TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 6, 2017

CrossCut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed investment firm has just closed its fourth (and largest) fund with $125 million in new cash. It’s been a long road for the firm’s three co-founders, who have been investing in Los Angeles since 1997. In that time they’ve seen the city’s technology scene evolve in fits and starts, but now, with companies like Snap, Dollar… Read More.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Minkonet , a South Korean startup which is developing 3D video game capture technology, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a "Pre-Series A" investment round, and has set up a brand new headquarters in Los Angeles. The funding came from Evergreen Investment Partners, along with existing investors Bluepoint Partners and Kite Foundation. According to Minkonet, the funding specifically goes towards its operations in Los Angeles, and expansion into North America.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 6, 2017

CrossCut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed investment firm has just closed its fourth (and largest) fund with $125 million in new cash. It’s been a long road for the firm’s three co-founders, who have been investing in Los Angeles since 1997. In that time they’ve seen the city’s technology scene evolve in fits and starts, […].

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

XPRIZE , the Los Angeles nonprofit which promotes development of new technology to help solve world problems, has whittled down the number of teams competing in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , focused on using AI to world's greatest challenges. According to XPRIZE, it now has 59 teams across 14 countries competing for the $5M prize, with the top ten teams being named this week at the annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in Long Beach.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Coachella Valley is referred to as the “Desert Empire” to differentiate it from the neighboring urbanized Inland Empire and the Imperial Valley. The Valley also houses desert resort cities of Palm Springs and Palm Desert and is the location for the infamous Coachella Music Festival. What you may not know that in the middle of these buzzing cities lies a hub for renewable energy innovation.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based CrossCut Ventures , the venture firm run by Rick Smith, Brian Garrett, Brett Brewer, and Clinton Foy, is announcing this morning that it has raised a big new fund-- CrossCut 4 --worth $125M. According to CrossCut, the new fund was targeted at $100M, but was highly oversubscribed, even beyond the fund's hard cap at $125M. The fund is the fourth for CrossCut, which focuses on seed-stage and Series A investments, and is worth more than the combined total of the firm's prior three

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based application security software developer Prevoty announced on Wednesday that it has raised $13M in a new funding round. The funding came from Trident Capital Cybersecurity, along with prior investors. Prevoty develops software which helps applications "self-defend" from attacks in real time. As part of the funding, Prevoty said that Triden Capital Cybersecurity Managing Director Sean Cunningham joins the company's board of directors.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Coachella Valley is referred to as the “Desert Empire” to differentiate it from the neighboring urbanized Inland Empire and the Imperial Valley. The Valley also houses desert resort cities of Palm Springs and Palm Desert and is the location for the infamous Coachella Music Festival. What you may not know that in the middle of these buzzing cities lies a hub for renewable energy innovation.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Carlsbad-based NextWave Ventures , a venture capital investment firm which focuses on commercialization of early-stage technologies, said it has named Dr. Peter Curley as its Director. Curley was previously Director and advisor for Imprimatur Capital, a UK-based venture capital firm, and also served at The Climate Group, Philips Lighting, and the Ecole Polytechnique LOA (Paris) as a researcher in the field of optics and photonics.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 -- AIMed: Artificial Intelligence In Medicine. Event on AI in medicine and healthcare.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

West Hollywood-based FabFitFun , the women's lifestyle brand, said it has named Chris Henley as Vice President of Engineering. Henley was previously CTO of personalized nutrition startup Habit, and also served at Athos, Learnist (Grockit), PlaySay, Roost, SGN, Apptis, AP Systems, and Hughes Network Systems. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2017

How do you disrupt an industry that markets itself as the embodiment of “forever?” You bring it back to basics, says Lindsay Reinsmith, co-founder of Ada Diamonds, an online retailer of jewelry with lab-made gemstones in San Francisco. “Science is on our side,” she says. “We confront them with facts.” Machine-made gemstones are created in exactly the same manner as those found in mines, she says.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

NASA released a stunning satellite image on Tuesday afternoon, showing the vast plume of smoke coming from Southern California's plague of wildfires, including the Thomas Fire in Ventura County, the Creek Fire in Los Angeles, and the Rye Fire straddling the LA and Ventura County line. NASA said the image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on its NASA Terra satellite on Tuesday afternoon.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 --.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investment firm CrossCut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc) announced this morning that it has raised its fourth fund, CrossCut 4 , a brand new, $125M early stage investment fund. CrossCut's four Managing Directors are Rick Smith, Brian Garrett, Brett Brewer, and Clinton Foy. We spoke with one of the firm's four Managing Directors, Clinton Foy , about the big new fund and its investments.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2017

On Monday we posted the first part of our look at what should be some of 2018’s most important clinical data , including trials for lung cancer, heart disease, melanoma, Alzheimer’s disease, rare blood disorders, and more. With part two, we’re previewing studies for migraine, brain cancer, lymphoma, peanut allergy, schizophrenia, the rare Hunter syndrome, and the flu. [ Ben Fidler, Corie Lok, and Frank Vinluan contributed to this report.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

A tidal wave of valuable data is surging from the Internet and connected devices today, and the volume is growing exponentially each year. It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There’s just one week left before Xconomy’s latest biotech event, “San Diego Life Sciences 2022.” Don’t let the clock run out while you can still save some cash on a ticket. Next Monday, December 11, we’re taking an inside look at what the San Diego life sciences landscape will look like in the year 2022. Don’t wait to register —our Procrastinator’s Special ends soon and it’s your last chance at a discount.

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AllTopStartups

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Kristen Lynn is making her second album with The Foxgloves. 5 years ago she launched her first Kickstarter campaign and raised funds to make her very first album titled “LALA” (dedicated… The post Kristen Lynn & The Foxgloves Launch Kickstarter Campaign to Fund Their New Album & Music Video appeared first on AllTopStartups.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Time Magazine published its “person of the year” edition today and honored “the silence breakers” for speaking up and forcing our society to confront its position towards men in power exploiting their power for sexual gain. Real change is clearly needed. These brave women who have taken on personal risks and faced doubters to change the culture globally to stop sexual misconduct, harassment & gender bias deserve the recognition x1000 along with the many other women who have spoken up.

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