , which develops aortic valve replacements, said last week that it has raised $50M in a financing round. The funding was led by Bain Capital Life Sciences, and also included existing investors Andera Partners, Gimv, Legend Capital, NeoMed Management, RMM, Valiance Life Sciences and VI Partners. As part of the funding, Bain Capital's Andrew Hack, MD, Ph.D., has joined the company's board of directors.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the realities of being an entrepreneur is that you have to keep learning and changing to survive. Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Thus everyone has to make sure they are focusing on what is important, and making leadership decisions to save the business.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX may be launching astronauts into space on the Crew Dragon spacecraft as early as May, according to reports, after meeting all of the milestones required to fly actual astronauts on its spacecraft. The first mission reportedly could be as early as May 7th, on the SpaceX Demo-2 launch. SpaceX has not yet publicly detailed any launch plans.

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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Two experimental drugs from Eli Lilly and Roche have failed a clinical trial testing them as treatments for a form of Alzheimer’s disease caused by certain genetic mutations, the companies reported Monday. The study, sponsored by Washington University, tested the drugs in patients who have an early onset, inherited form of Alzheimer’s called autosomal dominant.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Los Angeles-based programmatic advertising provider Causal IQ said last week that it is expanding into Las Vegas, as part of an expansion to serve the casino-entertainment market. The company said the move will help it serve the tourism and gaming industry. Causal IQ is led by CEO Farshad Fardad. The company says it has offices in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Las Vegas, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Westlake Village, California.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Santa Monica-based investor Arrowroot Capital , headed by Matthew Safaii, has scored a win with the acquisition of one of its portfolio companies, Evergage , by Salesforce. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. Evergage was based in Somerville, Mass., and had raised $26M in funding from Arrowroot Capital, G20 Ventures, and Point Judith Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Los Angeles-based Emburse , the developer of expense management and accounts payable software, has launched a new product, which lets companies issue corporate cards to its employees and others, to help manage expenses. The company said its new product, Emburse Cards for Abacus, provides both virtual and physical corporate cards, which allow organizations to enforce travel and expense policies as a transaction occurs.

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