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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. “We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. “Valuations are out of control” is the mantra of others. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Costa Mesa-based Ice Energy , which develops energy storage technology based on storing energy for air conditioning in the form of ice, has completed the first phase of a big deployment for Southern California Edison (SCE), the company announced on Wednesday. According to Ice Energy, it has installed 100 of its "Ice Bear" units across SCE's service territory, the first stage of a 21.6 MW energy storage contract it has with SCE.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 -- Start-Up Options for Rapid Development, Funding, and Commercialization. LAVA Healthcare. Is VC funding the only way to develop and grow your company? Have you heard of accelerators, incubators, angles, and other resources for rapid development, funding, and growth of your start-up? Attend our LAVA event on February 19th as our distinguished panel will share their expertise and insight.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

San Diego-based Radicle Growth , a new, seed-stage investor focused on the agtech and food technology sector, said this morning that it has invested $250,000 in Leaf Agriculture , a pre-seed company developing application programming interfaces (APIs) between agtech products. Radicle Growth said Leaf Agriculture is developing an API product that facilitates fast, easy and secure data transfer between agtech platform partners through a single point of access.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 -- Reverse Mergers Into Public Shells. CONNECT. This program will educate private issuers about the process of going public by merging with an existing public shell.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Carlsbad-based EasyPay Finance , a provider of consumer financing for automotive service and repairs, has raised $50M in a credit facility, the company announced this morning. The funding came from Ares Management Corporation. According to the company, it will use the new funding for growth, developing new financial technology, and other efforts. EasyPay Finance said the credit facility is expandable to $100M, subject to lender consent.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Michael Giannetto , who helped shepherd Santa Barbara-based Sonos through its IPO as its Chief Financial Officer, will be retiring from his position, Sonos said on Wednesday. According to Sonos, Giannetto told Sonos of his intent to retire on February 1st. Giannetto will remain at his post until the company finds a successor, according to the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Thousand Oaka-based Teledyne Technologies says it has completed its acquisition of the Scientific Imaging businesses of Roper Technologies , which included the acquisition of Princeton Instruments, Photometrics and Lumenera. The deal, which had been announced in December, was worth $225M in cash. Roper's Scientific Imaging businesses served the life sciences, academic research, and industrial imaging markets.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 --.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

San Diego-based AlphaTrAI , a fintech startup backed by Analytics Ventures, says it has connected with QuantConnect, the developer of an open trading engine, to run its AI software. AlphaTrAI says it has developed artificial intelligence software which can pick, trade, and manage stocks better than humans. According to the startup, it has been running its software for the last three years, with its algorithms achieving a 58 percent average annual return on capital--consistently outperforming the

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Argenx, a Dutch firm with a pipeline of investigational antibody-based therapies, will pay San Diego-based Halozyme to use its drug delivery technology to develop subcutaneous versions of some of the drugs Argenx is developing to treat rare autoimmune diseases and cancers. The technology Halozyme (NASDAQ: HALO ) is licensing, called Enhanze, allows drugs that would otherwise be delivered intravenously to be injected, which can turn an hours-long process into one that lasts just minutes.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Irvine-based Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems , a developer of nanosatellite and microsatellite services, is powering the development of a new constellation of satellites for Australian company Myriota. According to Tyvak, Myriota has partnered with the company to develop and launch its next generation of nanosatellites, with the goal of launching a 50 nanosatellite constellation.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Santa Monica-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat, reported its results on Tuesday afternoon, saying that its fourth quarter revenues were up 36 percent to a record, $390M. However, the company is still posting big losses, saying it had a net loss of $191.7M on its quarter, which ended December 31, 2018. Snap reported revenues of $1.18 billion for the year, and a net loss of $1.25 billion.

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