TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2020

So, an eight-year product veteran from Facebook and an internationally renowned barista walk into a coffee bar… It’s not a joke. It’s the origin story for Taika , a new startup that’s aiming to bring natural stimulants to the masses through its juiced up coffee-beverages. The two co-founders, Michael Sharon, an eight-year veteran of Facebook’s mobile product division, and Kalle Freese, a champion barista (it’s a thing) and the co-founder of Sudden Coffee are o

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash I was listening to Dan Primack’s podcast on Pro Rata and he was interviewing Senator Klobucher who is now publicly and vocally speaking out against Uber purchasing Grubhub and has tried to mobilize against this. Her argument is that if Uber buys Grubhub (which itself once merged with Seamless) it would mean that Uber Eats / Grubhub would control half the market and that with DoorDash the two together would control 90% of the market.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 4, 2020

Modern Animal Inc., a company that provides telemedicine services in its veterinary clinic, opened its first location in Beverly Grove in April.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2020

A new, 60,000 square foot lab and research center in port Hueneme has been set up by the U.S. Navy and its NavalX unit, to help reduce barriers between the Navy and non-traditional partners such as start-ups, small businesses, academia, non-profits, and private capital. According to NavalX, Port Hueneme is one of six new "Tech Bridge" locations for its NavalX Tech Bridge effort, and will be based at the FATHOMWERX laboratory at the Port of Hueneme.

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Berkonomics

MAY 28, 2020

This is one of those “My dad used to say” homilies. You’ve probably heard the accompanying “It takes just as much effort to sell a small deal as a big one,” over the years. It is not that simple in the business world. The truth of this is more nuanced. Some businesses will prosper in the shadow of larger competitors by specializing in those smaller accounts that are just not attractive to those with higher overheads and larger aspirations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Yet if you are on the other side of the table, there are some other key questions that you need to ask, which will tell you more about the real success prospects for this business.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. Amazon used its popular affiliate program to spur additional growth, getting reviewers and publishing sites – including us here at Tech.co – to link to Amazon in exchange for a small payout whenever a reader bought something by following that link.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 4, 2020

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the Hawthorne-based aerospace company, was awarded a $135 million contract by NASA as part of a nearly $1 billion effort to return astronauts to the moon by 2024.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2020

Irvine-based data science and analytics software developer Alteryx says it is offering up free training to help train workers who have found themselves unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Alteryx, the new program--Advancing Data and Analytics Potential Together (ADAPT)--is an extension to its corporate social responsibility initiative, Alteryx For Good.

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Berkonomics

MAY 21, 2020

Assuming that a corporate whistle-blower is not tooting about you individually, such a class of people have been granted protections under the law and serve a function that needs to be acknowledged. Motive of the whistle-blower. First, the assumption is that such a person is not making his or her gesture for personal profit, but to give proper notice that there is something illegal going on within the company that the person cannot accept and must tell someone about.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. In my view, this paranoid approach costs them much more than the risk of being open.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. The event kicked off with a few words from CEO Evan Spiegel and soon transitioned into a succession of live-streamed pitches from the 10 startups in Yellow’s latest batc

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Xconomy

MAY 22, 2020

COVID-19 has ravaged the economy, and it was expected to quash the IPO market, too. But the biotech sector is defying the pandemic with crossover financings and freshly minted public companies. On Friday, three firms added their names to the list of life science companies preparing to join the public markets. Gene therapy company Generation Bio, vaccines developer Vaxcyte, and cancer diagnostics maker Burning Rock Biotech each filed IPO paperwork just ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 11, 2020

Rocket propulsion manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc., a subsidiary of El Segundo-based Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc., was awarded a $1.79 billion follow-on contract by NASA to manufacture engines.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2020

Los Angeles-based Shayre , a new startup developing data sharing software, says it has launched a new, "cloud-free" file sharing solution, aimed at enterprise businesses. According to Shayre, it has developed a point-to-point and point-to-multi-point software for file transferring and synchronization suited for enterprise businesses, which allows for unlimited files and file sizes to be transferred between devices.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever lost all your data on your smartphone, laptop, company server or desktop PC? If not, it is probably only a matter of time until you do. Those of us who have experienced this heart-stopping event now regularly back up our data and many of us create daily images of our entire hard drives often, ready this time to address an effective recovery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and angel investor, I still see too many strategies leading to failure that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2020

Fashion is having its moment in the metaverse. A riot of luxury labels, music, and games are vying for attention in the virtual world. And as physical events and the entertainment industry that depends on them shuts down, virtual things have come to epitomize the popular culture of the pandemic. It’s creating an environment where imagination and technical ability, not wealth, are the only barriers to accumulating the status symbols that only money and fame could buy.

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Xconomy

MAY 26, 2020

Privately held biotech ViaCyte has banked $27 million, the majority an installment of cash from a tranched $80 million Series D financing round it closed in late 2018. The company says the money will go to further develop the three diabetes treatment programs it has underway, including enough prep work to enable it to bring the latest addition to its pipeline, which uses gene-editing, into clinical trials.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 4, 2020

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the Hawthorne-based aerospace company, was awarded a $135 million contract by NASA as part of a nearly $1 billion effort to return astronauts to the moon by 2024.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2020

UK-based CrowdVision Ltd. , a developer of analytics software, and Los Angeles-based iinside , a developer of indoor motion detection, have merged, and set up their headquarters in Los Angeles. According to the companies, the newly merged company, CrowdVision, Inc., will be led by David Teed, the current CEO of CrowdVision. According to the two companies, they will be developing solutions for the smart airport and smart city market.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 28, 2020

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 -- The Mindset of an Investor Today. Join Peter Cowen (Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners) as we explore what SaaS investors are looking for in the current climate. Sutton Capital Partners and the Recurring Revenue Conference. 6/3/20 - Ben Narasin, Venture Partners, NEA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). In my experience, both are always required in heavy doses. There are no “can’t fail” shortcuts or “get rich quick” scenarios. That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing m

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

A little over a year after its graduation from Y Combinator’s demo day, the on-demand construction materials delivery service Curri is beginning to offer its services in all 50 states. Co-founded by Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez, Curri aims to solve one of the major hurdles for local construction suppliers who miss out on sales because of an inability to deliver to contractors when they need it.

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Xconomy

MAY 20, 2020

Biotechs are increasingly looking to leverage a mechanism cells use to get rid of unwanted proteins to drug targets previously considered out of reach. Roche ponied up $135 million upfront this week to work with Vividion Therapeutics in search of small molecules that use that “protein degradation” process to do just that. The drug discovery agreement is seeking small molecule drugs that can hit proteins considered “undruggable” by designing therapies that prompt the proteasome—

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 11, 2020

Embodied Inc., a Pasadena-based artificial intelligence and robotics company, has created an animatronic companion that it describes as “a Pixar character coming to life.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2020

San Diego-based EDF Renewables North America and Iowa energy company Alliant Energy said they have commenced commercial operation of a 200 MW wind project. According to the two, the 200 megawatt Golden Plains Wind Project started operations on March 27th, and is now serving Iowa customers. The project is based in Winnebago and Kossuth counties in the north central portion of Iowa.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 21, 2020

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 -- CARES Act w/Moss Adams. CONNECT. Get key information regarding the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in this Webinar presented by Moss Adams Partner in Charge, Gerardo Godinez and Tax Senior Manager, Desiree Klassen. See [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Traditional marketing may be adequate for linear growth, but it likely won’t catapult you to Amazon’s unicorn status , or make waves in the business world.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Ettitude , the Los Angeles-based, direct-to-consumer startup making sustainable bedding and sleepwear from bamboo fibers, has raised a sustainably sized round that should keep the company going even in the face of an economic recession. Co-founded by the Melbourne, Australia native Phoebe Yu and serial entrepreneur Kat Dey, ettitude sells high-end bamboo bedding made using a process she first heard about in her old job working as an exporter helping chain stores source textiles in China.

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Xconomy

MAY 19, 2020

Amplyx Pharmaceuticals has completed enrollment in one mid-stage trial of its lead drug candidate, a new kind of antifungal treatment, and has finished treating the first patients in two more such studies. Now the San Diego-based company has added $53 million to a round of funding it first closed in 2017, money that it plans to put toward continued evaluation of the investigational antifungal treatment, fosmanogepix.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 18, 2020

Finli Inc., a downtown-based fintech startup, is adapting to the Covid-19 crisis by helping its customers adapt.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2020

A division of Pasadena-based Caltech , the Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education (Caltech CTME), is teaming up with Fullstack Academy to offer up a cyber training program online, Fullstack said on Tuesday. According to Fullstack Academy, the Caltech CTME Cybersecurity Bootcamp by Fullstack Academy is intended to turn beginners into cybersecurity professionals in as little as 12 weeks.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 21, 2020

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 -- The Mindset of an Investor Today: A Webinar Series with Arlan Hamilton, Founder and Managing Partner, Backstage Capital. Join Peter Cowen (Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners) as we explore what investors are looking for in the current climate. Presented by Sutton Capital Partners and the Recurring Revenue Conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

If you really want to start a business your way without a boss or professional investor hovering over you, then just fund it yourself or through friends and family, and grow it organically. It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down. According to Investopedia , over 90 percent of successful businesses currently start this way.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

The acute pain of California’s housing crisis can be measured in the human toll it takes on the increasing numbers of families made homeless by rising rents and the billions of dollars the state loses to the high cost of living. After wrestling with recalcitrant homeowners, husbanding their parcels of land to keep their property values high, the state’s leadership passed a law that increased the availability of new rental units and put more money into homeowners’ pockets in 201

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