TechCrunch LA

JULY 17, 2020

From a partnership with the Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions to make chicken meat replacements using plant material and lab cultured chicken cells to an expansion of its Beyond Fried Chicken pilots to Southern California, KFC is aggressively pushing forward with its experiments around the future of food. In Russia, that means providing 3D Bioprinting with breading and spices to see if the company’s chicken replacements can match the KFC taste, according to a statement from the comp

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2020

If you are one of the new age of entrepreneurs who hates the thought of doing a business plan as a first step in starting your new venture you will love this message. More and more professionals agree that a better strategy is to explore and fine tune your assumptions before declaring a specific plan with financial projections based only on your dream and passion.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 17, 2020

It’s not hard to see why Russell Quinn calls 2017 the worst year of his life. That was the year he moved back to the United Kingdom to take care of his mother, and the year in which both his mother and grandmother died within a month of each other. Quinn recalled returning to Los Angeles afterwards and “trying to unpack all of this trauma that had happened.” During that time, he said he was “reading a lot about how other creative people dealt with grief” and realize

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2020

Irvine-based Ingram Micro , a distributor of technology products, is getting close to awarding $1M to a business-to-business (B2B) software startup, saying it has named the finalists in its annual "Comet Competition". The company said it has selected Alsid (Paris, France), apoQlar (Hamburg, Germany) and Balbix (San Jose, California) as the global finalists for its competition, selected from over 4,000 applicants from over 20 countries.

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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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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2020

If it seems like biotech investments have defied the financial headwinds of the pandemic, maybe it’s because they have. In the second quarter, 16 of the top 25 largest early-stage venture capital deals were investments in life science companies. The figures come from the National Venture Capital Association and financial research firm Pitchbook. This week they released their quarterly analysis of dealmaking, which shows that the tally of big biotech transactions tops the second quarter of 2019 w

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2020

NASA is planning the return trip for the first commercial crew flight on a SpaceX spacecraft to the International Space Station on August 2nd, according to CNBC. The Crew Dragon will return NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to earth, the first time astronauts will have traveled to and from the ISS on the Dragon. The launch of Behnken and Hurley into space on May 30th was the first launch of astronauts to space from U.S. soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2020

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops software and services used for employee development and training, says that its CFO, Brian Swartz, is leaving the company. According to Cornerstone OnDemand, Swartz is leaving on August 14th to "pursue another opportunity". The company said that, in the meantime, its Chief Accounting Officer, Trish Coughlin, will serve as interim CFO, as the company launches a search for a new CFO.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2020

Venture capitalists like nothing more than pattern matching, and Domain Associates has identified one it especially prefers: licensing drug candidates from a Japanese biopharma and setting up a US company to move it through testing until Big Pharma starts nosing around. It’s a roadmap the VC firm, which has offices in San Diego and Princeton, NJ, is looking to again follow with its latest investment: a $15 million Series A financing round that Domain and fledgling firm Catalys Pacific pulled tog

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JULY 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media , the viral- and user-generated content company, has promoted Lee Essner to the post of Co-CEO, the company said late Thursday. Essner--who has been President and Chief Operating Officer at the company since 2013, will share the CEO post with Jukin Media founder Jonathan Skogmo. Jukin said that Essner helped the company grow from a 20-person startup to more than 200 people with offices in LA, New York, London, and New Delhi.

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