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Pasadena-based robot developer Miso Robotics, which develops kitchen assistance robots, says it is looking to raise another $40M more via crowdfunding, after just completing $50M in an equity crowdfunding push. The company said it is undergoing a "SEC review process" ahead of the new crowdfunding effort. Miso said it plans to use the new funding to grow its workforce and to "satisfy the product demand" it is seeing in the marketplace.

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San Diego-based permission-based advertising technology developer Permission.io announced this morning that it has named Lauren Griewski as the company's Chief Revenue Officer. The company said Griewski was most recently founder and CEO of Soul Expressed, LLC, and also previously led the development of Facebook's B2B advertising business, in addition to serving at Roblox, VEVO, and Viacom.

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Los Angeles- and Seattle-based Unlock Venture Partners, a seed-stage venture capital investor, says it has raised $60M in a second fund, the company said on Monday. The company is primarily focused on Seattle, but says it is now looking at investing in Los Angeles. The fund previously had raised $25M in its first fund in 2018. The company's existing investments include such startups as U-Nest, Bamboo, Continuum Space Systems, Gen.G, and others.

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Westlake Village-based gravity energy storage technology developer Energy Vault announced this morning that it is in a $100M transaction with two companies, Atlas Renewable and China Tianying, which involves a $50M investment subscription and an expansion of a PIPE agreement from $150M to $200M. Energy Vault--which is developing technology to store energy via massive bricks made from coal combustion residuals, mine tailings, waste fiberglass and concrete debris--said the deal is tied into its ef

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Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard is fighting unionization efforts, attempting to convince its employees to vote against an effort to unionize by its Q&A testers, according to Slack messages leaked from the company. Workers at Activision's Raven Software recently launched a plan to unionize.

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