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OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Los Angeles-based mobile game development studio Scopely has become America’s newest unicorn thanks to a $200 million financing which values the company at a whopping $1.4 billion. Scopely said it would use the capital to continue its strategy of developing and acquiring new games as it looks to continue its run of six consecutive mobile games that will gross $100 million or more in lifetime revenue.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Monday, November 4, 2019 -- FundingPost Orange County VC and Angel Investor Event. Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? Register for the FundingPost event on Tuesday, November 5th, 2019. FundingPost has hosted 400 sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 17 years.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based Good Today , a new nonprofit whose co-founders include Tinder's Sean Rad and investor Guy Oseary, and also has the backing of investor and actor Ashton Kutcher, said today that it has launched a new, subscription service which lets anyone help charities for as little as 25 cents per day. The nonprofit says the service allows corporations and businesses to sponsor each of their employees 25 cent donation each day, which can be directed to different charities that are featured ea

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Monday, November 4, 2019 -- FundingPost Los Angeles VC and Angel Investor Event. Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? Register for the FundingPost event on Monday, November 4th, 2019. FundingPost has hosted 400 sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 17 years. At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to g

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Santa Monica-based online, outdoor gear rental service Arrive says it is expanding its service to cover snow apparel and accessories, including pants, jackets, goggles, and gloves, for kids, women and men. The service says the gear can be delivered either to a customer's home, or even directly to a mountain resort. The gear includes apparel for kids, women, and men.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Mobile game developer and publisher Scopely Inc. raised a $200 million Series D round led by NewView Capital.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Irvine-based Modulim , which develops optical imaging products used for noninvasive tissue assessment, said today that it has named Richard Oberreiter as its new CEO. Oberreiter has been the company's Chief Operations Officer (COO) since 2014, and replaces existing CEO David Cuccia, Ph.D., the company's founder, who remains as Chief Technical Officer.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

San Diego-based Boundless Bio , the biopharmaceuticals startup which recently raised $46M for treating aggressive cancers , has named Christian ("Chris") Hassig, Ph.D., as its Chief Scientific Officer. Hassig previously was Chief Scientific Officer of Sierra Oncology, and also has served at such other institutions and companies as Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Kalypsys, and the Scripps Research Insitute.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Virgin Galactic , the space tourism company led by Richard Branson, has officially debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol SPCE, after a reverse merger effort by the company in a deal with a blank-shell merger company owned by Chamath Palihapitiya. Virgin Galactic had a splashy launch on the NYSE on Monday, including a giant banner on the outside of the stock exchange, a firework show, and Richard Branson parading around the exchange in the company's signature "space suit"

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based mobile games developer Scopely has raised a $200M, Series D funding, which it says it will use for acquisitions, the company announed early this morning. According to Scopely, the funding was led by NewView Capital, with participation from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Baillie Gifford, and also included Greycroft Partners, Revolution Growth and Sands Capital Ventures.

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