TechCrunch LA

JULY 10, 2020

Replicated , the Los Angeles-based company pitching monitoring and management services for Kubernetes-based applications, has managed to bring on the former head of product of the $2.75 billion-valued programming giant GitLab as its new chief product officer. . Mark Pundsack is joining the company as it moves to scale its business. At GitLab, Pundsack saw the company grow from 70 employees to 1,300 as it scaled its business through its on-premise offerings.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2020

Los Angeles-based advertising technology developer The Trade Desk says that its Chief Strategy Officer, Brian Stempeck, will step down from the firm on September 1st. Stempeck was employee number eight at the company, and has been at the company for more than ten years. e originally founded and ran the company's New York office, before moving to Los Angeles in 2018.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 10, 2020

Thursday, July 16, 2020 -- AltaSea and LAEDC: Latest Cutting-Edge Tech Companies Are All Wet. Join AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles for the first of back-to-back webinars focused on the blue economy. The July 16 webinar will be moderated by multi-Emmy award-winning journalist, Val Zavala. Panelists will include: Tim McOsker, CEO of AltaSea; Bill Allen, CEO of LAEDC; Rusty Jehangir, Founder and CEO of Blue Robotics; Kelly Stromberg, Co-Founder and COO of Holdfast Aquaculture.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2020

Carlsbad, California-based satellite Internet provider Viasat says it has removed the speed limits on its Ka-band in-flight Internet for its business aviation customers. The company did not say why it decided to remove the prior limits, however, the company provides both commercial in-flight Internet as well as business in-flight Internet through those same satellites, in addition to running an at-home satellite broadband serviec, WildBlue.

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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

JULY 10, 2020

Cash flowed throughout the life sciences ecosystem this week as Blackstone (NYSE: BX ) raised a record-setting life sciences fund, companies of all stages announced new financings, and money continued to find its way to those working on efforts to treat or prevent COVID-19. Financiers poured $100 million or more into at least three biotechs, a trio of financings complemented by smaller rounds raised despite the disruption caused by the ongoing pandemic.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2020

iPhone apps from Los Angeles-based dating app developer Tinder --not to mention other services like Spotify , Pinterest , and Waze --all were crashing or unavailable this Friday morning, as a result of what was believed to be an upgrade to the Facebook software development kit (SDK) in iOS. All of those apps--and many others--allow users to use their Facebook profiles to log into their apps.

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JULY 10, 2020

Monrovia, California-based biopharmaceuticals developer Xencor says it has linked with another biotechnology company, Atreca , to research, develop and commercialize T cell engaging bispecific antibodies as potential therapeutics in oncology. According to the companies, they will team in a three-year discovery program, where Atreca will provide antibodies against novel tumor targets from which Xencor will engineer XmAb bispecific antibodies that also bind to the CD3 receptor on T cells.

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