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Pragma Raises $12 Million for Multiplayer Video Game Engine

L.A. Business Journal

Pragma Platform Inc., the developer of a software engine for video game designers, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round.

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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

TechCrunch LA

The employees who participated in the walkout want Netflix to “adopt measures to avoid future instances of platforming transphobia and hate speech,” they wrote in a letter. Netflix Senior Software Engineer Terra Field, who is transgender, tweeted a viral thread about the Chappelle special. NetflixWalkout.

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Engineer.ai Links With DigitalOcean

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According to the company, the partnership will help SMBs build affordable, custom software. in a funding round, which came from Lakestar and Jungle Ventures, and also included Softbank's DeepCore. recently raised $29.5M Financial details of the strategic partnership between Engineer.ai and DigitalOcean were not announced.

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Algorithmia, Co-Founded By USC Grad Student, Gets $2.4M

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in a seed funding round, to go towards its online marketplace for computer software algorithms. The startup--which was co-founded by Kenny Daniel, who was recently pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at USC--says that it has created an online platform to let software engineers find different algorithms for us.

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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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Los Angeles-based business transactions and dealroom service CapLinked has rounded up some new investors today, saying that it has added additional investors in its Series A funding. The firm earlier had announced investments from. FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, and Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), and others.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area – GeekWire. Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Software Engineers who Built a No-Police Alternative to 911.

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Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams

TechCrunch LA

For LG, it’s strategically important to get some applications up on its newly launched 5G subscription network back in Korea, and AmazeVR is already rolling up new content for its VR platform. The company was formed and financed with $6.3 “What we saw as the problem is the content creation itself,” says Lee.