socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

Westlake Village-based Ember Technologies , the maker of a temperature controlled, thermal mug, has raised $13M more in funding, the company disclosed today. Source of the funding was not announced.

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Westlake Village Google Design Funding 149

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen and venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have put their backing behind a new, Westlake Village based drug development firm, Atara Biotherapeutics , in an unusual spinout of technology from the biotech giant. Financial details of the funding were not announced.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Westlake Village-based Ember Technologies , which develops a coffee mug that allows users to adjust the temperature of their cup of joe to whatever they want, has raised $8.5M in a funding round, according to the company. Ember Technologies' Founder and CEO is Clay Alexander. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Westlake Village BioPartners is launching today with $350 million in committed capital. Los Angeles has long been in San Francisco’s shadow when it comes to life sciences investment. But a new venture capital firm led by industry veterans is trying to cast the City of Angels in a new light.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2010

Westlake Village-based WaveConnex , an early stage startup developing wireless technology based on millimeter-wave, 60Ghz signals, has raised $2.0M in a funding round from a single investor, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2011

Gevo , the biofuels startup spawned out of technology from the University of California, Los Angeles and Caltech, has set an offering range for its IPO. Gevo is venture backed by Khosla Ventures, Virgin Green Fund, Total Energy Ventures, Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund, Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund, and LANXESS, among others.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2010

According to Inphi, Tse joins the company from Intremag Systems, where he was Chief Technology Officer. Inphi, which is based in Sunnyvale but has operations and was founded in Westlake Village, recently filed for an IPO on the NYSE. READ MORE>>.

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Westlake Village Chief Technology Officer Networking Funding 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. The $5M of funding we had got split three ways. $3M

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Westlake Village-based Inphi , a developer of high speed, analog semiconductors, announced today that it has hired on a new VP of Operations, Atul Shingal. The firm is venture backed by Tallwood Venture Capital, Mayfield Fund, Walden International, and others. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For our interview this morning, we sat down with Lior Elazary , the CEO of Westlake Village-based inVia Robotics (www.inviarobotics.com), which develops robots being used to automate the labor intensive, exhausting work of retrieving items from warehouses for e-commerce. We worked on a lot of really cool technologies.

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Westlake Village Startup Commerce Seed Funding 113

socalTECH

APRIL 9, 2020

It's an unusual time for the startup world, however, despite the ongoing health emergency, companies are still announcing funding. Guy Friedman: I'm a startup guy, I had a previous startup in the educational technology space. Did you close the funding before the pandemic hit? Tell me how you started the company?

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