TechCrunch LA

MARCH 20, 2019

The feature is now available in Chicago, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Calif., The round comes four months after the eight-year-old startup drove home a $300 million investment that knocked it into “unicorn” territory. For now, the company’s party feature will only be offered in a handful of the nearly 3,000 U.S.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2010

Long Beach-based Apriso , a privately held firm developing manufacturing software, said today that it saw "strong customer growth" in the quarter from manufacturers in the solar, fuel cell, and battery industries. The firm did not provide any actual financials. Apriso's software is used for managing supply chains.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2021

Two startups won a total of $25,000 in prizes last week at the Sunstone Innovations Challenge at CSULB, a startup pitch competition involving student teams from CSU Long Beach.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2019

Long Beach-based investor Sunstone Management is one of the investors in Emeryville, California-based Lucira Health , as part of a Series B funding rounding, the company said on Monday morning. Sunstone Management say it focuses on investments in U.S. Lucira Health's president and CEO is Erik Engelson. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Long Beach-based Apriso , a developer of planning and control software for the manufacturing industry, reported Thursday that the firm had record revenues in 2009. Apriso is venture backed by Brentwood Venture Capital, CMEA Ventures, LogiSpring Investment Fund SA, SAP Ventures, and Wall Street Technology Partners. READ MORE>>.

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LATechDigest

AUGUST 3, 2019

VIRGIN GALACTIC is coming to Long Beach with a massive 150,000 square foot facility. Located at the Long Beach Airport, this new facility will allow easy transportation of rockets and of customers satellites using WhiteKnightTwo. The company will also be hosting a job fair and open house on March 7.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2019

Long Beach-based investor Sunstone Venture Capital Fund says it has participated in the funding for supersonic airplane maker Boom Supersonic. Sunstone did not say how much it invested in the round, which was announced last week by Denver-based Boom Supersonic.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2018

Long Beach-based Funraise , which develops nonprofit fundraising software, has raised $9.7M in an investment in its Series A funding, the company said this week. According to Funraise, the funding was led by Toba Capital, and also included angel Blaine Vess, the founder of Student Brands.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Long Beach-based Virgin Orbit has set the planned board of directors for the company, assuming its ongoing special purpose acquisition (SPAC) deal goes through as planned.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2009

Irvine-based Bikestation , a developer of facilities for bicycle commuting, has scored an investment from the Tech Coast Angels angel investment group, the TCA said this morning. According to the Orange County arm of the Tech Coast Angels, the investment was led by Raulee Marcus.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2021

Long Beach-based rocket developer Rocket Lab is joining the very long list of local technology companies, which is heading towards the public market through a merger with a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). According to Rocket Lab, the deal will give it an implied pro forma enterprise value of $4.1

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2009

Long Beach-based Obagi Medical Products , which develops aesthetic and therapeutic skin care products, said Monday afternoon that the firm will stop selling its SoluCLENZ Rx Gel in pharmacies. The firm said that the company will instead focus on physician dispensing of its products.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The most amount of investment came for the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA, which saw $247.6M in investments in the quarter, followed by $197.5M Another $28.68M was invested in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc, plus Ventura. Q2 fundings in Southern California were much higher, due to a giant $1.27

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new company, Apex Innovation Sciences --with headquarters in Long Beach, California and Marlton, New Jersey--has formed out of a corporate merger of CNS Network and Hassman Research Insitute , along with the Clinical Trial Centers Alliance , three companies in the clinical trial studies industry, the companies said this morning.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. 43% of all goods arriving into American ports come through LA and Long Beach ports in Los Angeles.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Jeff Blanton This past weekend I was racing in the annual Mid-Winter Regatta out of Long Beach. Lesson learned; the owners invested in some equipment to solve the problem. During the last race of five, we had just rounded the final mark with our spinnaker up and heading for the finish line.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We're working from Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, and we've found that Southern California is really friendly. We're very excited to be working with them, to help us create a platform for us for future acceleration and growth, and we're working on additional investments down the track.

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LATechDigest

JANUARY 27, 2020

Since 1981, the Los Angeles Economic Development Council (LAEDC) has worked to attract, retain and grow businesses among LA Countys 10 million residents, via free business assistance and attraction programs, economic research and analysis, real estate advisory services, trade and investment assistance, and public policy leadership.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We've set it up so that saves them money compared to investing in GMOs and seed and machines that they use to spray those chemicalswe just replace that cost. So, this is robotics-as-a-service, and we've set it up to be something they can swap on their operating belt, so that all farmers can have access. We're on year two now.

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