socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

Validated , a new startup which offers up a mobile app which lets consumers earn transportation credits for parking, ridesharing, mass transit, and more for dining and shopping at stores, is in an expansion to Southern California today. The company--which was just featured on Shark Tank last Friday--said it has launched in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Monica, as part of a nationwide expansion beyond its home market in Seattle and Portland.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 19, 2017

Analyst says Facebook monopoly crushing competitors such as Snapchat, Hyperloop One delays testing of pod, and Jam City launches bubble shooter game based on ‘Peanuts.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

Los Angeles-based financial close management software developer FloQast announced this morning that it has launched a new Close Analytics software module, which helps chief financial officers and controllers get a better view into their month-end close process. Pricing on the new software was not announced. FloQast said the new software helps organizations better understand the historical performance of their close process, understand what deadlines are being missed, and more.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 19, 2017

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Andrew Fuller (left) and Jonas Bolduan I encourage my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students to err […]. The post This Student Talked His Way Into Google Through Courageous Networking appeared first on John Greathouse.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

The annual Midas List , issued by Forbes ranking the top venture capitalists, has again skipped any ranking of a Southern California venture capital firm--but credits the huge success of LA's Snap for the high rankings of eight VCs. Forbes said that Snap's IPO drove the high rankings of Ron Conway , SV Angel (#43); Tony Florence , New Enterprise Associates (#75); Mitch Lasky , Benchmark (#40); Jeremy Liew , Lightspeed Venture Partners (#32); Mary Meeker , Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (#6

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Xconomy

APRIL 19, 2017

View the Slideshow It is a time of great transitions in the technology and business world. Key advances in areas like machine intelligence, agriculture, and healthcare seem poised to transform society—and everyday life. But it can be hard to keep up with the latest news in fields as disparate as cybersecurity, food tech, and cancer therapeutics—let alone understand the context around these developments and how they might relate to each other.

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Xconomy

APRIL 19, 2017

Think for a moment about the words and phrases that life science researchers and executives use on a daily basis. I’m talking about the seemingly simple phrases like “investigational drug,” “novel target,” “immunotherapy,” “clinical trial,” “in vitro,” and “therapeutic window.” There are hundreds more. Those of us who work in life sciences are comfortable with phrases like these in our daily lives.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

Venice, California-based startup accelerator Amplify.LA reports that seed funding in Q1 of 2017 dropped precipitously, falling 42.2 percent from Q4 of 2016, and 43.8 percent, Year-over-Year. According to AmplifyLA , the number of seed deals dropped to 27 in the quarter, down from 32 from Q4, and--making a grim quarter even worse--the average seed size declined to only $1.9M raised, from $2.8M in the prior quarter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2017

Building a startup is hard work for low pay, it’s risky, and it requires total responsibility to make it work. Yet, many entrepreneurs are the happiest people I know. On the other hand, I know many unhappy individuals who are always partying, have minimal commitments, and little responsibility. I suspect the real parameters of happiness have eluded these people.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Jam City , and Peanuts Worldwide , the licensing firm which owns the Peanuts and Snoopy characters, have teamed up to release a new game called Snoopy Pop , the two said Wednesday morning. According to the two, the game will be released on both Android and iOS, and is based on the popular characters Snoopy and Woodstock from the popular Charles M.

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Xconomy

APRIL 19, 2017

Is the U.S. high-skilled visa program, known as H-1B, an essential contributor to the innovation economy or a way for companies to replace American IT workers with immigrants at lower salaries? It’s a debate as old as the program itself, which began in 1990. The Trump administration on Tuesday joined the fray with a long-anticipated executive order that provides little insight into how the H-1B visa program would be reformed, or when.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing hardware and software, is now part of Keysight Technologies , Keysight said late Tuesday, after the successful close of its $1.6 billion acquisition effort. Keysight paid $19.65 per share in cash for Ixia, which no longer trades on the Nasdaq Glo bal Select Market. Ixia becomes part of Key's new Ixia Solutions Group.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

San Diego-based SupplyPro , a developer of cloud software for inventory management, has named Justin Dass as its new Vice President of Business Development, the company said on Tuesday. Daas was previously Senior Manager of Inside Sales and Business Development at Epicor Software, leading a team of more than 80. Dass also has served at Xerox, Tyler Wholesale, and Target Corporation.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

Los Angeles-based programmatic advertising marketplace operator OpenX reported a win with personal finance news publisher Kiplinger on Tuesday, saying Kiplinger will use the company's header bidding, private marketplace and real-time guaranteed deals. Financial impact of the win was not announced. OpenX said that Kiplinger sees over 4.5 million unique monthly readers.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

Newport Beach-based Bonti , a biotechnology company which is developing a botulinum neurotoxin aimed at the aesthetic medicine market, has raised $11.7M in a Series B financing round. Bonti said the Series B funding was led by RBV Capital, and also included City Hill Ventures, Colt Ventures, and others, and also included a Series B expansion from JMCR Partners and HighLight Capital.

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