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JUNE 18, 2018

Pasadena-based Embodied , a startup which says it is developing "life-like robots to revolutionize care and wellness for humans", announced Monday morning that it has raised $22M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Calibrate Ventures, and also included JAZZ Venture Partners, along with existing investors Osage University Partners, Intel Capital, Grishin Robotics and others.

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JUNE 18, 2018

$22 million raised by Pasadena Robotics Co.; MindSpark acquired by Auticon; Sure Inc.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Irvine-based DecisionPoint Systems , which provides and integrated enterprise wireless and mobility software, has acquired another Irvine company, Royce Digital Systems , the company said on Friday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. DecisionPoint said the buy specifically helps it deepen its expertise in other vertical markets, and specifically healthcare.

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JUNE 18, 2018

For Father’s Day I was watching the most heartfelt movies I’ve seen in a long time, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.” It is a movie that will both lift you up with the possibilities of how much of an individual person can have a positive impact on masses of people as well as challenge you about what you’re doing to make the world a slightly better place. It is a movie that will have you laughing raucously and sniffling uncontrollably in joy and sorrow.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Los Angeles- and New York-based SURE , which develops an app that makes it easy to purchase insurance on demand through a smartphone, has launched a new insurance product aimed at passengers of ridesharing services. According to SURE, which is led by CEO Wayne Slavin, its new product, RideSafe, provides passengers with insurance coverage when they are using ridesharing networks Uber and Lyft.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2018

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne reports that it has won a $23M contract award, to supply infrared detectors to NASA's WFIRST astronomy mission. According to Teledyne, it is supplying a 4096x4096pixel focal plane array, the H4RG-10, to NASA, as part of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Project at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Crown , a new app which attempts to turn the dating process into an actual mobile game, has launched in Los Angeles. The new app--which currently only runs on iOS--was developed by Match Group. The app presents a limited set of curated dating matches every day at noon, and runs a competition of sorts to narrow down a user's choices to a winner, who are given a choice to chat with you or pass.

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